The Fitzroy Tavern is a pub situated at 16 Charlotte Street in the Fitzrovia district, to which it gives its name.

* The Fitzroy: The Autobiography of a London Tavern, by Lord Killanin, Sally Fiber, and Clive Powell-Williams.

The Fitzroy Tavern may have given its name to Fitzrovia

Fitzrovia is probably named after the Fitzroy Tavern, a public house situated on the corner of Charlotte Street and Windmill Street within the district.

By the time Julian Maclaren-Ross met Tambimuttu and Dylan Thomas in the early 1940s this literary group had moved away from the Fitzroy Tavern, which had become a victim of its own success, and were hanging out in the lesser-known Wheatsheaf and others in Rathbone Place and Gresse Street.

Amongst those known to have lived locally and frequented public houses in the area such as the Fitzroy Tavern and the Wheatsheaf are Augustus John, Quentin Crisp, Dylan Thomas, Aleister Crowley, the racing tipster Prince Monolulu, Nina Hamnett and George Orwell.

As in Gawsworth ’ s reign meetings of these rival groups have been held at the Fitzroy Tavern in London.

Fitzroy Tavern

The Fitzroy Tavern is a public house situated at 16 Charlotte Street in the Fitzrovia district of central London, England, to which it gives its name.

He rebranded it " the Fitzroy Tavern " in March 1919.

His daughter Sally Fiber who worked behind the bar from a very young age eventually wrote a history of the pub " The Fitzroy: The Autobiography of a London Tavern " with the help of Clive Powell-Williams.

Wartime notice on the wall of the Fitzroy Tavern

The Fitzroy Tavern has been a regular gathering place for fans of Doctor Who since the 1980s.

The square, nearby Fitzroy Street and the Fitzroy Tavern in Charlotte Street have the family name of Charles FitzRoy, 2nd Duke of Grafton, into whose ownership the land passed through his marriage.

In 1896, delegates from the stronger and wealthier VFA clubs — Carlton, Collingwood, Essendon, Fitzroy, Geelong, Melbourne, St Kilda and South Melbourne — met to form a breakaway competition and in 1897, the Victorian Football League ( VFL ), was born as an eight-team competition.

The club was formed in 1996 from the merger of the Brisbane Bears and the Fitzroy Lions.

By the start of the 1996 season, Fitzroy was almost at the end of its financial tether.

Instead, Fitzroy was placed into administration, and its administrator accepted an offer to merge with Brisbane.

It was an important way of connecting with Melbourne-based Lions fans, many of whom had previously supported Fitzroy, and of winning over disaffected Fitzroy fans who had not started supporting the Brisbane Lions post-merger by honouring the history of the club.

Later, as he was checking on Emma Frost who was in a comatose state after the mutant Trevor Fitzroy unleashed the mutant-hunting Sentinels on Emma Frost and her students known as the Hellions, the mansion was hit by an electricity breakdown.

The University was established via the passage of the University of Sydney Act, on 24 September 1850 and was assented on 1 October 1850 by Sir Charles Fitzroy.

For a few weeks he was the youngest brigadier in the British Army, and he was one of only two men in the entire war to rise from private to brigadier ( the other being Fitzroy Maclean ).

Carey was promoted to the senior list the following year and, after dislocating his left shoulder in a practice match early in the year, made his first appearance for the North Melbourne seniors as an 18 year old in round 11 of 1989 against Fitzroy.

# Barbara ( Benedicta ) Fitzroy ( 1672 – 1737 ) – She was probably the child of John Churchill, later Duke of Marlborough, who was another of Cleveland's many lovers, and was never acknowledged by Charles as his own daughter.

She was married to George Fitzroy, Earl of Euston, second son of Charles FitzRoy, 2nd Duke of Grafton and Lady Henrietta Somerset.

The club's first home ground was the Junction Oval in the suburb of St Kilda in Melbourne and the club's first home game was against Fitzroy.

In 1862, at the age of thirty, Orchardson moved to London, and established himself at 37 Fitzroy Square, where he was joined twelve months later by his friend John Pettie.

In 1865 Pettie married, and the Fitzroy Square ménage was broken up.

Robert Fitzroy, 1st Earl of Gloucester ( before 1100 – 31 October 1147 ) was an illegitimate son of King Henry I of England.

Originally called James Crofts or James Fitzroy, he was born in Rotterdam in the Netherlands, the eldest illegitimate son of Charles II and his mistress, Lucy Walter.

A Blue plaque was inveiled in Fitzroy Square on 20 May 2010.

Originally named Arlington in honor of Charles Fitzroy, Earl of Arlington, this town was one of those established in 1733 by Colonial Governor Jonathan Belcher as protection for the Massachusetts border at the Connecticut River.

Fitzroy River, in northern Western Australia, was named after him by Lieutenant John Lort Stokes who, at the time, commanded HMS Beagle ( previously commanded by FitzRoy ).

Fitzroy, Falkland Islands and Port Fitzroy, New Zealand are also named after him.

In addition to Fitzroy Square and nearby Fitzroy Street, there are numerous locations named for the FitzRoy family and Devonshire / Portland family, both significant local landowners.

Forrest named the Kimberley district, and discovered the Margaret and Ord Rivers, the King Leopold Ranges, and the fertile area between the Fitzroy and Ord River.

The town and river were named in 1847 after Lady Mary Lennox ( 1790 – 1847 ) the wife of Sir Charles Augustus Fitzroy, then Governor of the colony of New South Wales.

The Fitzroy was named by Charles and William Archer on 4 May 1853 in honour of Sir Charles FitzRoy, Governor of the Colony of New South Wales, as Queensland did not become a separate colony until 1859.

Fitzroy was Melbourne's first suburb, created in 1839 when the area between Melbourne and Alexandra Parade ( originally named Newtown ) was subdivided into vacant lots and offered for sale.

The firm, established at Charlotte Street, Fitzroy Square, was named after his two sons Michael and Nicholas.

Despite efforts by Victoria Barracks and then the Carlingford, Redfern, Fitzroy and Albert cricket clubs to take control, the then president of the NSWCA, Richard Driver ( after whom Driver Avenue outside the ground is named ), persuaded the government to let the NSWCA look after the ground's administration.

He was appointed captain of Fitzroy in 1932 and was named Champion of the Colony that same year.

There are three rivers named the Fitzroy River, all in Australia:

Brunswick Street runs north-south through the inner northern Melbourne suburbs of Fitzroy and Fitzroy North, from Victoria Parade at its southernmost end, crossing Alexandra Parade, and continuing until it reaches St Georges Road in Fitzroy North, near the Edinburgh Gardens ; there, its former northward course is continued by a much smaller residential street named Brunswick Street North.

It was named in honour of Sir Charles Augustus Fitzroy, soldier and Governor of New South Wales, who married Lady Mary Lennox, daughter of the Duke of Richmond.

The gardens were known as Fitzroy Square until 1862, named after Sir Charles Augustus FitzRoy, a governor of New South Wales.

A fast favorite of headmistress Emma Frost, who sees in him great potential for heroism as well as a frightening disposition for personal gain and villainy, Julian named himself ' Hellion ' in tribute to the former White Queen's first class of students ( who had been killed by Trevor Fitzroy ).

Meanwhile, Thomas Napier had returned to the Port Phillip District and became associated with Essendon and Fitzroy are named after him.

It is named either directly or indirectly after the Fitzroy family, Dukes of Grafton, who owned much of the land on which Fitzrovia was built.

Captain Fitzroy was impressed and next day named a nearby expanse of water Darwin Sound.