The ship stayed a few days and Captain Robert Fitzroy visited the Fox family at nearby Penjerrick Gardens.

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.

The laneway next to the family home in Fitzroy where the Harvey brothers learned to play cricket.

The family lived in Broken Hill, where Horace was a miner, before moving to Sydney, and finally to Melbourne in 1926, where they settled in the inner northern industrial suburb of Fitzroy.

The family moved to Southern Rhodesia ( now Zimbabwe ) and after his father's death in action in 1918, his mother married Fitzroy Griffin.

A member of the Seymour family headed by the Duke of Somerset, Hertford was the eldest son of Francis Seymour-Conway, 1st Marquess of Hertford, and Lady Isabella Fitzroy, daughter of Charles FitzRoy, 2nd Duke of Grafton.

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.

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 contrast, the Fitzroy Lions, a foundation club of the VFL / AFL, had been among the dregs of the league for the better part of the last four decades.

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.

After a 17 point second semi final loss to South Melbourne defeated Fitzroy ( who had beaten South Melbourne ) in the challenge final: Essendon 8. 15 ( 63 ) to Fitzroy 6. 10 ( 46 ).

It was incredible ..." However, noted Fitzroy Maclean, " too much dash had its penalties.

But Fitzroy, who had a background as a humanitarian, told the chiefs they had committed " a horrible crime, in murdering men who had surrendered themselves in reliance on your honour as chiefs.

He attempted to form an alliance with the Seymours through a marriage between his widowed daughter, Mary Fitzroy and Hertford's brother Thomas Seymour, but the effort was forestalled by the provocative conduct of his eldest son and heir, Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey, who had displayed in his own heraldry the royal arms and insignia.

Before the time of the 2008 amalgamation, Rockhampton City had a population of approximately 74, 530, Livingstone Shire approximately 28, 266, Fitzroy Shire approximately 11, 357, and Mount Morgan Shire approximately 2, 925 people.

During this period Foxe also found a patron in Mary Fitzroy, Duchess of Richmond, who hired him as tutor to the orphan children of her brother, Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey, a Catholic who had been executed for treason in January 1547.

* Lady Mary Lennox ( c. 1792 – 7 December 1847 ), married Sir Charles Fitzroy and had issue.

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.

At the back of Pollocks and in the next block was the site in 1772 of the Scala Theatre, Tottenham Street – then known as the Cognoscenti Theatre – but it had many names over history: the King's Concert Rooms, the New Theatre, the Regency Theatre, the West London Theatre, the Queen's Theatre, the Fitzroy Theatre, the Prince of Wales and the Royal Theatre until its demolition in 1903 when the Scala Theatre was built on the site for Frank Verity and modelled on La Scala in Milan.

His son William inherited both dukedoms, but he had no issue, and since his uncle ( Henry Fitzroy, 1st Duke of Grafton ( died 1690 ), Barbara's 2nd son and his heirs male, had not been made eligible to inherit the peerage, the title became extinct upon his death.

# Lady Henrietta Somerset, who was born on 27 August 1690, died on 9 August 1726 and was married to Charles Fitzroy, 2nd Duke of Grafton on 30 April 1713, with whom she had four sons and three daughters.

It is said that Henry Fitzroy might have been made king had Henry VIII died without a legitimate son:

While much of Richmond, Fitzroy and Collingwood had been laid out by speculators anxious to increase profits, Clifton Hill was a professionally laid out suburb.

At the 2011 Census, Fitzroy had a population of 9, 430.

In the next century, it appears to have become the property of the Fitzroys, who built Fitzroy Square on a part of the manor estate towards the end of the 18th century.

However he left a financially struggling Fitzroy to become a prize recruit for a new look Brisbane Bears after the club's move from the Gold Coast.

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.

** At the same time the Townships of Torbolton, Fitzroy and Huntley merged to become West Carleton.

The area has become more gentrified than Fitzroy North, Brunswick or Collingwood, resulting in significantly higher median property prices.

It was merged with Fitzroy to become the Brisbane Lions in 1997.

The most notable attractions are the Fitzroy Falls, just off the main road from the Highlands to Kangaroo Valley and Pigeon House Mountain west of Milton.

The main commercial area is Smith Street, which borders Fitzroy.

The main commercial activity in Fitzroy North is on Brunswick Street, St Georges Road and the northern side of Queens Parade, the latter having particularly wide footpaths for a Melbourne commercial strip.

The Inner Circle was opened on 8 May 1888 with three stations: North Carlton station and North Fitzroy station on the main line, and Fitzroy station on a short branch line leading south after North Fitzroy station through the Edinburgh Gardens.

While the main royal army faced the forces of Owain Gwynedd east of the River Conwy, a force including Robert and his half-brother Henry Fitzroy ( the illegitimate son of Nest and King Henry I ) attacked Anglesey by sea.

Derwent London own about one million square feet of property in Fitzrovia: about one fifth of their total portfolio A number of structural engineering consultants are based in offices on Newman Street and the world headquarters of Arup is on Fitzroy St although they own many of the surrounding buildings ( which are in the process of being redeveloped into modern offices ).

Fitzroy Island National Park is a gazetted protected area covering Fitzroy Island, Queensland ( also called Koba or Gabar ), a continental island located 22 kilometres east of Cairns, Queensland ( Australia ).

The third area was the Shire of Fitzroy, ( comprising Gracemere and smaller surrounding towns ), and the fourth area was the Shire of Mount Morgan, ( comprising the town of Mount Morgan.

Much of the area north of present-day Fitzroy Street was swampland, part of the Yarra River Delta which comprised vast areas of wetlands and sparse vegetation.

During the Land Boom of the 1880s, St Kilda became a densely populated district of great stone mansions and palatial hotels, particularly along the seaside streets such as Fitzroy Street, Grey Street and Acland Street the area once known as St Kilda Hill centred between Wellington Street, Alma Road, former High Street ( incorporated as part of St Kilda Road ) and Chapel Street.

Cable tram lines were opened in 1888 and 1891 to run from the Melbourne central city area along St Kilda Road to St Kilda Junction and then branch out along Wellington, High and Fitzroy Streets.

This area is now covered by housing from Fitzroy Street and the Brownstown Estates.

The Fitzroy Tavern was named after Charles FitzRoy ( later Baron Southampton ), who first developed the northern part of the area in the 18th century.

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.

McEwan lives in Fitzroy Square, and his novel takes place in the area.

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.

* Map of the Fitzroy River catchment area, from Australia's Bureau of Meteorology

Fitzroy is also Melbourne's smallest suburb in terms of area, being approximately 100 Ha.

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.

Newtown was later renamed Collingwood, and the area now called Fitzroy ( west of Smith Street ) was made a ward of the Melbourne City Council.

Many working-class Chinese immigrants also settled in Fitzroy due to its proximity to Chinatown, with also a noticeable Vietnamese community ; a small enclave of Africans lives there, and the area ( particularly Johnston Street ) serves as a centre of Melbourne's Hispanic community, with many Spanish and Latin American-themed restaurants, clubs, bars and some stores.

The Fitzroy area falls within the wards of Langridge and Nicholls, both of these wards are currently represented by the Australian Greens.

The area formerly had its own municipal status from 1858, with the City of Fitzroy meeting at Fitzroy Town Hall on Napier Street.

By 1851, gold diggers began making their way through the area, on their journey from the populous suburbs of Fitzroy and Collingwood.

While the Capricorn Coast has no registered geographic boundaries, it is largely defined as the coastal area cradled between Rockhampton in the west, Keppel Bay to the east, Thompson Point on the Fitzroy River in the south, and Shoalwater Bay in the north.

Often referred to as the " forgotten " end of the Capricorn Coast, the rural and seaside communities south of the major population centres have two principal commons ; they are centred around the life-giving waterways in the area, such as Coorooman Creek, Nankin Creek, Limestone Creek, and the Fitzroy River, and they are extremely rich in strength of community.