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| Robert Fitzroy R.N. | Explanation | ||
| Second son of the second marriage of Lord Charles FitzRoy (1764-1829) to Lady Frances Anne Stewart (d. 1810), eldest daughter of the first marquess of Londonderry | |||
| Date (from) | (Date to) | Personal | |
| 5 July 1805 | Born (Ampton Hall, Suffolk) | ||
| 8 December 1836 | Married, firstly, Maria Henrietta (died 1852), second daughter of Major-general Edward James O'Brien | ||
| July 1839 | Elected an elder brother of Trinity House. | ||
| 29 June 1841 | 5 April 1843 | M.P. (Tory) for Durham City | |
| 22 April 1854 | Married Maria Isabella Smyth, a distant cousin | ||
| 30 April 1865 | Died (Upper Norwood, Surrey after cutting his throat; the coroner found that he had taken his life while of unsound mind) | ||
| On 4 February 2002 the Shipping Forecast sea-area Finisterre was re-named FitzRoy in his honour | |||
| Date | Rank | ||
| 19 October 1819 | Entered Navy | ||
| 7 September 1824 | Lieutenant | ||
| 13 November 1828 | Commander | ||
| 3 December 1834 | Captain | ||
| 14 February 1857 | Retired Rear-Admiral | ||
| 12 September 1863 | Retired Vice-Admiral | ||
| Date from | Date to | Service | |
| October 1824 | 28 October 1825 | Lieutenant in Thetis, commanded by Sir John Phillimore, home water, then Mediterranean, then South America | |
| 29 October 1825 | 1 August 1828 | Lieutenant in Thetis, commanded by Arthur Batt Bingham, South America | |
| 1 August 1828 | 13 November 1828 | Lieutenant in Ganges, commanded by Samuel Inglefield, flagship of Rear-Admiral Robert Waller Otway, South America (as Flag-lieutenant) | |
| 13 November 1828 | 30 October 1830 | Commander in Beagle, coast of South America, following the suicide of her former commander, Captain Pringle Stokes. | |
| 4 July 1831 | 17 November 1836 | Commander in Beagle, coast of South America (with Charles Darwin on board) | |
| 21 September 1842 | Acting-Conservator of the River Mersey | ||
| 3 April 1843 | 30 April 1845 | Governor and Commander-in-Chief, New Zealand colony (until dismissed due to enmity of the New Zealand Company) | |
| 1 September 1848 | Superintendent of Woolwich dockyard | ||
| 14 March 1849 | 15 February 1850 | Captain in Arrogant (from commissioning at Portsmouth), Portsmouth, then Lisbon | |
| 1854 | Meteorological statist at the newly founded Meteorological Department of the Board of Trade | ||
| 1861 | Instigated the first storm warnings, but the Board of Trade decided that he was exceeding his instructions, which were to collect data, and that forecasts should cease forthwith | ||
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