26 Facts About Robert Fitzroy

Vice-Admiral Robert FitzRoy was an English officer of the Royal Navy and a scientist.

Robert Fitzroy was promoted to midshipman while on the vessel, then served as such on HMS Hind.

Robert Fitzroy's ship gave chase and, after a scuffle, the culprits' families were brought on board as hostages.

Robert Fitzroy was arranging for the charter of a ship at his own expense to return the Fuegians with Matthews when his friend Francis Beaufort, Hydrographer to the British Admiralty, and his "kind uncle", the Duke of Grafton, interceded on his behalf at the Admiralty.

Robert Fitzroy was conscious of the stressful loneliness of command.

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Robert Fitzroy knew of the suicides both of Captain Stokes and of his uncle Viscount Castlereagh, who had cut his own throat in 1822 while in government office.

Robert Fitzroy left the three "westernised" Fuegians to continue the missionary work.

Robert Fitzroy had it refitted and renamed Adventure, hoping that the cost would be reimbursed by the Admiralty.

Robert Fitzroy had returned to native ways and refused the offer to go with them back to England.

Robert Fitzroy took the criticism badly, selling the schooner and announcing they would go back to recheck his survey, then resigning his command with doubts about his sanity.

Robert Fitzroy was dissociating himself from the new ideas of Charles Lyell, which he had accepted during the voyage, and from Darwin's account which embraced these ideas.

Robert Fitzroy was appointed Acting Conservator of the River Mersey in 1842.

Robert Fitzroy's instructions were to maintain order and protect the Maori, while satisfying the land hunger of the settlers pouring into the country.

Robert Fitzroy found the actions of the colonists to have been illegal and declined to take any action against Te Rauparaha.

Robert Fitzroy did not have the troops to meet him on anything like equal terms.

Robert Fitzroy appointed a Government Superintendent for the area, to establish a ruling presence.

Robert Fitzroy insisted that the New Zealand Company pay the Maori a realistic price for the land they claimed to have purchased.

Robert Fitzroy's title was Meteorological Statist to the Board of Trade, and he had a staff of three.

Robert Fitzroy arranged for captains of ships to provide information, with tested instruments being loaned for this purpose, and for computation of the data collected.

Robert Fitzroy directed the design and distribution of a type of barometer which, on his recommendation, was fixed at every port to be available to crews for consultation before setting out to sea.

Robert Fitzroy ordered fleets to stay in port under these conditions.

Robert Fitzroy was in Oxford on 30 June 1860 to present a paper on storms and attended the meeting of the British Association for the Advancement of Science at which Samuel Wilberforce attacked Darwin's theory.

Robert Fitzroy's memorial was restored by the Meteorological Office in 1981.

FitzRoy has been commemorated by the Robert Fitzroy Building at the University of Plymouth, used by the School of Earth, Ocean and Environmental Science.

Vice-Admiral Robert FitzRoy was commemorated on two stamps issued by the Royal Mail for the Falkland Islands and St Helena.

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BBC made a BAFTA award-winning television series in 1978 titled The Voyage of Charles Darwin where Captain Robert Fitzroy was played by actor Andrew Burt with Malcolm Stoddard as Darwin with a storyline that followed the historic interaction between Darwin and FitzRoy before and after their time together on HMS Beagle.