Author: Fitzgerald, Gerald
Biography:
FITZGERALD, Gerald (1740-1819: Walsh and Kinane)
Nothing is known about his parents, early education, and personal life. He earned his BA from Trinity College Dublin in 1763 and was appointed a Fellow in 1765 and a Senior Fellow in 1782. He served as the Regius Professor of Laws (1783-85), Professor of Hebrew (1795-1806), and Vice-Provost (1795-1806). His Academick Sportsman is dedicated to Sir Fielding Ould, Master of the Rotunda Lying-In Hospital in Dublin and teacher in the Trinity medical school. Fitzgerald also wrote An Essay on the Originality and Permanency of the Biblical Hebrew (1796) and A Hebrew Grammar (1799). In 1806 he was appointed Rector of Ardstraw, Co. Tyrone. (Anne Walsh and Vincent Kinane, Essays on the History of Trinity College Library Dublin [2000]) SR