Author: Fitzwilliam, G. W.
Biography:
FITZWILLIAM, G. W. (fl 1806-8)
The British author and translator G. W. Fitzwilliam, Esq., dedicated his only known work to the Duchess of Bedford. It was favourably reviewed by the Anti-Jacobin Review in 1806. This positive reception led the "editor," as he termed himself, to issue an enlarged second edition in 1807. It is an ambitious collection, including original verses as well as translations from Arabic, Persian, Irish, French, Spanish, Portuguese, Latin, and Greek authors. Although his names suggest that he may have been related to the titled Fitzwilliam family of Yorkshire and Cambridgeshire, he was not one of the earls nor, it seems, a son or brother of an earl, and cannot be identified with certainty. The parliamentarian George Wentworth Fitzwilliam (1817-74) was of a later generation. (Allibone; ancestry.com 9 Oct. 2025; findmypast.com 9 Oct. 2025) HJ