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{{Infobox rai-fellow
| first_name = Robert
| name = Fitzroy
| honorific_prefix = Capt. (Admiral 1862)
| honorific_suffix = RN, FRS
| image = File:Fitzroy,_Robert.jpg
| birth_date = 1805
| death_date = 1865
| address = 38 Onslow Square [1862]
| occupation = administrative<br />armed services
| elected_ESL = 1851.01.08
1860.10.17
| elected_ASL =
| elected_AI =
| elected_APS =
| elected_LAS =
| membership = ESL Ordinary Fellow
| left =
| clubs = Athenaeum Club
| societies = Royal Society
}}
== Notes ==
=== Office Notes ===
ESL Council 1852-53 member [resigns June 1853]<br />
=== House Notes ===
late Governor of NZ<br />Council May 1853, resigns as summoned by Admiralty to Foreign Service 1853.06.02; proposed as President 26 May 59, declines May 1861
=== Notes From Elsewhere ===
Vice-Admiral Robert FitzRoy RN (5 July 1805 – 30 April 1865) was a career officer of the Royal Navy and a scientist. He achieved lasting fame as the captain of HMS Beagle during Charles Darwin's famous voyage, FitzRoy's second expedition to Tierra del Fuego and the Southern Cone. He was a pioneering meteorologist who made accurate weather forecasting a reality and created systems to get weather information to sailors and fishermen for their safety. He was an able surveyor and hydrographer. As Governor of New Zealand, serving from 1843 to 1845, he tried to protect the Maori from illegal land sales claimed by British settlers.<br /><br />Member of the Athenaeum Club from 1852
== Publications ==
=== External Publications ===
=== House Publications ===
on the probable migrations and variations of the earlier families of the human race
== Related Material Details ==
=== RAI Material ===
=== Other Material ===
| first_name = Robert
| name = Fitzroy
| honorific_prefix = Capt. (Admiral 1862)
| honorific_suffix = RN, FRS
| image = File:Fitzroy,_Robert.jpg
| birth_date = 1805
| death_date = 1865
| address = 38 Onslow Square [1862]
| occupation = administrative<br />armed services
| elected_ESL = 1851.01.08
1860.10.17
| elected_ASL =
| elected_AI =
| elected_APS =
| elected_LAS =
| membership = ESL Ordinary Fellow
| left =
| clubs = Athenaeum Club
| societies = Royal Society
}}
== Notes ==
=== Office Notes ===
ESL Council 1852-53 member [resigns June 1853]<br />
=== House Notes ===
late Governor of NZ<br />Council May 1853, resigns as summoned by Admiralty to Foreign Service 1853.06.02; proposed as President 26 May 59, declines May 1861
=== Notes From Elsewhere ===
Vice-Admiral Robert FitzRoy RN (5 July 1805 – 30 April 1865) was a career officer of the Royal Navy and a scientist. He achieved lasting fame as the captain of HMS Beagle during Charles Darwin's famous voyage, FitzRoy's second expedition to Tierra del Fuego and the Southern Cone. He was a pioneering meteorologist who made accurate weather forecasting a reality and created systems to get weather information to sailors and fishermen for their safety. He was an able surveyor and hydrographer. As Governor of New Zealand, serving from 1843 to 1845, he tried to protect the Maori from illegal land sales claimed by British settlers.<br /><br />Member of the Athenaeum Club from 1852
== Publications ==
=== External Publications ===
=== House Publications ===
on the probable migrations and variations of the earlier families of the human race
== Related Material Details ==
=== RAI Material ===
=== Other Material ===