Edmond George Petty- (Edmond)Fitzmaurice
1846–1935
Politician and historian. Son of Henry Thomas Petty-Fitzmaurice, earl of Shelburne. BA, Cambridge (Trinity College), 1868. Entered Parliament, 1868. Parliamentary under-secretary at the Foreign Office, 1883. Retired, 1885–98, due to ill health. Returned to Parliament, 1898–1909.
Sources
Alum. Cantab.
ODNB
Bibliography
Alum. Cantab.: Alumni Cantabrigienses. A biographical list of all known students, graduates and holders of office at the University of Cambridge, from the earliest times to 1900. Compiled by John Venn and J. A. Venn. 10 vols. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 1922–54.
ODNB: Oxford dictionary of national biography: from the earliest times to the year 2000. (Revised edition.) Edited by H. C. G. Matthew and Brian Harrison. 60 vols. and index. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 2004.
