Percy Hetherington Fitzgerald
Fitzgerald caricatured by Harry Furniss c.1890

Percy Hetherington Fitzgerald (26 April 1830 – 24 November 1925) was an Anglo-Irish author and critic, painter and sculptor.

Fitzgerald was born in Ireland at Fane Valley, County Louth, the son of Thomas FitzGerald. He was educated at Belvedere college Dublin, Stonyhurst College, Lancashire, and at Trinity College, Dublin. He was called to the Irish bar and was for a time crown prosecutor on the northeastern circuit.

After moving to London, he became a contributor to Charles Dickens's magazine, Household Words, and later dramatic critic for the Observer and the Whitehall Review. Among his many writings are numerous biographies and works relating to the history of the theatre. He wrote:

  • (1864) (See Sterne.); 2nd edition; revised & enlarged (1896); reprinted 1904
  • Charles Lamb (1866) (See Charles Lamb.)
  • (1868) (See David Garrick.)
  • (1871)
  • (1874)
  • Croker’s Boswell and Boswell: Studies in the “Life of Johnson” (Chapman and Hall, 1880)
  • (1881) (See George IV.)
  • (1882)
  • (1882)
  • (1884) (See William IV.)
  • (1886)
  • (1886)
  • . London: The Leadenhall Press. 1890 – via Google Books.
  • (1891) (See James Boswell.)
  • Henry Irving: A Record of Twenty Years at the Lyceum (1893)
  • (1894) (deals with operas of Gilbert and Sullivan.)
  • (London, 1895)
  • A Critical Examination of Dr G. Birkbeck Hill's "Johnsonian" Editions (1898)
  • (1899)
  • (1904)
  • (1905)
  • (1906)
  • . The Quarterly Review. 214: 24–44. January 1911.
  • (1912)
  • (1913)
  • (1914)

In 1900 he completed a bust of his friend Charles Dickens, which can be seen in the Pump Room in Bath. In 1910 he created a statue of Samuel Johnson , which is standing behind St Clement Danes, Strand, London. (Photo)

He is buried at Glasnevin Cemetery, Dublin.

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