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PROF. MAURIcE FREDERICK FITzGERALD, B.A. (Dublin), D.Sc. (Belfast), was born on July 10, 1850, and died on May 4. The eldest son of the late Right Rev. Wm. FitzGerald, Bishop of Killaloe, he came of a family greatly distinguished in science. A brother of the late Prof. George Frances FitzGerald, F.R.S., and nephew on the mother's side of the late George Johnston Stoney, F.R.S., and Bindon B. Stoney, F.R.S., the eminent engineer, he early showed mental powers of a high order. He entered Trinity College, Dublin, in 1867, gained a scholarship in mathematics, and graduated with honours in 1871. In the following year he became a pupil with Messrs. Easton and Anderson of Erith ironworks. Under that firm he had experience on the sewerage of Doncaster and the erection of pumping machinery on the Clyde, and in 1875 went to Russia to instal similar plant at the Cronstadt graving docks. He was afterwards employed by the Russian Government on works at Riga and Odessa, and on his return to Ireland took part in important drainage works on the Shannon.
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Prof. M. F. FitzGerald. Nature 119, 823–824 (1927). https://doi.org/10.1038/119823a0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/119823a0