Men-at-the-Bar/Fitzmaurice, Lord Edmond George Petty

by Joseph Foster

Fitzmaurice, Lord Edmond George Petty, M.P., M.A. Trin. Coll., Camb., B.A. (scholar) 1868, under-secretary of state for foreign affairs since 1882, private secretary to Rt. Hon. Robert Lowe, home secretary, 1873-4, commissioner of Eastern Roumelia organization 1880, joint British plenipotentiary at conference in London Jan., 1883, M.P. Calne since 1868, a member of the Historical MSS. Commission, and a trustee of National Portrait Gallery, educated at Eton, a student of Lincoln's Inn 21 April, 1868 (then aged 21) called to the bar 17 Nov., 1871 (2nd son of Henry Petty, Marquis of Lansdowne, dec.); born 19 June, 1846.

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