The Admiral Fitzroy Testimonial Fund
Date1865
Object number00006771
NameBook
MediumInk on paper
DimensionsOverall: 200 × 135 × 6 mm, 0.1 kg
ClassificationsBooks and journals
Credit LineANMM Collection
HistoryVice-Admiral Robert FitzRoy committed suicide on 30 April 1865 having exhausted his entire fortune of £6,000 on public expenditure. In order to prevent his wife and daughter living in destitution, his friend and colleague Bartholomew Sulivan began an Admiral FitzRoy Testimonial Fund, which succeeded in getting the government to pay back £3,000 of this sum (Darwin contributed a further £100).
Henry Walter Bates
1884