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Fitzwilliam (surname) Fitzwilliam (or FitzWilliam), lit. "''(bastard) Son of William''", is derived from the Anglo-Norman language, Anglo-Norman prefix Fitz (pronounced "fits") often used in patronymic surnames of Anglo-Norman origin; that is to say originating in the 11 ...
, including a list of people with the name * Earl Fitzwilliam, a title in the Peerage of Ireland and the Peerage of Great Britain * Viscount FitzWilliam, a title in the Peerage of Ireland


Places

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Fitzwilliam, West Yorkshire Fitzwilliam is a small village on the edge of West Yorkshire, England, in the City of Wakefield district. The village falls within the Hemsworth ward of Wakefield City Council. Governance It is part of the town of Hemsworth and local governmen ...
, England ** Fitzwilliam railway station * Fitzwilliam, New Hampshire, U.S. * Fitzwilliam Strait, a waterway through the central Canadian Arctic Archipelago * Mount Fitzwilliam, in the Canadian Rockies


Other uses

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Fitzwilliam College, Cambridge Fitzwilliam College is a constituent college of the University of Cambridge, England. The college has origins from 1869, with the foundation of the Non-Collegiate Students Board, a venture intended to offer academically excellent students of all ...
, a constituent colleges of the University of Cambridge, England **
Fitzwilliam Museum The Fitzwilliam Museum is the art and antiquities University museum, museum of the University of Cambridge. It is located on Trumpington Street opposite Fitzwilliam Street in central Cambridge. It was founded in 1816 under the will of Richard ...
, the art and antiquities museum of the University of Cambridge *
Fitzwilliam Darcy Fitzwilliam Darcy Esquire, generally referred to as Mr. Darcy, is one of the two central characters in Jane Austen's 1813 novel ''Pride and Prejudice''. He is an archetype of the aloof romantic hero, and a romantic interest of Elizabeth Bennet ...
, a fictional character from Jane Austen's ''Pride and Prejudice''


See also

* * Fitzwilliam Sonatas, an arrangement of Handel's recorder sonatas *
Fitzwilliam Virginal Book The ''Fitzwilliam Virginal Book'' is a primary source of keyboard music from the late Elizabethan and early Jacobean periods in England, i.e., the late Renaissance and very early Baroque. It takes its name from Viscount Fitzwilliam who bequ ...
, source of keyboard music in the Elizabethan and Jacobean periods in England {{disambiguation, geo