Terrick V. H. FitzHugh
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27 March 1907
Terrick V. H. FitzHugh | |
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| Born | Terrick Victor Henry FitzHugh 27 March 1907 |
| Died | 20 November 1990 (aged 83) |
| Occupations | |
| Known for | Founder of The Amateur Historian (present-day, The Local Historian) journal. |
| Spouse |
Mary Pleasant FitzHugh {née Ormiston)
(m. 1937) |
| Children | 3 |
| Awards | Julian Bickersteth Memorial Medal, 1989 |
Terrick V. H. FitzHugh (1907 – 1990) was a British film producer and genealogist, known for founding The Amateur Historian (present-day, The Local Historian) journal.
Terrick Victor Henry FitzHugh was born on 27 March 1907 in Much Marcle, Herefordshire.[1] His mother, Alice Varvara Georgina FitzHugh (née Renny; 1872–1955), was born in Riga, Governorate of Livonia (present-day, Latvia) to a British father and a German mother.[2][3][4] His father, The Revd Victor Christian Albert FitzHugh (1881–1954), was the Canon of Ripon Cathedral and later Rector of Wensley.[5][6][7]
FitzHugh had two younger siblings, Renny and Eileen.[7] FitzHugh was educated at Dulwich College.[7]
Career
FitzHugh spent most of his career producing scientific and technical documentary films and films for children through the Children's Film Foundation (CFF).[8] In the late 1940s he was one of the directors of Mining Review, a newsreel for the British mining industry.[9] In 1948 he was listed as production manager for Paul Rotha's companies Rotha Films and Films of Fact in The Kinematograph Year Book[10] and in 1954 he was listed as chairman and general manager of the Documentary Technicians Alliance (DATA).[11] He was associate producer on the CFF's Mystery in the Mine (1959)[12] and Four Winds Island (1961), both with Frank A. Hoare as producer.
His first love, however, was genealogy. He joined the Society of Genealogists in 1943 and in 1952 founded the journal The Amateur Historian, now known as The Local Historian and published by the British Association for Local History, and was its first editor. He became a professional genealogist after his retirement and was one of the founders of the Association of Genealogists and Record Agents. He was made a fellow of the Society of Genealogists in 1988. In 1989 he received the Julian Bickersteth Memorial Medal for innovative services to local history and genealogy.[8]
He spent forty years researching his own family history[8] which was privately published after his death and traced his family back to 1223.[13] The endeavor produced the material for his book How to write a family history: The lives and times of our ancestors (1988)[8] which was published in a posthumous new edition with the additional authorship of Henry A. FitzHugh in 2005. He also wrote The dictionary of genealogy which was published in three editions up to 1991.
