William Fitzgerald (educationalist)
New Zealand teacher, educationalist
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William Sanderson Fitzgerald (12 November 1838 – 27 January 1920) was a New Zealand teacher and educationalist. He was born in Musselburgh, Midlothian, Scotland on 12 November 1838 to Jean Sanderson and her husband James Fitzgerald. On 17 May 1861 he married a fellow teacher, Annie Copland Annandale[2]. Also in 1861, he was appointed by the Free Church of Scotland to be the principal of a Presbyterian boarding and day school in Pigeon Bay on Banks Peninsula in New Zealand's South Island. He and his wife reached Lyttelton in October 1861.[3] At Pigeon Bay, they had twins on 20 March 1862, including the cricketer James Fitzgerald.[4]
Fitzgerald moved to Oamaru in 1869, becoming the rector of Ōamaru Grammar School until 1876. In 1876 was appointed to establish the Otago Normal School in Dunedin.[3]
