of 47. A tangible memorial to him is on display at the MCC museum: his illustrated scrapbooks recording matches played between 1859 – 1866. The book contains the earliest cricketing photographs taken. Fitzgerald was also a keen amateur photographer. Fitzgerald also wrote a humorous book titled Jerks in from Short Leg 1published in 1865 and contributed to numerous cricketing publications including Bell's Life between 1859 – 1874. He also proof-read Arthur Haygarth's Score & Biographies which MCC supported during his time as secretary. The Hon Sir Edward Chandos Leigh as President of MCC in 1887 paid homage to Fitzgerald. In his autobiography Bar, Bat and Bit, Leigh wrote: "It was, I think, a fortunate thing for the Club and for the cricketing world generally when he (Fitzgerald) became secretary, for a new era seems to have dawned at Lord's with his arrival, and all the vast improvements which took place there owed their origin, inception, and development to his fertile brain and his untiring energy". References External links Jerks in From Short-Leg- Google Books "Wickets in the West" - Internet Archive, University of Alberta Libraries Robert Allan Fitzgerald at Cricinfo Stoneleigh CC 1834 births 1881 deaths Cambridge University cricketers English cricket administrators English cricketers Marylebone Cricket Club cricketers Middlesex cricketers People educated at Harrow School Alumni of Trinity College, Cambridge Secretaries of the Marylebone Cricket Club I Zingari cricketers Gentlemen of the South cricketers North of the Thames v South of the Thames cricketers Gentlemen of Marylebone Cricket Club cricketers Non-international England cricketers 19th-century British businesspeople