Midland Counties,' 1838; and 'The Book of the Salmon,' together with A. Young, who added to it many notes on the life-history of this fish, 1850. 'Ephemera' regarded this as the acme of his teachings on fishing. He also edited and partly rewrote the section on 'Angling' in Elaine's 'Encyclopædia of Rural Sports' (1852), and published the best of all the practical editions of 'The Compleat Angler' of Walton and Cotton in 1853. Death With his fine genius, excellent classical attainments, and perfect knowledge of French, Fitzgibbon would have been more famous but for an unfortunate weakness. He had periodical fits of drinking. Physicians viewed his case with much interest, as his weakness seemed almost to amount to a kind of monomania, in the intervals of which his life was marked by abstemiousness and refined tastes. Fitzgibbon often promised that he would write his experiences of intoxication, which his friends persuaded themselves would have won him fame. But he became a wreck some years before his death, on 19 Nov 1857, after a month's illness. He died in the communion of the Roman Catholic Church leaving no family. He was buried in the dissenters section on the western side of Highgate Cemetery (plot no.8437). The grave, which no longer has a headstone, is adjacent to the boundary wall up from the grave of Michael Faraday. References 1803 births 1857 deaths Burials at Highgate Cemetery Writers from Limerick (city) English journalists Fly fishing Angling writers