Where was Robert FitzRoy from?
Robert FitzRoy
Robert FitzRoy was born at Ampton Hall, Ampton, Suffolk, England, into the upper echelons of the British aristocracy and a tradition of public service. Through his father, General Lord Charles FitzRoy, Robert was a fourth great-grandson of Charles II of England; his paternal grandfather was Augustus Henry FitzRoy, 3rd Duke of Grafton. His mother, Lady Frances Stewart, was the daughter of the first Marquess of Londonderry and the half-sister of Viscount Castlereagh, who became Foreign Secretary. From the age of four, Robert FitzRoy lived with his family at Wakefield Lodge, their Palladian mansion in Northamptonshire.
Contempo: A Review of Books and Personalities
Anthony J. Buttitta
Buttitta was born in Monroe, Louisiana in 1907, the son of immigrants from Sicily. He published his first plays and stories in the later 1920s as an undergraduate at Louisiana State Normal College and the University of Texas. Buttitta was an English graduate student at Chapel Hill when he met Milton Abernethy and co-founded "Contempo". Soon after the magazine’s inception, tensions grew between Abernethy and Buttitta. In 1932, Buttitta moved to Durham and opened his own Intimate Bookshop. He published two of his own issues of "Contempo" before losing the legal rights to Abernethy, after which time "Contempo" resumed its sole published location in Chapel Hill, edited by “Ab” and his wife, Minna K. Abernethy. Buttitta later moved to Asheville, where he associated with author F. Scott Fitzgerald, an experience he recorded in his books, "After the Good Gay Times" and "The Lost Summer: a Personal Memoir of F. Scott Fitzgerald"