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Robert FitzRoy (1805-1865) in his twenties. 'He was a handsome man, strikingly like a gentleman, with highly courteous manners...' FitzRoy achieved lasting fame as the captain of HMS Beagle and as a pioneering meteorologist who invented weather forecasts, also proving an able surveyor and hydrographer as well as Governor of New Zealand. Darwin and the Beagle by Alan Moorhead, page 21.<br><br>

0651927 - Robert FitzRoy (1805-1865) in his twenties. 'He was a handsome man, strikingly like a gentleman, with highly courteous manners...' FitzRoy achieved lasting fame as the captain of HMS Beagle and as a pioneering meteorologist who invented weather forecasts, also proving an able surveyor and hydrographer as well as Governor of New Zealand. Darwin and the Beagle by Alan Moorhead, page 21.

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