He was made captain in 1820, placed on half-pay as a major in June 1825 and four months later, promoted lieutenant-colonel. Persönliches. In the early 1820s he went to the Cape of Good Hope, serving in a variety of positions including military secretary and later deputy-adjutant general. Grey was attacked throughout them, but FitzRoy was able to report to him that in April the council had reversed its vote against transportation after a debate which left it still seething in May and frustrated its attempts to protest against the constitutional proposals.FitzRoy emerged almost unscathed in 1848 from the battles over Grey's Australian policies.
Later these attacks on his moral character increased and affected his reputation in the colony and in London.On 31 July 1847 Grey wrote to FitzRoy that he proposed to separate the Port Phillip District from New South Wales and make it a new colony, Victoria, with representative government on the New South Wales pattern.
The same form of government would be granted to Van Diemen's Land and South Australia. Sir Charles Augustus FitzRoy (1796-1858), governor-general, was born on 10 June 1796, the eldest son of General Lord Charles FitzRoy, the second son of the third Duke of Grafton, and Frances, daughter of Edward Miller Mundy, M.P., of Shipley Hall, Derbyshire, England. Older Barbara Palmer (née Villiers), Duchess of Cleveland with her son, Charles Fitzroy, as Madonna and Child by Sir Peter Lely.jpg 2,400 × 3,019; 1.26 MB 1 reference imported from Wikimedia project On the motion of FitzRoy was not pleased to see the colony thrust into the troublesome business of constitution-making. Earl of Castlemaine (1634–1705), und erhielt dessen Familiennamen 1670 wurde er im Alter von acht Jahren mit Mary Wood, dem einzigen Kind von Sir Henry Wood, 1. When he compared himself with Lord Elgin, he boasted, but he could have claimed justly to be at least the equal of any Australian governor of his time.John M. Ward, 'FitzRoy, Sir Charles Augustus (1796–1858)', Australian Dictionary of Biography, National Centre of Biography, Australian National University, http://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/fitzroy-sir-charles-augustus-2049/text2539, published first in hardcopy 1966, accessed online 1 August 2020.© Copyright Australian Dictionary of Biography, 2006-2020© Copyright Australian Dictionary of Biography, 2006-2020 After six years of close co-operation he won Thomson a substantial increase of salary, handsomely back-dated.FitzRoy's happy beginnings in New South Wales ended in tragedy. FitzRoy was not directly involved in the colonial moves for a more liberal franchise, although he did write privately to the Colonial Office to support the enfranchisement of the leasehold squatters, who would strengthen the government in the Legislative Council. After education at Harrow School and Trinity College, Cambridge, he entered the army in 1782 as an ensign. He so mismanaged his attempt to remove the surveyor-general, FitzRoy's gift for working with people extended to most of the colonial politicians. FitzRoy told Grey that it would cause great opposition and discontent. and lieutenant-governor of Prince Edward Island, where he soon won a reputation for tact and moderation. The bitterest strife of the Gipps period had been over the land claims of the squatters. It was easy for the governor to send to London with little comment the many petitions against transportation to Tasmania.
Newcastle could not help him, but recommended him for the K.C.B., conferred in June 1854.The problems posed for FitzRoy by the gold discoveries of 1851 were unprecedented in British colonial experience.