Charles Patrick Fitzgerald FAHA (5 March 1902 – 13 April 1992) was a British historian and writer whose academic career occurred mostly in Australia.
[1] Unable to attend university as his family could not afford the fees, he obtained a job in a bank.
[4][5] Fitzgerald served as a Reader in Far Eastern History at the Research School of Pacific (and Asian) Studies at the Australian National University, located in Canberra, Australia, from 1951 to 1953.
[6] Fitzgerald married Pamela Sara Knollys on 15 February 1941 at Bradford on Avon, Wiltshire, England.
[2] Fitzgerald's best-known book, China: A Short Cultural History (London: The Cresset Press, 1935; edited by C. P. Seligman), has been reprinted and revised several times.