Cecil Augustus Fitzroy (10 January 1844 – 13 November 1917) was a 19th-century Member of Parliament from the Canterbury region of New Zealand, and later Mayor of Hastings.
[1] His father was the Reverend Frederick Thomas William Coke Fitzroy (1808–1862) and his mother was Emilia Le-Strange Styleman.
[4] He emigrated to Australia in 1867 and came to New Zealand soon after,[1] where he was initially a cadet at Mesopotamia Station (previously owned by Samuel Butler)[4] and then settled in Heslerton, Canterbury;[5] the main farm is now known as Northbank homestead, located north of the Rakaia River.
William Reeves, the incumbent, favoured the retention of the provincial system of government, whilst Fitzroy was an abolitionist.
[11] He moved to Hastings in Hawke's Bay, where he was involved in local politics before becoming mayor from 1894 to 1899.