Ulysses FitzMaurice

Ulysses Fitzmaurice (c. 1744 – 21 August 1772) was a British colonial administrator and planter who served as the lieutenant-governor of Saint Vincent from 1766 to 1772.

On 2 December 1766, he began serving as the lieutenant-governor of Saint Vincent in the British West Indies, succeeding Lauchlin McLean.

On June of the year, he returned to Saint Vincent and sent a report to London addressed to the Earl of Hillsborough, a Board of Trade official.

The report detailed FitzMaurice's attempts to prevent an outbreak of violence between the British and the Garifuna people with 9 companies of the 32nd Regiment of Foot.

[4] FitzMaurice, whose official title was "Commander-in-Chief in and over his Majesty's Southern Caribbean Islands of Grenada, the Grenadines, St. Vincent, Dominica, and Tobago", issued a formal proclamation "to preserve the said Caraibes, free mulattoes and free negroes in perfect enjoyment of their freedom".

Valentine Morris , who succeeded FitzMaurice as governor of Saint Vincent after the latter's death