[3] Fitzherbert was educated in Wellington, at Sydney Grammar School, and at Canterbury University College.

[1] In 1904 he built Norbury,[5] now Minoh Friendship House, to house his daughter Alice and her husband George William von Zedlitz, Victoria University's first professor of modern languages.

[6] Alice married Professor von Zedlitz in 1905, and Alicetown in Lower Hutt was named after her.

[7] Fitzherbert died suddenly in Lower Hutt on 2 February 1906 of heart failure.

[3][8] In 2011, plaques were installed on 13 boulders at the Hutt Recreation Ground commemorating the first 13 mayors.