Death
Fitzherbert died on 6 February 1891 at his residence in Lower Hutt. He was buried at Lower Hutt cemetery on 10 February next to his late wife, who had died on 21 August 1886.
He was survived by his two sons and his daughter Alice Jane, who married Sir Patrick Alphonsus Buckley.
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