Talk:Robert D. FitzGerald

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A fact from Robert D. FitzGerald appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 20 April 2007. The text of the entry was as follows:

Did you know... that the Irish–Australian surveyor Robert D. Fitzgerald became so skilled in his hobby of botany that Charles Darwin corresponded with him and 4 plants were named in his honour?

A record of the entry may be seen at Wikipedia:Recent additions/2007/April.

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David or Desmond?

I did a scan in the digitised newspapers. Where his middle name appears (government appointments, obituaries, etc) he is always called David not Desmond during his lifetime. It is not until this newspaper article in 1930 that the middle name Desmond appears, at least 30 years after his death. However, the use of Desmond then persists into many websites today. Unless anyone can find any evidence of the middle name Desmond during his lifetime, I think we should remove it from the first sentance and addma comment later that after his death, he has been sometimes erronenously referred to as "Robert Desmond FitzGerald". I don't think we want to continue to encourage the further proliferation of the middle name Desmond unless we can find he ever used it himself. As currently written, it suggests we are not sure about his middle name, but I don't think we are unsure. Everything I can find says it was David. Kerry (talk) 03:15, 7 July 2016 (UTC)[reply]

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