Title: Blest madman
Description: "FitzGerald was wit, essayist & poet, artist, journalist, civil servant, politician, orator, singer & inspirational lecturer. First editor of the Lyttelton Times, Canterbury's first Superintendent, founder of The Press, and New Zealand's first Comptroller-General of Finance, he was arguably the country's first Prime Minister in 1854"--Cover.
Subjects: Politics and government, Politicians, Journalists, Officials and employees, Biography, History, Canterbury (england), Great britain, biography, New zealand studies
Places: Canterbury (N.Z.), New Zealand, Canterbury
People: James Edward Fitzgerald (1818-1896)
Time periods: 19th century