Admiral Fitzroy

Admiral Fitzroy is commonly remembered because of a most distinctive type of barometer to which he...

Admiral Fitzroy was one of the first to attempt a scientific weather forecast...

Admiral Fitzroy is most famous as Darwin’s captain on HMS Beagle, but his career didn’t end there: he set up the Meteorological Office in 1854 to provide...

Fitzroy was also a meteorologist who later became director of the British Meteorological Office...

Admiral Fitzroy was responsible in the 1860s for the first accurate storm warnings for ships when he observed that a sudden drop in pressure often preceded bad weather...