Paddy Fitzgerald, Date of Birth, Date of Death

    

Paddy Fitzgerald

Australian brewer

Date of Birth: 21-Jun-1896

Date of Death: 10-Sep-1984

Zodiac Sign: Cancer


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About Paddy Fitzgerald

  • Patrick Charles Mitchell Fitzgerald (21 June 1896 – 10 September 1984), known as Paddy Fitzgerald, was a brewer from Rockhampton, Queensland, Australia. He was the son eldest son of Charles Borromeo Fitzgerald, a solicitor, member of the Legislative Assembly of Queensland, and Attorney-General of Queensland (for just six days).
  • His mother was Joan Mary Fitzgerald (née Cahill).
  • His paternal grandfather was the Queensland pioneer Thomas Henry FitzGerald.Fitzgerald started at XXXX brewery in circa 1933, where his aunt's husband was managing director.
  • He made a career within the brewery and became managing director himself in 1977, a role from which he retired in February 1979.
  • Later that year, XXXX merged with Castlemaine Tooheys Ltd, and Fitzgerald retired as a director in 1981.
  • He had a likeness with Mr Fourex, the brewery's advertising mascot, and many believed that it was modelled on him, but the mascot had been developed in the 1920s.
  • He died at his home in Bardon on 10 September 1984 and was buried in Nudgee Cemetery.

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