Background
Carrington, Fitzroy was born on November 6, 1869 in Surbiton, Surrey, England. Son of Robert Charles and Sarah Jane (Pewtress) Carrington.
Carrington, Fitzroy was born on November 6, 1869 in Surbiton, Surrey, England. Son of Robert Charles and Sarah Jane (Pewtress) Carrington.
Student Bute House, Petersham, England, Victoria College, Jersey, Channel Islands. Master of Arts, Dickinson College, June 11, 1913.
His high school education was at Victoria College, Jersey, and he came to the United States in 1886. In 1911, the year before publishing Prints and their Makers, he had undertaken the editorship of The Print Collector’s Quarterly, a journal unique in the United States. He continued to be editor after 1913, although then giving up his business interests to become lecturer on the history and principles of engraving, at Harvard University, and appointed curator of prints at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston in 1912.
While working at Harvard and the Museum of Fine Arts, He resided in Belmont, Massachusetts, in an historic revival style house.
He purchased this house from the original architect/builder/owner, who built an adjacent similar home partially financed by Carrington appending a portion of the adjacent lot. He resigned as editor of The Print Collector’s Quarterly in 1917, but became the American editor of the same periodical in 1921, the year he resigned from the Museum of Fine Arts.
He is the author of Engravers and Etchers (Scammon Lectures, 1921) and On Print Collecting (1929). This can easily be expanded by referring to some of the New York Who"s Who, a few magazine articles and other book references.
Foreign 21 years (1892–1913) he was identified with Frederick Keppel & Company (New York) dealers in etchings and engravings, being a member of the firm after 1899.
Married Charlotte Austen Singleton, February 24, 1897. Children: Harold Keppel, Phyllis Charlotte, Elizabeth Curtis, Sidney.