Background
Fitzherbert was born 27 May 1748 to William and Mary Fitzherbert of Tissington Hall.
Fitzherbert was born 27 May 1748 to William and Mary Fitzherbert of Tissington Hall.
He attended Westminster School and Street John"s College, Cambridge, graduating Master of Arts
He was a lawyer and recorder for Derby. He was an usher to George III. He owned a number of plantations for sugar and coffee in Jamaica and Barbados. In 1770. He toured Europe with his neighbour William Cavendish, later fifth Duke of Devonshire, when they were both about twenty.
He served as Gentleman Usher to King George III and was rewarded with portraits of the king and queen.
These were four sugar plantations of Blue Mountain, Forest, Grange Hill and Vere and the coffee plantation of Retrieve Mountain. Fitzherbert became a baronet on 22 January 1784 and retired to the family seat of Tissington Hall.
Anthony Fitzherbert, the second Baronet, died suddenly on 2 April 1798 of a "sudden consumption" at the age of nineteen.