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Percy Fitzpatrick Sir Percy Fitzpatrick was a politician, author and a pioneer of the fruit industry. He was the eldest son of James Coleman Fitzpatrick, judge of the Supreme Court of the Cape Colony, and Jenny Fitzgerald, both from Ireland. Percy was educated at Downside Abbey, near Bath, England, and later at St Aidan's College, Grahamstown. On his father's death in 1880 he left college in order to support his mother and her family. In 1884 he went to the Eastern Transvaal gold-fields where he worked as a storeman, prospector's hand and journalist, and as a transport-rider from Lourenco Marques by ox-wagon to Lydenburg and Barberton. In Barbeton he became editor of the Gold Field News. He died in 1931. Extras Reviews, News & Interviews: