FITZHUGH, William Henry, philanthropist, born in Chatham, Stafford County, Virginia, 8 March 1792; died ill Cambridge, Maryland, 21 May 1830. He was a son of William P. Fitzhugh, a patriot of the Revolution, was graduated at, Princeton in 1808, and settled oil the patrimonial domain of "Ravensworth," Fairfax County, Virginia. He was elected vice president of the American colonization society, and took an active interest in it, supporting it both with voice and pen. In 1826 he published a series of essays ill behalf of the cause, over the signature of "Opimius," in the columns of the Richmond "Inquirer." He was also the author of an address delivered on the ninth anniversary of the association, and of a review of "Tazewell's Report" in the "African Repository" (August and November 1828). in one of his essays he expresses the opinion that "the labor of the slave is a curse on the land on which it is expended," which seems like a truism now, but was bold doctrine then.