Louis FitzGibbon

Early life Louis FitzGibbon was born in London on 6 January 1925. He was the son of Commander Francis Lee-Dillon FitzGibbon, a distinguished naval officer. Constantine FitzGibbon, a noted author, stands as his paternal half-sibling. FitzGibbon's formative educational years were spent at St. Augustine's Abbey School located in Ramsgate. From there he pursued a career in the British Navy at 13 years old, enrolling in the esteemed Britannia Royal Naval College in Dartmouth during 1938. and embraced a directorial role at De Leon Properties, a tenure that lasted until 1972. From 1968 to 1972, FitzGibbon worked as the General Secretary of the British Council for Aid to Refugees. He also undertook numerous missions in East Africa for the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees . In 1981, he got an award for helping with human rights issues in Somalia and wrote a book about it called The Betrayal of the Somalis in 1982 and The Evaded Duty in 1985. He wrote more books about the region throughout the 1980s and worked as a secretary for the Horn of Africa and Aden Council from 1984 to 1992.

Awards The Polish Government-in-Exile honored him with the Gold Cross of Merit in 1969. In 1976, he was named a Knight Commander of the Order of Polonia Restituta. Germany and the Netherlands also gave him awards.

Later life and death FitzGibbon settled in Brighton where he was a campaigner on a number of issues affecting conservation and the South Coast. FitzGibbon was three times married and survived by a son and two daughters from his second marriage. He died on 31 January 2003.