Terrick V. H. FitzHugh

Terrick FitzHugh was born at Ledbury, Herefordshire, in 1907, the elder son of Rev. Victor Christian Albert FitzHugh (1880–1954), rector of Wensley with Leyburn, Yorkshire and canon of Ripon Cathedral, descendant of a minor gentry family, and Alice Varvara Georgina (d. 1955), daughter of Charles Renny, of Ettrick Lodge, Edinburgh, also of a gentry family. In 1937 he married Mary Pleasant (1914-2005), daughter of wire manufacturer Philip Herbert Ormiston.FamilySearch. Retrieved 15 May 2017. (subscription required)</ref> They had two sons, Terrick and Nigel, and a daughter, Vara.

FitzHugh died on 20 November 1990. He received an obituary in The Local Historian.

His first love, however, was genealogy. He joined the Society of Genealogists in 1943 and in 1952 founded the journal The Amateur Historian, now known as The Local Historian and published by the British Association for Local History, and was its first editor. He became a professional genealogist after his retirement and was one of the founders of the Association of Genealogists and Record Agents. He was made a fellow of the Society of Genealogists in 1988. In 1989 he received the Julian Bickersteth Memorial Medal for innovative services to local history and genealogy.

FitzHugh spent most of his career producing scientific and technical documentary films and films for children through the Children's Film Foundation (CFF). In the late 1940s he was one of the directors of Mining Review, a newsreel for the British mining industry. In 1948 he was listed as production manager for Paul Rotha's companies Rotha Films and Films of Fact in The Kinematograph Year Book and in 1954 he was listed as chairman and general manager of the Documentary Technicians Alliance (DATA). He was associate producer on the CFF's Mystery in the Mine (1959) and Four Winds Island (1961), both with Frank A. Hoare as producer.

Terrick Victor Henry FitzHugh (27 March 1907 - 20 November 1990) was a film producer and genealogist. He founded the journal The Amateur Historian, now known as The Local Historian and published by the British Association for Local History, and was its first editor.