| Country: | England |
| Fullname: | Maurice Noel Ryder Purcell-Fitzgerald |
| Birth Date: | 22 December 1835 |
| Birth Place: | Torquay, Devon, England |
| Death Place: | Boulge, Suffolk, England |
| Batting: | Right-handed |
| Club1: | Marylebone Cricket Club |
| Year1: | 1866 |
| Club2: | Sussex |
| Year2: | 1864 |
| Columns: | 1 |
| Column1: | First-class |
| Matches1: | 2 |
| Runs1: | 8 |
| Bat Avg1: | 4.00 |
| 100S/50S1: | –/– |
| Top Score1: | 8 |
| Deliveries1: | – |
| Wickets1: | – |
| Bowl Avg1: | – |
| Fivefor1: | – |
| Tenfor1: | – |
| Best Bowling1: | – |
| Catches/Stumpings1: | 1/– |
| Date: | 14 March |
| Year: | 2012 |
| Source: | http://www.espncricinfo.com/ci/content/player/13074.html Cricinfo |
Maurice Noel Ryder Purcell-FitzGerald (22 December 1835 – 17 December 1877) was an English cricketer. Purcell-FitzGerald was a right-handed batsman. The son of John Purcell-FitzGerald and Augusta Jane Lisle March Phillipps, he was born at Torquay, Devon.[1]
Purcell-FitzGerald made a single first-class appearance for Sussex against Hampshire at Day's Antelope Ground, Southampton, in 1864.[2] In this match, he scored 8 runs in Sussex's first-innings, before being run out, while in their second-innings, he wasn't required to bat, with Sussex winning the match by 10 wickets.[3] Two years later, he made a second first-class appearance, this time for the Marylebone Cricket Club against Hampshire at Lord's.[2] Purcell-FitzGerald was dismissed for a duck by Sampson Tubb in the Marylebone Cricket Club's first-innings. He wasn't required to bat again in the match, with the Marylebone Cricket Club winning by an innings and 58 runs.[4]
Purcell-FitzGerald married Anne Laurie on 25 January 1860. They had six children, three girls and three boys.[1] He was for many years a resident at The Crouch House in Seaford, Sussex, but died at Boulge Hall, Boulge, Suffolk, on 17 December 1877. His uncle was the poet Edward FitzGerald.[5]