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Fitzwilliam Museum

(Cambridge University). So called from Earl Fitz-william, who left £100,000 with books, paintings, etc., to form the nucleus of a museum for the benefit of the university.

Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894
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