FITCH, SIR JOSHUA GIRLING English educationist, second son of Thomas Fitch, of a Colchester family, was born in Southwark, London, in 1824. He entered the educa tion inspectorate in 1863, and from 1885 to 1894 was chief in spector of training colleges. Fitch was a strong advocate of the higher education of women, and he was constantly looked to for counsel and direction on educational subjects. In 1896 he was knighted. He published an authoritative criticism of Thomas and Matthew Arnold, and Their Influence on English Education (1901). He died on July 14, 1903, in London.
See A. L. Lilley, Sir Joshua Fitch (1906).