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Ward W. Briggs, Jr., article on Thomas Fitz Hugh in Biographical Dictionary of North American Classicists (Westport: Greenwood Press, 1994), p. 184:

FITZ HUGH, Thomas. Born: 12 Oct. 1862, Longwood, VA, to William Henry & Mary Anne Harrison F. Married: Catherine Lefevre, 23 June 1902. Education: M.A. U. Virginia, 1883; study at Berlin, 1892-3, 1899-1902. Prof Exp.: Instr. Lat. Bingham's School (NC), 1881-2; prof. Lat. Central U. (Richmond, KY), 1881-2; first asst. Bellevue HS (VA), 1884-9; prof. Lat. U. Texas, 1889-99; prof. Lat. U. Virginia, 1901-27. Died: 1957.

Thomas Fitz Hugh was born of colonial Virginia stock and after a decade's sojourn in Austin, TX, returned to his old school as the hand-picked successor of Col. William E. Peters. In Charlottesville, he devoted himself to his accentual theory of Latin metrics, a theory he ingrained in his students and first published in 1909, but which he recanted late in his life. He edited the letters of his predecessor George Long and those on classical subjects by Thomas Jefferson.

PUBLICATIONS: The Philosophy of the Humanities (Chicago, 1897); The Outlines of a System of Classical Pedagogy (Berlin, 1900); The Sacred Tripudium, the Accentual and Rhythmic Norm of Italico-Romanic Speech and Verse (Charlottesville, 1909); The Literary Saturnian, the Stichic Norm of Italico-Keltic, Romanic, and Modern Rhythm (Charlottesville, 1910); Indoeuropean Rhythm (Charlottesville, 1912); The Letters of George Long (Charlottesville, 1917); The Letters of Thomas Jefferson Concerning Philology and the Classics (Charlottesville, 1918).

Although I'm unqualified to judge, Fitz Hugh (also spelled FitzHugh or Fitz-Hugh) seems to have been a bit of a crank, ignored or mocked by other scholars for his heterodox metrical theories. Most of his publications appeared in the Bulletin of the School of Latin, University of Virginia (Charlottesville). I've compiled the following list, but I haven't seen some of the publications, and I can't guarantee the completeness or accuracy of the list:

• Prolegomena to the History of Italico-Romanic Rhythm (January 1, 1908 = No. 1), dedicated to Thomas Day Seymour, 22 pp.
• Carmen Arvale seu Martis Verber, or The Tonic Laws of Latin Speech and Rhythm (November 1, 1908 = No. 2), dedicated to Minton Warren, [5 pp.]
• The Sacred Tripudium: The Accentual and Rhythmic Norm of Italico-Romanic Speech and Verse (October 1, 1909 = No. 3), dedicated to the memory of John Henry Wright, 59 pp.
• Italico-Keltic Accent and Rhythm (December 1, 1909 = No. 4), dedicated to Emil Hübner, 70 pp.
• The Literary Saturnian, Part I: Livius Andronicus (May 1, 1910 = No. 5), dedicated to the memory of Morris Hicky Morgan, 79 pp.
• The Literary Saturnian, Part II: Naevius and the Later Italic Tradition (October 1, 1910 = No. 6), dedicated to Bernhard Kübler, Otto Plasberg, and Rudolf Helm, 124 pp.
• Indoeuropean Rhythm (October 12, 1912 = no. 7), dedicated to the memory of Johann Kaspar Zeuss, 195 pp.
• The Origin of Verse (January 1, 1915 = No. 8), 15 pp.
• The Indoeuropean Superstress and the Evolution of Verse (July 1, 1917 = No. 9), dedicated to the memory of John Williams White, 105 pp.
• The Old-Latin and Old-Irish Monuments of Verse (January 1, 1919 = No. 10), dedicated to the memory of Kirby Flower Smith, 128 pp.
• Triumpus - Θρ́ιαμβος: The Indoeuropean or Pyrrhic Stress Accent in Antiquity (1930 = Nos. 11-12), 207 pp.
• Aristotle and the Aryan Voice: Organon of Linguistics and Philology (1933 = Nos. 13-15), rev. J. Fraser, Classical Review 48 (1934) 90-91
• Ἴαμβος: Aryan Sacred Voice of Stress. Origin and Genesis of Speech (October 12, 1935 = No. 16), 70 pp.

A few other publications by Fitz Hugh not published in the Bulletin of the School of Latin:

• "The Latin Accent," Glotta 8 (1917) 241-243
• "Latin Rhythm," Glotta 8 (1917) 243-246
• "Latin Metric," Glotta 8 (1917) 247-248
• The Pyrrhic Accent and Rhythm of Latin and Keltic (1923), rev. J. Fraser, Journal of Roman Studies 12 (1922) 313, Journal of Hellenic Studies 43 (1923) 214, and Classical Review 38 (1924) 45

The "J. Fraser" who unfavorably reviewed a couple of Fitz Hugh's works was (I think) John Fraser (1882-1945), Professor of Celtic, Jesus College, Oxford, from 1921 until his death. Here is an excerpt from one of Fraser's reviews (Classical Review 38 [1924] 45):

[T]he details of Professor Fitzhugh's theory have really nothing to support them. The introduction into the argument of the hypothesis of an Italo-Celtic unity involving common principles of metre appears to be based on a misunderstanding of the terminology of linguistic science. The examples of Irish verse which Professor Fitzhugh produces to illustrate the theory merely prove that he should carefully avoid the subject.