Edward FitzGerald is one of Woodbridge’s most historically famous residents. He was born in Bredfield in 1809, studied at Trinity College, Cambridge and inherited a fortune large enough to enable him to live a quiet life “preoccupied with flowers, music and literature”. In the 1850s he was introduced to an old Persian poem which he translated and published as ‘The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam’. Slowly the poem became famous and it is now the one literary work by which FitzGerald is known across the world. His blue plaque is on a house in Pytches Road and there is a stone high up on a building on Market Hill bearing his initials. Charles Muggleston will introduce the poem and then read it in the library’s meeting room. The event is free of charge. Donations to the Friends of Woodbridge Library.