Sir Anthony, a distinguished lawyer in the reign of Henry VIII., was born at Norbury in Derbyshire, but in what year is not known. He was educated at Oxford, passed rapidly through the lower grades of the legal profession, and in 1523 was made a puisne judge of the court of common pleas, an office which he held till his death in 1538.

Fitzherbert's works are—The Grand Abridgment collected by that most reverend judge Mr Anthony Fitzherbert, lately conferred with his own manuscript corrected by himself, together with the references of the cases to the book, by which they may be easily found, printed in folio by Pynson in 1514, by Wyken de Werde in 1516, and again in 1577; The Office and Authority of Justices of Peace, 1538, but often reprinted, the last edition being dated 1617; The Office of Sheriffs, Bailiffs of Liberties, Escheators, Constables, Coroners, and others, 1538; Of the Diversity of Courts, 1529; The New Nature of Evidence, 1554, to which, in the last edition, published in 1594, two vols. Svo, is added a concordary supplied to the book written by Chief-Judge Hall, with notes, references, and an enlarged index; Of the Surveying of Lands, 1539; The Book of Husbandry, 1534, reprinted several times in the reigns of Mary and Elizabeth. Of these works, five, in the order in which they are here enumerated, were, with the exception of part of the second, originally written in French.