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His Grace The Duke of Grafton | |
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| Duke of Grafton | |
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| Born | Henry FitzRoy 10 February 1790 Southill, Bedfordshire, England |
| Died | 26 March 1863 (aged 73) Potterspury, Northamptonshire, England |
| Spouse(s) |
Mary Caroline Berkeley
(m. 1812) |
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| Parents | George FitzRoy, 4th Duke of Grafton Lady Charlotte Waldegrave |
Henry FitzRoy, 5th Duke of Grafton (10 February 1790 – 26 March 1863), styled Viscount Ipswich until 1811 and Earl of Euston between 1811 and 1844, was a British peer and politician.
Grafton was the son of George FitzRoy, 4th Duke of Grafton and Lady Charlotte Maria Waldegrave, daughter of James Waldegrave, 2nd Earl Waldegrave. The 6th Duke was a politician.
He represented Bury St Edmunds as member of parliament as a Whig between 1818 and 1820 and again between 1826 and 1831,[1] and was member for Thetford between 1834 and 1841.
As a young man he served as a Lieutenant in the 7th Light Dragoons, but retired on 15 August 1812.[2] On 23 September 1823 he was appointed Colonel of the East Suffolk Militia,[3] but on 24 May 1830 he transferred to the vacant colonelcy of the West Suffolk Militia, which his father and grandfather had previously commanded.[4] The duke resigned in 1845 and was succeeded by his son, William, Earl of Euston, on 24 December, the fourth generation of the family to command the regiment,[5] but Euston was replaced within weeks.[6]
Grafton married Mary Caroline Berkeley (18 June 1795 – 10 September 1873, the daughter of Admiral the Hon. Sir George Cranfield Berkeley), on 20 June 1812 in Portugal. They had five children:
- Lady Mary Elizabeth Emily Fitzroy (1817–1887), married Reverend Hon. Augustus Phipps, the son of The Earl of Mulgrave
- Maria Louisa Fitzroy (1818–1912), married Edward Douglas-Pennant, 1st Baron Penrhyn and had issue.
- William Henry FitzRoy, 6th Duke of Grafton (1819–1882)
- Augustus Charles Lennox FitzRoy, 7th Duke of Grafton (1821–1918)
- Frederick John Fitzroy (1823–1919), married Catherine Wescomb and had issue.
Grafton died in 1863, aged seventy-three, at Wakefield Lodge, near Potterspury, Northamptonshire.
- ^ Leigh Rayment's Historical List of MPs – Constituencies beginning with "B" (part 6)
- ^ London Gazette, 11 August 1812.
- ^ London Gazette, 13 December 1823.
- ^ "No. 18688". The London Gazette. 8 June 1830. p. 1127.
- ^ London Gazette, 10 February 1846.
- ^ Arthur Sleigh, The Royal Militia and Yeomanry Cavalry Army List, April 1850, London: British Army Despatch Press, 1850/Uckfield: Naval and Military Press, 1991, ISBN 978-1-84342-410-9.