Alice Caroline Laird Somerset
Generation: 1
Generation: 2
Generation: 3
Generation: 4
Generation: 2
2. Henry Robert Fitzroy Somerset Henry married Jane Laird Gordon [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]
3. Jane Laird Gordon Children:
- 1. Alice Caroline Laird Somerset
- Claire Sophie Westwood Somerset
- George Henry FitzRoy Somerset was born on 21 Jan 1999; died on 20 Jul 2019 in Hildenborough Railway Station.
Generation: 3
4. David Henry Fitzroy Somerset was born on 19 Jun 1930 (son of Brig. Hon. Nigel Fitzroy Somerset, CBE, DSO, MC and Phyllis Marion Offley Irwin); died on 25 Oct 2014. Notes:
Chief Cashier Bank of England, 1980-88
David married Ruth Ivy Wildbur [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]
5. Ruth Ivy Wildbur Children:
6. Dr. Peter Gordon Notes:
Of Edinburgh, Midlothian, Scotland
Children:
Generation: 4
8. Brig. Hon. Nigel Fitzroy Somerset, CBE, DSO, MC was born in 1893 in Cefntilla Court, Usk, Monmouthshire, Wales (son of George (3rd Baron Raglan) Somerset and Lady Ethel (of Bessborough) Ponsonby); died in 1990. Notes:
Nigel Fitzroy Somerset MC,DSO. Glostors and MGC(M). he was known as 'Slasher Somerset" and was CO of 14th L.A.M.B in Mesopotamia, and afterwards in India.
His DSO was gazetted on 2 Apr 19. The citation appeared in the London Gazette of 10 Dec 19 and was for the action near Qaiyarah on 30 Oct 18.
Educated King William's College, IOM, and Sandhurst. Commissioned Glosters 3.9.13, France 12 Aug 14 (wounded Aisne, 15.9.14) returned to France 3.12.14 (wounded Cuinchy 12.5.15). Mespot Oct 16 - May 19. Majority on promotion to substantive Captain, 1918. Indian Frontier May-Sept 1919. ADC to Governor S Australia 1920-22. In 1928 was Assistant Military Secretary, HQ Southern Command, India.Nigel married Phyllis Marion Offley Irwin in 1922. Phyllis (daughter of Henry Offley Irwin) died in 1979. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]
9. Phyllis Marion Offley Irwin (daughter of Henry Offley Irwin); died in 1979. Children:
- Susan Mary Somerset was born in 1923; died in 1996.
- 4. David Henry Fitzroy Somerset was born on 19 Jun 1930; died on 25 Oct 2014.
10. Wilfred Robert Wildbur Notes:
of King's Lynn, Norfolk
Mayor of King's Lynn, 1959
Possible licensee of the Rummer Hotel, King's Lynn in 1936
(Research):Several Wildbur baptisms are recoreded in Kings Lynn circa 1864Children: