Field Marshall Lord Fitzroy James Henry (1st Baron Raglan) Somerset, GCB PC^{[1, 2]}

1788 - 1855  (66 years)

• Name	Fitzroy James Henry (1st Baron Raglan) Somerset
  Prefix	Field Marshall Lord
  Suffix	GCB PC
  Birth	30 Sep 1788	Badminton, Gloucestershire, England   [3]
  Gender	Male
  Death	28 Jun 1855	Sebastopol   [4]
  Burial	Badminton, Gloucestershire, England
  Person ID	I95483	My Genealogy
  Last Modified	31 Jan 2019

  
  

  Father	Henry (5th Duke of Beaufort) Somerset, KG,   b. 16 Oct 1744   d. 11 Oct 1803 (Age 58 years)
  Mother	Elizabeth Boscawen,   b. 28 May 1747   d. 15 Jun 1828 (Age 81 years)
  Marriage	2 Jan 1766
  Family ID	F34829	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Emily Harriett (of Mornington) Wellesley-Pole,   b. 13 Mar 1782   d. 6 Mar 1881 (Age 98 years)
  Marriage	6 Aug 1814
  Children	1. Richard Henry Fitzroy (2nd Baron Raglan) Somerset, 2nd Baron Raglan.,   b. 24 Mar 1817   d. 8 May 1884 (Age 67 years)
  Family ID	F34946	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	29 Nov 2015

  
  

• Notes

  created 20 Oct 1852 Baron Raglan, of Raglan in the County of Monmouth Entered the Army as Cornet, 4th Light Dragoons 1804; Lieut 1805; attached to Sir Arthur Paget, Ambassador to the Sublime Porte, 1807; Capt, 43rd Foot 1808; Brevet Major 1811; ADC and Military Secretary to the Duke of Wellington during the Peninsular War; Brevet Lt Col 1812; Capt and Lt Col, 1st Foot Guards 1814; Secretary of Embassy in Paris 1814-15 and 1815-18; Col and ADC to the Prince Regent 1815-22; lost an arm at the Battle of Waterloo 1815; KCB 1815; Member of Parliament (Tory) for Truro 1816-20 and 1826-29; Secretary to the Master General of the Ordnance (the Duke of Wellington) 1819-27; accompanies the Duke of Wellington to the Congresses at Vienna and Verona 1822; Maj General 1825; Military Secretary to the Commander-in-Chief (the Duke of Wellington) 1827-52; Lieut General 1838; GCB 1847; Master General of the Ordnance 1852-55; Privy Councillor 1852; Col, 53rd Foot 1853-54 and Royal Horse Guards ("the Blues") 1854-55; General 1854; Field Marshal 1854; Commander-in-Chief of the Forces sent to the Crimea, where he won the Battles of Alma and Inkerman 1854

  
  

• Sources

  [S515] Drybroch. [S3540] Hamish Maclaren. [S519] Peerage, Baronetage, Knightage & Companionage, 952 (Reliability: 3). Raglan [S519] Peerage, Baronetage, Knightage & Companionage (Reliability: 3). Raglan, Baron