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Henry FitzRoy, 5th Duke of Grafton

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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 a Whig between 1818 and 1820 and again between 1826 and 1831,[1] and was member for Thetford between 1834 and 1841.

On 24 May 1830, he was commissioned colonel of the West Suffolk Militia.[2]

Grafton married Mary Caroline Berkeley (daughter of Admiral the Hon. Sir George Cranfield-Berkeley), on 20 June 1812 in Portugal. They had five children:

Grafton died in 1863, aged seventy-three, at Wakefield Lodge, near Potterspury, Northamptonshire.

References

  1. ^ Leigh Rayment's Historical List of MPs – Constituencies beginning with "B" (part 6)
  2. ^ "No. 18688". The London Gazette. 8 June 1830. p. 1127.
Parliament of the United Kingdom
Preceded by Member of Parliament for Bury St Edmunds
18181820
With: Arthur Upton
Succeeded by
Preceded by Member of Parliament for Bury St Edmunds
18261831
With: Earl Jermyn
Succeeded by
Preceded by Member of Parliament for Thetford
18341841
With: Francis Baring 1834–1841
Hon. Bingham Baring 1841
Succeeded by
Peerage of England
Preceded by Duke of Grafton
1844–1863
Succeeded by