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Portrait of Lord Fitzroy James Henry Somerset, #867288

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Portrait of  Lord Fitzroy James Henry Somerset, #867288
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Somerset, Lord Fitzroy James Henry, first Baron Raglan 1788-1855, field-marshal, was youngest son of Henry, fifth duke of Beaufort, by Elizabeth, daughter of Admiral the Hon. Edward Boscawen [q.v.]. Lord Robert Edward Henry Somerset [q.v.] was an elder brother. He was born at Badminton on 30 Sept. 1788, and was educated at Westminster. He was commissioned as cornet in the 4th light dragoons on 9 June 1804, and became lieutenant on 30 May 1805. In 1807 he accompanied the mission of Sir Arthur Paget to Constantinople. He obtained a company in the 6th garrison battalion on 5 May 1808, and on 18 Aug. was transferred to the 43rd foot. He went to Portugal with Wellesley as aide-de-camp, and was present at Roliça and Vimeiro. On 27 Aug. Wellesley wrote: ?Lord Fitzroy has been very useful to me, and I have this day lent him to Sir H. Dalrymple to go to the French headquarters.?He went home with Wellesley, but returned to the Peninsula with him in the spring of 1809, and served on his staff continuously till the close of the war. He was bearer of the despatches after Talavera, and was wounded at Busaco. He was appointed military secretary to Wellesley on 1 Jan. 1811, and in this position he established direct relations with the battalion commanders, by means of which he acquired ?an exact knowledge of the moral state of each regiment, rendered his own office important and gracious with the army, and with such discretion and judgment that the military hierarchy was in no manner weakened? ...
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<tr><td>Condition:Good </td></tr>
<tr><td>Year:19th Century</td></tr>
<tr><td>Country:UK </td></tr>
<tr><td>Maker:Andrew Morton </td></tr>
<tr><td>Height:35.00</td></tr>

<tr><td>Width:30.00</td></tr>

<tr><td>Title:Portrait of Lord Fitzroy James Henry Somerset,</td></tr>
<tr><td>Style:Traditional</td></tr>

<tr><td>Type:Oil on Canvas.</td></tr>
<tr><td>Location:london uk</td></tr>
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