Henry Somerset, 9th Duke of Beaufort

The Duke of Beaufort
Spouse(s)	Louise Emily Harford
Issue Blanche Linnie Somerset Diana Maud Nina Somerset Henry Somerset, 10th Duke of Beaufort
Noble family	House of Beaufort
Father	Henry Somerset, 8th Duke of Beaufort
Mother	Georgiana Charlotte Curzon
Born	19 May 1847
Died	24 November 1924 (aged 77)

Captain Henry Adelbert Wellington FitzRoy Somerset, 9th Duke of Beaufort JP, DL (19 May 1847 – 24 November 1924), styled Earl of Glamorgan until 1853 and Marquess of Worcester between 1853 and 1899, was a British peer.

Background and education

Beaufort was the son of Henry Somerset, 8th Duke of Beaufort. He was educated at Eton College between 1860 and 1864.

Military service and public appointments

Beaufort became a cornet in 1865 in the Royal Horse Guards and was promoted to captain in 1869. He was aide-de-camp to Queen Victoria in 1899 and served as High Steward of Bristol in 1899. On 8 January 1900 he was appointed a Deputy Lieutenant of Brecknockshire. He was Hereditary Keeper of Raglan Castle. He gained the rank of honorary colonel in the service of the Gloucestershire Yeomanry. He was a Justice of the Peace for Monmouthshire and Gloucestershire and a Deputy Lieutenant of Gloucestershire and Monmouthshire.

Family

The Duke's three children in 1905

Bookplate with the Duke's arms

Beaufort married Louise Emily Harford (1864–1945), widow of a Dutch nobleman (Baron Charles Frederick de Tuyll), on 9 October 1895. They had three children, as follows:

• Lady Blanche Linnie Somerset (1897–1968), married John Eliot, 6th Earl of St Germans (11 June 1890 – 31 March 1922), who died in a riding accident during a steeplechase, aged 31, leaving as issue two daughters.^[1] On 15 July 1924, she married George Francis Valentine Scott Douglas (14 February 1898 – 12 June 1930), who died from a polo injury.^[1] They had one son who died before his maternal uncle. Her descendants are the sole surviving descendants of the 9th Duke. Lady Blanche's eldest surviving grandson, David John Seyfried-Herbert, 19th Baron Herbert, eventually had the barony of Herbert called out of abeyance in his favour in 2002, after eighteen years.
• Lady Diana Maud Nina Somerset (12 September 1898 – 6 May 1935), married Captain Lindsey Shedden (1881–1971) on 19 September 1925, but had no known issue.
• Henry Hugh Arthur FitzRoy Somerset, 10th Duke of Beaufort (4 April 1900 – 5 February 1984), married Princess Mary of Teck. He left no issue and was succeeded by David Somerset, a first cousin twice removed.

The 9th Duke of Beaufort died in 1924, aged 77, at Badminton House, Gloucestershire. He is buried at St Michael and All Angels Church, Badminton.

Ancestry

Ancestors of Henry Somerset, 9th Duke of Beaufort

16. Henry Somerset, 5th Duke of Beaufort               8. Henry Somerset, 6th Duke of Beaufort                       17. Elizabeth Boscawen               4. Henry Somerset, 7th Duke of Beaufort                             18. Granville Leveson-Gower, 1st Marquess of Stafford               9. Lady Charlotte Leveson-Gower                       19. Lady Susannah Stewart               2. Henry Somerset, 8th Duke of Beaufort                                   20. Charles Smith               10. Charles Smith                       21. Zabier Law               5. Emily Smith                             22. Garret Wesley, 1st Earl of Mornington               11. Lady Anne Wesley                       23. The Hon. Anne Hill-Trevor               1. Henry Somerset, 9th Duke of Beaufort                                         24. Assheton Curzon, 1st Viscount Curzon               12. The Hon. Penn Curzon                       25. Esther Hanmer               6. Richard Curzon-Howe, 1st Earl Howe                             26. Richard Howe, 1st Earl Howe               13. Sophia Howe, 2nd Baroness Howe                       27. Mary Hartop               3. Lady Georgiana Curzon-Howe                                   28. The Hon. Robert Brudenell               14. Robert Brudenell, 6th Earl of Cardigan                       29. Anne Bishopp               7. Lady Harriet Brudenell                             30. George Cooke               15. Penelope Cooke                       31. Penelope Bowyer

References

1. Daily Telegraph, Obituary, Wing Commander Mickey Ogden

External links

• Paul Theroff. An Online Gotha - Beaufort. Retrieved 24 November 2007.
• Hansard 1803–2005: contributions in Parliament by the Duke of Beaufort
• Pedigree at Genealogics