Charles FitzRoy (General)

Lord Charles FitzRoy (born July 17, 1764 - December 20, 1829 in London ) was an English officer, general in the British Army and politician .

Life

FitzRoy was born the second son of Augustus FitzRoy, 3rd Duke of Grafton and his wife Anne, daughter of Henry Liddell, 1st Baron Ravensworth . After studying at Harrow School and Trinity College, Cambridge , he joined the British Army in 1782 with the rank of Ensign . In 1787 he became a captain in the Scots Guards and in 1788 equerry of Prince Frederick, Duke of York and Albany . In 1793 and 1794 he served under him in the First Coalition War in Flanders .

1795 appointed King George III. him to his aide-de-camp with the rank of colonel . In 1798 he rose to major-general . In 1798 and 1799 he served in Ireland during the Irish Rebellion and then in England until 1809 . There he commanded a battalion of the 60th regiment on foot in 1804 and 1805. He was then Colonel of the 48th Regiment on Foot (Northamptonshire). In 1805 he became lieutenant-general and in 1814 general .

Between 1787 and 1796, and between 1802 and 1818, FitzRoy was a Member of Parliament for Bury St Edmunds . But he did not make a speech in the House of Commons . He supported Pitt and was for the abolition of slavery and Catholic emancipation .

FitzRoy died in his home in Berkeley Square, London , in 1829 and was buried in Wicken , Northamptonshire.

family

FritzRoy married Frances Mundy († 1797), daughter of Edward Miller Mundy, MP on June 20, 1795. They had a son:

Sir Charles FitzRoy (1796-1858), Governor of New South Wales , Prince Edward Island and Antigua .

After his wife died, he married Lady Frances Stewart († 1810), the eldest daughter of Robert Stewart, 1st Marquess of Londonderry . They had three children:

George FitzRoy (around 1800–1882), Lieutenant-Colonel in the British Army;
Robert FitzRoy (1805-1865), hydrograph ;
Frances FitzRoy († 1878), ⚭ George Rice-Trevor, 4th Baron Dynevor .

Individual evidence

^ Charles FitzRoy (General) . In: John Venn , John Archibald Venn (eds.): Alumni Cantabrigienses . A Biographical List of All Known Students, Graduates and Holders of Office at the University of Cambridge, from the Earliest Times to 1900. 10 volumes, 1922-1958. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge ( venn.lib.cam.ac.uk ).

literature

JM Rigg, S. Kinross: FitzRoy, Lord Charles (1764-1829) . In: Oxford Dictionary of National Biography . Oxford University Press, 2004; Online edition, October 2008.
Lord Charles FitzRoy in the Hansard (English)

personal data
SURNAME	FitzRoy, Charles
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	English officer, general in the British Army and politician
DATE OF BIRTH	July 17, 1764
DATE OF DEATH	December 20, 1829
Place of death	London

[1] Charles FitzRoy (General) . In: John Venn , John Archibald Venn (eds.): Alumni Cantabrigienses . A Biographical List of All Known Students, Graduates and Holders of Office at the University of Cambridge, from the Earliest Times to 1900. 10 volumes, 1922-1958. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge ( venn.lib.cam.ac.uk ).