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)
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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 |