Lord Charles FitzRoy (British Army officer)

General Lord Charles FitzRoy (17 July 1764 – 20 December 1829) was a British Army officer and politician.

Life[]

FitzRoy was the second son of Augustus FitzRoy, 3rd Duke of Grafton and his first wife, Anne, a daughter of Henry Liddell, 1st Baron Ravensworth.^[1] After education at Harrow School and Trinity College, Cambridge,^[2] he entered the army in 1782 as an ensign. In 1787, he was appointed a captain in the Scots Guards and an equerry in 1788, to Prince Frederick, Duke of York and Albany, under whom he served in Flanders from 1793 to 1794.

In 1795, FitzRoy was appointed an aide-de-camp to King George III with the rank of colonel and promoted to major-general in 1798. From 1798 to 1799, he served in Ireland then in England until 1809, commanding a battalion of the 60th Regiment of Foot from 1804 to 1805. He was appointed colonel of the 48th (Northamptonshire) Regiment of Foot and lieutenant-general in 1805 and general in 1814.

From 1787 to 1796 and again from 1802 to 1818, FitzRoy was Member of Parliament for Bury St Edmunds (though never actually spoke in the house). He supported Pitt and favoured abolitionism and Catholic Emancipation.

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

Family[]

On 20 June 1795, FitzRoy married Frances Mundy (d. 1797; the daughter of Edward Miller Mundy, MP) and they had one son, Sir Charles FitzRoy who was the governor of New South Wales, governor of Prince Edward Island and governor of Antigua. After his wife's death, he married Lady Frances Stewart (d. 1810; the eldest daughter of Robert Stewart, 1st Marquess of Londonderry) and they had three children:

George FitzRoy (c.1800-1882), British Army officer.
Robert (1805–1865), hydrographer.
Frances (d. 1878), married George Rice-Trevor, 4th Baron Dynevor.

References[]

^ Matthew Kilburn, ‘Fitzpatrick , Anne, countess of Upper Ossory [other married name Anne FitzRoy, duchess of Grafton] (1737/8–1804)’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, Oct 2008 accessed 23 March 2017
^ "Fitzroy, Lord Charles (FTSY781C)". A Cambridge Alumni Database. University of Cambridge.

J. M. Rigg, ‘FitzRoy, Lord Charles (1764–1829)’, rev. S. Kinross, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004; online edn, Oct 2008, accessed 11 Jan 2009

Military offices
Preceded by Peter Hunter	Colonel-Commandant of the 4th Battalion, 60th Regiment of Foot 1804–1805	Succeeded by
Preceded by Patrick Tonyn	Colonel of the 48th (Northamptonshire) Regiment of Foot 1805–1829	Succeeded by Sir Thomas Hislop
Parliament of Great Britain
Preceded by Sir Charles Davers, Bt	Member of Parliament for Bury St Edmunds 1787–1796 With: Sir Charles Davers, Bt	Succeeded by Sir Charles Davers, Bt Lord Hervey
Parliament of the United Kingdom
Preceded by Sir Charles Davers, Bt Lord Hervey	Member of Parliament for Bury St Edmunds 1802–1818 With: Lord Hervey 1802–1803 The Lord Templetown 1803–1812 Frederick Foster 1812–1818	Succeeded by Earl of Euston Arthur Upton

[1] Matthew Kilburn, ‘Fitzpatrick , Anne, countess of Upper Ossory [other married name Anne FitzRoy, duchess of Grafton] (1737/8–1804)’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, Oct 2008 accessed 23 March 2017

[2] "Fitzroy, Lord Charles (FTSY781C)". A Cambridge Alumni Database. University of Cambridge.

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