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About Gen. Hon Charles FitzRoy

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lord_Charles_FitzRoy_(British_Army_officer)

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

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. After education at Harrow School and Trinity College, Cambridge,[1] 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 1793-4.

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 1798-99, he served in Ireland then in England until 1809, commanding a battalion of the 60th Regiment of Foot from 1804-5. He was appointed colonel of the 48th (Northamptonshire) Regiment of Foot and lieutenant-general in 1805 and general in 1814.

From 1787-96 and again from 1802–18, 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.



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Church of St John the Evangelist, Northamptonshire

Early C19 wall monuments to Emily Elizabeth Fitzroy, d.1827, and Lord Charles Fitzroy, d.1829


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Gen. Hon Charles FitzRoy's Timeline

1764
July 14, 1764
Euston Hall, Euston, Suffolk, England, United Kingdom
1796
May 10, 1796
Suffolk, England, United Kingdom
1800
June 30, 1800
1803
January 2, 1803
Ampton, Suffolk, England, United Kingdom
1805
June 5, 1805
Ampton Hall, Suffolk, England (United Kingdom)
1829
December 20, 1829
Age 65
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St John the Evangelist Churchyard, Wicken, Northamptonshire, England (United Kingdom)