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Augustus Henry FitzRoy, 3rd Duke of Grafton, KG, PC (28 September 1735 – 14 March 1811), styled Earl of Euston between 1747 and 1757, was a British Whig statesman of the Georgian era. He is one of a handful of dukes who have served as prime minister. He became prime minister in 1768 at the age of 33, leading the supporters of William Pitt ...
Sir Charles Augustus FitzRoy (1796-1858), governor-general, was born on 10 June 1796, the eldest son of General Lord Charles FitzRoy, the second son of the third Duke of Grafton, and Frances, daughter of Edward Miller Mundy, M.P., of Shipley Hall, Derbyshire, England. She died a year after he was born, and his father then married Frances Anne ...
Hace 6 días · Unable to withstand the pressure, Grafton resigned in January 1770. He never returned to the front rank of politics, but served as lord privy seal in 1771–5 and 1782–3. From: Grafton, Augustus Henry Fitzroy, 3rd duke of in A Dictionary of British History ». Subjects: History — Regional and National History.
FITZROY, Lord Augustus (1716-41). Published in The History of Parliament: the House of Commons 1715-1754 , ed. R. Sedgwick, 1970 Available from Boydell and Brewer
Grafton, Augustus Henry FitzroyGRAFTON, AUGUSTUS HENRY FITZROY. (1735–1811). British prime minister. Succeeding to his grandfather's dukedom in 1756, Grafton was at first an admirer of Pitt and an ally of Lord Temple. On 9 December 1762 he led the opposition to the peace preliminaries and made a personal attack upon Bute.
Augustus Henry Fitzroy served as Prime Minister from 14 October 1768 to 28 January 1770. The second of three sons born to Lord Augustus Fitzroy and Elizabeth Cosby, Grafton became the heir upon the death of his older brother. The family was descended from one of the illegitimate sons of Charles II and Barbara Villiers; Grafton inherited the ...
1. Lord William Henry FitzRoy, later 6th Duke of Grafton. 2. Lord Augustus Charles Lennox FitzRoy, later 7th Duke of Grafton. 3. Col Lord Frederick John FitzRoy MP (b. 4 Apr 1823; d. Feb 1919), mar. 27 Oct 1853 Catherine Sarah Wilhelmina Wescomb (b. 3 Nov 1829; d. 9 Mar 1914), dau. of Rev William Wescomb, Rector of Langford, and had issue. 1.
