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Somerset, Henry Charles, 1766-1835
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1766-1835
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SOMERSET, HENRY CHARLES, 6TH DUKE OF BEAUFORT, eldest son of Henry Somerset, 5th Duke of Beaufort (qv); b. 22 Dec 1766; styled Marquis of Worcester 1766-1803; adm. 22 Feb 1780 (sic, but already at the School 27 Jun 1778 : see Hon. Mrs. Boscawen to Mrs Delany, 27 Jun 1778, Delany Correspondence, 2nd series, ii, 358); Trinity Coll. Oxford, matr. 4 Feb 1784; MA 1786; MP Monmouth 1 Apr 1788-90, Bristol 1790-6, Gloucestershire 1796 – 11 Oct 1803; succ. father as 6th Duke of Beaufort 11 Oct 1803; Lord Lieut., Monmouthshire and Breconshire, from 4 Nov 1803, and of Gloucestershire from 15 Sep 1810; KG 7 Jan 1805; carried crown of Queen Consort at Coronation of William IV 8 Sep 1831; DL Breconshire 1793; Col., Royal Monmouth Militia 26 Oct 1803 – still 1820; High Steward of Bristol from 1834; Busby Trustee 3 May 1804; m. 16 May 1791 Lady Charlotte Sophia Leveson Gower, dau. of Granville Leveson Gower, 1st Marquis of Stafford (qv), and his third wife; d. 23 Nov 1835.
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International Standard Archival Authority Record for Corporate Bodies, Persons and Families - ISAAR(CPF) 2nd edition
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Prepared for import into AtoM by Westminster School Archive staff, 2019-2020
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Users should note that the information recorded here that is not to be found in the first two volumes of the Record of Old Westminsters and its first Supplement has been assembled from various published and manuscript sources by Hugh Edmund Pagan MA FSA, and all new resulting text is his copyright, © 2014.
The Record of Old Westminsters: A biographical list of all those who are known to have been educated at Westminster School from the earliest times to 1927, Volumes 1 & 2, compiled by G. F. Russell Barker and Alan H. Stenning, London, 1928.