Henry FitzRoy, 5th Duke of Grafton (10 February 1790 – 26 March 1863), styled Viscount Ipswich until 1811 and Earl of Euston between 1811 and 1844, was a British peer and politician.
Grafton was the son of
George FitzRoy, 4th Duke of Grafton
George Henry FitzRoy, 4th Duke of Grafton, KG (14 January 1760 – 28 September 1844), styled Earl of Euston until 1811, was a British peer and Whig politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1782 to 1811 when he succeeded to the Dukedo ...
and Lady Charlotte Maria Waldegrave, daughter of
James Waldegrave, 2nd Earl Waldegrave
James Waldegrave, 2nd Earl Waldegrave, (4 March 171513 April 1763) was a British politician who is sometimes regarded as one of the shortest-serving British prime ministers in history. His brief tenure as First Lord of the Treasury is lent a mo ...
. The 6th Duke was a politician.
He represented
Bury St Edmunds
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as
member of parliament
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as a Whig between 1818 and 1820 and again between 1826 and 1831, and was member for
Thetford
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between 1834 and 1841.
On 24 May 1830, he was commissioned colonel of the
West Suffolk Militia.
Grafton married Mary Caroline Berkeley (18 June 1795 – 10 September 1873, the daughter of Admiral the Hon. Sir
George Cranfield Berkeley
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), on 20 June 1812 in
Portugal
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. They had five children:
* Lady Mary Elizabeth Emily Fitzroy (1817–1887), married Reverend Hon. Augustus Phipps, the son of
The Earl of Mulgrave
* Maria Louisa Fitzroy (1818–1912), married
Edward Douglas-Pennant, 1st Baron Penrhyn
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Born Edwa ...
and had issue.
*
William Henry FitzRoy, 6th Duke of Grafton (1819–1882)
*
Augustus Charles Lennox FitzRoy, 7th Duke of Grafton (1821–1918)
* Frederick John Fitzroy (1823–1919), married Catherine Wescomb and had issue.
Grafton died in 1863, aged seventy-three, at
Wakefield Lodge
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, near
Potterspury
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, Northamptonshire.
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