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

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and Lady Charlotte Maria Waldegrave, daughter of

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. The 6th Duke was a politician. He represented

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as a Whig between 1818 and 1820 and again between 1826 and 1831, and was member for

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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

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), on 20 June 1812 in

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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

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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

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, near

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, Northamptonshire.

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