John Charles William Fitzroy, 9th Duke of Grafton (1 August 1914 – 4 August 1936), was a
British peer
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and politician, styled The Honourable John FitzRoy from 1914 to 1918, Viscount Ipswich in 1918, and Earl of Euston from 1918 to 1930.
Biography
FitzRoy was the eldest son of William FitzRoy, Viscount Ipswich (himself the eldest son of the
8th Duke of Grafton and his first wife, Margaret Rose Smith) and his wife Auriol Margaretta Brougham, and was educated at
Trinity College, Cambridge
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. When his father died in a flying accident in April 1918 and when his great-grandfather died in December 1918, John FitzRoy became the heir to his grandfather's titles and succeeded to them in 1930.
In 1929 he gave away his mother on the occasion of her second marriage, to Major Gavin Hume-Gore.
The Duke died aged twenty-two, unmarried and childless, after his
Bugatti crashed during the
Limerick Grand Prix motor race in
Limerick
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, Ireland. His dukedom was inherited by his cousin,
Charles, but his viscountcy of Thetford and
earldom and barony of Arlington fell into
abeyance between his sisters, Lady Jane and Lady Mary-Rose. The viscountcy and earldom remain abeyant, but the abeyance of his barony was terminated in 1999, in favour of Lady Jane's eldest daughter,
Jennifer.
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Earls of Arlington
Alumni of Trinity College, Cambridge
Racing drivers who died while racing
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