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politician.

Biography

Somerset was the eldest son of

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by his second wife, Lady Mary Poulett, Somerset was educated at Eton and the

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. He was commissioned into the

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in 1839. On 15 April 1847, he married Barbara Augusta Norah Mytton (d. 4 June 1870), the daughter of

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, by whom he had two sons and a daughter: *Cecily Mary Caroline Somerset (20 November 1852 – 30 December 1862) *Vere Francis John Somerset (20 December 1854 – 10 October 1909), married Annette Katherine Hill and had issue *Henry Charles FitzRoy Somerset (23 August 1860 – 28 July 1925), married and had issue Somerset served as an aide-de-camp to his uncle, Lord Raglan, during the

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. He fought at the Alma, Balaclava, and

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. At Inkermann, his horse was killed under him by a shell. He served at the Siege of Sevastopol and was made a CB for his Crimean services in 1855, as well as a Knight of the Order of the Medjidie, 4th Class. In 1859, he was returned as

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(MP) for Monmouthshire after his first cousin Edward Arthur Somerset resigned. He held the seat until 1871, when he became Steward of the Chiltern Hundreds. He married Emily Moore on 10 September 1870, by whom he had one daughter: *Cecily Emily Poulett Somerset (1871 – 19 June 1951), married Capt. William Francis Annesley Wallace on 7 April 1896 He died in 1875 and was buried in the nave of

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, 'Somerset, FitzRoy James Henry , first Baron Raglan (1788–1855)’, rev. John Sweetman, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004; online edn, Jan 200
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References

Obituary, ''The Annual Register''
{{DEFAULTSORT:Somerset, Poulett 1822 births 1875 deaths People educated at Eton College Coldstream Guards officers Companions of the Order of the Bath Deputy Lieutenants of Monmouthshire Graduates of the Royal Military College, Sandhurst Poulett Somerset Conservative Party (UK) MPs for Welsh constituencies UK MPs 1859–1865 UK MPs 1865–1868 UK MPs 1868–1874