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 (14 January 1760 – 28 September 1844), styled Earl of Euston until 1811, was a British Peerage, peer and British Whig Party, Whig politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1782 to 1811 when h ...

and Lady Charlotte Maria Waldegrave, daughter of

James Waldegrave, 2nd Earl Waldegrave James Waldegrave, 2nd Earl Waldegrave, (4 March 1715 – 13 April 1763) was an English politician and peer who is sometimes regarded as one of the shortest-serving prime ministers in British history. His brief tenure as First Lord of the Trea ...

. The 6th Duke was a politician. He represented

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as member of parliament 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. As a young man he served as a

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in the 7th Light Dragoons, but retired on 15 August 1812. On 23 September 1823 he was appointed

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of the East Suffolk Militia, but on 24 May 1830 he transferred to the vacant colonelcy of the

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, which his father and grandfather had previously commanded. The duke resigned in 1845 and was succeeded by his son, William, Earl of Euston, on 24 December, the fourth generation of the family to command the regiment, but Euston was replaced within weeks.Arthur Sleigh, ''The Royal Militia and Yeomanry Cavalry Army List'', April 1850, London: British Army Despatch Press, 1850/Uckfield: Naval and Military Press, 1991, ISBN 978-1-84342-410-9. 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 * Lady 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) * Lord Frederick John FitzRoy (1823–1919), M.P. for Thetford; married Catherine Wescomb and had issue. Grafton died in 1863, aged seventy-three, at Wakefield Lodge, near

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, Northamptonshire.

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