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Lord Charles FitzRoy (British Army officer, born 1791)

British Army officer and politician

Summary

British Army officer and politician

Field	Value
honorific-prefix	Lieutenant-Colonel The Right Honourable
name	Lord Charles FitzRoy
image	Lord Charles Fitzroy.jpg
imagesize	220
caption	Portrait by Édouard Pingret, 1818
order1	Vice-Chamberlain of the Household
term_start1	29 June 1835
term_end1	27 April 1838
monarch1	William IV
Victoria
primeminister1	The Viscount Melbourne
predecessor1	Viscount Castlereagh
successor1	The Earl of Belfast
birth_date	28 February 1791
death_date
party	Whig
spouse
allegiance	United Kingdom
branch	British Army
serviceyears	1807–1821
rank	Major
Brevet Lieutenant-Colonel
battles

| honorific-prefix = Lieutenant-Colonel The Right Honourable | honorific-suffix = Victoria Brevet Lieutenant-Colonel

Napoleonic Wars
- Peninsular War
  - Battle of Corunna
  - Walcheren Campaign
  - Battle of Vitoria
  - Battle of the Pyrenees
  - Battle of Nivelle
  - Battle of the Nive
  - Battle of Orthez
  - Battle of Toulouse (1814)
- Battle of Waterloo

Lieutenant-Colonel Lord Charles FitzRoy (28 February 1791 – 17 June 1865) was a British Army officer and Whig politician who served in the Napoleonic Wars. He fought at the Battle of Waterloo and later held political office as Vice-Chamberlain of the Household between 1835 and 1838.

Background

Charles Fitzroy was born on 28 February 1791, the second son of George FitzRoy, 4th Duke of Grafton and his wife Lady Charlotte Maria Waldegrave, daughter of James Waldegrave, 2nd Earl Waldegrave. Henry FitzRoy, 5th Duke of Grafton was his elder brother.

Army career

Fitzroy was commissioned into the British Army in 1807 and fought in the 1809 Battle of Corunna of the Peninsular War, before joining the Walcheren Campaign the same year. He subsequently joined Lord Hill's staff in Spain and was present at the capture of Badajoz in 1812 and the battles of Vittoria, the Pyrenees, Nivelle, the Nive, Orthez and Toulouse serving as a Deputy Assistant Adjutant General (DAAG).

At the Battle of Waterloo in 1815, Fitzroy served on Wellington's staff as a captain in the 1st Regiment of Foot Guards and an Assistant Adjutant General (AAG). He then served on Wellington's staff in the army of occupation in Paris after Waterloo. His portrait was painted by Edouard Pingret (who also painted a very similar portrait of Colonel Dawson Kelly) in 1818 wearing the Waterloo medal on his AAG uniform. He retired from the army on half pay as a major and brevet lieutenant-colonel of the 27th Regiment of Foot in 1821.

In retirement, he was chairman of the Finance Committee and honorary member of the 43rd Middlesex Rifle Volunteers.

Political career

FitzRoy was elected as a Member of Parliament (MP) for Thetford at the 1818 general election, and held the seat until the 1830 general election, which he did not contest.{{cite book |editor-link=F. W. S. Craig |orig-date=1844-1850 |author-link= F. W. S. Craig |orig-date=1977

Family

Fitzroy married Lady Anne Cavendish, daughter of George Cavendish, 1st Earl of Burlington and Lady Elizabeth Compton, on 25 October 1825. They had two sons and two daughters. He died on 17 June 1865 at Hampton, aged 74. Lady Charles FitzRoy died in May 1871, aged 83.

References

(24 June 1865). "Death of Lord Charles Fitzroy". [[Surrey Comet]].
"Colonel Dawson Kelly, CB".
Dalton, Charles. (1904). "The Waterloo roll call. With biographical notes and anecdotes". Eyre and Spottiswoode.
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{{London Gazette. (21 July 1835)
Bucholz, R.O. Bucholz. (2006). "Chamber Administration: Lord Chamberlain, 1660-1837". Office-Holders in Modern Britain: Volume 11 (revised): Court Officers, 1660-1837.

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