Augustus FitzRoy, 7th Duke of Grafton

Augustus Charles Lennox FitzRoy, 7th Duke of Grafton (22 June 1821 – 4 December 1918), styled Lord Augustus FitzRoy before 1882, was a British Army officer. He was the second son of Henry FitzRoy, 5th Duke of Grafton, and his wife Mary Caroline Cranfield Berkeley, daughter of Admiral the Hon. Sir George Cranfield Berkeley.

He joined the army in 1837 and was wounded in the Crimean War,

On 9 June 1847, he married Anna Balfour (15 June 1825 – 23 December 1857), daughter of James Balfour MP. Together, they had four children:

• Lady Eleanor FitzRoy (1853–1905), married Walter Harbord, son of Edward Harbord, 3rd Baron Suffield, and had issue.
• Henry James FitzRoy, Earl of Euston (1848–1912), married Kate Walsh; no issue.
• Alfred FitzRoy, 8th Duke of Grafton (1850–1930)
• Lord Charles Edward FitzRoy (1857–1911), married his distant cousin Ismay FitzRoy, daughter of the 3rd Baron Southampton, and had issue (Charles FitzRoy, 10th Duke of Grafton).

He died in 1918, aged 97, at Wakefield Lodge near Potterspury, Northamptonshire.

References

External links

• Media related to Augustus FitzRoy, 7th Duke of Grafton at Wikimedia Commons
• Hansard 1803–2005: contributions in Parliament by the Duke of Grafton

1. Duke of Grafton
2. George FitzRoy, 4th Duke of Grafton
3. Henry FitzRoy, 5th Duke of Grafton
4. Lord Augustus FitzRoy
5. Henry James FitzRoy, Earl of Euston
6. Charles FitzRoy, 10th Duke of Grafton
7. Alfred FitzRoy, 8th Duke of Grafton
8. Augustus FitzRoy
9. Charles FitzRoy
10. Henry FitzRoy
11. Charles FitzRoy, 1st Baron Southampton
12. Elizabeth FitzRoy, Duchess of Grafton
13. Anne FitzPatrick, Countess of Upper Ossory
14. Duke of Cleveland
15. List of people involved in coronations of the British monarch
16. Henry Somerset, 12th Duke of Beaufort
17. Richard Sturgis Seymour
18. Baron Southampton
19. George Cavendish, 1st Earl of Burlington
20. Household of Edward VII and Alexandra