Augustus FitzRoy (3rd duke of Grafton)

Biography

He was the son of Lord Augustus FitzRoy and Elizabeth Cosby. His/her father was the third wire of the 2nd duke of Grafton, Charles FitzRoy, and of Lady Henrietta Somerset, which made of FitzRoy a great-grandson of the 1st duke of Grafton and Marquis de Worcester. He was downward fourth generation of the King d' Angleterre Charles II and of Barbara Palmer, 1st duchess of Cleveland. With died of his uncle in 1747, it was called count d' Euston since he had become the heir apparent to his grandfather.

In 1756, it entered to the Parlement in so much of Député of Boroughbridge, a borough rotted. A few months later, it changed Circonscription for Bury St Edmunds, which was controlled by its family. However, one year later, his/her grandfather died, and it succeeded to him as a 3rd duke of Grafton, which gave access to him the House of Lords.

It was initially known in policy to be adverse of John Stuart, 3rd count de Bute, a favorite of George III. Grafton joined Thomas Pelham-Holles, 1st Duc of the Newcastle-upon-Tyne against Lord Bute, whose mandate of Prime Minister was transitory. In 1765, Grafton was named private council. |Following discussions with William Pitt Old the, it was named Secretary of State for the department of North ( Secretary off State for the Northern Department ) in the first government of Charles Watson-Wentworth, 2nd marquis de Rockingham. Rockingham was withdrawn the following year (1766), and Pitt (then Lord Chatam) formed a government in which Grafton was First Lord with the Treasury, but not Prime Minister as it is generally the case.

Grafton became the effective chief of the government to the end of the year 1767 when Pitt fell sick. He is recognized like having occupied the post of Prime Minister as from 1768. But the political dissensions and the attacks of Junius led to its resignation in January 1770. In 1768, Grafton becomes chancellor of the Université of Cambridge. It was named at the station of Lord of the private Seal (a Sinécure) in the government of Frederick North (1771), but resigned in 1775, being in favor of an action of conciliation with the American colonialists. He was again Lord of the Seal deprived in the second government of Rockingham in 1782.

The last years of its life, it was militant unitarian prominent. The Comté of Grafton New Hampshire with the the United States is named thus in its honor.

Marriages and descent

The January 29th 1756, it married the Honourable Anne Liddell (1737-1804), girl of the 1st baron Ravensworth. They had three children :

Georgiana (1757-1799), which married John Smyth ;
George Henry (1760-1844), 4th duke of Grafton ;
Charles (1764-1829), general, which married Frances Mundy, then Frances Stewart.

Their divorce was ratified by act of the Parliament in 1769. The June 24th 1769, it married Elizabeth Wrottesley (November 1st 1745 - May 25th 1822), girl of the Baronnet Richard Wrottesley. They had as a descent :

Henry (1770-1828), Pasteur, it married Caroline Pigot ;
Augusta (1779-1839), which married the reverend George F. Tavel ;
Frances (1780-1866), which married Francis Spencer, 1st baron Churchill ;
William (1782-1857), which married Georgiana Raikes ;
Elizabeth († 1839), which married his/her cousin William FitzRoy ;
Isabella († 1866), which married Barrington Pope Blachford.

Sources

External bonds

Biography on the site of the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom

Simple: Augustus FitzRoy, 3rd Duke off Grafton

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