Charles Alfred Euston FitzRoy, 10th Duke of Grafton, known as Charles FitzRoy until 1936, was a British soldier and farmer.
Background
FitzRoy was born at Euston Hall near Thetford, the eldest son of the Reverend Lord Charles Edward FitzRoy and of his wife Ismay FitzRoy, daughter of Charles FitzRoy, 3rd Baron Southampton. Another ancestor, Anne Warren, was the daughter of Adml. Sir Peter Warren and a descendant of the Schuyler family, the Van Cortlandt family, and the Delancey family, all from British North America.
Education
He was educated at Wellington and then at the Royal Military College, Sandhurst.
Career
In 1911 FitzRoy joined the Royal Welch Fusiliers, who were stationed at Quetta in what is now Pakistan. In 1914, soon after the outbreak of the Great War, he went to France, and in 1917 he was appointed as aide-de-camp and comptroller to Lord Buxton, Governor General of South Africa. He remained in South Africa until 1920.
In 1921 he retired from the army.
FitzRoy became a farmer at Coney Weston in Suffolk. Grafton married, firstly, Lady Doreen Maria Josepha Sydney Buxton (29 November 1897 – 28 July 1923), daughter of his commanding officer Lord Buxton, on 24 January 1918.
They had three children:
Hugh Denis Charles FitzRoy, 11th Duke of Grafton (3 April 1919 – 7 April 2011)
Lady Anne Mildred Ismay FitzRoy (born 7 August 1920), married Major Colin Mackenzie and had issue. Lord Charles Oliver Edward FitzRoy (1923–1944).
Killed in action; unmarried.
The ceremony took place on 6 October 1924. Lucy was the first cousin of Charles" first wife Doreen. Charles and Lucy had two children:
Lord Edward Anthony Charles FitzRoy (26 August 1928 – 25 November 2007), married Veronica Ruttledge and had issue.
Lord Michael Charles FitzRoy (1932–1954).
Died in the Solomon Islands (missing, presumed drowned). The ceremony took place on 18 July 1944.
Grafton died at Bury Street Edmunds.