Education
Eton College; Royal Military College, Sandhurst.
Eton College; Royal Military College, Sandhurst.
He served as Under-Secretary of State for War from 1900 to 1902 and was Lieutenant Governor of the Isle of Manitoba from 1902 to 1919. He was a godchild of George V of Hanover, Somerset became a Page of Honour to Queen Victoria in 1868, which he remained until 1874. He was educated at Eton and the Royal Military College, Sandhurst.
In 1870 Somerset joined the Grenadier Guards.
He fought in the Second Anglo-Afghan War, reaching the rank of captain. He served as Under-Secretary of State for War un the Unionist Government headed by Lord Salisbury from 1900 to 1902 and was Lieutenant Governor of the Isle of Manitoba from 1902 to 1919.
During his term as Lieutenant Governor he became the Provincial Grand Master of the Freemasons in the Isle of Manitoba from 1912 to 1919 and had a Lodge named in his honour. Lord Raglan married Lady Ethel Jemima Ponsonby, daughter of Walter Ponsonby, 7th Earl of Bessborough, on 28 February 1883.
They had six children.
