Background
Grafton was the son of George FitzRoy, 4th Duke of Grafton and Lady Charlotte Maria Waldegrave, daughter of James Waldegrave, 2nd Earl Waldegrave.The 6th Duke was a politician.
Grafton was the son of George FitzRoy, 4th Duke of Grafton and Lady Charlotte Maria Waldegrave, daughter of James Waldegrave, 2nd Earl Waldegrave.The 6th Duke was a politician.
He represented Bury Street Edmunds as a Whig between 1818 and 1820 and again between 1826 and 1831, and was member for Thetford between 1834 and 1841. Grafton married Mary Caroline Berkeley (maternal great-granddaughter of Charles Lennox, 2nd Duke of Richmond), on 20 June 1812 in Portugal. They had five children:
Lady Mary Elizabeth Emily Fitzroy (1817–1887), married Reverend Honorary
Augustus Phipps
Maria Louisa Fitzroy (1818–1912), married Edward Douglas-Pennant, 1st Baron Penrhyn and had issue.
William Henry FitzRoy, 6th Duke of Grafton (1819–1882)
Augustus Charles Lennox FitzRoy, 7th Duke of Grafton (1821–1918)
Frederick John Fitzroy (1823–1919), married Catherine Wescomb and had issue. Grafton died in 1863, aged seventy-three, at Wakefield Lodge, near Potterspury, Northamptonshire.
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