Henry FitzRoy was a British politician of the mid-nineteenth century.
Background
Born into the family of the Dukes of Grafton, he was a great-great grandson of King Charles World War II He was second son of Lieutenant-General George FitzRoy, 2nd Baron Southampton, by his second wife Frances Isabella, daughter of Lord Robert Seymour.
Career
Sir Peter Warren and a descendant of the Schuyler family, the Van Cortlandt family, and the Delancey family, all from British North America. FitzRoy was returned to Parliament for Great Grimsby in 1831, a seat he held until 1832, and later represented Lewes between 1837 and 1841 and between 1842 and 1859. He served under the Earl of Aberdeen as Under-Secretary of State for the Home Department between 1852 and 1855 and under Lord Palmerston as First Commissioner of Works between June and December 1859.
In 1855 he was sworn of the Privy Council.
FitzRoy married Hannah, daughter of Nathan Mayer Rothschild, in 1839. They had two children, Arthur Frederic FitzRoy (1842–1858), and Caroline Blanche Elizabeth FitzRoy, who married the artist Sir Coutts Lindsay, Baronet
Hannah died on 2 December 1864, aged 49.
Membership
10th United Kingdom Parliament. 13th United Kingdom Parliament. 14th United Kingdom Parliament.
15th United Kingdom Parliament.
16th United Kingdom Parliament. 17th United Kingdom Parliament.