Hugh Denis Charles FitzRoy, 11th Duke of Grafton Knight of the Order of the Garter Doctor of Laws was the son of Charles FitzRoy, 10th Duke of Grafton, and his first wife Lady Doreen Maria Josepha Sydney Buxton, second daughter of Sydney Buxton, 1st Earl Buxton.
Background
He was born in 1919 in Cape Town, Union of South Africa. He was a descendant of Charles II of England, through the Henry FitzRoy, 1st Duke of Grafton, the illegitimate son of King Charles II by his mistress Barbara Villiers. Through an ancestor Anne Warren, a daughter of Adml.
Sir Peter Warren, he is a descendant of the Schuyler family, the Van Cortlandt family, and the Delancey family, all from British North America.
Education
He was educated at Eton College and at Magdalene College, Cambridge.
Career
He was known until 1970 as the Earl of Euston. The FitzRoys are thus a direct but illegitimate line of the House of Stuart. He was subsequently commissioned into the Grenadier Guards, and for three years from 1943 was Aide-de-camp to the Viceroy of India, Field Marshal Viscount Wavell.
Grafton devoted much of his life to the conservation and protection of historic buildings.
He was also vice-chairman of the National Portrait Gallery. The Duke of Grafton"s home was Euston Hall, near Thetford.
He was made a Knight of the Garter in 1976. He died in 2011 at Euston Hall, Suffolk.
Membership
He was a member of the Historic Buildings Council from its foundation in 1953, and until he succeeded his father in 1970 he was the National Trust"s administrator for Sussex and Kent, and later East Anglia.