Background
The second son of the 1st Baron Raglan, Somerset was born in Paris and educated at Christ Church, Oxford.
The second son of the 1st Baron Raglan, Somerset was born in Paris and educated at Christ Church, Oxford.
Christ Church.
He came to Ceylon with Lieutenant-General Sir Colin Campbell Knight Commander of the Order of the Bath (1776 – 13 June 1847) as his Private Secretary and was subsequently taken into the Ceylon Civil Service in 1841. In 1844 he was Assistant Government Agent of Colombo. He left the island in 1849 to become the Private Secretary of George V of Hanover, leaving that office in 1855 when he succeeded to his father"s title.
Parliament granted him and his successor a pension of £ 2,000 for the service of his father (23 July 1855).
The family seat is Cefntilla Court, Llandenny in Monmouthshire. Cornet Gloucestershire Yeomanry 1856 and Captain 1864-1875 he became a Lord-in-Waiting from 1858-1859 and 1866-1869, under The Earl of Derby"s and Disraeli"s governments respectively.
On 25 September 1856, Lord Raglan had married Lady Georgina Lygon, the third daughter of the 4th Earl Beauchamp and they later had five children. He died in Chesterfield Street, London on 3 May 1884 and was buried Llandenny churchyard, Monmouthshire on 8 May.