George FitzRoy, 4th Duke of Grafton

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George Henry FitzRoy, 4th Duke of Grafton, KG (January 14, 1760 – September 28, 1844) was a British peer and Whig politician, known as Earl of Euston from birth until 1811.

Euston was the son of Augustus Fitzroy, 3rd Duke of Grafton and his wife Anne, daughter of Henry Liddell, 1st Baron Ravensworth. He was educated at Harrow School and Trinity College, Cambridge, where he became a close friend of the William Pitt the Younger. From 1782-84, he was Member of Parliament for Thetford and in 1784, he and Pitt were elected as MPs for Cambridge University and Euston held the seat until succeeding to his father's duchy in 1811.

[edit] Family

Grafton married Lady Charlotte Maria Waldegrave (1761–1808), daughter of James Waldegrave, 2nd Earl Waldegrave, on 16 November 1784 at Navestock, Essex. They had eleven children:

• Lady Maria (Mary) Anne (1785–1855), married Sir William Oglander, 6th Baronet and had issue.
• Lady Georgiana (1787–1855), unmarried
• Lady Elizabeth Anne (1788–1867), married her first cousin John Henry Smyth and had issue.
• Henry, styled Earl of Euston, later 5th Duke of Grafton (1790–1863)
• Lord Charles (1791–1865), married Lady Anne Cavendish (daughter of George Cavendish, 1st Earl of Burlington) and had issue.
• Lady Isabella Frances (1792–1875), married Henry Joseph St. John (d.1857)
• Hon. William (1794–1804)
• Hon. Hugh (1795–1797)
• Hon. Richard (1798–1798)
• Hon. Richard (1800–1801)
• Lord James (1804–1834)

v • d • e Dukes of Grafton House of Fitzroy (1675-) Henry I (1675-1690) • Charles I (1690-1757) • Augustus (1757-1811) • George (1811-1844) • Henry II (1844-1863) • William (1863-1882) • Augustus II (1882-1918) • Alfred (1918-1930) • John (1930-1936) • Charles II (1936-1970) • Hugh (1970-)

Parliament of Great Britain
Preceded by Charles FitzRoy-Scudamore Richard Hopkins	Member of Parliament for Thetford with Richard Hopkins 1782–1784	Succeeded by Sir Charles Kent George Jennings
Preceded by Lord John Townshend James Mansfield	Member of Parliament for Cambridge University with William Pitt the Younger 1784-1801 1784–1801	Succeeded by Parliament of the United Kingdom
Parliament of the United Kingdom
Preceded by Parliament of Great Britain	Member of Parliament for Cambridge University with William Pitt the Younger 1801-1806 Lord Henry Petty 1806-1807 Sir Vicary Gibbs 1807-1811 1801–1811	Succeeded by Sir Vicary Gibbs The Viscount Palmerston
Military offices
Preceded by Unknown	Colonel of the West Suffolk Militia ?–1803	Succeeded by Viscount Brome
Preceded by Viscount Brome	Colonel of the West Suffolk Militia 1803–1808	Succeeded by William Parker
Honorary titles
Preceded by The Duke of Grafton	Lord Lieutenant of Suffolk 1790–1844	Succeeded by The Earl of Stradbroke
Peerage of England
Preceded by Augustus FitzRoy	Duke of Grafton 1811–1844	Succeeded by Henry FitzRoy

[edit] References

• Burke's Peerage & Gentry
• Oxford Dictionary of National Biography