Lord Frederick FitzRoy

Lord Frederick John FitzRoy JP (4 April 1823 – 12 February 1919)^[1] was a British Liberal Party politician.

Lord Frederick FitzRoy JP
Member of Parliament for Thetford
In office 13 April 1864 – 23 April 1866 Serving with Alexander Baring
Preceded by	William FitzRoy Alexander Baring
Succeeded by	Alexander Baring Robert Harvey
Personal details
Born	Lord Frederick John FitzRoy 4 April 1823
Died	12 February 1919(1919-02-12) (aged 95)
Nationality	British
Political party	Liberal
Spouse	Catherine Sarah Wilhelmina Wescomb ​ ​ (m. 1853)​
Children	5
Parent(s)	Henry FitzRoy Mary Caroline Berkeley
Relatives	William FitzRoy (brother) Augustus FitzRoy (brother)

Early life

FitzRoy was the youngest son of Henry FitzRoy, 5th Duke of Grafton and Mary Caroline Berkeley (1795–1873). Among his siblings were Lady Mary Elizabeth Emily FitzRoy (wife of the Rev. Hon. Augustus Phipps, the youngest son of The Earl of Mulgrave), Lady Maria Louisa FitzRoy (wife of Edward Douglas-Pennant, 1st Baron Penrhyn), William FitzRoy, 6th Duke of Grafton, and Augustus FitzRoy, 7th Duke of Grafton.^[2]

His paternal grandparents were George FitzRoy, 4th Duke of Grafton and Lady Charlotte Maria Waldegrave (a daughter of the 2nd Earl Waldegrave and Maria Walpole, herself the illegitimate daughter of Sir Edward Walpole). His maternal grandparents were Adm. Hon. Sir George Cranfield Berkeley and Emilia Charlotte Lennox (a daughter of Lord George Lennox).^[3]

Career

FitzRoy was elected Liberal MP for Thetford at a by-election in 1863—caused by the succession of his brother William FitzRoy to 6th Duke of Grafton—and held the seat until 1865 when he stood down to seek election in South Northamptonshire, where he was unsuccessful.^[4]

FitzRoy was also a Justice of the Peace for Sussex and Northamptonshire, and a Colonel in the Grenadier Guards.

Personal life

In 1853, he married Catherine Sarah Wilhelimna Wescomb, daughter of the Rev. William Wescomb and Jane (née Douglas) Wescomb (a granddaughter of Archibald Douglas, MP). Two of her sisters, married brothers: Lucy Elizabeth Wescomb married George Byron, 8th Baron Byron, and Mary Jane Wescomb, who married Hon. Frederick Byron (both sons of the 7th Baron Byron). Together, they had five children, two sons and three daughters:^[2]

• Frederick FitzRoy (1857–1857), who died young.^[2]
• Edith Catherine FitzRoy (1858–1858), who died young.^[2]
• Anne Ethel FitzRoy (1859–1939), who died unmarried;^[a] she lived at Bradfield Hall, Suffolk, during the 1920s.^[5]
• Evelyn FitzRoy (1860–1924), who married Emma Kamanu, a daughter of Enoch Kamanu Naea, of Kawaihae, Hawaii and Betty Davidson, in 1889.^[6]
• Helen FitzRoy (1861–1861), who died young.^[2]

Lady Frederick FitzRoy died on 9 March 1914. Lord Frederick died on 12 February 1919.^[2]