BEAUFORT

John Henry Somerset , 7 Duke of ( eld. child of Henry Charles Somerset, 6 Duke of Beaufort 1766–1835 ). b. 5 Feb. 1792; cornet 10 Hu ars 1811; aide de camp to Duke of Wellington in the Peninsula; captain 37 Foot 2 Dec. 1819 to 25 Oct. 1821 when placed on h.p.; M.P. for Mon mouth 30 Dec. 1813 to 3 Dec. 1832 and for West Gloucs. 12 Jany. 1835 to 23 Nov. 1835 when he succeeded as 7 Duke; junior lord of the Admiralty 1816–1819; lieut. colonel commandant of Gloucestershire yeomanry April 1834 to death; K.G. 1842; master of the Badminton fox hounds 1835 to death. d. Badminton, Gloucs. 17 Nov. 1853. Lord W. P. Lennox’s Celebrities I have known 2 series i , 118–30 (1877); Sporting Review xxx i , 69–70 (1854); I.L.N. xxiii , 448, 476 (1853), portrait .