Lord Edward Somerset

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Life

Somerset was the third son of Henry Somerset, 5th Duke of Beaufort, and elder brother of Lord Raglan.

Joining the 15th Light Dragoons in 1793, he became captain in the following year, and received a majority after serving as aide-de-camp to Prince Frederick, Duke of York in the Dutch expedition of 1799. At the end of 1800 he became a lieutenant-colonel, and in 1801 received the command of the 4th Dragoons.<ref name="EB1911">{{#if: |

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He commanded his regiment at the battles of Talavera and Buçaco, and in 1810 received a colonelcy and the appointment of aide-de-camp to the king. In 1811, along with the 3rd Dragoon Guards, the 4th Dragoons fought a notable cavalry action at Usagre, and in 1812 Lord Edward Somerset was engaged in the great charge of Le Marchant's heavy cavalry at Salamanca. His conduct on this occasion (he captured five guns at the head of a single squadron) won him further promotion, and he made the remaining campaigns as a major-general at the head of the Hussar brigade (7th, 10th and 15th Hussars).<ref name="EB1911"/>

At Orthes he won further distinction by his pursuit of the enemy; he was made KCB, and received the thanks of parliament. At Waterloo he was in command of the Household Cavalry Brigade,<ref>Template:Cite book</ref> which distinguished itself not less by its stern and patient endurance of the enemy's fire than by its celebrated charge on the cuirassiers of Milhaud's corps.<ref name="EB1911"/>

The brigadier was particularly mentioned in Wellington's despatches, and received the thanks of parliament<ref name="EB1911"/> as well as the Army Gold Cross with one clasp for his services at Talavera, Salamanca, Vitoria, Orthez, and Toulouse. He also received the Military Order of Maria Theresa and was made an honorary Knight Commander of the Royal Portuguese Military Order of the Tower and Sword.<ref>Template:London Gazette</ref>

At Waterloo in 1815 he lost his hat during the first cavalry charge and in the subsequent search for it a cannonball tore off the flap of his coat and killed his horse.<ref>Template:Cite book</ref> He was awarded a GCB in 1834.<ref>Template:London Gazette</ref>

After a short illness he died in London on 1 September 1842 and was interred in the church of St. George's, Hanover Square.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref> A memorial tablet to Lord Robert Edward<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> is on the south wall of the nave at St. Michael and All Angels, Great Badminton, which is attached to the family seat, Badminton House.

The 'Somerset Monument' stands high on the Cotswold Edge at Hawkesbury, Gloucestershire ({{#if:ST772878|[[Ordnance Survey National Grid|{{#if:Template:Yesno|Grid|grid}} reference]] {{#invoke:Ordnance Survey coordinates|oscoord|ST772878_region:GB_scale:25000|ST772878|name=}}}}), near the family's ancestral home of Badminton, Gloucestershire. It was erected in 1846 and has an inscription in memory of General Lord Robert Somerset.

Family

On 17 October 1805 he married Hon. Louisa Augusta Courtenay (1781Template:Snd8 February 1825), a younger daughter of William Courtenay, de jure 8th Earl of Devon, with whom he had several children, three sons and five daughters:<ref>His second son and three daughters are listed in The Plantagenet Roll, and more children are listed on this page</ref>

Robert Henry Somerset (1806–1807)<ref name=will/>
Louisa Isabella Somerset (1807–1888) who died unmarried.<ref name=will/>
Frances Caroline Somerset, later Mrs Theophilus Clive (1808–1890) who married 1840 Theophilus Clive (died 1875),<ref name=will/> and had issue 1 son who left descendants.
Blanche Somerset, later Mrs Charles Locke (1811–1879) who married 1845, Rev. Charles Courtenay Locke (died 1848) with no issue,<ref name=will/>
Matilda Elizabeth Somerset, later Mrs Horace Marryat (1815Template:Snd3 April 1905)<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation

|CitationClass=web }}</ref><ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> who married 1842 Horace Marryat,<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> and had issue two sons: Adrian Somerset Marryat (born 1844) and Frederick Marryat (born 1851), and one daughter Ida Horatia Charlotte Marryat (1843–1910) who married 19 September 1863 (div 1889) Count Gustavus Frederick Bonde (1842–1909), a Swedish nobleman, with issue.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref><ref name="will"/> The three Marryat children were<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> painted in 1851–2 in Rome by the young Frederick Leighton. Horace Marryat was a much younger brother of the naval officer and writer Frederick Marryat (1792–1848)<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>

Lieutenant-General Edward Arthur Somerset (1817–1886) married Agatha Miles (1827–1912), daughter of Sir William Miles, Bt and had one son (Lieut Edward William Henry Somerset, 25 January 1866Template:Snd20 March 1890, who died unmarried) and eight daughters.
Georgina Emily Somerset, later the Hon. Mrs Robert Lawley (born 1819) who married 1852 Hon Robert Neville Lawley (who died 1891), and died without issue.
Augustus Charles Stapleton Somerset (1821–1854) who died unmarried.<ref name=will>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation

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