Lord Charles FitzRoy

General Lord Charles FitzRoy (17 July 1764 – 20 December 1829) was a British Army officer and politician.

Early life FitzRoy was born on 17 July 1764. He was the third, but second surviving, son of Augustus FitzRoy, 3rd Duke of Grafton and, his first wife, Anne Liddell, a daughter of Henry Liddell, 1st Baron Ravensworth.

After education at Harrow School and Trinity College, Cambridge, he entered the army in 1782 as an ensign.

Personal life On 20 June 1795, FitzRoy married Frances Mundy, the daughter of Edward Miller Mundy, MP. Before her death in 1797, they had one son:

Sir Charles Augustus FitzRoy (1796–1858), who served as the governor of New South Wales, governor of Prince Edward Island and governor of Antigua; he married Lady Mary Lennox, eldest child of Charles Lennox, 4th Duke of Richmond, in 1820. After her death in 1847, he married Margaret Gordon in 1855.

After his wife's death, he married Lady Frances Stewart on 10 March 1799. Lady Frances was the eldest daughter of Robert Stewart, 1st Marquess of Londonderry and Frances Pratt (the daughter of the Whig politician Charles Pratt, 1st Earl Camden). Before her death in 1810, they had four children:

George FitzRoy (1800–1882), British Army officer; he married, Louisa Harris, daughter of John Harris, in 1830. After her death, he married Hon. Charlotte Frances Bona Spencer, daughter of Lt.-Col. Hon. George Augustus Spencer (son of Francis Spencer, 1st Baron Churchill), in 1873. Frances FitzRoy (–1878), who married George Rice-Trevor, 4th Baron Dynevor. Robert FitzRoy (1805–1865), a hydrographer who married Mary Henrietta O'Brien, daughter of Maj.-Gen. Edward James O'Brien, in 1836. After her death he married Maria Isabella, daughter of John Henry Smyth, of Heath Hall, in 1854. Emily Elizabeth FitzRoy (1808–1827), the FitzRoy's youngest daughter died at the age of 20.

FitzRoy died at his house in Berkeley Square, London in 1829 and was buried at Wicken, Northamptonshire.

Descendants Through his son Robert, he was a grandfather of five: Emily-Unah FitzRoy, Frances "Fanny" FitzRoy, Katherine FitzRoy, Robert O'Brien FitzRoy, and Laura Maria Elizabeth FitzRoy.