Lord Frederick Fitzroy

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

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.

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.

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 ( 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: Evelyn FitzRoy (1860–1924), who married Emma Kamanu, a daughter of Enoch Kamanu Naea, of Kawaihae, Hawaii and Betty Davidson, in 1889. Helen FitzRoy (1861–1861), who died young.