Sir Frederick Graham, 3rd Baronet

Sir Frederick Ulric Graham, 3rd Baronet of Netherby, (2 April 1820 – 8 March 1888) was a British diplomat, soldier and landowner.

Early life The scion of an old Scots family seated at Netherby Hall, Frederick Ulric was born on 2 April 1820. He was the eldest son of Fanny Callander and Sir James Graham, 2nd Baronet, the British statesman who served as Home Secretary and First Lord of the Admiralty. A notable ancestor was Richard Graham, 1st Viscount Preston. He was a brother to Constance Helena Graham, Mabel Violet (wife of William Duncombe, 1st Earl of Feversham), Rev. Reginald Malise Graham, Helen Graham and James Stanley Graham.

Upon his father's death on 25 October 1861, he succeeded as the 3rd Baronet Graham, of Netherby, Cumberland. He qualified as a magistrate for the county of Cumberland in 1861,

Personal life In 1852, Graham married his first cousin once removed, Lady Jane Hermione Seymour, daughter of Edward St Maur, 12th Duke of Somerset and his wife Jane Georgiana Sheridan – the Eglinton 'Queen of Beauty'. His mother, Lady Graham, and Lady Hermione's grandmother, Caroline Henrietta Sheridan, were sisters, daughters of Sir James Campbell of Craigforth and Ardkinglas, born Callander. Together, they were the parents of:

Margaret Frances Graham (1857–1927), who married Alexander Æneas Mackintosh, 27th Chief of Clan Mackintosh in 1875. After his death, she married James Grimston, 3rd Earl of Verulam in 1878. Violet Hermione Graham, Duchess of Montrose (1854–1940), who married Douglas Graham, 5th Duke of Montrose in 1876. Sibyl Marcia Graham (1857–1887), who married Robert Crewe-Milnes, 2nd Baron Houghton (later 1st Marquess of Crewe) in 1880. After her death in 1926 he married his younger brother's widow, Florence Rose Wood. Hilda Georgina Graham (1859–1946), who married George Faber, 1st Baron Wittenham. and sister in law to Juliette Gordon Low, in 1888. James Reginald Graham (1864–1910), who married Florence Rose ( Wood), a daughter of J. Carter Wood and widow of Capt. Cyprian Knollys. Lady Jane died on 4 April 1909.

Descendants Through his eldest daughter's first marriage, he was a grandfather of Eva Hermione Mackintosh (1876–1934), who married Sir Godfrey Baring, 1st Baronet (the brother of her uncle's first wife Olivia).

Through his son Hugh, he was posthumously a grandfather to Alastair Hugh Graham (1904–1982), an Oxford friend of Evelyn Waugh who was considered an inspiration for Sebastian Flyte in Brideshead Revisited.