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Henry Charles Somerset

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Data Last Updated: 7 August 2025
Application Last Amended: 20 July 2024
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Born: 22 December 1766

Died: 23 November 1835

Peerages

Marquess of Somerset -

6th Duke of Beaufort - 11 October 1803

Knighted - 17 January 1805

father-in-law of George Finch

son of Henry Somerset

husband of Lady Charlotte Sophia Leveson Gower

son-in-law of Granville Leveson-Gower

father of Granville Charles Henry Somerset

father-in-law of George Horatio Cholmondeley

Education

Westminster School   (1780 - 1784)

Trinity College, Oxford   (1784 - 1786)

Elections fought

1 April 1788		Monmouth, Newport & Usk	Tory	Unopposed
19 June 1790		Bristol	Tory	544	99.09
21 June 1790		Monmouth, Newport & Usk	Tory	Unopposed
1790 The Marquess of Worcester elects to sit for Bristol.