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RARE \"1st Baron Raglan\" FitzRoy Somerset Clipped Signature:
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Up for sale a RARE! "1st Baron Raglan" FitzRoy Somerset Clipped Signature. 

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Field Marshal FitzRoy

James Henry Somerset, 1st Baron Raglan, GCB, PC (30

September 1788 – 28 June 1855), known before 1852 as Lord FitzRoy

Somerset, was a British Army officer.

When a junior officer, he served in the Peninsular War and the Hundred Days, latterly as military secretary to the Duke of

Wellington. He also took part in politics as Tory Member of Parliament for Truro, before

becoming Master-General of the

Ordnance. He became commander of the British troops sent to

the Crimea in 1854: his primary objective was to defend Constantinople, and he was also ordered to besiege the Russian Port of Sevastopol. After an early success at the Battle of Alma, a failure to deliver orders with sufficient

clarity caused the fateful Charge of the Light

Brigade at the Battle of Balaclava.

Despite further success at the Battle of Inkerman, a

poorly coordinated allied assault on Sevastopol in June 1855 was a complete

failure. Raglan died later that month, after suffering from dysentery and depression. Born at Badminton House in Gloucestershire as the ninth and youngest son of Henry

Somerset, 5th Duke of Beaufort and his wife Elizabeth (daughter

of Admiral the Hon. Edward Boscawen), Somerset

was educated at Westminster School and

was commissioned as a cornet in the 4th Light Dragoons on

16 June 1804.

Promoted to lieutenant on 1 June 1805,[3] Somerset accompanied Sir Arthur Paget on his visit

to Sultan Selim III of the Ottoman Empire, who had been aligning himself too closely with

France, in 1807. He became a captain in the 43rd Regiment of

Foot on 5 May 1808 shortly before his appointment as aide-de-camp to Sir Arthur Wellesley in July 1808. Somerset

accompanied Wellesley's Army when it was sent to Portugal later that month. Somerset fought at the Second Battle of Porto in May 1809,

the Battle of

Talavera in July 1809 and the Battle of Bussaco (where he was wounded) in September 1810. He was appointed acting military secretary to

Wellington in November 1810 and fought with him at the Battle of Pombal in March 1811,

the Battle of Sabugal in April 1811 and the Battle of Fuentes de

Oñoro in May 1811. Promoted to brevet major on 9 June 1811, he

also took part in the Battle of El Bodón in September 1811.

He specially distinguished himself at the storming of Badajoz in March 1812 by

being the first to mount the breach and by helping to secure the surrender of

the French Governor and was duly promoted to lieutenant colonel on 27 April 1812.

Somerset went on to fight with Wellington at the Battle of Salamanca in

July 1812, the Siege of Burgos in

September 1812 and the Battle of Vitoria in June 1813 as well as the Siege of San Sebastián in

July 1813, the Battle of the Pyrenees in

July 1813 and the Battle of Nivelle in

November 1813. They also fought together at the Battle of the Nive in

December 1813, the Battle of Orthez in

February 1814 and the Battle of Toulouse in

April 1814. Following Wellington's appointment as British Ambassador during the short period of Bourbon restoration, Somerset assumed a role as his

secretary at the Embassy on 5 July 1814. Somerset transferred to the 1st Guards on 25 July 1814 and was appointed a Knight Commander of the Order of the Bath on 2 January

1815. Somerset also saw action during the Hundred Days: he served on Wellington's staff at the Battle of Quatre Bras on

16 June 1815 and at the Battle of Waterloo two

days later (where he had to have his right arm amputated and then demanded his arm back so he could

retrieve the ring that his wife had given him). Promoted to colonel and appointed an aide-de-camp to the Prince Regent on

28 August 1815, he was appointed a Knight of the Bavarian Military Order of Max

Joseph on 3 October 1815. He remained with the Army of Occupation in France until May 1816 when he

returned to the post of secretary at the British Embassy in Paris.

Somerset

was elected Tory Member of became Wellington's secretary in the latter's new capacity

as Master-General of the

Ordnance in 1819. Somerset lost his seat at the general

election in 1820 but, having been promoted to major-general on 27 May 1825, regained his seat in

Parliament in 1826. Following Wellington's appointment as Commander-in-Chief of the

Forces in January 1827 Somerset became Military

Secretary in August 1827. He stood down from Parliament in

1829 and was promoted to lieutenant-general on

28 June 1838. Advanced to Knight Grand Cross of the Order of the Bath on 24

September 1852, he became Master-General of the Ordnance on 30 September 1852 and

was raised to the peerage as Baron Raglan of Raglan in the County

of Monmouthshire on 11

October 1852. 

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