page_title: FitzRoy Somerset, 1st Baron Raglan
section_title: Family
hierarchical_section_title: FitzRoy Somerset, 1st Baron Raglan / Family
caption_attribution_description: English: Emily Harriet Wellesley-Pole, Lady FitzRoy Somerset (1792-1881) oil on canvas 76.2 x 63.5 cm after the painting in the Hermitage, St. Petersburg
context_page_description: Field Marshal FitzRoy James Henry Somerset, 1st Baron Raglan, GCB, PC, 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.
context_section_description: On 6 August 1814 Somerset married Lady Emily Harriet Wellesley-Pole (daughter of William Wellesley-Pole, 3rd Earl of Mornington, and niece of the Duke of Wellington). They had two sons:
  Arthur William FitzRoy Somerset (6 May 1816 – 21 December 1845)
  Richard Henry Fitzroy Somerset, 2nd Baron Raglan (24 May 1817 – 3 May 1884)
caption: Emily Harriet Wellesley-Pole, Lady FitzRoy Somerset (after Thomas Lawrence)
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