George Somerset, 3rd Baron Raglan

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George Fitzroy Henry Somerset, 3rd Baron Raglan GBE CB (18 September 1857–24 October 1921) was a British peer and soldier.

Somerset was born in 1857, the son of the 2nd Baron Raglan and a godchild of George V of Hanover. He became a Page of Honour to Queen Victoria in 1868 (until 1874) and was educated at Eton and the Sandhurst.

In 1870, he joined the Grenadier Guards and fought in the Second Anglo-Afghan War. On 28 February 1883, he married Lady Ethel Ponsonby, a daughter of the 7th Earl of Bessborough and they later had six children. He held the positions of Under-Secretary of State for War from 1900 to 1902 and Lieutenant Governor of the Isle of Man from 1902 to 1918. He was also a prominent militia officer.

Court offices
Preceded by Arthur Lyttleton	Page of Honour 1874–1879	Succeeded by Count Edward Gleichen
Political offices
Preceded by St John Brodrick	Under-Secretary of State for War 1900–1902	Succeeded by The Earl of Hardwicke
Preceded by John Henniker-Major	Lieutenant Governor of the Isle of Man 1902–1918	Succeeded by William Fry
Peerage of the United Kingdom
Preceded by Richard Somerset	Baron Raglan 1884–1921	Succeeded by Fitzroy Somerset

Governors and Lieutenant Governors of the Isle of Man
Christian, Stanley N, Stanley C, Mawdesley, Stanley C, Horne, Lloyd, Horton, 2nd Duke of Atholl, Lindsey, Cochrane, Wood, 4th Duke of Atholl, Hope, Dawson, Shaw, Murray, Smelt, Ready, Hope, Connat-Pigott, Loch, Walpole, Ridgeway, Henniker-Major, Somerset, Fry, Hill, Butler, Granville, Bromet, Dundas, Garvey, Stallard, Paul, Cecil, New, Jones, Daunt, MacFadyen, Haddacks