George Somerset, 3rd Baron Raglan

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George Fitzroy Henry Somerset, 3rd Baron Raglan GBE CB (18 September 185724 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

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