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FitzRoy Somerset, 1st Baron Raglan

1788 - 1855

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Field Marshal FitzRoy James Henry Somerset, 1st Baron Raglan, (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 Waterloo campaign, 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. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. FitzRoy Somerset, 1st Baron Raglan is the 1,138th most popular military personnel (down from 1,096th in 2019), the 2,243rd most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 1,859th in 2019) and the 50th most popular British Military Personnel.

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Among MILITARY PERSONNELS

Among military personnels, FitzRoy Somerset, 1st Baron Raglan ranks 1,138 out of 2,058. Before him are Kenneth Anderson, Blas de Lezo, Li Ling, Ivan Sidorenko, Prince George of Hesse-Darmstadt, and Alexander von Krobatin. After him are Carl Hilpert, Quintus Labienus, Konstantin Petrovich von Kaufmann, Dmitry Utkin, Thomas Cochrane, 10th Earl of Dundonald, and Wilhelm Brückner.

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Among people born in 1788, FitzRoy Somerset, 1st Baron Raglan ranks 32. Before him are Pierre Joseph Pelletier, Mohammed bin Thani, Carl Reichenbach, Princess Juliane Sophie of Denmark, John Canfield Spencer, and Jean-Pierre Abel-Rémusat. After him are Duke Eugen of Württemberg, Soliman Pasha al-Faransawi, Franz Pforr, Rafael Urdaneta, Francisco Balagtas, and Jacques Boucher de Crèvecœur de Perthes. Among people deceased in 1855, FitzRoy Somerset, 1st Baron Raglan ranks 29. Before him are Diponegoro, Antonio Rosmini, Louis-Mathieu Molé, John Canfield Spencer, Mariano Arista, and Carl Anton von Meyer. After him are Per Daniel Amadeus Atterbom, August Leopold Crelle, Mihály Vörösmarty, Koca Hüsrev Mehmed Pasha, Sergey Uvarov, and Francisco Xavier de Luna Pizarro.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, FitzRoy Somerset, 1st Baron Raglan ranks 2,243 out of 8,785. Before him are Andy Gray (1955), Jonathan Bailey (1988), Lord William Bentinck (1774), Albert F. Mummery (1855), Bobby Smith (1933), and Jethro Tull (1674). After him are William Blackstone (1723), David Seaman (1963), Eric Woolfson (1945), Robert Conquest (1917), Thomas Cochrane, 10th Earl of Dundonald (1775), and Anthony Blunt (1907).

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Among MILITARY PERSONNELS In United Kingdom

Among military personnels born in United Kingdom, FitzRoy Somerset, 1st Baron Raglan ranks 50. Before him are Richard Dannatt (1950), James Wolfe (1727), Robert Blake (1599), Arthur Rostron (1869), Horatio Gates (1727), and David Beatty, 1st Earl Beatty (1871). After him are Thomas Cochrane, 10th Earl of Dundonald (1775), Arthur Percival (1887), Robert Maynard (1684), David Stirling (1915), John Tovey, 1st Baron Tovey (1885), and Claude Choules (1901).

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