Col. Sir Alfred Plantagenet Frederick Charles Somerset KCB DL JP (5 September 1829 – 26 March 1915) was a British Army officer, coach driver, and aristocrat from the House of Beaufort.

His father was the eighth son of Henry Somerset, 5th Duke of Beaufort by Elizabeth Boscawen; among his brothers was Field Marshal Lord Raglan, commander of the heavy cavalry at the Battle of Waterloo.

[2] In 1859, amid growing fear that Napoleon III's Second French Empire would invade Britain, the Royal Commission on the Defence of the United Kingdom led to the introduction of Volunteer Forces.

[2] He also remained active outside the Volunteer Corps and was for many yers commander of the King's Own Royal Tower Hamlets Militia (now the 7th Battalion Rifle Brigade).

[1] For more than 60 years, Somerset made his home in Enfield Town, Middlesex (now North London), where he was greatly dedicated to improving the welfare of the citizens.

Adelaide inherited Goring Castle from her father, who had bought it from Mary Shelley, and it remained in the Somerset family until the 21st century.