Lord Charles FitzRoy (1764–1829)

General Lord Charles FitzRoy (17 July 1764 – 20 December 1829) was a British Army officer and politician.

[1] After education at Harrow School and Trinity College, Cambridge,[2] he entered the army in 1782 as an ensign.

[3] In 1787, he was appointed a captain in the Scots Guards and an equerry in 1788, to Prince Frederick, Duke of York and Albany, under whom he served in Flanders from 1793 to 1794.

[3] In 1795, FitzRoy was appointed an aide-de-camp to King George III with the rank of colonel and promoted to major-general in 1798.

[4] Before her death in 1810, they had four children: FitzRoy died at his house in Berkeley Square, London in 1829 and was buried at Wicken, Northamptonshire.