Lord Charles Henry Somerset (1767-1831)
The son of the fifth duke of Beaufort; educated at Westminster and Trinity College,
Oxford, he was MP for Scarborough (1796-1802) and Monmouth (1802-13) and a notoriously
autocratic governor of the Cape Colony (1814-25).
The son of the fifth duke of Beaufort; educated at Westminster and Trinity College,
Oxford, he was MP for Scarborough (1796-1802) and Monmouth (1802-13) and a notoriously
autocratic governor of the Cape Colony (1814-25).