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Lord Charles Henry Somerset
(1767-1831)

NAME AUTHORITIES:
NRA:    Somerset Lord Charles Henry (1767-1831) General Governor of the Cape MP
DNB:    Somerset, Lord Charles Henry (1767-1831), colonial governor
LBT ID: ChSomer1831
B/BAP:   1767-12-12
DIED:   1831-02-20
SOURCES: DNB; thePeerage.com
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).
REFERENCES TO Lord Charles Henry Somerset:
Thomas Creevey to Elizabeth Ord, 6 October 1827 in The Creevey Papers: A Selection from the Correspondence & Diaries of the late Thomas Creevey, M.P. (London: John Murray, 1903)
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