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) Found 1: ¶ 1 Lockhart, J. G. (John Gibson), 1794-1854, Memoirs of the Life of Sir Walter Scott, Bart. 7 vols (Edinburgh: Robert Cadell, 1837) Chapter XI 1826 Found 2: ¶ n1 ¶ n1 Redding, Cyrus, 1785-1870, Fifty Years’ Recollections, Literary and Personal, with Observations on Men and Things. 3 vols (London: Charles J. Skeet, 1858) Chapter I. Found 1: ¶ 15 Redding, Cyrus, 1785-1870, Literary Reminiscences and Memoirs of Thomas Campbell (London: Sampson Low, Marston, Searle, & Rivington, 1860) Chapter 3 Found 1: ¶ 9 Creevey, Thomas, 1768-1838, The Creevey Papers: A Selection from the Correspondence & Diaries of the late Thomas Creevey, M.P. (London: John Murray, 1903) Ch. V: 1827 Ch. VI: 1827-28 Found 1: ¶ n1