Lord Edward Henry Somerset

(1776-1842)

NAME AUTHORITIES: NRA: Somerset Lord Robert Edward Henry (1776-1842) General DNB: Somerset, Lord (Robert) Edward Henry (1776-1842), army officer LBT ID: EdSomer1842	B/BAP: 1776-12-19 DIED: 1842-09-01
SOURCES: DNB; thePeerage.com
The son of Henry Somerset, fifth duke of Beaufort; he was educated at Westminster and served as an officer in the Peninsular War and commanded a cavalry brigade at Waterloo.
REFERENCES TO Lord Edward Henry Somerset: Redding, Cyrus, 1785-1870, Fifty Years’ Recollections, Literary and Personal, with Observations on Men and Things. 3 vols (London: Charles J. Skeet, 1858) Chapter V. Found 1: ¶ 55