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). | |