Lord Charles Henry SomersetPC (12 December 1767 – 18 February 1831), born in
Badminton, England, was a British soldier, politician and colonial administrator.[1] He was governor of the
Cape Colony,
South Africa, from 1814 to 1826.
Somerset married firstly Lady Elizabeth Courtenay[4] (1766–1815), on 7 June 1788, following their elopement. She was the daughter of the
8th Earl of Devon.[1] They had six children:[1]
Elizabeth Somerset (1790–1872), who married Gen. Hon.
Sir Henry Wyndham in 1812.[1]
Mary Georgiana Somerset (1793–1856), who married Lt-Col. Stirling Freeman Glover in 1833.[1]
Charlotte Augusta Somerset (1799–1864), who married Herbert Cornewoll in 1822.[1]
Charles Henry Somerset (1800–1835), a Lieutenant-Colonel.[1]
Villiers Somerset (1803–1855), a Reverend who married Frances Dorothy Ley in 1844 and had issue.[1]
After the death of Lady Elizabeth, he married secondly Lady Mary Poulett, daughter of
John Poulett, 4th Earl Poulett, on 9 August 1821.[1] They had three children:[1]
Poulett George Henry Somerset (1822–1875), a Colonel who married Barbara Augusta Norah Mytton, daughter of
John Mytton, in 1847. After her death in 1870, he married Emily Moore.[5]