Field Marshal FitzRoy James Henry Somerset,1st Baron Raglan,,known before 1852 as Lord FitzRoy Somerset,was a British Army officer. When a junior officer,he served in the Peninsular War and the Waterloo campaign,latterly as military secretary to the Duke of Wellington. He also took part in politics as Tory Member of Parliament for Truro,before becoming Master-General of the Ordnance.
Duke of Montrose is a title that has been created twice in the Peerage of Scotland. The title was created anew in 1707,for James Graham,4th Marquess of Montrose,great-grandson of famed James Graham,1st Marquess of Montrose. Montrose was elevated as a reward for his important support of the Act of Union. It has remained since then in the Graham family,tied to the chieftainship of Clan Graham.
Earl of Norbury,in the County of Tipperary,is a title in the Peerage of Ireland. It was created in 1827,along with the title Viscount Glandine,of Glandine in the King's County,for the Irish politician and judge John Toler,1st Baron Norbury,upon his retirement as Chief Justice of the Common Pleas in Ireland. The titles were created with special remainder to his second son,Hector,as his eldest son,Daniel,was then considered mentally unwell. Lord Norbury had already been created Baron Norbury,of Ballycrenode in the County of Tipperary,in the Peerage of Ireland in 1800,with remainder to the heirs male of his body. Moreover,his wife,Grace Toler,had been created Baroness Norwood,of Knockalton in the County of Tipperary,in the Peerage of Ireland in 1797,with remainder to the heirs male of her body. By the time Lord Norbury was raised to the Earldom,his wife had died and their eldest son had succeeded her as 2nd Baron Norwood. This son also succeeded Lord Norbury himself on his death in 1831 as 2nd Baron Norbury,whilst his younger brother Daniel succeeded to the viscountcy and earldom according to the special remainder. In 1832,the second Earl also succeeded his elder brother in the two baronies. He had already in 1825 assumed the additional surname of Graham by Royal licence.
Baron Raglan,of Raglan in the County of Monmouth,is a title in the Peerage of the United Kingdom. It was created on 20 October 1852 for the military commander Lord FitzRoy Somerset,chiefly remembered as commander of the British troops during the Crimean War.
Edward AdolphusSt. Maur,12th Duke of Somerset,,styled Lord Seymour until 1855,was a British Whig aristocrat and politician,who served in various cabinet positions in the mid-19th century,including that of First Lord of the Admiralty.
James Graham,4th Duke of Montrose,KT,PC,styled Marquess of Graham until 1836,of Buchanan Castle,Stirlingshire and 45 Belgrave Square,London,was a British Conservative politician.
James Angus Graham,7th Duke of Montrose ID,styled Earl of Kincardine until 1925 and Marquess of Graham between 1925 and 1954,was a Scottish-born Rhodesian politician,farmer and aristocrat. He served as Minister of Agriculture in the Rhodesian government of Ian Smith,and in 1965 was a signatory to Rhodesia's Unilateral Declaration of Independence.
Sir Ewen Cameron of Lochiel was a Scottish soldier and the 17th Chief of Clan Cameron. He fought as a Cavalier during the Civil War and was one the principal Jacobite leaders during the 1689 Rising. He is regarded as one of the most formidable Scottish clan chiefs of all time,with Lord Macaulay praising him as the "Ulysses of the Highlands". An incident demonstrating his strength and ferocity in single combat,when he bit out the throat of an enemy,is used by Sir Walter Scott in Lady of the Lake.
Robert Temple Armstrong,Baron Armstrong of Ilminster,was a British civil servant and life peer.
James Graham,3rd Duke of Montrose,KG,KT,PC,styled Marquess of Graham until 1790,was a Scottish nobleman and statesman.
Douglas Beresford Malise Ronald Graham,5th Duke of Montrose,,styled Lord Douglas Graham until 1872 and Marquess of Graham until 1874,was a Scottish nobleman,soldier and landowner.
Colonel Sir Donald Walter Cameron of Lochiel,was a British Army officer of the Queen's Own Cameron Highlanders and the 25th Chief of Clan Cameron.
Dillington House is a residential adult education college near Ilminster in the parish of Whitelackington,Somerset,England. The present house,which dates from the 16th century,is owned by Lord Cameron of Dillington and operated by Somerset County Council. There has been a house on the site since before the Norman Conquest,probably taking advantage of the nearby chalybeate spring.
John Lee Lee of Orleigh Court in the parish of Buckland Brewer in Devon,and of Dillington House,near Ilminster in Somerset,was a British Whig politician who was Member of Parliament for Wells.
Vaughan Hanning Vaughan-Lee JP DL was an English Conservative Party politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1874 to 1882.
Relatives of the former UK Prime Minister and former Foreign Secretary,David Cameron,feature throughout the law,politics and finance as well as being connected with the British aristocracy.
Geoffrey Somerset,6th Baron Raglan,is a British peer,businessman,and Conservative politician.
Major Allan John Cameron,was a Scottish soldier,landowner and curler. He served in the Queen's Own Cameron Highlanders during the Second World War,rising to the rank of Major. He helped to found the International Curling Federation,the predecessor to the World Curling Federation,and served as its president from 1966 to 1969.
Colonel Sir Donald Hamish Cameron of Lochiel,was a British Army officer,landowner and the 26th Chief of Clan Cameron. He served as commanding officer of the Lovat Scouts throughout the Second World War. He succeeded his father as Chief of the Camerons in 1951 and later served as Lord Lieutenant of Inverness-shire.
