Poulett Somerset

Colonel Poulett George Henry Somerset CB (19 June 1822 – 7 September 1875) was a British soldier and Conservative Party politician. Biography Somerset was the eldest son of Lord Charles Somerset by his second wife, Lady Mary Poulett, Somerset was educated at Eton and the Royal Military College, Sandhurst. He was commissioned into the Coldstream Guards in 1839. On 15 April 1847, he married Barbara Augusta Norah Mytton (d. 4 June 1870), the daughter of John Mytton, by whom he had two sons and a daughter: Cecily Mary Caroline Somerset (20 November 1852 – 30 December 1862) Vere Francis John Somerset (20 December 1854 – 10 October 1909), married Annette Katherine Hill and had issue Henry Charles FitzRoy Somerset (23 August 1860 – 28 July 1925), married and had issue