Charles FitzRoy, 3rd Baron Southampton [SEP] date of death
Charles FitzRoy, 3rd Baron Southampton
Charles FitzRoy, 3rd Baron Southampton (28 September 1804 – 16 July 1872) was a British peer.
Biography.
The son of George FitzRoy, 2nd Baron Southampton, he succeeded his father in 1810. He was the grandson of Charles FitzRoy, 1st Baron Southampton and Anne Warren, the daughter and co-heir of Adml. Sir Peter Warren and a descendant of the Schuyler family, the Van Cortlandt family, and the Delancey family, all from British North America.
Duchess of Cleveland. The Southampton title had previously been created for Charles FitzRoy, eldest natural son of Charles II and the Duchess of Cleveland and the elder brother of Henry FitzRoy, 1st Duke of Grafton, but had become extinct in 1774 on the death of his son William FitzRoy, 3rd Duke of Cleveland and 2nd Duke of Southampton, six years before the creation of the barony of Southampton.
The first Baron Southampton's grandson, the third Baron, notably served as Lord-Lieutenant of Northamptonshire from 1867 to 1872.