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Henry Monckton
Henry Monckton (13 July 1740 – 28 June 1778) was the fourth son of John Monckton, 1st Viscount Galway and the younger half-brother of the more famous Robert Monckton. During the American Revolutionary War he led a battalion of converged British grenadiers while a lieutenant colonel. He was wounded at Long Island during the New York and New Jersey Campaign in 1776. He led a temporary brigade at Assunpink Creek. In the Philadelphia Campaign of 1777 he led a grenadier battalion at both Brandywine and Germantown. He
d. 1989 (married Simon Monckton-Arundell, 9th Viscount Galway, with issue)
- Giles Henry Holland Fox-Strangways b. 7 May 1934, d. 2 Sep 1947 (age 13, accidental death)
- Charles Stephen Fox-Strangways b. 6 May 1938, d. 8 Jul 1958 (age 20, killed while on emergency military operations, Cyprus).
Harry died on 21 August 1964 at age 58, without surviving male issue. He was succeeded in the Earldom of Ilchester by Walter Angelo Fox-Strangways