[13], The final defence witness, John Saul, was a male prostitute who admitted to earning his living by leading an "immoral life" and "practising criminality". Duke of Grafton is a title in the Peerage of England. D.R. He took several farms back in hand and – through the construction of a reservoir for irrigation – brought previously infertile land into productive use, leased to a commercial vegetable-growing concern. His wife died in … Henry James FitzRoy, Earl of Euston DL (28 November 1848 – 10 May 1912) was the eldest son and heir apparent of Augustus FitzRoy, 7th Duke of Grafton. He was disowned by his father for his brutal treatment of his wife and tenants. For the British prime minister, see, Isabella FitzRoy, 2nd Countess of Arlington, Augustus Henry FitzRoy, 3rd Duke of Grafton, George Henry FitzRoy, 4th Duke of Grafton, William Henry FitzRoy, 6th Duke of Grafton, Augustus Charles Lennox FitzRoy, 7th Duke of Grafton, Alfred William Maitland Fitzroy, 8th Duke of Grafton, William Henry Alfred Fitzroy, Viscount Ipswich, John Charles William FitzRoy, 9th Duke of Grafton, Charles Alfred Euston FitzRoy, 10th Duke of Grafton, Hugh Denis Charles FitzRoy, 11th Duke of Grafton, James Oliver Charles FitzRoy, Earl of Euston, Henry Oliver Charles FitzRoy, 12th Duke of Grafton, http://announcements.telegraph.co.uk/births/158305/grafton, Extant dukedoms in the peerages of Britain and Ireland, https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Duke_of_Grafton&oldid=979223275, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License, Charles FitzRoy, Earl of Euston (1714–1715), eldest son of the 2nd Duke, died young, This page was last edited on 19 September 2020, at 14:44. [15] H. Montgomery Hyde, an eminent historian of homosexuality, later wrote that there was little doubt that Euston was telling the truth and only visited 19 Cleveland Street once because he was misled by the card. A few months later Euston was declared bankrupt, with liabilities of over 54,269 pounds and assets of just 174 pounds. Euston married Kate Walsh, daughter of John Walsh, on 29 May 1871 at St. Michael's Church, Worcester. Having discovered that Walsh had contracted a bigamous marriage, he returned to London to seek an annulment. Tall, shy and aristocratically unkempt, Euston was very happy not to be considered "a people person" in business. The court found against Euston. [9] They had no children, and separated after three years, Euston securing a government position in Australia. It was created in 1675 by Charles II of England for Henry FitzRoy, his second illegitimate son by the Duchess of Cleveland. [9][11], He died in 1912 of dropsy at Wakefield Lodge, Potterspury, Northamptonshire. His mother was the daughter of MP James Balfour. A man of few words in public, he gave the impression of being irritated and depressed by aspects of the modern world, particularly electronic gadgetry. Those titles fell into abeyance between the 9th Duke's sisters, with the abeyance of the barony of Arlington being ended in 1999. In 1894, while presiding at a police court in Towcester, Euston sentenced a man to one month's imprisonment for stealing a cake valued at 3d from a shop in the village of Blisworth, then part of the ducal estate. [17], http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article5343172, http://www.british-history.ac.uk/vch/northants/vol4/pp224-228, http://newspapers.library.wales/view/3730644/3730650/121/, http://newspapers.library.wales/view/3421091/3421101/216/, http://newspapers.library.wales/view/4137915/4137919/95/, http://archives.chicagotribune.com/1903/05/18/page/12/article/letter-of-marquise-de-fontenoy/index.html, http://newspapers.library.wales/view/3784457/3784460/13/, https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Henry_James_FitzRoy,_Earl_of_Euston&oldid=982295885, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License, This page was last edited on 7 October 2020, at 08:30. In court, Euston stated the loans had been raised to assist the solicitor Arthur Newton out of "simple friendliness" while he had been acting for him. The Earl of Euston, who died on October 1 aged 61, was the heir to the Duke of Grafton; having made a successful career as a corporate financier in the … But behind the somewhat forbidding exterior was a wicked sense of humour, a high intelligence and a deep loyalty to old friends and his extended family, the younger generation of which was especially devoted to him. He also became a director of the discount house Smith St Aubyn, and in 1982 he and a group of friends, chiefly from Hambros Bank, moved to set up Enskilda Securities, a boutique corporate finance house which rapidly made a name for itself in the boom years of the 1980s City. He also took a dim view of anyone who wore a brown suit in the City, though he himself wore his grandfather's increasingly threadbare overcoat. Henry James Fitzroy, Earl of Euston (28 November 1848 – 10 May 1912) was the eldest son and heir of Augustus FitzRoy, 7th Duke of Grafton. When set up for a great betting coup at Nottingham, Nobby was beaten by a head. [3], In the coronation year of 1901, he was appointed aide-de-camp to Edward VII. Through that connection, James Euston became finance director of Central Capital Holdings and Capel-Cure Myers Capital Management. The duke of Grafton holds three subsidiary titles, all created in 1675 in the peerage of England: Earl of Euston, Viscount Ipswich, and Baron Sudbury. [16] However, Robert Cliburn, a young man who specialised in blackmailing older homosexual men, told Oscar Wilde that Euston was one of his victims. In the mid-1990s, Lord Euston took over the management of the extensive Euston estates near Thetford, which had seen no modernisation for many years. [6], Euston was appointed a deputy lieutenant of Northamptonshire in 1907. But she was certainly skilled at obtaining the King's favour for her offspring: Henry FitzRoy's two brothers received the dukedoms of Southampton and Northumberland respectively, and Henry himself had earlier been created Earl of Euston, Viscount Ipswich and Baron Sudbury. Walsh remained Lady Euston until she died in 1903, predeceasing Lord Euston by nine years. At great expense Walsh's presumed husband was located in New Zealand and brought to London. His marriage to Walsh was therefore invalid, and hers to Euston legitimate. The Grafton dukedom was created in 1675 for Henry Charles FitzRoy, the third of five illegitimate children of King Charles II by his long-time mistress Barbara Villiers – who became Countess of Castlemaine when her husband was ennobled (as compensation for being cuckolded) and was later Duchess of Cleveland in her own right. His younger brother, Alfred, became the 8th Duke of Grafton. Fisher, 2009 Available from Cambridge University Press His mother was the daughter of MP James Balfour. He went on to qualify as an accountant with Spicer & Pegler, and to join the merchant bank J Henry Schroder Wagg. She was admired by Pepys for her beauty, but the "crudeness of her manners, her ridiculous haughtiness and her perpetual suspicions" made her disagreeable to another writer, Anthony Hamilton. Lord Euston married, in 1972, Lady Clare Kerr, a daughter of the 12th Marquis of Lothian and sister of the Conservative politician Michael Ancram; they had a son and four daughters. A keen shot himself, he also loved salmon and trout fishing, and racing at Newmarket. [14] The jury did not believe the defence witnesses and found in favour of Euston. Among their successful horses were Desert Prince, which won the Queen Elizabeth II Stakes at Ascot in 1998, and Bahamian Pirate, winner of the Nunthorpe Stakes at York in 2004. He paid a sovereign to get in. The heir apparent is the present holder's son, Alfred James Charles FitzRoy, Earl of Euston (b. In a case that was termed "stranger than fiction",[10] at the last moment of the cross examination of Walsh's husband in court it was discovered that three years prior to marrying her, he had wedded another woman. C. Hammond, 19 Cleveland Street". For some years he managed the racing interests of his brother-in-law Edward St George, who was based in the Bahamas but had inherited from his brother Charles St George the Sefton Lodge stables at Newmarket which became the Lucayan Stud. As chairman of the Turf Club – where he sharpened financial performance, renegotiated the Crown Estates lease of the club's house in Carlton House Terrace and negotiated the purchase of a set of paintings that might otherwise have been lost – he once rejected a prospective member whose mobile phone rang at the wrong moment. [2] The heavy sentence drew newspaper coverage and caused widespread indignation. St George liked to name horses after friends, so called one Speedy James and another Nobby, an old school nickname for Euston. [7], Euston married a music hall artiste Kate Walsh, daughter of John Walsh, on 29 May 1871 at St. Michael's Church, Worcester. James – who bore the courtesy title of Viscount Ipswich until his father succeeded to the dukedom in 1970 – was educated at Eton and Magdalene College, Cambridge, where he read History. After five years the founders were bought out by Enskilda's Scandinavian parent, and went on to establish another boutique, Jamestown Investments, which specialised in putting deals together in the financial sector. The family seat is Euston Hall in Suffolk, an 11,000-acre estate straddling the Norfolk-Suffolk border. The title of the dukedom refers to the Honour of Grafton in the southeast of Northamptonshire, the titular village now being called Grafton Regis. Perhaps the most distinguished of his descendants was his great-grandson the 3rd Duke, who was Prime Minister from 1768 to 1770. The most famous duke was probably Augustus FitzRoy, 3rd Duke of Grafton, who served as prime minister in the 1760s. A passionate conservationist, he took every possible step to protect the habitats of wild and rare species; he also greatly improved the shooting, and its related pheasant- and partridge-breeding operation. Henry James FitzRoy, Earl of Euston DL (28 November 1848 – 10 May 1912) was the eldest son and heir apparent of Augustus FitzRoy, 7th Duke of Grafton.His mother was the daughter of MP James Balfour.. Career. [1] Between 1723 and 1936 the dukes, being descended from the 1st Duke's wife Isabella FitzRoy, 2nd Countess of Arlington, also held the titles Earl of Arlington, Viscount Thetford and Baron Arlington. Their son, Henry FitzRoy, Viscount Ipswich, born in 1978, succeeds to the courtesy title of Earl of Euston and is heir to the dukedom.

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