Charles Alfred Euston Fitzroy,
10th Duke of Grafton (1892-1970)
Born 4 June 1892 Euston
Died 11 November 1970 Bury St.Edmunds
Married (1) 24 January 1918 Capetown, S-Africa
Lady Doreen Maria Josepha Sydney Buxton, daughter of Sydney
Charles Buxton, 1st Earl Buxton and Mildred Anne Smith
Born 29 November 1897 Westminster
Died 28 July 1923 Coney Weston, Suffolk
Married (2) 6 October 1924 Byfleet, Surrey
Lucy Eleanor Barnes, daughter of Sir George Stapylton
Barnes and Sybil de Gournay Buxton
Born 25 December 1897 Byfleet
Died 11 September 1943 Bury St.Edmunds
Married (3) 18 July 1944 Barnham, Norfolk
Rita Emily Carr-Ellison, daughter of John Ralph
Carr-Ellison and Alice Ursula Lang
Born 24 October 1911 Newcastle upon Tyne
Died 24 August 1970 Newcastle upon Tyne
Born in 1892 the Hon. Charles Alfred Euston Fitzroy, son of the Rev.
Lord Charles Edward Fitzroy. Unexpectedly, in 1936, he succeeded his young
cousin, who was killed in a car accident, and became 10th Duke of Grafton.
Invalided out of World War I in 1916, he joined the staff of Earl Buxton,
Governor-General of South-Africa, whose daughter he married. After the
war he worked as a land agent until he succeeded to the title. He was an
expert agriculturalist, pioneered the reclamation of the heath of the Breckland
on the Euston estate, and planted many shelter belts of trees. He also
developed a prosperous stud of Suffolk horses.
Source: Leo van de Pas
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