Henry Hugh Arthur FitzRoy Somerset, 10th Duke of Beaufort KG GCVO KStJ PC (4 April 1900 – 5 February 1984), styled Marquess of Worcester until 1924, was a British peer.
Somerset was the son of Henry Somerset, 9th Duke of Beaufort. He was educated at Eton and the Royal Military College, Sandhurst, from which he was commissioned into the Royal Horse Guards.
Beaufort left the Army after a few years with the rank of Lieutenant. He was Honorary Colone...
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Henry Hugh Arthur FitzRoy Somerset, 10th Duke of Beaufort KG GCVO KStJ PC (4 April 1900 – 5 February 1984), styled Marquess of Worcester until 1924, was a British peer.
Somerset was the son of Henry Somerset, 9th Duke of Beaufort. He was educated at Eton and the Royal Military College, Sandhurst, from which he was commissioned into the Royal Horse Guards.
Beaufort left the Army after a few years with the rank of Lieutenant. He was Honorary Colonel of the 21st (Royal Gloucestershire Hussars) Armoured Car Company, Territorial Army between 1969 and 1971 and Honorary Colonel of the Royal Wessex Yeomanry between 1971 and 1984, and the Warwickshire Yeomanry between 1971 and 1972.
After the International Horse Show of 1933 was abandoned, a new committee headed by the young Beaufort succeeded in re-establishing the event at Olympia in 1934.
Beaufort was Master of the Horse (1936–1978), to three British Sovereigns, King Edward VIII, King George VI, and Elizabeth II. As such he took part in...
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