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Noble family
  
House of Beaufort

Name
  
Henry 2nd

Siblings
  
Lady Henrietta Somerset

Mother
  
Rebecca Child

Died
  
May 24, 1714

Henry Somerset, 2nd Duke of Beaufort
Spouse(s)
  
Mary Sackville Rachel Noel Mary Osborne

Father
  
Charles Somerset, Marquess of Worcester

Parents
  
Charles Somerset, Marquess of Worcester

Children
  
Henry Scuda, 3rd Duke of Beaufort, Charles Somerset, 4th Duke of Beaufort

Grandchildren
  
Henry Somerset, 5th Duke of Beaufort, Lady Mary Isabella Somerset

Grandparents
  
Henry Somerset, 1st Duke of Beaufort, Mary Somerset, Duchess of Beaufort

Henry Somerset, 2nd Duke of Beaufort, KG PC (2 April 1684 – 24 May 1714) was the only son of Charles Somerset, Marquess of Worcester, and Rebecca Child. He was styled Earl of Glamorgan until 1698, and Marquess of Worcester from 1698 until his grandfather's death on 21 January 1700, when he succeeded him as 2nd Duke of Beaufort.

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Life

Born at Monmouth Castle, he entertained Queen Anne and the Prince Consort with splendour at Badminton in August 1702. He held aloof from public affairs until the fall of Sunderland heralded the collapse of the Whig Junto in 1710, when he is said to have remarked to the queen that he could at length call her a queen in reality. A thorough-going Tory, he was, after some opposition from Jonathan Swift, admitted a member of the "Brothers’ Club" on 21 February 1711. He was made captain of the gentlemen pensioners in 1712, and appointed a Knight of the Garter in October 1712.

Dying at the age of thirty, on 24 May 1714, Beaufort was succeeded by his son Henry. The 2nd Duke is buried at St Michael and All Angels Church, Badminton.

Family

He married three times:

  • On 7 July 1702 to Mary Sackville, daughter of Charles Sackville, 6th Earl of Dorset, who died 18 June 1705, with whom he had no issue;
  • On 26 February 1706 to Rachel Noel, daughter of Wriothesley Baptist Noel, 2nd Earl of Gainsborough, who died 13 September 1709 after giving birth, with whom he had issue; and
  • On 14 September 1711 — her first marriage — to Mary Osborne, daughter of Peregrine Osborne, 2nd Duke of Leeds, who died 4 February 1722, with whom he had no issue.
  • With his second wife he had two sons:

    1. Henry Somerset, 3rd Duke of Beaufort his heir and successor; and
    2. Charles Noel Somerset, 4th Duke of Beaufort his brother's heir and successor.

    References

    Henry Somerset, 2nd Duke of Beaufort Wikipedia