Throughout his life he was known as 'Charles Beaufort' to distinguish him from his father; his sons, all given the first name Henry, also went by their middle names.[citation needed]
On 15 June 1852, Beaufort was appointed a deputy lieutenant of Gloucestershire, and after the death of Wellington in September, he continued to serve as aide-de-camp to the new Commander-in-Chief, Viscount Hardinge, until the latter's death in 1856.[2]
On 21 April 1854, Beaufort purchased a commission as an unattached major,[4] and on 5 May, he was appointed Lieutenant-Colonel Commandant of the Royal Gloucestershire Yeomanry, replacing his late father.[5] During this time it was proposed to start "a cattle show" in Monmouth, and in 1857 Beaufort and John Etherington Welch Rolls each put money into a fund to start the show. Rolls was the greater financial contributor and he became President of the show.[6] This cattle show is now known as the Monmouthshire Show.
Beaufort was breveted lieutenant colonel on 26 October 1858,[7] but sold his commission and left the Army on 11 June 1861.[8] On 16 September 1863, he was made a deputy lieutenant of Monmouthshire. He was also appointed Honorary Colonel of the 1st Gloucestershire Engineer Volunteer Corps on 20 November 1867. On 29 April 1874, he resigned the lieutenant-colonelcy of the Gloucestershire Yeomanry and became Honorary Colonel of the regiment.[9] He resigned that commission on 2 July 1887.[10] He also resigned the honorary colonelcy of the 1st Gloucestershire Engineer Volunteers on 2 December 1888.[11]
Beaufort conceived and planned the Badminton Library series of sporting books, the publication of which began in 1885 with a volume on Hunting,[12] and acted as its overseeing editor.
Family
Beaufort married Lady Georgiana Charlotte Curzon (29 September 1825 – 14 May 1906), daughter of Richard Curzon-Howe, 1st Earl Howe, on 3 July 1845. They had eight children:
Henry Arthur Fitzroy Somerset, Earl of Glamorgan (born and died 28 May 1846), survived only two hours after a difficult labor[13]
Major Lord (Henry) Edward Brudenell Somerset (1853–1897); married Fanny Julia Dixie, daughter of Sir Alexander Dixie, 10th Baronet, and had issue.
Lord (Henry) FitzRoy Francis Somerset (9 February 1855[14] – 23 July 1881), died aged 26, suddenly, of a heart attack while playing cricket near Tetbury, Gloucestershire[15]
^His Grace the Duke of, Beaufort; Morris, K.G.; Morris, Mowbray (1885). Hunting. Boston: Little Brown. Retrieved 14 October 2013.
^"Accouchement of the Marchioness of Worcester". Weekly Chronicle. London, England. 31 May 1846. p. 12. Retrieved 6 September 2024. The Marchioness of Worcester, after acute suffering, during a period of upwards of twenty hours, gave birth to a son at a quarter to five o'clock on Thursday morning, at the family residence in Berkeley square. We regret exceedingly to add, that the infant survived only a short time, having to the great grief of the family expired within two hours after its birth. The noble marchioness, we are glad to learn, is progressing satisfactorily. Her majesty the Queen Dowager and several of the nobility sent on Thursday to make inquiries after the health of the marchioness.