Hand coloured engraving of Lieutenant-Colonel the Duke of Beaufort, Royal Gloucestershire Hussars

Engraved J. Harris after a painting by H. De Daubrawa. Published by Geo. Davey, Bookseller of Bristol. Parker Gallery of Albermarle Street label verso. Framed and glazed

Henry Charles FitzRoy Somerset, 8th Duke of Beaufort, K.G., P.C., (1824 –1899)

Formerly an officer in the 1st Life Guards, and 7th Hussars, and an aide-de-camp to the Duke of Wellington and Lord Hardinge, the 8th Duke of Beaufort was appointed Lieutenant-Colonel Commandant of the Royal Gloucestershire Yeomanry (Royal Gloucestershire Hussars) in 1854, and became Honorary Colonel of the regiment in 1874.