Richard Somerset, 2nd Baron Raglan
- Richard Somerset, 2nd Baron Raglan
Richard Henry FitzRoy Somerset, 2nd Baron Raglan (24 May 1817–3 May 1884) was a British peer.
The second son of the 1st Baron Raglan, Somerset was born in Paris and educated at Christ Church, Oxford. He came to Ceylon with Sir Colin Campbell (later Lord Clyde) as his Private Secretary and was subsequently taken into the Ceylon Civil Service in 1841. In 1844 he was Assistant Government Agent of Colombo. He left the island in 1849 to become the Private Secretary of George V of Hanover, leaving that office in 1855 when he succeeded to his father's title. Parliament granted him and his successor a pension of £ 2.000 for the service of his father (23 July 1855). Cefntilla House, Usk, Monmouthshire, was presented to him by about 230 of his father's friends in 1861.
Cornet Gloucestershire Yeomanry 1856 and Captain 1864–75 he became a Lord-in-Waiting from 1858-59 and 1866-69, under The Earl of Derby's and Disraeli's governments respectively.
On 25 September 1856, Lord Raglan had married Lady Georgina Lygon, the third daughter of the 4th Earl Beauchamp and they later had five children. After the death of his wife in 1865, he married Mary Blanche Farquhar, the eldest daughter of Sir Walter Farquhar, 3rd Baronet on 11 October 1871 and they had one daughter.
He died Chesterfield street, London, 3 May 1884 and was buried Llandenny churchyard, co. Monmouth, 8 May.
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