Henry, Duke of Grafton, 1663-1690 - Almeric Fitzroy

Excerpt from Henry, Duke of Grafton, 1663-1690: Vice-Admiral of England and Lieutenant of the Admiralty, Navies and Seas of England, Master of the Trinity House, Colonel of the 1st Regiment of Foot Guards
The object of this memoir, which draws its source from the instinct of family peity, is to display to the curious in personal history the record of a life conspicuous for adventure and achievement during the brief span allotted to its active years.
Contributors to the main stream of national story, annalists of some of its special aspects and contemporary letter writers in public and private correspondence have all noticed the Duke of Grafton, but to the bulk of those who have heard his name he is probably known through the medium of a popular book of reference as one who, after risking his life with great gallantry in a minor episode of Monmouth's rebellion, was "among the first to desert his royal master for the Prince of Orange," in whose service he was mortally wounded at the storming of Cork.
It has seemed to the present writer, in studying the material for a fuller presentation of a remarkable career, that it deserves a wider publicity both on the score of its intrinsic interest and as an exhibition of somewhat outstanding qualities in an age to which indolence and profligacy have been attributed as its chief concern.
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