Lord William Somerset
Rev. Lord William George Henry Somerset was an Anglican cleric and aristocrat who was rector of the Woolaston Parish in the 1800s. He lived in an adjacent manor house now called The Old Rectory.
Lord William was the seventh of nine sons of Henry Somerset, 5th Duke of Beaufort and Elizabeth Boscawen, daughter of the Hon. Edward Boscawen. He also had four sisters.
He is buried in the St Andrews Church cemetery.
Family
He married Elizabeth Molyneux, daughter of Sir Thomas Molyneux, 5th Baronet on 29 June 1813. They had five children:- Col. Henry Charles Capel, married Alice Elizabeth O'Connell, daughter of Sir Maurice Charles O'Connell and granddaughter of Vice Adm. William Bligh. They had seven children.
- Rev. William, who married Georgiana Amelia Darling and together had four sons.
- FitzRoy Molyneux Henry, married firstly Jemima Drummond Nairne, and secondly Emily Biedermann. With the former they had at least two sons.
- John Plantagenet Edward Henry
- Rev. Boscawen Thomas George Henry, who married Sophia Vernon Powys, daughter of Horatio Powys, Bishop of Sodor and Man. They had two sons.