FITZROY, Henry, Earl of Euston (1790-1863).

Euston came in on the family interest for Bury on the retirement of his uncle Charles in 1818. At the previous election there had been an unsubstantiated rumour of his offering for Northamptonshire. Following his father’s political line, he signed the requisition to Tierney to lead the Whig opposition in the House. He joined Brooks’s Club on 29 Jan. 1819. He is not known to have spoken in his first Parliament, in which he voted steadily with opposition on all major issues, though he was a defaulter on 29 Mar. 1819. He supported criminal law reform, 2 Mar. 1819, and burgh reform, 1 Apr. and 6 May. On 23 June he voted for inquiry into the abuse of charitable foundations. He attended at least until 13 Dec. 1819 in opposition to the government’s repressive measures. He missed the next Parliament and sat subsequently only on the family interest. He was untypical of his family and station in his lack of interest in field sports, his teetotalism and his devout Anglicanism. He died 26 Mar. 1863.1Spencer mss, Harrison to Spencer, 1 Oct. 1812; Gent. Mag. (1863), i. 657; B. Falk, The Royal Fitzroys, 236.