Portrait of Richard Somerset Esq., later 2nd Baron Raglan (1817-1884), small half-length in a blue coat

Richard Henry FitzRoy Somerset, 2nd Baron Raglan (1817-1884) was born in Paris whilst Lord FitzRoy Somerset was on Wellington's staff at the British Embassy there. He went to Ceylon as Sir Colin Campbell's Private Secretary, between 1841-49. He was then Private Secretary to George V, King of Hanover, 1849-55. After his father's death in the Crimea, Parliament granted him a pension of £2,000 and the Raglan Memorial Fund purchased Cefntilla as a gift to him and his heirs. He married Lady Georgina Lygon (d. 1865), daughter of the 4th Earl Beauchamp, in 1856 and they had five children; he married second Mary Farquhar in 1871 and they had a daughter.