Title:
Portrait of Field Marshal Lord Fitzroy James Henry Somerset, British soldier, 1821. Artist: Jan Willem Pieneman.
Caption:
Portrait of Field Marshal Lord Fitzroy James Henry Somerset, British soldier, 1821. Later Lord Raglan, Somerset (1788-1855) served as Wellington's Military Secretary at the Battle of Waterloo in 1815. He was wounded in the right arm and had to undergo amputation, so learned to write with his left hand. He later commanded British forces in the Crimean War.