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The NMGL's riverfront museum structure, opened April 26, 2014, attempts to celebrate both the natural and the man-made heritage of the Great Lakes. Primary displays, including model ships, allow a visitor to move through the Lakes' 350-year history of navigation. Physical memorabilia show the moving parts of sailing and steam operation, from ...
Charles FitzRoy was educated at Harrow School in London, before receiving a commission in the Royal Horse Guards regiment of the British Army at the age of 16. Just after his 19th birthday, FitzRoy's regiment took part in the Battle of Waterloo, where as an extra aide-de-camp on Wellington's staff he was wounded. [1]
Charles FitzRoy, 2nd Duke of Grafton (1683–1757), nobleman who was Lord Lieutenant of Ireland; Lord Charles FitzRoy (1718–1739), fourth son of Charles FitzRoy, 2nd Duke of Grafton; Charles FitzRoy, 1st Baron Southampton (1737–1797), British statesman and soldier, MP for Bury St. Edmunds; Charles FitzRoy (British Army officer) (1762–1831 ...
The Museum Ship Valley Camp is over 100 years old, and has a long history both as a shipping freighter and as a museum in the city. Great Lakes history up close: Inside the Museum Ship Valley Camp ...
On 20 June 1795, FitzRoy married Frances Mundy, the daughter of Edward Miller Mundy, MP.Before her death in 1797, they had one son: Sir Charles Augustus FitzRoy (1796–1858), who served as the governor of New South Wales, governor of Prince Edward Island and governor of Antigua; he married Lady Mary Lennox, eldest child of Charles Lennox, 4th Duke of Richmond, in 1820.
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Arms of Charles FitzRoy, 2nd Duke of Cleveland: The royal arms of King Charles II overall a baton sinister ermine Charles Palmer, later Charles FitzRoy, 2nd Duke of Cleveland, 1st Duke of Southampton, KG, Chief Butler of England (18 June 1662 – 9 September 1730), styled Baron Limerick before 1670; Earl of Southampton between 1670 and 1675; and known as the Duke of Southampton from 1675 until ...
The Dossin Museum features artifacts and exhibits on the history and ships of the Great Lakes. This was founded in 1949 as the City Maritime Museum aboard the J. T. Wing wooden schooner, the last commercial sailing ship on the Great Lakes. The museum closed by 1956, less than a decade later, because of the deteriorating condition of the schooner.