Henry Somerset, 8th Duke of Beaufort, British peer, soldier and politician mb-code BK004499 Title page showing a reclining

Title page showing a reclining man with a dog and a cudgel

Table 13 from the book Musaeum Regalis Societatis

he heads towards the edge of a precipice

London Society Schools for teaching blind people

Henry Somerset, 8th Duke of Beaufort, British peer, soldier and politician mb-code BK004499 Title page showing a recliningHenry Somerset, 8th Duke of Beaufort, British peer, soldier and politician, c1890. A famous sportsman, Somerset (1824 1899) was editor of the Badminton Library series of books on sporting subjects. The family seat of the Dukes of Beaufort is Badminton House, Gloucestershire, venue of the famous Badminton horse trials equestrian event. A lithograph from The Modern Portrait Gallery, Cassell, Petter and Galpin, London, Paris and New York, c1890.