Family
On 17 October 1805 he married Lady Louisa Augusta Courtenay (1781 - 8 February 1825), a younger daughter of William Courtenay, 8th Earl of Devon, with whom he had several children, three sons and three daughters<>
- Robert Henry Somerset (1806–1807)
- Lt-Gen. Edward Arthur Somerset (1817–1886) who had one son (who died unmarried) and eight daughters
- Augustus Charles Stapleton Somerset (1821–1854) who died unmarried.
- Louisa Isabella Somerset (1807–1888) who died unmarried.
- Frances Caroline Somerset (1808–1890) who married 1840 Theophilus Clive (d. 1875), and had issue 1 son who left descendants
- Blanche Somerset (1811–1879) who married 1845, Rev. Charles Courtenay Locke (d. 1848) with no issue,
- Matilda Elizabeth Somerset (1815-3 April 1905) (portrait 1843) who married 1842 Horace Marryat (1818-1887), a prolific traveller in Europe, and had issue two sons - Adrian Somerset Marryat (b 1844) and Frederick Marryat (b 1851), and one daughter Ida Horatia Charlotte Marryat (1843–1910) who married 19 September (not November) 1863 (div 1889'Count Gustavus Frederick Bonde (1842–1909), a Swedish nobleman, with issue two sons and one daughter (or three sons and two daughters. The three Marryat children were painted in 1851-2 in Rome by the young Frederick Leighton. Horace Marryat was a nuch younger brother of the naval officer and writer Frederick Marryat (1792–1848)
- Georgina Emily Somerset (1819-?) who married 1852 Hon Robert Neville Lawley (who died 1891 without issue), and died without issue
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