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2 unusual facts about Edward Somerset, 2nd Marquess of Worcester


Edward Somerset

Edward Somerset, 2nd Marquess of Worcester (1601?–1667), styled Lord Herbert of Ragland, English nobleman, son of Henry Somerset, 1st Marquess of Worcester

Timeline of heat engine technology

1665 - Edward Somerset, the Second Marquess of Worcester builds a working steam fountain.


Cwm, Llanrothal

The Jesuits' South Wales Mission was originally based about 14 miles to the south, in Raglan, Monmouthshire, but soon after the year 1600, their Superior received from the Earl of Worcester an estate called The Cwm in the parish of Llanrothal.

Edward Somerset

Lord Edward Somerset (1776–1842), British soldier, son of the 5th duke of Beaufort

Edward Somerset, 4th Earl of Worcester (bef. 1568–1628), English aristocrat, adviser to James I, serving as Lord Privy Seal

Edward Somerset, 2nd Marquess of Worcester

Almost 200 years later, in 1861, this prompted Victorian collector Bennet Woodcroft to mount an expedition, on behalf of The Science Museum, to the vault of Raglan church, to try to find a model of the invention in Somerset's tomb.

Edward Somerset, 4th Earl of Worcester

Henry Somerset, 5th Earl of Worcester, his heir and successor, who was later created the 1st Marquess of Worcester;

In 1606 he was appointed Keeper of the Great Park, a park created for hunting by Henry VIII around Nonsuch Palace, of which Worcester Park was a part.

He was the only son of three children born to the 3rd Earl of Worcester and Christian North.

Henry Somerset, 1st Marquess of Worcester

He was the son of Edward Somerset, 4th Earl of Worcester and Elizabeth Hastings.


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