Raglan was named in 1858 after Field Marshal FitzRoy James Henry Somerset, 1st Baron Raglan, who had died three years earlier. He commanded British forces in the Crimean War and was the officer whose unclear orders led to the infamous Charge of the Light Brigade.

Raglan Somerset has written:

'The chieftains ground (verses and translations grave and gay)'

Henry Somerset, then the 5th Earl of Worcester

King Henry VIII had at lest one illegitimate by his mistress Elizabeth Blount, that Child was Henry FitzRoy, 1st Duke of Richmond and Somerset, 1st Earl of Nottingham, Born 15 June 1519 Died 23 July 1536, we're sure Henry FitzRoy is his son because he acknowledged him, other illegitimate can be debated, some Historians think that the children of Mary Boleyn, Lady Catherine Carey (1524-1569) and Henry Carey, 1st Baron Hunsdon (1526-1596), were the illegitimate children of Henry VIII they were never acknowledged as such the way Henry FitzRoy was.

Herb Raglan was born in 1967.