Sir Charles Wolseley, 2nd Baronet

Sir Charles Wolseley, 2nd Baronet

Sir Charles Wolseley, 2nd Baronet (c. 1630 – 9 October 1714), of Wolseley in Staffordshire, was an English Member of Parliament who held high office during the Commonwealth.

Life

He was the eldest son of Sir Robert Wolseley, who had been created a baronet by Charles I in 1628, and succeeded to the baronetcy on 21 September 1646.

Sir Charles entered Parliament as member for Oxfordshire in the nominated Barebones Parliament of 1653, and on the establishment of the Protectorate later the same year was appointed to the Council of State. He was subsequently elected for Staffordshire in the First and Second Parliaments of the Protectorate. In 1658, he was appointed to Cromwell's new Upper House. He represented Stafford in the Convention Parliament of 1660, and was pardoned at the Restoration. Thereafter he retired from public life, but published a number of pamphlets on ecclesiastical matters.

In 1685, Wolseley was arrested on suspicion of complicity in Monmouth's Rebellion, but was subsequently released.

Family

Wolseley married Ann Fiennes, youngest daughter of Viscount Saye and Sele. They had seven sons and ten daughters:

  • Robert Wolseley (died 1697), Envoy-Extraordinary to the Governor General of the Spanish Netherlands, died unmarried
  • Charles Wolseley, died without issue
  • Fiennes Wolseley, died young
  • Sir William Wolseley, 3rd Baronet (c. 1660-1728), who as oldest surviving son succeeded his father
  • Sir Henry Wolseley, 4th Baronet (died 1730)
  • Captain Richard Wolseley, father of Sir William Wolseley, 5th Baronet
  • James Wolseley
  • Elizabeth, who married Robert Somervile and was the mother of the poet William Somervile
  • Mary, who married Richard Edwards
  • Anne, who married John Berry
  • Dorothy
  • Bridget
  • Penelope, died young
  • Susan, who married Charles Wedgwood
  • Penelope
  • Frances
  • Constance

References

  • Concise Dictionary of National Biography (1930)
  • E. Kimber & R. Johnson, The Baronetage of England (London, 1771) [1]
  • Mark Noble, Memoirs of several persons and families... allied to or descended from... the Protectorate-House of Cromwell (Birmingham: Pearson & Rollason, 1784) [2]
  • Leigh Rayment's List of Baronets
Baronetage of England
Preceded by
Robert Wolseley
Baronet
(of Wolseley)
1646-1714
Succeeded by
William Wolseley

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