Charles Shore, 2nd Baron Teignmouth

Charles John Shore, 2nd Baron Teignmouth (13 Jan 1796 – 18 Sep 1885) was a British Conservative politician.

Background and education

Charles John Shore was born in Calcutta, the son of John Shore, 1st Baron Teignmouth and Charlotte, only daughter of James Cornish, a medical practitioner at Teignmouth. He was educated at a private school in Clapham and, from 1808, a school in Chobham, Surrey. He then entered Trinity College, Cambridge, where he was the third President of the Cambridge Union Society.^[1]

On his death at 89 years of age he was buried in Edinburgh Parish Church. He had married Caroline Browne in Cumbria in 1838.

Political career

Lord Teignmouth served as MP for Marylebone from 1838-1841. He came third in the poll in the 1837 General Election, but took his seat on March 3rd, 1838, after Sir Samuel Whalley's election was declared void.^[2]

In June 1834 he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society.^[3]

His autobiography, Reminiscences of Many Years, was published in 1878.^[4]

References

1. ^ Shore, the Hon. Charles John in Venn, J. & J. A., Alumni Cantabrigienses, Cambridge University Press, 10 vols, 1922–1958.
2. ^ "Marylebone Election Papers". Records of the House of Commons: Library: Manuscripts Collection. House of Commons. c.1837. http://www.portcullis.parliament.uk/DServe/dserve.exe?dsqIni=Dserve.ini&dsqApp=Archive&dsqDb=Catalog&dsqSearch=RefNo=='HC/LB/1/31'&dsqCmd=Show.tcl. Retrieved 16 June 2010. 
3. ^ "Library and Archive Catalogue". The Royal Society. http://www2.royalsociety.org/DServe/dserve.exe?dsqIni=Dserve.ini&dsqApp=Archive&dsqCmd=Show.tcl&dsqDb=Persons&dsqPos=0&dsqSearch=%28Surname%3D%27shore%27%29. Retrieved 15 October 2010. 
4. ^ "Reminiscences of Many Years". http://www.archive.org/stream/cu31924088016823#page/n9/mode/2up. Retrieved 15 October 2010. 

• Leigh Rayment's Peerage Pages
• Leigh Rayment's Historical List of MPs

Attribution

•  This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: "Shore, John". Dictionary of National Biography. London: Smith, Elder & Co. 1885–1900. 

External links

• Hansard 1803–2005: contributions in Parliament by Charles Shore

Parliament of the United Kingdom
Preceded by Samuel Whalley Benjamin Hall	Member of Parliament for Marylebone 1838 – 1841 With: Benjamin Hall	Succeeded by Charles John Napier Benjamin Hall
Peerage of Ireland
Preceded by John Shore	Baron Teignmouth 1834-1885	Succeeded by Charles James Shore

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Name	Teignmouth, Charles John Shore, 2nd Baron
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Date of birth	1796
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Date of death	1885
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