Charles Cadogan, 1st Earl Cadogan

Charles Sloane Cadogan, 1st Earl Cadogan (29 September 1728 – 3 April 1807) was a British peer and Whig politician.

Cadogan was the only son of the 2nd Baron Cadogan and his wife, Elizabeth, the second daughter of Sir Hans Sloane, Bart. From 1749–54 and again from 1755, Cadogan was a Member of Parliament for Cambridge until he inherited his father's title in 1776. He was also appointed Keeper of the Privy Purse to Prince Edward in 1756, Surveyor of the King's Gardens from 1764–69 and Master of the Mint from 1769–84. In 1800, he was elevated in the Peerage as 1st Viscount Chelsea and 1st Earl Cadogan.

In 1777 he leased 100 acres (0.40 km²) of the family estate in Chelsea to architect Henry Holland for building development. Holland built Sloane Square, Sloane Street, Cadogan Place and Hans Place.^[1]

Family

On 30 May 1747, Cadogan married Hon. Frances Bromley (a daughter of the 1st Baron Montfort) and they had six children:

• Hon. Charles Henry Sloane, later styled Viscount Chelsea and later 2nd Earl Cadogan (1749–1832)
• Rev. Hon. William Bromley, (1751–1797)
• Hon. Thomas (1752–1782), naval officer lost at sea aboard HMS Glorieux.
• Hon. George (1754–1780), killed in India while an officer in the HEIC army.
• Hon. Edward (1758–1779), army officer
• Hon. Henry William (1761–1774)

Cadogan's first wife died in 1768, and on 10 May 1777, he married Mary Churchill (a granddaughter of Robert Walpole) and they had four children:

• Hon. Henry (1780–1813), killed at the Battle of Vitoria.
• Hon. George, later 3rd Earl Cadogan (1783–1864)
• Lady Emily Mary (died 1839), married Rev. Hon. Gerald Wellesley (younger son of the 1st Earl of Mornington).
• Lady Charlotte (1781–1853), married (1) 1st Baron Cowley, (2) 1st Marquess of Anglesey.

Cadogan and his second wife divorced in 1796 and on his death at Santon Downham, Suffolk in 1807, his titles passed to his eldest son, Charles, by his first wife.

References

1. ^ http://www.londongardenstrust.org/guides/chelsea.htm

• Leigh Rayment's Peerage Pages
• Leigh Rayment's Historical List of MPs
• www.thepeerage.com

Parliament of Great Britain
Preceded by Viscount Dupplin Christopher Jeaffreson	Member of Parliament for Cambridge with Viscount Dupplin 1749–1754	Succeeded by Viscount Dupplin Hon. Thomas Bromley
Preceded by Viscount Dupplin Hon. Thomas Bromley	Member of Parliament for Cambridge with Viscount Dupplin 1755–1758 Soame Jenyns 1758–1776 1755–1776	Succeeded by Soame Jenyns Benjamin Keene
Political offices
Preceded by The Viscount Chetwynd	Master of the Mint 1769–1784	Succeeded by The Earl of Effingham
Peerage of England
Preceded by Charles Cadogan	Baron Cadogan 1776–1807	Succeeded by Charles Cadogan
Peerage of Great Britain
New creation	Earl Cadogan 1800–1807	Succeeded by Charles Cadogan
New creation	Viscount Chelsea 1800–1807	Succeeded by Charles Cadogan

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Name	Cadogan, Charles Cadogan, 1st Earl
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Date of birth	29 September 1728
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Date of death	3 April 1807
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