Charles Chaplin (elder)

For other people named Charles Chaplin, see Charles Chaplin (disambiguation).

Charles Chaplin (30 May 1759 – 28 August 1816) was an English Member of Parliament (MP). A graduate of St John's College, Cambridge^[1], Chaplin was the brother-in-law of Lord George Manners-Sutton, who married Chaplin's only sister Diana.^[2]

He was appointed High Sheriff of Lincolnshire in 1785.^[3] He was one of the two MPs for Lincolnshire from 1802 until his death in 1816, aged 57.

References

1. ^ Chaplin, Charles in Venn, J. & J. A., Alumni Cantabrigienses, Cambridge University Press, 10 vols, 1922–1958.
2. ^ Some Account of the Military, Political and Social Life of the Right Hon. John Manners, Marquis of Granby, Walter Evelyn Manners, Macmillan and Co., London, 1899
3. ^ London Gazette: no. 12619. p. 73. 5 February 1785. Retrieved 2011-04-01.

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Parliament of the United Kingdom
Preceded by Sir Gilbert Heathcote and Robert Vyner	Member of Parliament for Lincolnshire with Sir Gilbert Heathcote, to 1807; Charles Anderson-Pelham, from 1807 1802–1816	Succeeded by Charles Anderson-Pelham and William Cust

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Name	Chaplin, Charles
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Date of birth	30 May 1759
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Date of death	28 August 1816
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