Charles Hanbury-Tracy, 4th Baron Sudeley

Charles Douglas Richard Hanbury-Tracy, 4th Baron Sudeley PC FRS (3 July 1840-9 December 1922), styled the Hon. Charles Hanbury-Tracy from 1858 to 1877, was a British Liberal politician.

Sudeley was a younger son of Thomas Hanbury-Tracy, 2nd Baron Sudeley, and his wife Emma Eliza Alicia, daughter of George Hay Dawkins-Pennant, of Penrhyn Castle. He entered the House of Commons for Montgomery in 1863, a seat he held until 1877 when he succeeded in the barony on the death of his elder brother. He served under William Ewart Gladstone as a Lord-in-Waiting (government whip in the House of Lords) from 1880 to 1885 and as Captain of the Honourable Corps of Gentlemen-at-Arms in 1886. The latter year Sudeley was also sworn of the Privy Council. Apart from his political career he was a Fellow of the Royal Society. He later came into financial difficulties and was declared bankrupt in 1893. This caused the sale of the family seat of Toddington Manor.

Lord Sudeley married Ada Maria Katherine, daughter of the Hon. Frederick James Tollemache, in 1868. He died in December 1922, aged 82, and was succeeded in the barony by his eldest son William.

References

• Leigh Rayment's Peerage Pages
• www.thepeerage.com
• Biography of Lord Sudeley by his great-grandson Merlin Hanbury-Tracy, 7th Baron Sudeley

Parliament of the United Kingdom
Preceded by John Samuel Willes Johnson	Member of Parliament for Montgomery 1863–1877	Succeeded by Frederick Hanbury-Tracy
Political offices
Preceded by The Earl of Coventry	Captain of the Honourable Corps of Gentlemen-at-Arms 1886	Succeeded by The Viscount Barrington
Peerage of the United Kingdom
Preceded by Sudeley Charles George Hanbury-Tracy	Baron Sudeley 1877–1922	Succeeded by William Charles Frederick Hanbury-Tracy