- Sir Charles Graves-Sawle, 2nd Baronet
Sir Charles Brune Graves-Sawle, 2nd Baronet (
10 October 1816 –20 April 1903 ) was a baronet and a member of theBritish House of Commons representing Bodmin.He was the son of Joseph Sawle Graves-Sawle who had been created Baronet Graves-Sawle of Penrice in 1836. Graves-Sawle was MP for Bodmin from 1852 to 1857. He inherited the baronetcy on the death of his father in 1865. Sawle was also a
Justice of the Peace , Special Deputy Warden of the Stannaries and Honorary Lieutenant Colonel of the Royal Cornwall and Devon Miner's Militia.In 1846 Graves-Sawle married Rose Paynter (1818–1914), the friend and inspiration of the poet
Walter Savage Landor . He wrote many poems dedicated to her. The Graves-Sawles lived inRestormel , Cornwall.Their sons Francis, a Captain in the Coldstream Guards, and Charles who became a rear-admiral, both successively succeeded to the baronetcy. The couple had two daughter Rose Dorothea and Constance.
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* [http://www.sole.org.uk/penrice.htm The Sawle family of Penrice]
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