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Charles George Tottenham

Charles George Tottenham

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Lieutenant Colonel Charles George Tottenham (1835 – 23 Apr 1918)[1] from County Wexford was an Irish officer in the British Army and a Conservative politician.

Tottenham was the son of Charles Tottenham (1807–1886) from Ballycurry and New Ross in County Wexford and his wife Isabella Airey, daughter of General Sir George Airey.[2] His family were wealthy land owners in County Wexford. He was educated at Eton, and married his cousin, who was a daughter of Reverend Sir Francis Stapleton, 7th Baronet, of Henley-on-Thames.[2]

He was a lieutenant colonel in the Scots Fusilier Guards, and served in the Crimean War.[2]

He was elected at the June 1863 New Ross by-election as the Member of Parliament (MP) for borough of New Ross, following the resignation of his father.[3] He was the fourth father-and-son-Tottenham to hold the seat in the Westminster Parliament; two previous generations had been MPs for New Ross in the pre-union Parliament of Ireland.[2] (Most of the town of New Ross was owned by the Tottenhams, who let it on short leases. They had shared control of the borough with the Leigh family of Rosegarland, and alternated the nomination of MPs).[4]

Tottenham was re-elected in 1865, but stood down at the 1868 election.[3] He was returned to the House of Commons again a by-election in December 1878, following the death of the Home Rule League MP John Dunbar. However, he was defeated at the 1880 general election by the Home Rule candidate Joseph Foley.[3]

He was a Deputy Lieutenant of County Wicklow[5] and High Sheriff of Wexford in 1874.


References

  1. "The Ballycurry Tottenhams" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 4 March 2016. Retrieved 20 May 2014.
  2. Walker, Brian M., ed. (1978). Parliamentary Election Results in Ireland 1801–1922. A New History of Ireland. Dublin: Royal Irish Academy. pp. 306–7. ISBN 0901714127. ISSN 0332-0286.
  3. Salmon, Philip (2009). D.R. Fisher (ed.). "New Ross borough". The History of Parliament: the House of Commons 1820-1832. Cambridge University Press. Retrieved 25 June 2014.
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