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Charles Cadogan, 1st Earl Cadogan

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Name
  
Charles 1st

Role
  
Politician

Died
  
April 3, 1807


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 Charles Cadogan, 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.

Family

On 30 May 1747, Cadogan married the Honourable Frances Bromley, daughter of Henry Bromley, 1st Baron Montfort. 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 (daughter of Charles Churchill and Lady Mary Walpole, daughter 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 Gerald Valerian Wellesley (younger son of Garret Wesley, 1st Earl of Mornington) and was the mother of George Wellesley.
  • Lady Charlotte (1781–1853), married (1) Henry Wellesley, 1st Baron Cowley (div. 1810), (2) Henry Paget, 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

    Charles Cadogan, 1st Earl Cadogan Wikipedia
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