Charles Chaplin (elder)

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 (CHPN776C)". A Cambridge Alumni Database. University of Cambridge.
  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. "No. 12619". The London Gazette. 5 February 1785. p. 73.


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