Authorised form of name | Cadogan; Charles (1685 - 1776); 2nd Baron Cadogan |
Dates | 1685 - 1776 |
Nationality | British |
Date of birth | 1685 |
Place of death | His home in Bruton Street, London |
Date of death | 24 September 1776 |
DatesAndPlaces | Burial: Caversham, Oxfordshire |
Occupation | Soldier |
Activity | Career: Entered the Coldstream Guards (1706); served in Marlborough's later campaigns and in Scotland (1715); MP for Reading (1716-1722); MP for Newport (1722-1726); Colonel of the 4th Foot (1719); accompanied his brother, William 1st Earl Cadogan on an embassy to Vienna (1720); Colonel of the 6th Inniskillin Dragoons (1734); General; Colonel of the 2nd Troop of Horse Guards (-death); Governor of Sheerness (1749-1752); Governor of Gravesend and Tilbury (1751-death); Sloane Trustee of the British Museum (1753-death)
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Membership category | Fellow |
Date of election | 01/12/1718 |
RSActivity | Royal Society roles: Council: 1721, 1728-1729 |
Relationships | Son of Henry Cadogan, Counsellor-at-Law, of Liscarton, Co Meath and his wife, Bridget, daughter of Sir Hardress Waller; succeeded his brother William Cadogan, 1st Earl Cadogan, as Baron Cadogan of Oakley (1726); married Elizabeth, daughter of Sir Hans Sloane (FRS 1685) and his wife, Elizabeth, widow of Fulke Rose, Physician, of Jamaica and daughter of John Langley, Alderman, of London |
Source | Sources: Bulloch's Roll; DNB References: Obituary, Gentleman's Magazine (1774), p.542; (1776), p.436. Notes: DNB gives date of birth as 1691 but Gents Mag and Sedgwick say he was born 1685 and died aged 91 in 1776. Proposed by William Jones [?] |
Code | NA8439 |
Archives associated with this Fellow
RefNo | Title | Date |
L&P/2/415 | Letter, 'Of the copper springs in co. Wicklow' from William Henry to Charles Cadogan | 31 May 1752 |
L&P/2/314 | Letter, 'Of the copper springs in Wicklow' from William Henry to Lord Cadogan | 18 April 1752 |