Person Cadogan; Charles (1685 - 1776); 2nd Baron Cadogan Cadogan Charles 1685 - 1776 British Male 1685 His home in Bruton Street, London 24 September 1776 Burial: Caversham, Oxfordshire

Soldier 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) 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 Royal Society roles: Council: 1721, 1728-1729 Fellow 01/12/1718 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 [?] International Standard Archival Authority Record for Corporate Bodies, Persons and Families - ISAAR(CPF) - Ottawa 1996 ISBN 0-9696035-3-3 National Council on Archives, Rules for the Construction of Personal, Place and Corporate Names, 1997 1685 - 24 Sep 1776 NA8439 21/11/2001 Andyg pmab 28/03/2023 RS_NET\JonathanB Yes d7d9883e-ad99-4402-a605-533245ec3a92