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Charles Bragge

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Data Last Updated: 16 February 2025
Application Last Amended: 20 July 2024
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Also Known As

Charles Bragge Bathurst

Baptised: 28 February 1754

Died: 13 August 1831

Member of Privy Council - 18 November 1801

son of Charles Bragge

son of Anne Bathurst

grandson of Benjamin Bathurst

husband of Charlotte Addington

brother-in-law of Henry Addington

Education

Winchester College (1770 -)

New College, Oxford (1772 -)

Lincoln's Inn (1772 -)

Appointments

Chairman of Ways and Means and Deputy Speaker	1799	1801
Treasurer of the Navy	November 1801	June 1803
Secretary at War	August 1803	May 1804
Master of the Mint	November 1806	March 1807
Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster	June 1812	January 1823
President of the Board of Control	January 1821	February 1822

Elections fought

28 December 1790	Monmouth, Newport & Usk	Tory	Unopposed
28 May 1796	Bristol	Tory	679	90.59
November 1801 Resignation of Charles Bragge on appointment as Treasurer of the Navy.
23 November 1801	Bristol	Tory
6 July 1802	Bristol	Tory	Unopposed
June 1803 Resignation of Rt Hon Charles Bragge.
16 August 1803	Bristol	Tory
24 October 1804 Rt Hon Charles Bragge assumes the additional name of Bathurst.
29 October 1806	Bristol	Tory	Unopposed
5 May 1807	Bristol	Tory	Unopposed
June 1812 Resignation of Rt Hon Charles Bragge Bathurst on appointment as Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster.
1 July 1812	Bodmin	Tory	Unopposed
12 October 1812	Bodmin	Tory	Unopposed