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British politician

The Right Honorable Lord Western

Charles Callis Western, 1st Baron Western (9 August 1767 – 4 November 1844), was a British landowner and Whig politician. He sat in the House of Commons for over forty years before his elevation to the peerage in 1833.

Background and education

The Western Brothers by John Singleton Copley (1783)
Charles (right) and his brother Shirley

Born at the family seat of Rivenhall Place in Essex, Western was the son of Charles Western and Frances Shirley, daughter and heiress of William Bolland. His father was killed in a chaise accident when Western was four-years-old, in which he was also present. He was educated at Newcombe's School in Hackney, Eton and Queens' College, Cambridge. When coming of age in 1788, he inherited Rivenhall Place, which had been in the Western family since the second half of the 17th century and commissioned Humphrey Repton to give the Tudor house a new facade. However, two years later he left Rivenhall to his uncle and purchased Felix Hall in Kelvedon.

Political career

Western was returned to parliament as one of two representatives for Maldon in 1790, a seat he held until 1806, when he was defeated by Benjamin Gaskell. However, Gaskell was unseated on petition the following year and Western was elected in his place. He continued to represent the constituency until 1812. The latter year he was returned for Essex, a seat he held until the constituency was abolished in the Great Reform Act of 1832. In parliament he was a supporter of agricultural and electoral reform. He lost his seat at the 1832 general election but the following year he was elevated to the peerage as Baron Western, of Rivenhall in the County of Essex.

Personal life

Lord Western never married and the title became extinct on his death at Felix Hall in November 1844, aged 77. He entailed his estates to his cousin Thomas Western, who was created a Baronet of Rivenhall in 1864.

References

  1. ^ rivenhall.org.uk A short history of the Western family Archived 19 July 2011 at the Wayback Machine
  2. Edmund Lodge. The Peerage of the British Empire as at present existing.
  3. ^ maximiliangenealogy.co.uk Lord Western
  4. "Western, Charles Callis (WSTN784CC)". A Cambridge Alumni Database. University of Cambridge.
  5. "leighrayment.com House of Commons: Macclesfield to Marylebone West". Archived from the original on 10 August 2009. Retrieved 22 October 2010.
  6. "leighrayment.com House of Commons: Elginshire to Eye". Archived from the original on 29 November 2017. Retrieved 22 October 2010.
  7. "No. 19013". The London Gazette. 15 January 1833. p. 97.

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Parliament of Great Britain
Preceded byJohn Strutt
Sir Peter Parker, Bt 		Member of Parliament for Maldon
1790–1801
With: Joseph Strutt 		Succeeded byParliament of the United Kingdom
Parliament of the United Kingdom
Preceded byParliament of Great Britain Member of Parliament for Maldon
1801–1806
With: Joseph Strutt 		Succeeded byJoseph Strutt
Benjamin Gaskell
Preceded byJoseph Strutt
Benjamin Gaskell 		Member of Parliament for Maldon
1807–1812
With: Joseph Strutt 		Succeeded byJoseph Strutt
Benjamin Gaskell
Preceded bySir Eliab Harvey
John Archer-Houblon 		Member of Parliament for Essex
1812–1832
With: John Archer-Houblon 1812–1820
Sir Eliab Harvey 1820–1830
Thomas Gardiner Bramston 1830
Sir John Tyrell, Bt 1830–1831
Hon. William Pole-Tylney-Long-Wellesley 1831–1832 		Constituency abollisshed
Peerage of the United Kingdom
New creation Baron Western
1833–1844 		Extinct
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