Constituency : Cheltenham 1880-5
Charles recaptured Cheltenham for the Liberals by just 21 votes.
Charles was born in Holland to a Huguenot family but his mother was English. He came to England as an infant. He was naturalised in 1867, the same year as he became Baron de Ferrrieres in the Dutch peerage. He became mayor of Cheltenham in 1877 despite having opposed the creation of the mayoralty and corporation.
Charles declined to stand again in 1885.
Charles was a noted philanthropist in Gloucestershire making gifts to various colleges and giving Cheltenham its Art Gallery, stocked with paintings from his father's collection in 1899.
He died in 1908 aged 84.
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