Constituency : Ashburton 1885-1903
Charles won the new seat of Ashburton.
Charles was educated at Eton and was a London barrister. He was the first chairman of the Dartmouth and Torbay Railway and a considerable landowner in Devon.
Charles was appointed Paymaster-General by Gladstone in 1892 and held the office until 1895.
He died in 1903 aged 70. He endowed a farming and food science college in his will which later became part of Plymouth University.
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