Charles Chaplin (elder)

Charles Chaplin (30 May 1759 – 28 August 1816) was an English Member of Parliament (MP). A graduate of St John's College, Cambridge,[1] Chaplin was the brother-in-law of Lord George Manners-Sutton, who married Chaplin's only sister Diana.[2]

For other people named Charles Chaplin, see Charles Chaplin (disambiguation).

He was appointed High Sheriff of Lincolnshire in 1785.[3] He was one of the two MPs for Lincolnshire from 1802 until his death in 1816, aged 57.

References
  1. "Chaplin, Charles (CHPN776C)". A Cambridge Alumni Database. University of Cambridge.
  2. Some Account of the Military, Political and Social Life of the Right Hon. John Manners, Marquis of Granby, Walter Evelyn Manners, Macmillan and Co., London, 1899
  3. "No. 12619". The London Gazette. 5 February 1785. p. 73.
Parliament of the United Kingdom
Preceded by
Sir Gilbert Heathcote and
Robert Vyner		 Member of Parliament for Lincolnshire
1802–1816
With: Sir Gilbert Heathcote, to 1807
Charles Anderson-Pelham, from 1807		 Succeeded by
Charles Anderson-Pelham and
William Cust


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