Charles March-Phillipps

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Charles March-Phillipps (28 May 1779 – 24 April 1862){{Rayment-hc|l|2|date=March 2012}} was a British Radical{{cite news |title=Leicester Herald |url=https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0002152/18341217/047/0008 |accessdate=12 May 2019 |date=17 December 1834 |page=8 |via = British Newspaper Archive |url-access=subscription}}
- {{cite book|first1=Edward|last1=Churton|author-link1=Edward Churton|title=The Assembled Commons or Parliamentary Biographer: 1836|date=1836|page=142|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=xiJkAAAAcAAJ&pg=PA142 |via=Google Books |accessdate=12 May 2019}} politician from Garendon Park in Leicestershire. He sat in the House of Commons in two periods between 1818 and 1837.

Personal life

He was the eldest son of Thomas March Phillipps (formerly March) of More Critchell, Dorset, and was educated at Sherborne School (until 1791), Eton College (1793–1796) and Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge (1800–02).{{acad|id=PHLS796CM|name=Phillipps, Charles March}} He was a captain in the Leicestershire Yeomanry from 1803 to 1807. He succeeded his father to Garendon Hall, Leicestershire, in 1817.

He married Harriet, the daughter of John Gustavus Ducarel of Walford, Somerset, and had two sons and a daughter. His son Ambrose Charles Lisle March Phillipps De Lisle converted to Roman Catholicism and founded Mount St Bernard Abbey.

Political career

He was elected in the 1818 general election as one of the two Members of Parliament (MPs) for Leicestershire,{{London Gazette |issue= 17378 |date= 14 July 1818 |page=1264 }}

and held the seat until 1820, when he did not contest the election.{{cite book |last=Stooks Smith |first=Henry |editor=Craig, F. W. S. |editor-link=F. W. S. Craig |title=The Parliaments of England |orig-date=1844-1850 |edition=2nd |year=1973 |publisher=Parliamentary Research Services |location=Chichester |isbn=0-900178-13-2 |page=[https://archive.org/details/parliamentsofeng0000smit/page/191 191] }} He returned again for the 1831 general election,{{London Gazette |issue= 18808 |date= 31 May 1831 |page=1052 }} and held the seat until the 1831 general election, when the county was divided under the Reform Act. He was then elected for the new Northern division of Leicestershire,{{London Gazette |issue= 19008 |date= 28 December 1832 |page=2837 }} and held the seat until he stood down at the 1837 general election.{{cite book |last=Craig |first=F. W. S. |author-link= F. W. S. Craig |title=British parliamentary election results 1832–1885 |orig-date=1977 |edition= 2nd |year=1989 |publisher= Parliamentary Research Services |location=Chichester |isbn= 0-900178-26-4 |page=415}}

He was appointed High Sheriff of Leicestershire from 1825 to 1826.

References

{{cite web |url = http://www.histparl.ac.uk/volume/1790-1820/member/march-phillipps-charles-1779-1862|title= MARCH PHILLIPPS, Charles (1779-1862), of Garendon Park, Leics.|publisher= History of Parliament online|accessdate = 30 August 2013}}