Charles Tottenham (1807–1886)

Charles Tottenham
Charles Tottenham
Member of Parliament ; for New Ross
	In office; 18 March 1856 – 8 June 1863
Preceded by	Charles Gavan Duffy
Succeeded by	Charles George Tottenham
	In office; 7 May 1831 – 9 July 1831
Preceded by	Charles Powell Leslie
Succeeded by	William Wigram
Personal details
Born	14 November 1807
Died	1 June 1886 (aged 78)
Nationality	Irish
Political party	Conservative/Tory
Spouse(s)	Isabella Catherine Airey (m. 1833; died 1863)
Children	Five, including Charles George Tottenham
Parents	Charles Tottenham; Catherine Wigram

Charles Tottenham (14 November 1807 – 1 June 1886)[1] was an Irish Conservative and Tory politician.[2][3][4][5]

Early life and family

Tottenham was the first son of his namesake Charles Tottenham and Catherine, daughter of Sir Robert Wigram, 1st Baronet. He entered Trinity College, Cambridge in 1825 before, in 1833, marrying Isabella Catherine, daughter of Sir George Airey and Catherine née Talbot, with whom he had three sons, including Charles George Tottenham, and two daughters.[3][4]

Political career

Tottenham was first elected Tory MP for New Ross at the 1831 general election, following in the footsteps of his father and his uncle, Ponsonby Tottenham, who had been MPs for the seat between 1802 and 1805, and 1805 and 1806 respectively. At the 1831 election, it was his father's turn to nominate, and Tottenham was returned unopposed with the support of his father as well as County Wexford Whig MP Henry Lambert, who Tottenham had subscribed £100 towards for the 1830 general election.[3][5]

At the time of his election, the local press assumed Tottenham had been sent to parliament for the "avowed purpose" of supporting the Grey Ministry's reform bill, which he later supported at its second reading. Shortly after, he resigned his seat, accepting the office of Steward of the Chiltern Hundreds, a move blamed on his father wanting a "thorough-going Tory" in the seat.[3][5]

While Tottenham sought to return to Parliament for the same seat—standing unsuccessfully at the 1835 general election—it was another 21 years before this happened. Between these times, he was High Sheriff of Wicklow in 1845 and 1846, and High Sheriff of Wexford in 1846 and 1847.[3]

Standing as a Conservative at a by-election in 1856—caused by the resignation of Charles Gavan Duffy—he held the seat until 1863 when he again resigned through the Chiltern Hundreds office in order to allow for his son, Charles George Tottenham to take the seat.[2][3]

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gollark: I think that if the price does go massively higher, people will just talk about how important it is and how everyone needs an education and stuff, and it'll be subsidized somehow and/or you'll just have to take out giant loans, instead of just not doing college.

gollark: I'm reading through the backlogs here.

gollark: It's possible to brute-force encryption in theory, but modern crypto makes this very impractical to do given constraints like the available size of the universe and stuff.

gollark: <@!692654568827387986> I'm pretty sure you're wrong about encryption here. You can't just magically decrypt stuff without the key. Encrypted data you don't have the key for is indistinguishable from random noise.

References

Rayment, Leigh (13 June 2017). "The House of Commons: Constituencies beginning with "N"". Leigh Rayment's Peerage Page. Archived from the original on 6 October 2018. Retrieved 6 October 2018.
Walker, B.M., ed. (1978). Parliamentary Election Results in Ireland, 1801-1922. Dublin: Royal Irish Academy. p. 306. ISBN 978-0901714121.
Salmon, Philip. Fisher, D. R. (ed.). "TOTTENHAM, Charles (1807–1886), of Ballycurry, co. Wicklow and New Ross, co. Wexford". The History of Parliament. Retrieved 6 October 2018.
Lundy, Darryl (15 May 2015). "Charles Tottenham". The Peerage. Archived from the original on 6 October 2018. Retrieved 7 October 2018.
Smith, Henry Stooks (1842). The Register of Parliamentary Contested Elections (Second ed.). Simpkin, Marshall & Company. p. 239. Retrieved 6 October 2018 – via Google Books.

External links

Hansard 1803–2005: contributions in Parliament by Mr Charles Tottenham

Parliament of the United Kingdom
Preceded by Charles Powell Leslie	Member of Parliament for New Ross May 1831–Aug 1831	Succeeded by William Wigram
Preceded by Charles Gavan Duffy	Member of Parliament for New Ross 1856–1863	Succeeded by Charles George Tottenham
Civic offices
Preceded by William Wentworth Fitzwilliam Hume	High Sheriff of Wicklow 1845	Succeeded by Robert Craven Wade
Preceded by Patrick W. Redmond	High Sheriff of Wexford 1846	Succeeded by Harry Alcock

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[leighrayment-1] Rayment, Leigh (13 June 2017). "The House of Commons: Constituencies beginning with "N"". Leigh Rayment's Peerage Page. Archived from the original on 6 October 2018. Retrieved 6 October 2018.

[walker-2] Walker, B.M., ed. (1978). Parliamentary Election Results in Ireland, 1801-1922. Dublin: Royal Irish Academy. p. 306. ISBN 978-0901714121.

[hop-3] Salmon, Philip. Fisher, D. R. (ed.). "TOTTENHAM, Charles (1807–1886), of Ballycurry, co. Wicklow and New Ross, co. Wexford". The History of Parliament. Retrieved 6 October 2018.

[thepeerage-4] Lundy, Darryl (15 May 2015). "Charles Tottenham". The Peerage. Archived from the original on 6 October 2018. Retrieved 7 October 2018.

[stookssmith1842-5] Smith, Henry Stooks (1842). The Register of Parliamentary Contested Elections (Second ed.). Simpkin, Marshall & Company. p. 239. Retrieved 6 October 2018 – via Google Books.