Biography of Charles Churchill 1714-1812

Paternal Family Tree: Churchill

1741 General Election

1747 General Election

1754 General Election

In or before 1714 Charles Churchill was born illegitimately to Charles Churchill (age 34).

Before 02 Jun 1725 [his father] Charles Churchill (age 46) and Catherine Hobart were married.

1741 General Election

In 1741 Charles Churchill (age 27) was elected MP Stockbridge in the 1741 General Election.

On 14 May 1745 [his father] Charles Churchill (age 66) died.

In 1746 Charles Churchill (age 32) and Maria Walpole (age 7) were married. The difference in their ages was 24 years. She the illegitmate daughter of Robert Walpole 1st Earl Orford and Maria Skerritt.

1747 General Election

In 1747 Charles Churchill (age 33) was elected MP Milborne Port in the 1747 General Election but it was a double return; Churchill was not seated.

Letters of Horace Walpole. 27 Jul 1752. Our beauties are travelling Paris-ward: Lady Caroline Petersham (age 30) and Lady Coventry (age 19) are just gone thither. It will scarce be possible for the latter to make as much noise there as she and her sister (age 18) have in England. It is literally true that a shoemaker in Worcester got two guineas and a half by showing a shoo that he was making for the Countess, at a penny a piece. I can't say her genius is equal to her beauty: she every day says some new sproposito [Note. blunder]. She has taken a turn of vast fondness for her lord (age 30): Lord Downe (age 25) met them at Calais, and offered her a tent-bed, for fear of bugs in the inns. "Oh!" said she, "I had rather be bit to death, than lie one night from my dear Cov.!" I can conceive my Lady Caroline making a good deal of noise even at Paris; her beauty is set off by a genius for the extraordinary, and for strokes that will make a figure in any country. Mr. Churchill (age 38) and my sister (age 14) [Note. Half-sister] are just arrived from France; you know my passion for the writing of the younger Crebillon (age 45)324 you shall hear how I have been mortified by the discovery of the greatest meanness in him; and you will judge how much one must be humbled to have one's favourite author convicted of mere mercenariness! I had desired Lady Mary to lay out thirty guineas for me with Liotard (age 49), and wished, if I could, to have the portraits of Crebillon and Marivaux (age 64)325 for my cabinet. Mr. Churchill wrote me word that Liotard's326 price was sixteen guineas; that Marivaux was intimate with him, and would certainly sit, and that he believed he could get Crebillon to sit too. The latter, who is retired into the provinces with an English wife (age 40)327, was just then at Paris for a month: Mr. Churchill went to him, told him that a gentleman in England, who was making a collection of portraits of famous people, would be happy to have his, etc. Crebillon was humble, "unworthy," obliged; and sat: the picture was just finished, when, behold! he sent Mr. Churchill word, that he expected to have a copy of the picture given him-neither more nor less than asking sixteen guineas for sitting! Mr. Churchill answered that he could not tell what he should do, were it his own case, but that this was a limited commission, and he could not possibly lay out double; and was now so near his return, that he could not have time to write to England and receive an answer. Crebillon said, then he would keep the picture himself-it was excessively like. I am still sentimental enough to flatter myself, that a man who could beg sixteen gineas will not give them, and so I may still have the picture.

Note 324. Claude Prosper Jolyot de Crebillon, son of the tragic poet of that name, and author of many licentious novels, which are now but little read. He was born in 1707, and died in 1777.-D. ["The taste for his writings," says the Edinburgh Reviewers, "passed away very rapidly and completely in France; and long before his death, the author of the Sopha, and Les Egaremens du Coeur et de l'Esprit, had the mortification to be utterly forgotten by the public." Vol. xxi. p. 284.]

Note 325. Pierre Carlet de Chamblain de Marivaux, the author of numerous plays and novels, some of which possess considerable merit. The peculiar affectation of his style occasioned the invention of the word marivaudage, to express the way of writing of him and his imitators. He was born in 1688, and died in 1763.-D.

Note 326. Walpole, in his Anecdotes of Painting, states Liotard to have been an admirable miniature and enamel painter. At Rome he was taken notice of by the Earl of Sandwich, and by Lord Besborough, then Lord Duncannon. See Museum Florentinum, vol. x.; where the name of the last mentioned nobleman is spelled Milord D'un Canon.-E.

Note 327. She was a Miss Strafford. The perusal of Crebillon's works inspired her with such a passion for the author, that she ran away from her friends, went to Paris, married him, and nursed and attended him with exemplary tenderness and affection to his dying day. In reference to this marriage, Lord Byron, in his Observations on Bowles's Strictures upon Pope, makes the following remark:-"For my own part, I am of the opinion of Pausanias, that success in love depends upon fortune. Grimm has an observation of the same kind, on the different destinies of the younger Crebillon and Rousseau. The former writes a licentious novel, and a young English girl of some fortune runs away, and crosses the sea to marry him; while Rousseau, the most tender and passionate of lovers, is obliged to espouse his chambermaid."-E.

1754 General Election

In 1754 Charles Churchill (age 40) was elected MP Great Marlow in the 1754 General Election.

Around 1756 [his daughter] Sophia Churchill was born to Charles Churchill (age 42) and Maria Walpole (age 17).

On 23 Feb 1758 [his daughter] Mary Churchill Countess Cadogan was born to Charles Churchill (age 44) and Maria Walpole (age 19).

On 10 May 1777 [his son-in-law] Charles Sloane Cadogan 1st Earl Cadogan (age 48) and [his daughter] Mary Churchill Countess Cadogan (age 19) were married. The difference in their ages was 29 years.

In 1781 [his son-in-law] Horatio Walpole 2nd Earl Orford (age 28) and [his daughter] Sophia Churchill (age 25) were married. He the son of Horatio Walpole 1st Earl Orford (age 57) and Rachel Cavendish (age 53). They were half second cousins.

In 1812 Charles Churchill (age 98) died.

Royal Ancestors of Charles Churchill 1714-1812

Kings Wessex: Great x 23 Grand Son of King Edmund "Ironside" I of England

Kings Gwynedd: Great x 20 Grand Son of Owain "Great" King Gwynedd

Kings Seisyllwg: Great x 26 Grand Son of Hywel "Dda aka Good" King Seisyllwg King Deheubarth

Kings Powys: Great x 21 Grand Son of Maredudd ap Bleddyn King Powys

Kings England: Great x 16 Grand Son of King Edward I of England

Kings Scotland: Great x 22 Grand Son of King Duncan I of Scotland

Kings Franks: Great x 20 Grand Son of Louis VII King Franks

Kings France: Great x 23 Grand Son of Robert "Pious" II King France

Ancestors of Charles Churchill 1714-1812

Great x 1 Grandfather: Winston Churchill

GrandFather: General Charles Churchill 14 x Great Grand Son of King Edward I of England

Great x 4 Grandfather: Bernard Drake

Great x 3 Grandfather: John Drake

Great x 2 Grandfather: John Drake

Great x 1 Grandmother: Elizabeth Drake 13 x Great Grand Daughter of King Edward I of England

Great x 4 Grandfather: Henry Boteler 10 x Great Grand Son of King Edward I of England

Great x 3 Grandfather: John Boteler 1st Baron Boteler 11 x Great Grand Son of King Edward I of England

Great x 4 Grandmother: Catherine Waller

Great x 2 Grandmother: Helen Boteler 12 x Great Grand Daughter of King Edward I of England

Great x 4 Grandfather: George Villiers of Brokesby

Great x 3 Grandmother: Elizabeth Villiers Baroness Boteler Brantfield

Great x 4 Grandmother: Audrey Saunders

Father: Charles Churchill 15 x Great Grand Son of King Edward I of England

Charles Churchill 16 x Great Grand Son of King Edward I of England