Charles William Vane, 3rd Marquess of Londonderry KG, GCB, GCH, PC (18 May 1778 – 6 March 1854), styled The Honourable from 1789 until 1813, subsequently known as Sir Charles Stewart to 1814 and as The Lord Stewart to 1822, was a British soldier, politician and nobleman. He was the only son of Robert Stewart, 1st Marquess of Londonderry, by his second wife Lady Frances, daughter of Charles Pratt, 1st Earl Camden. Robert Stewart, Viscount Castlere...
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Charles William Vane, 3rd Marquess of Londonderry KG, GCB, GCH, PC (18 May 1778 – 6 March 1854), styled The Honourable from 1789 until 1813, subsequently known as Sir Charles Stewart to 1814 and as The Lord Stewart to 1822, was a British soldier, politician and nobleman. He was the only son of Robert Stewart, 1st Marquess of Londonderry, by his second wife Lady Frances, daughter of Charles Pratt, 1st Earl Camden. Robert Stewart, Viscount Castlereagh, was his half-brother. Through his daughter Lady Frances, Lord Londonderry was the great-grandfather of Winston Churchill.
Born in Dublin, Charles Stewart (as he then was) was educated at Eton, and at the age of 16 was commissioned into the British Army as a Lieutenant. He saw service in Flanders in 1794, and was Lieutenant Colonel of the 5th Royal Irish Dragoons by the time he helped put down the Irish Rebellion of 1798. Two years later he was elected to the Irish House of Commons as Tory representative for Thomastown, County Kilkenny,...
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