POCHIN, Charles William (1777-1817), of Barkby Hall, Leics.

Pochin was returned for Enniskillen after Castlereagh had come to an arrangement with its patron Lord Enniskillen.Wellington mss, Long to Wellesley, 11 May [1807]. The chief secretary Sir Arthur Wellesley clearly did not regard him as being under his control like other Irish Members, and in his memorandum on Irish representation noted against Pochin’s name: ‘Refer to the Treasury’. He supported all three motions hostile to the Duke of York, 15-17 Mar. 1809, but voted with government throughout on the inquiry into the Scheldt expedition, January-March 1810. On 16 Apr. he voted for the release of the radical Gale Jones. The Whigs classed him as ‘doubtful’ in 1810, but he voted against government on the Regency, 1 Jan. 1811; on three motions for economical reform, 7, 22 and 24 Feb. 1812; on Stuart Wortley’s motion, 21 May, and on the leather tax, 1 July 1812. He supported Grattan’s motion for Catholic relief, 24 Apr. 1812. After the 1812 election government classed him as one of the followers of Canning who had not returned to the House. There is no record of his having spoken in debate. Pochin died 13 June 1817.