CHURCHILL, Charles (?1720-1812), of Farleigh Wallop, nr. Basingstoke, Hants, and Lower Grosvenor St., London.

Charles Churchill, who married Sir Robert Walpole’s illegitimate daughter, was himself illegitimate. The first Lord Egmont records that on one occasion the Queen asked his father

whether the young Duke, her son, who was standing by, was not the handsomest boy he ever saw. ‘Yes, madam’, replied he, ‘except my own son.’ This son was his bastard by Mrs. Oldfield, the player. The Queen, with great calmness (though resenting it, you may be sure), said ‘I thank you, Colonel’.HMC Egmont Diary, i. 202.

In Parliament he voted consistently with the Administration. He died 13 Apr. 1812.Gent. Mag. 1812, p. 398.