Family and Education
b. 18 June 1729, 1st s. of Sir Beaumont Hotham 7th Bt., and bro. of Beaumont Hotham. educ. Westminster 1741-5; M. Temple 1742. m. 21 Oct. 1752, Lady Dorothy Hobart, da. of John, 1st Earl of Buckinghamshire, 1da. suc. fa. Sept. 1771, and to Thompson estates in Yorks. 1772 and took name of Thompson; resumed name of Hotham 1787. cr. K.B. 15 Jan. 1772.
Offices Held
Ensign 1 Ft. Gds. 1746, lt. 1750, capt. and lt.-col. 1758; col. army 1762; col. 63 Ft. 1765 – 68, 15 Ft. 1768 – 75; maj.-gen. 1772; ret. 1775.
Groom of the bedchamber 1763 – 94.
Parlimentarian
Main residence: Dalton Hall, Yorks.
Volume
Commons 1754-1790
Web Title
HOTHAM, Charles (1729-94)
Will
Estates
Oxford 1644
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