Charles Henry Sloane Cadogan, 2nd Earl Cadogan (29 November 1749 – 23 December 1832) was a British nobleman, styled Viscount Chelsea from 1800 to 1807. The eldest child of

Charles Cadogan, 3rd Baron Cadogan Charles Sloane Cadogan, 1st Earl Cadogan (29 September 1728 – 3 April 1807) was a British peer and Whig politician. Early life Cadogan was the only son of Charles Cadogan, 2nd Baron Cadogan and his wife, the former Elizabeth Sloane. His ma ...

and Frances Bromley, he was baptised on 13 December 1749 at

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. He became 2nd Earl Cadogan on the death of his father in 1807. He served briefly in the

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in his youth. By the time he had inherited it, he had already become a lunatic. He died unmarried in

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and so his title passed to his half-brother

George Cadogan, 3rd Earl Cadogan Admiral George Cadogan, 3rd Earl Cadogan, CB, KMT (5 May 1783 – 15 September 1864) was a British Royal Navy officer and politician of the mid-nineteenth century who first gained fame for his service in the Adriatic campaign of the Napoleonic ...

. He was buried at

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on 3 January 1833 and his will was probated in July of that year.

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