Charles Campbell Ross (born London 1849; died 9 July 1920,

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) was a

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and banker based in Penzance,

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. The grandson of the banker

Joseph Carne Joseph Carne (17 April 1782 – 12 October 1858) was a British geologist and industrialist. Early life Carne was born at Penzance, Cornwall, United Kingdom, the eldest son of William Carne, a banker, and his wife Anna Carne née Cock of Helston. ...

through his eldest daughter Mary (who married, 9 August 1836, Dr Archibald Campbell Colquhoun Ross, of Lanarkshire), he was educated at

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, he was leading member of the Penzance Borough Council in the 1880s serving as

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five times in 1877, 1878, 1879, 1881 and 1883.P. A. S. Pool's ''History of the Borough and Town of Penzance'', 1974 During this period he was also member of parliament for the St Ives constituency (1881–1885) as a member of the

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. The General Election of 1885 was "fiercely contested" and he was defeated by the Liberal candidate, Sir John St Aubyn. His family home and estate in Penzance are now the

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and

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. He also held the positions of

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magistrate and Hon Secretary of the West Cornwall Infirmary. The Ross bridge in Penzance is named after Charles Ross. Charles Ross was a major partner in the Penzance Bank (otherwise known as Batten, Carne and Carne) which had major branches in Penzance and Devonport. He inherited the position from his grandfather the well known Cornish banker and geologist

FRS. In 1896 the Penzance bank ceased trading, and was wound up by 1897. Following the collapse of the bank Charles Ross moved to London and became a curator of a museum in the east of the city. He married in 1870 his cousin Isabella Emily Carne (d 1888). Their son Archibald Campbell Carne Ross was the father of the linguist Alan S C Ross.

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History of the Carne family {{DEFAULTSORT:Ross, Charles Campbell 1849 births 1920 deaths Conservative Party (UK) MPs for English constituencies Mayors of places in Cornwall Members of the Parliament of the United Kingdom for St Ives People educated at Brighton College People from Penzance Politicians from Cornwall UK MPs 1880–1885 English bankers