Charles Fanshawe, 4th Viscount Fanshawe (1643-1710) was an

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and Member of the House of Commons. He was the third surviving son of

Thomas Fanshawe, 1st Viscount Fanshawe Thomas Fanshawe, 1st Viscount Fanshawe KB (1596 – 30 March 1665) was an English politician who sat in the House of Commons at various times between 1621 and 1661. He supported the Royalist cause in the English Civil War. Following the Res ...

and his second wife, Elizabeth Cockayne.

Career

In 1667, Fanshawe was involved in the peace talks ending the

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, which were held at Breda. He later received a commission, serving as a captain in the regiment of Lord Alington in 1678. From 1681-85 he was a diplomatic envoy to

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Political life

On 10 October 1687 he became the 4th Viscount Fanshawe of Dromore, succeeding his nephew, Evelyn Fanshawe, the 3rd Viscount Fanshawe. As an

, he was allowed to serve in the House of Commons of England. In 1689, as a

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, he represented the

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in the Convention Parliament, which was called after the Glorious Revolution of 1688. He refused to take an oath of loyalty to newly crowned

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and

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and as a result was removed from Parliament. In 1692, Parliament declared him a Jacobite and he was briefly imprisoned in the

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for

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Death

Fanshawe died in his Suffolk home on 28 March 1710 and was buried in

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. He had no known children. Upon his death, his younger brother, Simon Fanshawe, succeeded him as the 5th Viscount Fanshawe of Dromore.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Fanshawe, Charles, 4th Viscount Fanshawe 1643 births 1710 deaths Viscounts in the Peerage of Ireland Members of the pre-1707 English Parliament for constituencies in Cornwall English MPs 1689–1690 Fanshawe family

Career

Political life

Death

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