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Charles Penruddocke (1743–88) was an English landowner of

Compton Chamberlayne Compton Chamberlayne is a small village and Civil parishes in England, civil parish in the River Nadder, Nadder Valley in south Wiltshire, England, about west of Salisbury. The Nadder forms the northern boundary of the parish; to the south are ...

Wiltshire Wiltshire (; abbreviated Wilts) is a historic and ceremonial county in South West England with an area of . It is landlocked and borders the counties of Dorset to the southwest, Somerset to the west, Hampshire to the southeast, Gloucestershire ...

and a politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1770 to 1788. Penruddocke was the only son of Charles Penruddocke of Compton Chamberlayne and his wife Frances Wyndham, daughter of William Wyndham of Dinton, Wiltshire. He matriculated at Trinity College, Oxford in 1761. He married his cousin Anne Henrietta Wyndham, daughter of Wadham Wyndham of Fyfield, Wiltshire on 10 April 1769. Also in 1769 Penruddocke's father died, and he inherited Compton House at Compton Chamberlayne.Findagrave - Charles Penruddocke St Michael Churchyard
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at a by-election in 1770. He was returned again in

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and

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. He generally voted with the opposition in parliament and is only recorded as speaking once. Penruddocke died on 30 October 1788. He and his wife had five sons and four daughters.

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1743 births 1788 deaths Members of the Parliament of Great Britain for Wiltshire British MPs 1768–1774 British MPs 1774–1780 British MPs 1780–1784 British MPs 1784–1790 {{England-GreatBritain-MP-stub