Charles Tottenham (19 April 1743 – 13 June 1823) was an Irish Member of Parliament.

Biography

Tottenham sat in the

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for

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from 1768 until 1 December 1800, when he resigned to allow

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to become the sole member for

in the new

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. He was son of Charles Tottenham, father of Charles Tottenham, grandfather of Charles Tottenham, brother of

Nicholas Loftus Tottenham Nicholas Loftus Tottenham (1745 – 11 March 1823) was an Anglo-Irish politician. Tottenham represented Bannow in the Irish House of Commons between 1776 and 1790, before sitting for Clonmines Clonmines is a civil parish and townland in the ...

and

Ponsonby Tottenham Ponsonby Tottenham (1746 – 13 December 1818) was an Anglo-Irish politician. Tottenham sat in the Irish House of Commons as the Member of Parliament for Fethard between 1779 and 1790, before sitting for Bannow from 1790 and 1797. He then repres ...

, grandson of Charles Tottenham and

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, nephew of

Sir John Tottenham, 1st Baronet Sir John Tottenham, 1st Baronet (6 July 1714 – 2 January 1787) was an Anglo-Irish politician. Tottenham was the son of Charles Tottenham and his first wife Ellinor Cliffe, daughter of John Cliffe of Mulrankin, County Wexford and Barbara Carr ...

, Nicholas Loftus-Hume, 1st Earl of Ely and

Henry Loftus, 1st Earl of Ely Henry Loftus, 1st Earl of Ely KP, PC (Ire) (18 November 1709 – 8 May 1783), styled The Honourable from 1751 to 1769 and known as Henry Loftus, 4th Viscount Loftus from 1769 to 1771, was an Anglo-Irish peer and politician. He was the youn ...

, and first cousin of Nicholas Loftus-Hume, 2nd Earl of Ely and

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References

* http://www.stirnet.com/HTML/genie/british/tt/tottenham1.htm * https://web.archive.org/web/20090601105535/http://www.leighrayment.com/commons/irelandcommons.htm * http://www.stirnet.com/HTML/genie/british/ll/loftus01.htm 1743 births 1823 deaths 18th-century Anglo-Irish people Irish MPs 1769–1776 Irish MPs 1776–1783 Irish MPs 1783–1790 Irish MPs 1790–1797 Irish MPs 1798–1800 Members of the Parliament of Ireland (pre-1801) for County Wexford constituencies {{Ireland-pre1801-MP-stub