Sir Charles Glynne Earle Welby, 5th Baronet, (11 August 1865 – 19 March 1938) was a British

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who became a

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politician. He sat in the House of Commons from 1900 to 1906, and then had a long career in local government in

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Early life

Welby was the second son of the Conservative Party politician

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and his wife Victoria, a philosopher of language who was the daughter of

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. He was educated at

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and then at

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. Welby succeeded to the baronetcy in 1898 on the death of his father.

Career

From 1887 to 1892, Welby was private secretary to

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, the Conservative

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. When the Conservatives resumed office in 1895 he became private secretary to the new War Secretary Lord Lansdowne, holding the post until 1899 or 1900 He was made a Companion of the Bath (CB) in the

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. After resigning as private secretary in 1899, he was elected at a by-election in February 1900 as the

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(MP) for the Newark division of Nottinghamshire, after the sitting Conservative MP

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had succeeded to the peerage. He was re-elected unopposed at the 1900 general election. In November 1900, he was appointed an extra (unpaid) Assistant Under-Secretary of State for War to assist during the pressure of the

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. He resigned the appointment in August 1902, two months after the end of the war and following the reshuffle of the cabinet. He stood down from Parliament at the

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, and concentrated on local government. In 1898, he had succeeded his father an

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, and remained an alderman until his death 40 years later. He was chairman of the council for many years. Welby was mayor of

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from 1912 to 1913, and also served for long periods as chairman of the governors of Grantham Hospital, and chairman of the governors of The King's School, Grantham. He was also a

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in Kesteven, and a Deputy Lieutenant of Lincolnshire.

Family

In 1887 Welby married Maria Louise Helen, daughter of

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; they lived at Denton Manor, near

, and had two sons and four daughters. The eldest son, Richard William Gregory Welby (1888–1914), became a Lieutenant in the

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and was killed in action during

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, on 16 September 1914. Maria died in 1920. Her father

had been the second son of the 2nd Marquess of Bristol. When his older brother, the 3rd Marquess died in August 1907, he would have succeeded to the title had he not died in 1875. On 15 November the King decreed that the children of Lord Augustus would "enjoy the title, rank, place and precedence as the sons and daughters of a

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", which they would have held if their father had survived. Welby died at a nursing home in

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on 19 March 1938, aged 72. He was succeeded in the baronetcy by his second son, Oliver Charles Earle Welby (1902–1977).

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Welby, Charles G 1865 births 1938 deaths Conservative Party (UK) MPs for English constituencies UK MPs 1895–1900 UK MPs 1900–1906 Baronets in the Baronetage of the United Kingdom Companions of the Order of the Bath People educated at Eton College Alumni of Christ Church, Oxford Deputy Lieutenants of Lincolnshire Mayors of Grantham Members of Kesteven County Council