Charles William Bury, 2nd Earl of Charleville (29 April 1801 – 14 July 1851), styled Lord Tullamore between 1806 and 1835, was an Irish peer,

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politician and advocate of

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. Bury was the only son of Charles Bury, 1st Earl of Charleville, by Catherine Maria Dawson, daughter of Thomas Townley Dawson. He was educated at

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and served as High Sheriff of King's County in 1825.thepeerage.com Charles William Bury, 2nd Earl of Charleville
/ref> In 1826 he was returned to parliament for Carlow Borough, a seat controlled by the family. The constituency was abolished in the

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and Bury's father launched an expensive campaign to keep his son in the House of Commons. He failed to be elected for King's Countysueyounghistories.com - Biographies of Homeopaths: Charles William Bury 2nd Earl of Charleville 1801 – 1851
/ref> but was returned for Penryn and Falmouth in

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, a seat he held until 1835. From 1834 to 1835 he also served as a Lord of the Bedchamber to

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. He succeeded his father in the earldom in 1835. This was an

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and did not entitle him to an automatic seat in the

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. However, in 1838 he was elected an Irish Representative Peer. Lord Charleville was also an advocate of

. He was a friend of

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, the first homeopathic physician in England, and also of the French artist and dandy

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. Charleville came increasingly into debt and was forced to sell off major parts of the family estates during the economic crisis in

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in the mid-1840s and eventually settled in Berlin. In 1821 in

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, Lord Charleville married Harriet Charlotte Beaujolais Campbell, daughter of Colonel John Campbell of Shawfield and Islay and

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, and sister of

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. They had three sons and a daughter. Lady Charleville was a minor author. She died in

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in February 1848, aged 46. Lord Charleville died in July 1851, aged 50, and was succeeded by his eldest son, Charles.

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