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General Sir Charles Hotham-Thompson, 8th Baronet (18 June 1729 – 25 January 1794) was a British Army officer and
Member of Parliament
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.
He was the eldest son of Sir Beaumont Hotham, 7th Bt., of
Beverley
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, in the
East Riding of Yorkshire
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. He was educated at
Westminster School
(God Gives the Increase)
, established = Earliest records date from the 14th century, refounded in 1560
, type = Public school Independent day and boarding school
, religion = Church of England
, head_label = Hea ...
(1741–5) and studied law at the
Middle Temple
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(1742). He was commissioned into the Army as an ensign in the
1st Foot Guards in 1746.
He served with the regiment in
Flanders
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, where he took part in the
Battle of Lauffeld
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in 1747 and was appointed aide-de-camp to the
Earl of Albemarle
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, commander of the British forces in the
Low Countries
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. During the
Seven Years' War
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(1754–63) he was firstly aide-de-camp to
Lord Ligonier
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and then adjutant to the British forces fighting on the continent. He was promoted to colonel in 1762 and given the colonelcy of the
63rd (West Suffolk) Regiment of Foot
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History Formation and service in the Seven Years' War
The for ...
in 1765.
From 1761 to 1768 he was also the Member of Parliament for
St Ives and in 1763 was made a
Groom of the Bedchamber.
In 1768 he transferred as colonel to the
15th Regiment of Foot and retired to Yorkshire, where he succeeded his father in 1771 to the baronetcy and his estate near Beverley. He took the additional name of Thompson on inheriting the Thompson estates in Yorkshire from his wife's family in 1772 (reverting to Hotham in 1787) and commissioned
Thomas Atkinson of York to rebuild
Dalton Hall between 1771 and 1775.
[ He was knighted KB in 1772.
Promoted Major-General in 1772, he retired from the Army in 1775, was gazetted full general (as Sir Charles Thompson, Bt) in 1793 ] and died at Dalton Hall in 1794. He had married Lady Dorothy Hobart, the daughter of John Hobart, 1st Earl of Buckinghamshire
John Hobart, 1st Earl of Buckinghamshire, (11 October 169322 September 1756) was a British politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1715 to 1728, when he was raised to the peerage as Baron Hobart.
Early life
Hobart was the son of Sir ...
, and had one daughter. He was succeeded as baronet by his brother Sir John Hotham, 9th Baronet.
References
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1729 births
1794 deaths
People from Beverley
People educated at Westminster School, London
Members of the Middle Temple
British Army generals
Knights Companion of the Order of the Bath
Members of the Parliament of Great Britain for St Ives
British MPs 1761–1768
Baronets in the Baronetage of England