Charles Henry Sloane Cadogan, 2nd Earl Cadogan (29 November 174923 December 1832) was a British nobleman, styled Viscount Chelsea from 1800 to 1807.
The eldest child of
Charles Cadogan, 3rd Baron Cadogan and Frances Bromley, he was baptised on 13 December 1749 at
St George's, Hanover Square
St George's, Hanover Square, is an Church of England, Anglican church, the parish church of Mayfair in the City of Westminster, central London, built in the early eighteenth century as part of a project to build fifty new churches around London ...
. He became 2nd Earl Cadogan on the death of his father in 1807.
He served briefly in the
British Army
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in his youth. By the time he had inherited it, he had already become a lunatic. He died unmarried in
Enfield and so his title passed to his half-brother
George Cadogan, 3rd Earl Cadogan
Admiral George Cadogan, 3rd Earl Cadogan, CB (5 May 1783 – 15 September 1864) was a British Royal Navy officer and politician of the mid-nineteenth century who first gained fame for his service in the Adriatic campaign of the Napoleonic Wars ...
. He was buried at
Chelsea on 3 January 1833 and his will was probated in July of that year.
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1749 births
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Charles
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Earls Cadogan
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