General Sir Charles Hotham-Thompson, 8th Baronet (18 June 1729 – 25 January 1794) was a British Army officer and Member of Parliament. He was the eldest son of Sir Beaumont Hotham, 7th Bt., of

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, in the

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. He was educated at

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(1741–5) and studied law at the

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(1742). He was commissioned into the Army as an ensign in the

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in 1746. He served with the regiment in

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, where he took part in the

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in 1747 and was appointed aide-de-camp to the

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, commander of the British forces in the

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. During the

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(1754–63) he was firstly aide-de-camp to

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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

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in 1765. From 1761 to 1768 he was also the Member of Parliament for St Ives and in 1763 was made a

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. In 1768 he transferred as colonel to the

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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

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, and had one daughter. He was succeeded as baronet by his brother Sir John Hotham, 9th Baronet.

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