Charles Marsham, 4th Earl of Romney (7 March 1841-21 August 1905), styled Viscount Marsham from 1845 to 1874, was a British

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 Conservative

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 politician.

Biography

Romney was the son of Charles Marsham, 3rd Earl of Romney

Charles Marsham, 3rd Earl of Romney

Charles Marsham, 3rd Earl of Romney , styled Viscount Marsham between 1811 and 1845, was a British peer and Conservative Party politician.-Background:...

, and his wife Lady Margaret Harriet, daughter of Charles Montagu-Scott, 4th Duke of Buccleuch

Charles Montagu-Scott, 4th Duke of Buccleuch

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, and succeeded his father in the earldom in 1874. He served as a Lord-in-Waiting

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 (government whip in the House of Lords

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) from 1889 to 1892 in the Conservative administration

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 of Lord Salisbury

Robert Gascoyne-Cecil, 3rd Marquess of Salisbury

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.

His ancestors came from the parish of Marsham, Norfolk

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, in the 12th century.

Lord Romney married Lady Frances Augusta Constance, daughter of George Rawdon-Hastings, 2nd Marquess of Hastings

George Rawdon-Hastings, 2nd Marquess of Hastings

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, in 1863. Their third son The Honourable

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 Douglas Henry Marsham was killed in action during the Siege of Mafeking

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in 1899. Romney died in August 1905, aged 64, and was succeeded in the earldom by his eldest son Charles. Lady Romney died in September 1910, aged 66.