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Charles William Vane, 3rd Marquess of Londonderry
b.18 May 1778
d.6 Mar 1854
  1. Lady Frances Anne Stewart1777 - 1810
  2. Lady Octavia Catherine Stewart
  3. Charles William Vane, 3rd Marquess of Londonderry1778 - 1854
  4. Lady Matilda Stewart
  • HCharles William Vane, 3rd Marquess of Londonderry1778 - 1854
  • WLady Catherine Bligh1774 - 1812
m. 8 Aug 1804
  1. Frederick William Robert Vane, 4th Marquess of Londonderry1805 - 1872
m. 3 Apr 1819
  1. George Vane-Tempest, 5th Marquess of Londonderry1821 - 1884
  2. Frances Anne Emily Vane1822 - 1899
  3. Lord Adolphus Vane-Tempest1825 - 1864
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Name Charles William Vane, 3rd Marquess of Londonderry
Gender Male
Birth[1] 18 May 1778
Marriage 8 Aug 1804 to Lady Catherine Bligh
Marriage 3 Apr 1819 to Frances Anne Vane, Marchioness of Londonderry
Death[1] 6 Mar 1854
Reference Number? Q2268227?


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Charles William Vane, 3rd Marquess of Londonderry, (born Charles William Stewart; 1778–1854), was an Anglo-Irish nobleman, British soldier and politician. He served in the French Revolutionary Wars, in the suppression of the Irish Rebellion of 1798, and in the Napoleonic wars. He excelled as a cavalry commander in the Peninsular War under John Moore and Arthur Wellesley (the later Duke of Wellington).

On leaving Wellington's command, his half-brother Lord Castlereagh helped him to launch a diplomatic career. He was posted to Berlin in 1813, and then as Ambassador to Austria, where his half-brother was the British plenipotentiary at the Congress of Vienna.

He married Lady Catherine Bligh in 1804 and then, in 1819, Lady Frances Anne Vane, a rich heiress, changing his surname to hers, thus being called Charles Vane instead of Charles Stewart from there on. In 1822 he succeeded his half-brother as 3rd Marquess of Londonderry, inheriting estates in the north of Ireland where, as an unyielding landlord, his reputation suffered in the Great Famine. It was a reputation he matched as a coal operator on his wife's land in County Durham. In opposition to the Mines and Collieries Act of 1842, he insisted on his right to employ child labour.


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  1. 1.0 1.1 Charles Vane, 3rd Marquess of Londonderry, in Wikipedia: The Free Encyclopedia.