Charles Brett (c. 1715 – 10 February 1799) was a Royal Navy officer and politician who sat in the House of Commons between 1768 and 1790.
[1] A follower of Lord Howe, Brett was Paymaster of the Navy from 1766 to 1770.
He resigned that seat in 1776, to be returned instead as the government-sponsored MP for Sandwich, a constituency with a strong naval connection.
From 1777 he voted consistently with the opposition, and in 1780 lost his seat when defeated by two government-backed candidates.
[1] After the fall of Lord North's government in 1782, Brett was appointed a Lord of the Admiralty, and returned to the Commons as the Rockingham government's candidate at Dartmouth (another constituency with strong links with the navy) at a by-election on 16 April 1782.