Charles Western, 1st Baron Western

[4] When coming of age in 1788, he inherited Rivenhall Place, which had been in the Western family since the second half of the 17th century[3] and commissioned Humphrey Repton to give the Tudor house a new facade.

[1] Western was returned to parliament as one of two representatives for Maldon in 1790, a seat he held until 1806, when he was defeated by Benjamin Gaskell.

[5] The latter year he was returned for Essex, a seat he held until the constituency was abolished in the Reform Act 1832.

[1] He lost his seat at the 1832 general election but the following year he was elevated to the peerage as Baron Western, of Rivenhall in the County of Essex.

[7] Lord Western never married and the title became extinct on his death at Felix Hall in November 1844, aged 77.