Charles George Tottenham

Lieutenant Colonel Charles George Tottenham (1835 – 23 Apr 1918)[1] from County Wexford was an Irish officer in the British Army and a Conservative politician.

He was educated at Eton, and married his cousin, who was a daughter of Reverend Sir Francis Stapleton, 7th Baronet, of Henley-on-Thames.

[2] He was commissioned in the Scots Fusilier Guards, and served in the Crimean War as a Lieutenant & Captain.

They had shared control of the borough with the Leigh family of Rosegarland, and alternated the nomination of MPs).

[4] He was returned to the House of Commons again a by-election in December 1878, following the death of the Home Rule League MP John Dunbar.