[2] Kilmurry House had been built by the Bushe family in the 1690s; his father was forced to sell it to pay his debts, but Charles was able to repurchase it in 1814.

He was vehemently opposed to the Act of Union 1800, referring emotionally to Britain's subjection of Ireland as "six hundred years of uniform oppression and injustice", a phrase which quickly became a proverb.

[2] As an advocate "silver-tongued Bushe" was legendary for his eloquence,[1] and as a politician, he was admired by his English contemporaries like Sir Robert Peel and Lord Brougham.

They had ten children:[7] Dunbar Plunket Barton, a leading Irish High Court judge of the early 1900s, was descended from Bushe.

[9] Seymour Coghill Bushe (1853–1922) was a leading barrister whose career in Ireland was largely destroyed by his role as co-respondent in a much publicised criminal conversation case, followed by divorce, Brooke v Brooke (1886), and thereafter largely confined his legal practice to England.