Charles Sergison

Charles Sergison (11 January 1655 – 26 November 1732) was an English Royal Navy administrator and politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1698 to 1702.

He lived at Cuckfield Place until his death[2] In 1698, Sergison was elected Member of Parliament (MP) for New Shoreham.

He built a large collection of papers relating to Admiralty orders to the Navy Board between 1603 and 1717.

[5] Sergison died without issue at Cuckfield aged 77 and was buried at Holy Trinity Church.

[1] The bulk of his estate passed to his great-nephew Thomas Warden, who had married one of his nieces,[6] and who assumed the surname of Sergison thereafter by a private act of Parliament, Thomas Warden's Name Act 1732 (6 Geo.

Cuckfield Park, Sergison's home in later life