Charles Welby

Sir Charles Glynne Earle Welby, 5th Baronet, CB, DL (11 August 1865 – 19 March 1938)[1] was a British civil servant who became a Conservative Party politician.

He sat in the House of Commons from 1900 to 1906, and then had a long career in local government in Lincolnshire.

Welby was the second son of the Conservative Party politician Sir William Welby-Gregory, 4th Baronet[2] and his wife Victoria, a philosopher of language who was the daughter of Charles Stuart-Wortley.

The eldest son, Richard William Gregory Welby (1888–1914), became a Lieutenant in the Grenadier Guards and was killed in action during World War I, on 16 September 1914.

On 15 November the King decreed that the children of Lord Augustus would "enjoy the title, rank, place and precedence as the sons and daughters of a Marquess", which they would have held if their father had survived.