Charles Wither (24 July 1684 – 1731) ), of Oakley Hall, Hampshire, was an English landowner and Whig politician who sat in the House of Commons briefly in 1708 and from 1727 to 1731.
The family had been seated at Oakley Hall since 1626 and since then had acquired further estates in the neighbourhood, to which Wither succeeded on the death of his father in 1697.
[1] He matriculated at Balliol College, Oxford on 7 May 1700, aged 15,[2] and travelled abroad in the Netherlands from 1706 to 1707.
[1] In 1707, Wither investigated the possibility of standing for Stockbridge at the next general election and secured local Whig support.
[1] Wither was appointed surveyor-general of woods and forests in 1720, holding the position for the rest of his life.