Charles de Ferrieres

Baron Charles Conrad Adolphus du Bois de Ferrieres (2 October 1823 – 17 March 1908),[1] was a Liberal member of parliament (MP) for Cheltenham from 1880 to 1885.

He was born in Tiel, Netherlands, to a family of Huguenot origin but his mother was English.

and succeeded to his title as third Baron de Ferrieres in the Dutch peerage in the same year.

In recognition of his public munificence and private benefactions, as well as of his services to the community, he was made an honorary freeman of the borough in 1900.

His obituary stated that there was "scarcely a society or charitable institution in the town that [had] not benefited from his support".

As a new MP in 1880