Nicholas Lechmere Charlton (18 December 1733 – 20 March 1807), known as Nicholas Lechmere until 1784, was a British politician, MP for

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in 1774. Lechmere was the son of Edmund Lechmere (1710–1805), and his first wife Elizabeth, daughter of Sir Blunden Charlton, 3rd Bt. Edmund Lechmere (1747–1798) was Lechmere's younger brother; Sir Anthony Lechmere, 1st Bt. (1766–1849) was his younger half-brother. He was educated by Mr. Graham at Hackney, and matriculated at

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in 1751. Following the death in 1773 of

Henry Crabb-Boulton Henry Crabb-Boulton (c.1709 – 8 October 1773) was a British Member of Parliament and Director and Chairman of the East India Company. He was born Henry Crabb, the son of Hester Crabb, a London widow. He inherited in 1746 the properties of her co ...

, MP for Worcester,

Thomas Bates Rous Thomas Bates Rous (1739–1799) was a director of the East India Company and politician who sat in the House of Commons between 1773 and 1784. Early life Rous was the eldest surviving son of Thomas Rous of Piercefield, Monmouthshire, who was a ...

was elected to take his seat in a by-election. However, Rous was unseated on petition for bribery, and in the resulting by-election in February 1774, Lechmere was elected. He was counted by the government as a supporter. He did not contest the October 1774 general election, at which Rous retook the seat. He succeeded to the estates of his uncle Sir Francis Charlton, 4th Bt., and took the additional name Charlton, in 1784. He resided at Ludford, where for 24 years he was a colonel in the Worcester Militia. He died on 20 March 1807.

Family

He married Susanna, daughter of Jesson Case of Powick. They had two sons and a daughter: *

Edmund Lechmere Charlton Edmund Lechmere Charlton (20 September 1789 – 17 April 1845) was a British politician, MP for Ludlow 1835–1837. Charlton was born on 20 September 1789, the son of Nicholas Lechmere Charlton and his wife Susanna, daughter of Jesson Case. He ...

(1789–1845) * Francis Lechmere Charlton (1790–1857) * Emma Lechmere Charlton (died 1809)

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Lechmere, Nicholas 1733 births 1807 deaths Alumni of Trinity College, Cambridge British MPs 1768–1774