Background
Sir Charles was the oldest son of Sir John Lockhart Ross, 6th Baronet, of Balnagown by Elizabeth Baillie, the daughter of Robert Dundas of Edinburgh.
Sir Charles was the oldest son of Sir John Lockhart Ross, 6th Baronet, of Balnagown by Elizabeth Baillie, the daughter of Robert Dundas of Edinburgh.
He joined the army in 1780 as a cornet in the 7th Dragoons, rising to the rank of Lieutenant-General by 1805. Lockhart-Ross was a wealthy landowner whose mother had bequeathed him large estates in both Lanarkshire and Ross-shire, the latter giving him contol of the royal burgh of Tain. He was re-elected in 1790, but in 1796 was returned for Ross-shire, which returned him again in 1802.
At the 1806 election he was returned for the Linlithgow Burghs, where he was defeated in 1807.
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He was elected at a by-election in June 1786 as the Member of Parliament for the Tain district of Burghs.