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Charles Vane was born on May 18, 1778 in Dublin, Ireland.
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Charles Vane was born on May 18, 1778 in Dublin, Ireland.
He studied at Eton College.
Charles entered the army and served in the Netherlands (1794) on the Rhine and Danube (1795), in the Irish rebellion (1798), and Holland (1799), rising to be colonel; and having been elected to parliament for Kerry he became under secretary for war under his half-brother Castlereagh in 1807.
In 1808 he was given a cavalry command in the Peninsula, where he brilliantly distinguished himself.
In 1809, and again in the campaigns of 1810, 1811, having become a major-general, he served under Wellington in the Peninsula as his adjutant-general, and was at the capture of Ciudad Rodrigo, but at the beginning of 1812 he was invalided home. Castlereagh then sent him to Berlin as minister, to represent Great Britain in the allied British, Russian and Prussian armies; and as a cavalry leader he played an important part in the subsequent fighting, while ably seconding Castlereagh's diplomacy.
In 1814 he was made a peer as Baron Stewart, and later in the year was appointed ambassador at Vienna, and was a member of the important congresses which followed.
In 1822 his half- brother's death made him 3rd marquess of Londonderry, and shortly afterwards, disagreeing with Canning, he resigned, being created Earl Vane (1823), and for some years lived quietly in England, improving his Seaham estates.
In 1835 he was for a short time ambassador at St Petersburg. In 1852, after the death of Wellington, when he was one of the pall-bearers, he received the order of the Garter. He died on the 6th of March 1854.
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In 1884 he was succeeded as 6th marquess by his son Charles Stewart Vane-Tempest-Stewart (b. 1852), a prominent Conservative politician, who was viceroy of Ireland(1886 - 1889), chairman of the London School Board (1895 - 1897), postmaster-general (1900 - 1902), president of the Board of Education (1902 - 1905) and lord president of the Council (1903 - 1905).
Irish House of Commons, Parliament of Ireland
His first wife was Lady Catherine Bligh.
Lord Stewart then married his second wife Lady Frances Anne Vane-Tempest.