Background
Bury was the only son of Charles Bury, 1st Earl of Charleville, by Catherine Maria Dawson, daughter of Thomas Townley Dawson.
Bury was the only son of Charles Bury, 1st Earl of Charleville, by Catherine Maria Dawson, daughter of Thomas Townley Dawson.
He was educated at Eton and served as High Sheriff of King"s County in 1825.
In 1826 he was returned to parliament for Carlow Borough, a seat controlled by the family. He failed to be elected for King"s County but was returned for Penryn and Falmouth in Cornwall, a seat he held until 1835. From 1834 to 1835 he also served as a Lord of the Bedchamber to King William IV. He succeeded his father in the earldom in 1835.
This was an Irish peerage and did not entitle him to an automatic seat in the House of Lords.
However, in 1838 he was elected an Irish Representative Peer. Lord Charleville was also an advocate of homeopathy.
Charleville came increasingly into debt and was forced to sell off major parts of the family estates during the economic crisis in Ireland in the mid-1840s and eventually settled in Berlin. Lady Charleville was a minor author
She died in Naples in February 1848, aged 46.
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