Career
Foreign many years afterwards the Member of Parliament for Southwark would generally be a brewer. Soon there were nearly fourteen hundred, and the residents of Southwark gave a petition to Parliament to have them removed. When the Duke of Marlborough returned to the United Kingdom shortly after the death of Queen Anne in 1714, Sir Charles led the procession into London on 16 August 1714, earning him a place in a satire by Ned Ward.
Not long afterwards a fire in his warehouses lost him thousands of pounds.
He was appointed High Sheriff of Surrey for 1717-1718. He was ruined in the South Sea Bubble of 1720.
In 1734 the case of Lady Cox was heard and it was put on record that he had been a bigamist.