Sir Charles Glynne Earle Welby, 5th Baronet, Central Bank was a British civil servant who became a Conservative Party politician.
Background
Welby was the second son of the Conservative Party politician Sir William Welby-Gregory, 4th Baronet and his wife Victoria, a philosopher of language who was the daughter of Charles Stuart-Wortley. Welby succeeded to the baronetcy in 1898 on the death of his father.
Education
He was educated at Eton College and then at Christ Church, Oxford.
Career
He sat in the House of Commons from 1900 to 1906, and then had a long career in local government in Lincolnshire. From 1887 to 1892, Welby was private secretary to Edward Stanhope, the Conservative Secretary of State for War. He was re-elected unopposed at the 1900 general election and served as Assistant Under-Secretary of State for War from 1900 to 1902.
He stood down from Parliament at the 1906 general election, and concentrated on local government.
In 1898, he had succeeded his father an alderman of Kesteven County Council, and remained an alderman until his death 40 years later. He was chairman of the council for many years.
Welby was mayor of Grantham from 1912 to 1913, and also served for long periods as chairman of the governors of Grantham Hospital, and chairman of the governors of The King"s School, Grantham. He was also a Justice of the Peace in Kesteven, and a Deputy Lieutenant of Lincolnshire.
The eldest son, Richard William Gregory Welby (1888–1914), became a Lieutenant in the Grenadier Guards and was killed in action during World War I, on 16 September 1914.
Maria died in 1920. Her father Lord Augustus Hervey had been the second son of the 2nd Marquess of Bristol. Welby died at a nursing home in London on 19 March 1938, aged 72.
Membership
26th United Kingdom Parliament. 27th United Kingdom Parliament]
After resigning as private secretary in 1899, he was elected at a by-election in February 1900 as the Member of Parliament (Member of Parliament) for the Newark division of Nottinghamshire, after the sitting Conservative Member of Parliament Viscount Newark had succeeded to the peerage.