Charles Campbell Ross was a British politician and banker based in Penzance, Cornwall.
Background
The grandson of the banker Joseph Carne through his eldest daughter Mary (who married, 9 August 1836, Doctor Archibald Campbell Colquhoun Ross, of Lanarkshire), he was educated at Brighton College, he was leading member of the Penzance Borough Council in the 1880s serving as mayor five times in 1877, 1878, 1879, 1881 and 1883.
Career
The General Election of 1885 was "fiercely contested" and he was defeated by the Liberal candidate, Sir John Street Aubyn. His family home and estate in Penzance are now the Morrab Library and Morrab Gardens. He also held the positions of borough magistrate, county magistrate and Honorary Secretary of the West Cornwall Infirmary.
The Ross bridge in Penzance is named after Charles Ross.
In 1896 the Penzance bank ceased trading and was wound up by in 1897. Following the collapse of the bank Charles Ross moved to London and became a curator of a museum in the east of the city.
Their son Archibald Campbell Carne Ross was the father of the linguist Alan South C Ross.
Membership
22nd United Kingdom Parliament]
During this period he was also member of parliament for the Street Ives constituency (1881–1885) as a member of the Conservative Party.