Charles Vanbrugh

rdf:langString Charles Vanbrugh

rdf:langString Lord Henry Beauclerk and

rdf:langString Arthur Stert and

rdf:langString Member of Parliament for Plymouth

rdf:langString Charles Vanbrugh (c. 1680 – 2 November 1740) was an officer of the Royal Navy and member of parliament for Plymouth. Born in Chester, Charles Vanbrugh was baptised at Holy Trinity, Chester on 27 February 1679/1680. In June 1721 he married Ann Burt of Knightsbridge. They had three or more children but only one recorded surviving son, Edward Vanbrugh (1722 – 1802). On 21 February 1708 he was appointed captain of HMS Feversham. Vanbrugh was aged 28. In 1709 he was replaced by Captain Robert Paston under whose command the Feversham was shipwrecked on 7 October 1711 with the loss of 102 lives. Feversham was on a voyage from the Gulf of St. Lawrence to New York City after participating in Admiral Hovenden Walker's disastrous expedition to Quebec. Charles was the elder of the two youngest brothers to the dramatist and architect John Vanbrugh. Their mother had a daughter by a previous marriage then 19 children (10 more daughters) by Giles Vanbrugh. The youngest brother, Philip, was also in the Royal Navy. John Vanbrugh built Charles a house beside his "castle" in Greenwich and it was known as the Mince-Pie House (demolished 1902). John's house in Whitehall had been known as The Goose-Pie House. Philip's Greenwich house nearby was known as The Nunnery (demolished 1911).