Charles March-Phillipps
Charles March-Phillipps was a British Radical politician from Garendon Park in Leicestershire. He sat in the House of Commons of [the United Kingdom|House of Commons] in two periods between 1818 and 1837.
Personal life
He was the eldest son of Thomas March Phillipps of Moor Crichel, Dorset, and was educated at Sherborne School, Eton College and Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge. He was a captain in the Leicestershire Yeomanry from 1803 to 1807. He succeeded his father to Garendon Hall, Leicestershire, in 1817.He married Harriet, the daughter of John Gustavus Ducarel of Walford, Somerset, and had two sons and a daughter. His son Ambrose Charles Lisle March Phillipps De Lisle converted to Roman Catholicism and founded Mount [St Bernard Abbey].
Political career
He was elected in the 1818 [United Kingdom general election|1818 general election] as one of the two Member of [Parliament |Members of Parliament] for Leicestershire,and held the seat until 1820, when he did not contest the election. He returned again for the 1831 general election, and held the seat until the 1831 general election, when the county was divided under the Reform Act. He was then elected for the new Leicestershire |Northern division of Leicestershire], and held the seat until he stood down at the 1837 general election.
He was appointed High Sheriff of Leicestershire from 1825 to 1826.