Charles Augustus Bennet, 6th earl of Tankerville
1810–99
Landowner and courtier. Styled Lord Ossulston, 1822–59. MP for North Northumberland, 1832–59. Succeeded as sixth earl in 1859. Queen Victoria’s lord steward of the household, 1867–8.
Sources
Burke’s peerage 1999
Modern English biography.
Bibliography
Burke’s peerage: A genealogical and heraldic dictionary of the peerage and baronetage of the United Kingdom. Burke’s peerage and baronetage. 1st– edition. London: Henry Colburn [and others]. 1826–.
Modern English biography: Modern English biography, containing many thousand concise memoirs of persons who have died since the year 1850. By Frederick Boase. 3 vols. and supplement (3 vols.). Truro, Cornwall: the author. 1892–1921.
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