Sir Charles Wake, 10th Baronet
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Sir Charles Wake, Bt | |
|---|---|
| Born | 21 November 1791 |
| Died | 23 February 1864 (aged 72) |
| Spouse(s) |
Mary Alice Sitwell
(m. 1815; died 1816)Charlotte Tait
(m. 1822; died 1864) |
| Children | 5, including William |
| Parent(s) | Sir William Wake, 9th Baronet Mary Sitwell |
| Relatives | Sir William Wake, 8th Bt (grandfather) Sir Sitwell Sitwell, 1st Bt (uncle) Sir George Sitwell, 2nd Bt (cousin) |
Sir Charles Wake, 10th Baronet (21 November 1791 – 23 February 1864) was a British landowner.
Wake was born on 21 November 1791. He was the son of Sir William Wake, 9th Baronet and Mary Sitwell.[1] After his mother died in 1791, his father married Jenny Gambier, daughter of Vice-Admiral James Gambier, in 1793. From his father's second marriage, he had several half-siblings, including Cecilia Wake (who married Henry Newcome), the Rev. John William Wake (who died unmarried), and Jane Sophia Wake (who married their cousin, Charles Dunkin Wake).
His paternal grandparents were Sir William Wake, 8th Baronet, MP for Bedford, and Mary Fenton (a daughter of Richard Fenton). His maternal grandparents were Mary (née Warneford) Sitwell and Francis Hurt of Mount Pleasant, Sheffield, who changed his surname to Sitwell in 1777, when he inherited the Renishaw Hall, Derbyshire estates of his mother's cousin. His maternal uncle was Sir Sitwell Sitwell, 1st Baronet and, through him, he was a first cousin of Anne Elizabeth Sitwell (who married Gen. Sir Frederick Stovin)[2] and Sir George Sitwell, 2nd Baronet (who married Charles' second wife's sister, Susan Murray Tait, also a daughter of Crauford Tait).[1]
Career
Upon the death of his father on 27 January 1846, he succeeded as the 10th Baronet Wake, of Clevedon, Somerset and Piddington, County of Northampton, in the Baronetage of England.[1]