Charles Vanbrugh
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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.[1] 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.[2]
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.[3] Philip's Greenwich house nearby was known as The Nunnery (demolished 1911).