WYNDHAM, CHARLES, 2ND EARL OF EGREMONT, son of Right Hon. Sir William Wyndham, Bart., MP, Chancellor of the Exchequer, and his first wife Lady Katherine Seymour, dau. of Charles Seymour, 6th Duke of Somerset KG; b. 19 Aug 1710; adm. Jan 1718/9; Christ Church, Oxford, matr. 4 May 1725; Grand Tour (France, Italy) 1727-30; MP Bridgwater 7 Apr 1735-41, Appleby 1 Jan 1742-7, Taunton 1747 – 7 Feb 1749/50; entered politics as a Tory, but became a Whig in the 1740s; succ. father as 4th baronet 17 Jun 1740, and his maternal uncle, Algernon, 7th Duke of Somerset, as 2nd Earl of Egremont 7 Feb 1749/50; inherited the Duke of Somerset’s estates in Sussex and Cumberland; Lord Lieut., Cumberland 23 Apr 1751 – 13 Dec 1759, Sussex from 15 Jan 1763; named one of the Plenipotentiaries for the intended Congress at Augsburg; Privy Councillor 8 Jul 1761; Secretary of State, Southern Dept., from 9 Oct 1761; conducted the negotiations with Spain 1761-2 and with France 1762; remained in office under the Bute and Grenville governments; member, Society of Dilettanti 1742; Busby Trustee 4 Apr 1754; m. 12 Mar 1750/1 Hon. Alice Maria Carpenter, Lady of Bedchamber to Queen Charlotte, dau. of George Carpenter, 2nd Baron Carpenter (I); d. 21 Aug 1763. DNB.