Long, Charles, Baron Farnborough

The following data is extracted from Long Family Records.

(1761-1838), politician: s. Beeston L-- of Carshalton, Surrey, a member of a well-known firm of West India merchants, Drake & Long; his father's family, settled originally in Wiltshire, had been connected with Jamaica since Charles Long's great-grandfather, Samuel, had been made, on the request of Jamaica, secretary to the Jamaica commissioners; entered at Emmanuel College, Cambridge, 1788; made an honorary LL.D., 1833; entered parliament in 1789, as member for Rye, and having held that seat till 1796, was returned for Midhurst, and in 1802 for Wendover; in 1806 he came in for Haslemere and held that seat until his elevation to the peerage; appointed joint secretary to the treasury, 1791; lord commissioner of the treasury, 1804; sworn of the privy council, 1805; secretary of state for Ireland, 1806, and sworn of the Irish privy council; appointed joint paymaster-general, 1810; dispatched to France in 1817 as a commissioner to settle the accounts connected with the army of occupation; created a peer, 1826; fellow of the Royal Society, 1792, and of the Society of Antiquaries, 1812; trustee of the British Museum, 1812, also trustee of the National Gallery, deputy president of the British Institute and chairman of the committee for inspection of national monuments; being a recognized judge of pictures and architecture, and a personal friend of both George III and George IV, he assisted them with his taste in the decoration of several of the royal palaces.

Source: Long Family Records

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