Charles Abbot, 2nd Baron Colchester

The Right Honourable The Lord Colchester PC

Paymaster-General and Vice-President of the Board of Trade
In office 27 February 1852 – 17 December 1852
Monarch	Victoria
Prime Minister	The Earl of Derby
Preceded by	The Lord Stanley of Alderley
Succeeded by	The Lord Stanley of Alderley
Postmaster General
In office 13 March 1858 – 11 June 1859
Monarch	Victoria
Prime Minister	The Earl of Derby
Preceded by	The Duke of Argyll
Succeeded by	The Earl of Elgin
Personal details
Born	12 March 1798 (1798-03-12)
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Nationality	British
Political party	Conservative
Spouse(s)	Hon. Elizabeth Law (d. 1883)

Admiral Charles Abbot, 2nd Baron Colchester PC (12 March 1798 – 18 October 1867), known as Charles Abbot before 1829, was a British naval commander and Conservative politician.

Background and education 1
Naval career 2
Political career 3
Family 4
References 5

Background and education

Colchester was the son of Charles Abbot, 1st Baron Colchester, Speaker of the House of Commons, and Elizabeth, daughter of Sir Philip Gibbes, 1st Baronet. He was educated at Westminster College and the Royal Naval College, Dartmouth.

Naval career

Colchester served in the Royal Navy. He was promoted to Rear-Admiral in 1854, to Vice-Admiral in 1860 and to Admiral in 1854.

Political career

Colchester succeeded to his father's peerage in 1829 and entered the House of Lords. However, it was not until 1835 that he made his maiden speech.^[1] He served under the Earl of Derby as Paymaster-General and Vice-President of the Board of Trade in 1852^[2] and as Postmaster General between 1858 and 1859. In 1852 he was sworn of the Privy Council.^[3] Apart from his naval and political career he was also President of the Royal Geographical Society between 1845 and 1847.

Family

Lord Colchester married the Hon. Elizabeth Susan, daughter of Edward Law, 1st Baron Ellenborough, in 1836. He died in October 1867, aged 69, and was succeeded in the barony by his son, Reginald. Lady Colchester died in March 1883.

References

^ hansard.millbanksystems.com Mr Charles Abbot
^ The London Gazette: no. 21297. p. 671. 2 March 1852.
^ The London Gazette: no. 21296. p. 633. 27 February 1852.

O'Byrne, William Richard (1849). "

Political offices
Preceded by The Lord Stanley of Alderley	Paymaster-General 1852	Succeeded by The Lord Stanley of Alderley
Preceded by The Lord Stanley of Alderley	Vice-President of the Board of Trade 1852	Succeeded by The Lord Stanley of Alderley
Preceded by The Duke of Argyll	Postmaster General 1858 – 1859	Succeeded by The Earl of Elgin
Peerage of the United Kingdom
Preceded by Charles Abbot	Baron Colchester 1829 – 1867	Succeeded by Reginald Abbot

Paymasters General

Parnell Stanley Knatchbull Baring Macaulay Granville Stanley Colchester Stanley Pleydell-Bouverie Lowe Donoughmore Lovaine Wilson Cowper Hutt Goschen Monsell Cave Dufferin Childers Adam Cave Plunket Wolverton Beauchamp Thurlow Beauchamp Brownlow Jersey Windsor Seale-Hayne Hopetoun Marlborough Crossley Causton Ashby Strachie Newton Henderson Compton-Rickett Walters Vacant Chamberlain Joynson-Hicks Boyd-Carpenter Gosling Vacant Sutherland Onslow Arnold Vacant Walters Rochester Hutchison Munster Winterton Vacant Cranborne Vacant Hankey Jowitt Cherwell Vacant Greenwood Marquand Addison Macdonald Cherwell Selkirk Vacant Monckton Maulding Mills Brooke Boyd-Carpenter Wigg Vacant Shackleton Hart Lever Eccles Macmillan Dell Williams A. Maude Pym Parkinson Gummer Clarke Brooke Caithness Ryder Belstead Cope Heathcoat-Amory Willetts Bates Robinson Primarolo Jowell F. Maude

Presidents of the Royal Geographical Society

19th century	Frederick John Robinson, 1st Viscount Goderich George Murray Sir John Barrow, 1st Baronet William Richard Hamilton George Bellas Greenough Roderick Murchison Charles Abbot, 2nd Baron Colchester W. J. Hamilton William Henry Smyth Roderick Murchison Francis Egerton, 1st Earl of Ellesmere Frederick William Beechey Roderick Murchison Bingham Baring, 2nd Baron Ashburton Roderick Murchison Sir Henry Rawlinson, 1st Baronet Henry Bartle Frere Sir Henry Rawlinson, 1st Baronet Rutherford Alcock Thomas Baring, 1st Earl of Northbrook Henry Bruce, 1st Baron Aberdare John Campbell, Marquess of Lorne Richard Strachey Mountstuart Elphinstone Grant Duff Sir Clements Robert Markham

20th century	George Taubman Goldie Leonard Darwin George Curzon, 1st Marquess Curzon of Kedleston Douglas Freshfield Thomas Holdich Francis Younghusband Lawrence Dundas, Earl of Ronaldshay David George Hogarth Charles Close William Goodenough Percy Zachariah Cox Henry Balfour Philip Chetwode, 1st Baron Chetwode George Clark Francis Rodd, 2nd Baron Rennell Harry Lindsay James Wordie James Marshall-Cornwall Roger Nathan, 2nd Baron Nathan Raymond Priestley Dudley Stamp Gilbert Laithwaite Edmund Irving Edward Shackleton, Baron Shackleton Duncan Cumming John Hunt, Baron Hunt Michael Wise Vivian Fuchs George Bishop Roger Chorley, 2nd Baron Chorley Crispin Tickell George Jellicoe, 2nd Earl Jellicoe John Palmer, 4th Earl of Selborne

21st century	Ronald Urwick Cooke Neil Cossons Gordon Conway Michael Palin Judith Rees

Charles Abbot, 2nd Baron Colchester