Charles Henry Hanbury-Tracy

A carte-de-visite portrait of Charles Henry Hanbury-Tracy (1842-1923).

Born at Stowe in Staffordshire on 14 January 1842, Charles Henry Tamworth Hanbury-Tracy was the son of the Honourable Henry Hanbury-Tracy and Rosamond Ann Myrtle née Shirley. His father briefly sat in Parliament from 1837 to 1838 as the MP (Whig) for Bridgnorth. His grandfather was Charles Hanbury-Tracy, who was created 1st Baron Sudeley of Toddington in 1838. His maternal grandfather was created Viscount Tamworth in 1841.

He appears on the 1851 census living with his parents and siblings at Gregynog, Llanfechan in Montgomeryshire, Wales.

He never married. In 1901 he was living at Stanton Harcourt, Crystal Palace Road in Upper Norwood, with a housekeeper, a butler and a housemaid. He had inherited the house from his father in 1889. He was still at the same address in 1911.

He died on 3 September 1923 at the age of 81, leaving an estate valued at £17,120.

Photographed in 1866 by Camille Silvy of London.