Charles Strickland Standish

(1790-1863)

LBT ID: ChStand1863	B/BAP: 1790-03-15 DIED: 1863-06-10
SOURCES: Gentleman's Magazine (July 1863) 113; Marquis of Ruvigny, Plantagenet Roll of the Blood Royal: The Clarence Volume (1994) 314
Of Standish, Lancashire; the son of Thomas Strickland (d. 1813); a Catholic, he was a Whig MP for Wigan (1837-41, 1842-47). In 1819 Maria Edgeworth described him as “an exquisite, or tiptop dandy.”