Charles Prideaux-Brune
(1798-1875)
11 July 1861

Volume 4, page 208, sitting number 4901.

Born on 7 December 1798 at Prideaux Place near Padstow in Cornwall, Charles Prideaux-Brune was christened at Walcot, Bath, on 27 May 1799. He was the son of the Reverend Charles Prideaux-Brune who substantially remodelled Prideaux Place, the family seat, in the Gothic Revival style of Horace Walpole's Strawberry Hill House in Twickenham. 

On 28 February 1820 at Padstow Charles married Frances Mary Glynn, daughter of Edmund John Glynn of Glynn. The couple had two sons and three daughters; Charles (born 1821), Mary Frances, Dorothea Caroline, Anne Beatrice, and Ernest Augustus (1839-1868).

Charles Prideaux-Brune died on 7 December 1875 at 20 Charles Street, Berkeley Square, London. He was buried on 11 December 1875 at Kensal Green Cemetery. He left an estate valued at £50,000.

[From an album belonging to the Gilbert family of Priory House, Bodmin, Cornwall. The album was most probably compiled by Marianne Charlotte Isabelle Gilbert, daughter of William Peters, banker, of Beckenham Place Kent. Her husband Colonel Walter Raleigh Gilbert was the Chief Constable of the County of Cornwall.]