Charles Fanshawe, 4th Viscount Fanshawe

Charles Fanshawe, 4th Viscount Fanshawe (1643-1710) was an Irish Peer and Member of the House of Commons. He was the third surviving son of Thomas Fanshawe, 1st Viscount Fanshawe and his second wife, Elizabeth Cockayne.

Career Shortly after completing his studies at King's College, Cambridge, Fanshawe became involved in the 1667 peace talks ending the Second Anglo-Dutch War, which were held at Breda.

In 1689, as a Tory, he represented the Mitchell in the Convention Parliament, He refused to take an oath of loyalty to newly crowned King William III and Queen Mary II and as a result was removed from Parliament.

In 1692, Parliament declared him a Jacobite and he was briefly imprisoned in the Tower of London for high treason.

Death Fanshawe died in his Suffolk home on 28 March 1710 and was buried in Ware.

He had no known children. Upon his death, his younger brother, Simon Fanshawe, succeeded him as the 5th Viscount Fanshawe of Dromore.