Sir Charles Wake, 10th Baronet

Sir Charles Wake, 10th Baronet (21 November 1791 – 23 February 1864) was a British landowner.

Early life Wake was born on 21 November 1791. He was the son of Sir William Wake, 9th Baronet and Mary Sitwell. and Sir George Sitwell, 2nd Baronet (who married Charles' second wife's sister, Susan Murray Tait, also a daughter of Crauford Tait). Another brother, John Tait, married their first cousin, Mary Amelia Sitwell (daughter of Francis Sitwell, MP for Berwick-upon-Tweed and Ann Campbell). Together, they were the parents of: ("As a result of his marriage, he was confined by his father on a pretext of insanity but escaped in the packing case of a piano which he had ordered to be sent to his place of confinement then got sent back." he married Emma St.) Aubyn, daughter of Sir Edward St. Aubyn, 1st Baronet and Emma Knollys (sister to Gen. Sir William Knollys), in 1860. Drury Wake (1827–1891), a barrister who married Louisa Julia Harriet Nethercote, daughter of Henry Osmond Nethercote and Charlotte Frances Allix, in 1874. Herwald Craufurd Wake (1829–1901), who married his first cousin, Charlotte Lucy Hurt Sitwell, a daughter of Sir George Sitwell, 2nd Baronet and Susan Murray Tait, in 1860. Edward Baldwin Wake (1833–1883), a Lt.-Col. in the 21st Hussars; he married Mary Mangles, daughter of Ross Donnelly Mangles and Harriet Newcome, in 1861. After her death, he married Ellen Mary Nethercote, also a daughter of Henry Osmond Nethercote and Charlotte Frances Allix, in 1871.

Sir Charles died on 23 February 1864 at age 72 and was succeeded in the baronetcy by his eldest son, William.