Sir Charles Wolseley, 2nd Baronet

Life

Wolseley was the eldest son of Sir Robert Wolseley, who had been created a baronet by Charles I in 1628, and succeeded to the baronetcy on 21 September 1646. He entered Parliament as Member of Parliament for Oxfordshire in the nominated Barebones Parliament of 1653, and on the establishment of the Protectorate later the same year was appointed to the Council of State. He was subsequently elected for Staffordshire in the First and Second Parliaments of the Protectorate. In 1658, he was appointed to Cromwell's new Upper House. He represented Stafford in the Convention Parliament of 1660, and was pardoned at the Restoration. Thereafter, he retired from public life, and published a number of pamphlets on ecclesiastical matters.

In 1685, Wolseley was arrested on suspicion of complicity in Monmouth's Rebellion, but was subsequently released.

He was buried in Westminster Abbey, and, unlike many of his contemporaries, not disinterred after the reformation. Dean Stanley describes his earthen grave in the southern portion of the Montpensier chapel.

Family

Wolseley married Ann Fiennes, youngest daughter of William, Viscount Saye and Sele and his wife Elizabeth Temple. They had seven sons and ten daughters:

Robert Wolseley (died 1697), Envoy-Extraordinary to the Governor General of the Spanish Netherlands, died unmarried

Charles Wolseley, died without issue

Fiennes Wolseley, died young

Sir William Wolseley, 3rd Baronet (c. 1660–1728), who as the oldest surviving son succeeded his father

Sir Henry Wolseley, 4th Baronet (died 1730)

Captain Richard Wolseley, father of Sir William Wolseley, 5th Baronet

James Wolseley

Elizabeth, who married Robert Somervile and was the mother of the poet William Somervile

Mary, who married Richard Edwards

Anne, who married John Berry

Dorothy

Bridget

Penelope, died young

Susan, who married Charles Wedgwood

Penelope

Frances

Constance