A wealthy and influential Tory, the head of a family settled in Warwickshire since the sixteenth century, Sir Charles Mordaunt was returned for the county without a contest for 40 years. Presumably he was the Mr. Mordaunt of Warwickshire whose name was sent to the Pretender early in 1721 as a probable supporter in the event of a rising.1Stuart mss 65/16. He was one of the Tories who withdrew on the motion for the removal of Walpole in February 1741. In May 1742 he was included in the opposition list for a proposed committee on the public accounts.2Walpole to Mann, 26 May 1742. In the 2nd Lord Egmont’s electoral survey, c.1749-50, he is described as being ‘well inclined to us. He has a great weight among the Tories. An estate of £2,500 p.a.’ In the same Lord Egmont’s lists for a new government on the Prince’s accession he is put down for a place on the Treasury or Admiralty boards. He was one of the ‘heads of the Tories’ who came to consult Egmont after the death of the Prince.3Egmont mss, Add. 49097-8.
He died 11 Mar. 1778.