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LONDONDERRY, See also:CHARLES See also:WILLIAM See also:STEWART (See also:VANE), 3RD See also:MARQUESS of (1778-1854), See also:British soldier and diplomatist, was the son of the 1st marquess by a second See also:marriage with the daughter of the 1st See also:Earl See also:Camden. He entered the See also:army and served in the See also:Netherlands (1794) on the See also:Rhine and See also:Danube (1795), in the Irish See also:rebellion (1798), and See also:Holland (1799), rising to be See also:colonel; and having been elected to See also:parliament for See also:Kerry he became under secretary for See also:war under his See also:half-See also:brother Castlereagh in 1807. In 18o8 he was given a See also:cavalry command in the See also:Peninsula, where he brilliantly distinguished himself. In 1809, and again in the See also:campaigns of 181o, 1811, having become a See also:major-See also:general, he served under See also:Wellington in the Peninsula as his See also:adjutant-general, and was at the See also:capture of See also:Ciudad Rodrigo, but at the beginning of 1812 he was invalided See also:home. Castlereagh (see LONDONDERRY, 2nd Marquess of) then sent him to See also:Berlin as See also:minister, to represent See also:Great See also:Britain in the allied British, See also:Russian and Prussian armies; and as a cavalry See also:leader he played an important See also:part in the subsequent fighting, while ably seconding Castlereagh's See also:diplomacy. In 1814 he was made a peer as See also:Baron Stewart, and later in the See also:year was appointed See also:ambassador at See also:Vienna, and was a member of the important congresses which followed. In 1822 his half-brother's See also:death made him 3rd marquess of Londonderry, and shortly afterwards, disagreeing with See also:Canning, he resigned, being created Earl Vane (1823), and for some years lived quietly in See also:England, improving his Seaham estates. In 1835 he was for a See also:short See also:time ambassador at St See also:Petersburg. In 1852, after the death of Wellington, when he was one of the See also:pall-bearers, he received the See also:order of the Garter. He died on the 6th of See also:March 1854. He was twice married, first in 18o8 to the daughter of the earl of See also:Darnley, and secondly in 1819 to the heiress of See also:Sir Harry Vane-See also:Tempest (a descendant of Sir Piers Tempest, who served at See also:Agincourt, and See also:heir to Sir See also:Henry Vane, See also:Bart.), when he assumed the name of Vane. See also:Frederick William See also:Robert (18o5- 1872), his son by the first marriage, became 4th marquess; and on the latter's death in 1872, See also:George Henry (1821–1884), the eldest son by the second marriage, after succeeding as Earl Vane (according to the patent of 1823), became 5th marquess.

In 1884 he was succeeded as 6th marquess by his son Charles Stewart Vane-Tempest-Stewart (b. 1852), a prominent Conservative politician, who was See also:

viceroy of See also:Ireland(1886–1888), chairman of the See also:London School See also:Board (1895–1897), postmaster-general (1900-19o2), See also:president of the Board of See also:Education (1902–1905) and See also:lord president of the See also:Council (1903–1905).

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