General Charles Rainsford was a British Army officer.
10 Facts About Charles Rainsford
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Charles Rainsford was the second son of alderman Francis Rainsford and his wife, Isabella and received his first education from a cleric friend of Francis's at Great Clacton.
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Charles Rainsford then served as private secretary to Tyrawley, governor of Gibraltar before returning to England again in 1760.
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Charles Rainsford served as MP for Maldon until his patron William Nassau de Zuylestein, 4th Earl of Rochford's nephew and heir was elected.
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Charles Rainsford held Bere Alston thanks to help from Algernon Percy, Lord Lovaine, leaving it over the Regency Bill, with Lovaine backing the government, but Gloucester and Northumberland opposing it.
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Charles Rainsford was rewarded by Northumberland with Newport, Cornwall, before leaving parliament.
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Charles Rainsford had taken little part in parliamentary proceedings, serving at the same time as governor of Chester, king's aide-de-camp, commander of the troops stationed in Hyde Park and then Blackheath against the Gordon Riots and nominal commander of the Menorca garrison.
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Charles Rainsford was elected a fellow of the Royal Society in 1779, and was a fellow of the Society of Antiquaries of London, a Rosicrucian, a Freemason and researched alchemy.
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Charles Rainsford provided information on Emanuel Swedenborg, Baal Shem of London and the Kabbalistic symbolism of higher degrees.
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Charles Rainsford was then sent to be Robert Boyd's second-in-command at Gibraltar on the outbreak of Britain's war with Revolutionary France, and took over after Boyd's death as Governor.