Sir Charles Frederick KB (21 December 1709 – 18 December 1785) was a British Member of Parliament.

He was a younger son of Sir Thomas Frederick, sometime Governor of Fort St David

Fort St David

Fort St. David was a British fort near the town of Cuddalore, a hundred miles south of Madras on the Coromandel Coast of India.-History:It was bought from the Mahrattas by the British East India Company in 1690. Robert Clive served as the governor of Fort St David in 1756.The ruins of Fort St David...

, and a younger brother of Sir John Frederick, 4th Baronet.

He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in May 1833.
Frederick was Member of Parliament

Member of Parliament

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 for New Shoreham

New Shoreham (UK Parliament constituency)

New Shoreham, sometimes simply called Shoreham, was a parliamentary borough centred on the town of Shoreham-by-Sea in what is now West Sussex...

 from 1741 to 1754 and for Queenborough

Queenborough (UK Parliament constituency)

Queenborough was a rotten borough situated on the Isle of Sheppey in Kent.From 1572 until it was abolished by the great reform act of 1832, it returned two Members of Parliament. The franchise was vested in the freemen of the town, of whom there were more than 300. Its electorate was therefore one...

 from 1754 to 1784. He was Father of the House

Father of the House

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 from June 1784. Sir Charles Frederick also served as Clerk of the Deliveries

Clerk of the Deliveries of the Ordnance

The Clerk of the Deliveries of the Ordnance was a subordinate of the Master-General of the Ordnance and a member of the Board of Ordnance from its constitution in 1597. He was responsible for keeping record of the number and kind of stores issued from the stocks of ordnance...

 and then Surveyor General

Surveyor-General of the Ordnance

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 at the Board of Ordnance

Board of Ordnance

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, and was made a Knight Companion of the Order of the Bath

Order of the Bath

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 in 1761.

On 18 August 1746 he married Lucy, daughter of the first Viscount Falmouth

Hugh Boscawen, 1st Viscount Falmouth

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, by whom he had issue. His great-grandson Charles Edward later succeeded to the family title

Frederick Baronets

The Frederick Baronetcy, of Burwood House in the County of Surrey, is a title in the Baronetage of Great Britain. It was created on 10 June 1723 for John Frederick. He was the grandson of the wealthy merchant Sir John Frederick, Lord Mayor of London in 1662 and Member of Parliament for Dartmouth...

as seventh Baronet.