Major-General Sir Charles van Straubenzee and
Lady Charlotte van Straubenzee 
(1812-1892 and 1820-1900)
19 April 1861 and 7 February 1862

Volume 3, page 115, sitting number 3151 (him) and Volume 6, page 30, sitting number 6991 (her).

According to his obituary in the Times (Thursday, 11 August, 1892): 'General Sir Charles T. van Straubenzee, G.C.B., who died yesterday at his residence in Bath, was born in 1812, and entered the army in 1828. He was present with his regiment, the 39th Foot, during the operations preceding as well as the occupation of the Coorg territory in 1834. As Major he succeeded to the command of the 39th Regiment in the action of Maharajpore, Gwalior, 1843, for which battle he received the brevet of Lieutenant-Colonel. He commanded the British contingent in Greece in 1854-5, when he proceeded with his regiment, the Buffs, to the Crimea, and served there in command of a brigade till July, 1856. In the assault on the Redan in September he was slightly wounded. In 1857 General van Straubenzee proceeded to China in command of a brigade, and succeeded to the command of the force there in November of that year. He commanded the land forces at the capture of Canton, and in all the subsequent minor operations till March, 1860. He became a Major-General in 1859, Colonel of the 47th Foot 1865, Colonel of the 39th Foot 1867, Lieutenant-General 1868, and General 1875. He was placed on the retired list in 1881. General van Straubenzee, who was made K.C.B. in 1858 and G.C.B. in 1875, was Governor of Malta from April, 1872, to March, 1878.'

Lady Charlotte Louisa van Straubenzee appears on the 1881 census with her husband, living at 100 Sydney Place, Bath, Somerset. Born Charlotte Louisa Richardson in or about 1820, she was the youngest daughter of Lieutenant-General John Luther Richardson of the Bengal Service and of Sydney Place, Bath. She and the then Captain van Straubenzee were married at Bath on 18 November 1841.

Lady Charlotte Van Straubenzee died, aged 80, on 28 November 1900 at Minehead in Somerset.