Captain Charles Slocock
(1821-1907)
October 1866

Volume 8, page 46, sitting number 9805.

[Identified as 'Captain Slocock' in the Silvy daybooks, this is presumably Captain Charles Samuel Slocock of the Royal Berkshire Militia. He became a Captain in 1852 and resigned in 1861.]

Born in 1821, Charles Samuel Slocock was the only son of Charles Slocock of Donnington, Berkshire. He graduated from Trinity College, Oxford (BA, 1842; MA, 1845). 

On 13 June 1860 at St Luke's in Cheltenham he married Mary Goddard, only child of Edward Goddard of Stone House, Crookham, Berkshire. Their marriage produced eight children.

He appears on the 1861 census at the family residence, Donnington Lodge, in Berkshire. Also present were his father, Charles Slocock, a banker, aged 72; his mother, Sophia, aged 73; his wife, Mary, aged 32; and his daughter, Evelyn, one month old. He gave his place of birth as Donnington, and his profession as 'Magistrate and banker.' He was 40 years old.

Captain Slocock died, agd 86, on 1 November 1907 at 71 Warwick Gardens, Kensington.

The following obituary appeared in the Reading Observer (9 November 1907): 'The death of Captain Charles Samuel Slocock, at the age of 86 years, removes one who was once a familiar figure in borough and county life. He was one of the partners of the "Old Bank," which flourished a generation ago, but has now passed into the hands of the Capital and Counties Banking Company. Captain Slocock took great interest in town life, and was Mayor in 1877, the year of the opening of the Municipal buildings. He was a great supporter of cricket, a fine shot, and a straight rider after hounds. He was born and lived most of his life at Donnington, and was buried in the parish churchyard on Tuesday, amid many manifestations of public respect and private regret.'

[From an album compiled by Rose Isabella Susan Preston (1842-1924), later the wife of Lieutenant-Colonel Charles H. Shuttleworth. At the time that she compiled the album, she was living at Madehurst Lodge, Madehurst, Sussex.]