Captain C.H. Barnewall
(1831-1901)
20 February 1861

Volume 2, page 224, sitting number 2187. 

Charles Henry Barnewall was born in Marylebone in or about 1831, the son of Bartholomew Barnewall and his wife Mary Clara née Lucena. 

He gained the rank of Captain in the Indian Army. 

He appears on the 1871 census, aged 40 and unmarried, lodging in Little St James’s Street, Westminster. He gave ‘Capt. Army Retired’ as his profession. 

When the census was taken in 1891 he was staying at the Queen’s Hotel in Hastings. He gave as his profession ‘Half Pay, Retired, Military Army Off[icer].’ Staying with him at the hotel was his nephew Home Seton Charles Montagu Gordon, son of his widowed sister Lady Ellen Harriet Gordon (née Barnewall), who in 1844 had married Sir William Home Gordon, 10th Baronet. 

The 1901 census was taken two weeks before his death. He and his sister Ellen were living together at 8 Granville Place in Marylebone. The household included five servants 

Captain Charles Henry Barnewall never married. He died, aged 76, on 17 April 1901 at 8 Granville Place, Portman Square, London. He was buried in Brompton Cemetery. His estate was valued at £14,608.