Hotham, Sir Charles, 6th Bt

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Hotham, Sir Charles, 6th Bt
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(1735 - 67), o. s. of Sir Charles Hotham of Scarborough, Yorks; suc. fa. 1738 as 6th Bt.; m. Caroline Clutterbuck.


1752 - 5 Naples (Sep. 1752); Venice (Apr. 1754); Rome (Mar. 1755), Naples (Apr. 1755) [England by spring 1757]


At the age of fifteen Sir Charles Hotham was sent abroad for his health with the Genevan doctor and poetaster Jean-Baptiste Tollot. He stayed on the Continent for six years during which he 'journeyed throughout the length and breadth of Italy', but little is recorded of his stay. He was in Naples in September 1752.1 In March 1754 his uncle, Sir William Stanhope, decided not to meet him in Venice for Ascension.2 In March 1755 Hotham was in Rome,3 where he met Robert Adam; Adam took his apartment in the Casa Guarnieri4 when Hotham moved to Naples after Easter.5 He returned to England in the spring of 1757.


He was again abroad, in Nice, shortly before his death in 1767.


1. See A.M.W. Stirling, The Hothams, 1:265 - 73. 2. HMC Var.Colls., 6:26. 3. SP 93/14 (Gray, 24 Mar. 1755). 4. AVR SA, S.Andrea delle Fratte. 5. Fleming, Adam, 149 - 50.