Charles Sergison

Charles Sergison (11 January 1655 – 26 November 1732) was an English Royal Navy administrator and politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1698 to 1702.

Sergison became a clerk in one of the Royal Naval dockyards in 1671 and by 1685 was a principal officer and commissioner of the Royal Navy.^[1] In 1693 he occupied Cuckfield Place House (Now Cuckfield Park) in Sussex which he later purchased from the Bowyer family. He lived at Cuckfield Place until his death^[2]

In 1698, Sergison was elected Member of Parliament (MP) for New Shoreham. He held the seat until 1702.^[3]

Sergison continued to work in the Admiralty as Clerk of the Accounts until his retirement in 1719. He built a large collection of papers relating to Admiralty orders to the Navy Board between 1603 and 1717.^[4] These papers have subsequently been published.^[5]

Sergison died without issue at Cuckfield aged 77 and was buried at Holy Trinity Church.^[1] The bulk of his estate passed to his great-nephew Thomas Warden, who had married one of his nieces,^[6] and who assumed the surname of Sergison thereafter by a Private Act of Parliament.^[7] His House, Cuckfield Park, stayed within the Sergison Family, until the early 1970s.

References

1. Public sculptures of Sussex - Monument to Charles Sergison
2. Parishes: Cuckfield, A History of the County of Sussex: Volume 7: The rape of Lewes (1940), pp. 147-163. Date accessed: 4 November 2010
3. Leigh Rayment's Historical List of MPs – Constituencies beginning with "N" (part 2)
4. Wellcome Library Survey - National Maritime Museum
5. Open Library
6. The History of Parliament: the House of Commons 1690-1715, ed. D. Hayton, E. Cruickshanks, S. Handley, 2002
7. Deed Poll Office: Private Act of Parliament 1732 (6 Geo. 2). c. 18

External links

•  "Sergison, Charles". Dictionary of National Biography. London: Smith, Elder & Co. 1885–1900.