Sir Charles Hotham, 5th Baronet

Brigadier-General Charles Hotham (25 April 1693 – 15 January 1738) was a British Army officer and Member of Parliament who was entrusted by George II with the task of negotiating a double marriage between the Hanover and Hohenzollern dynasties.

He was born the eldest son of Sir Charles Hotham, 4th Baronet of Scorborough, near Beverley, Yorkshire, MP for Scarborough and Beverley and succeeded his father in 1723.

He was himself elected to Parliament as the Member of Parliament for Beverley from 1723 to 1727 and again from 1729 to 1738.

He joined the British Army, rising to the rank of Brigadier-General. On the accession of George II in 1727 he was appointed a Groom of the Bedchamber, a position he held until his death. The king sent him in 1730 on a confidential mission to arrange a double marriage between the heirs apparent and the Princesses Royal of England and Prussia. He was rewarded by being made Colonel of the Royal Regiment of Ireland (1732–35) and afterwards Colonel of the 1st Troop, Horse Grenadier Guards.

Queen Sophia Dorothea, sister of George II if Great Britain, had long cherished the prospect of marrying her daughter, Wilhelmina, to the Prince of Wales, and her son, the Crown Prince Frederick, to the British Princess Emily. Her husband, King Frederick William I of Prussia, saw the advantage of the union, but was torn between his desire to draw closer to Protestant England and his position as a subject of the Austro-Hungarian Emperor Charles VI. His mutual dislike for his English brother-in-law did not help matters.

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