Charles John Brandling
Charles John Brandling was an English MP and coal owner.
He was the son of Charles Brandling of Gosforth House, near Newcastle-upon-Tyne. He succeeded his father as MP for Newcastle in 1798, holding the seat until 1812. From 1820 until his death he was the MP for Northumberland.
He became a lieutenant of the Northumberland militia in 1790, being promoted captain in 1793, and in 1819 he was made Lieutenant-Colonel of the Northumberland & Newcastle volunteer cavalry. He married Frances Elizabeth Hawksworth, daughter of Walter Fawkes of Hawksworth, Yorks. His friend Earl Grey described him and his wife as "cordial in their manner, unaffected and extremely good-natured". They had no children.
In 1817 he chaired the committee which established the reward to be paid to George Stephenson for the invention of the Geordie lamp.
