Charles John Engledow

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Charles John Engledow (30 September 1860 – 18 December 1932) was a British military officer and Irish nationalist politician. He served as Member of Parliament for North Kildare from 1895 to 1900, sitting as an anti-Parnellite.

He was the son of Rev W. H. Engledow and Clara Boyd, and studied at Cambridge. He worked as aide-de-camp to the Governor of Grenada and later to the Governor-in-Chief of the Windward Islands.

In the 1880s he moved to Ireland, living first in County Carlow at Burton Hall, which he leased from Sir John Pope Hennessy, and later at Rostellan, County Cork. In 1885 he became a justice of the peace in County Carlow. He also served as an ex-officio member and chairman of the Carlow Board of Guardians and was involved with the Athy Board of Guardians. In 1893 he was appointed High Sheriff of Carlow.

Engledow won the North Kildare seat in the 1895 general election as an anti-Parnellite, taking about 53% of the vote. He was defeated in the 1900 general election as a Healyite Nationalist. His defeat was blamed on his vote for a gratuity to Lord Kitchener, who Irish nationalists called the “butcher of Omdurman.”

Afterwards he moved to Cork, where he again served as a justice of the peace and sat on Cork County Council and the Midleton Rural District Council. He died on 18 December 1932 at his home, Glenmergue, Glanmire, Cork.