Son of the eighth earl; after serving in the Napoleonic Wars he succeeded to the title in 1825.

REFERENCES TO Charles Tufton, tenth earl of Thanet:

Thomas Creevey to Elizabeth Ord, 6 February 1825 in The Creevey Papers: A Selection from the Correspondence & Diaries of the late Thomas Creevey, M.P. (London: John Murray, 1903)

Bishop Samuel Butler to Francis Hodgson, [July? 1826] in Memoir of Francis Hodgson 2 Vols (London: Macmillan and Co., 1878)