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 Gravel Pits, then a rural village, on Sunday, 17 July 1726. In accordance with a wish expressed in his will he was buried privately at night in Henry VII's Chapel in Westminster Abbey, on the Thursday following his decease. A notice of his death appears in ‘Lettres Historiques’ for September 1726 (Hague), and some memoranda relating to his Dutch estates are among the Port and papers in the British Museum (Egerton MS. 1708, f. 43.

Personally Cadogan was a big, burly Irishman. A portrait, painted by Laguerre, representing him in a light-coloured wig and a suit of silver armour worn over his scarlet uniform, is in the National Portrait Gallery. Horatio, lord Walpole, who was associated with him in some of his diplomatic missions at the Hague, describes him as rash and impetuous as a diplomatist, lavish of promises when a present difficulty was to be removed, and prone to think that pen and sword were to be wielded with equal fierceness. He also says that Cado an needlessly irritated the Dutch republic by his zeal in romoting the election of the Prince of Orange to the Stadtholdership of Groningen, and affronted the citizens of Antwerp by threatening in convivial moments to make them follow their neighbours’ example (, Life of Lord Walpole, pp. 9-10). Udpon occasions he seems to have dis laye much magnificence. The papers of the period speak of the splendour of some of his entertainments when ambassador in Holland, and a news-letter of 1724 mentions his appearance at the drawing-room on the prince’s birthday ‘very rich in jewels.' As a soldier Cadogan must be ranked among the ablest stall' ofiicers the British army has produced. The confidence reposed in his judgment by Marlborough and the high opinions expressed of him by Prince Eugene and other foreign officers of note bespeak his high capacity; he brought energy and skill to bear upon the details of his great leader’s plans, and showed eminent administrative ability in performing the multifarious duties of a quartermaster-general.

General General, who succeeded his brother as Baron Cadogan of Oakley, entered the army in 1706, in the Coldstream guards. He served in some of Marlborough’s ater campaigns and in Scotland in 1715. He sat in several parliaments for Reading, and afterwards for Newport, Isle of Wight. He purchased the colonelcy of the 4th ‘king’s own’ foot in 1719, and in 1734 became colonel of the 6th Inniskillin dragoons. He married a daughter of Sir Hans Sloane, with which alliance commenced the connection of the Cadogan famil with the borough of Chelsea. At his dee which occurred at his residence in Bruton treet, on 24 Sept. 1776, at the age of 85 (see, Peerage), Charles, lord Cadogan, was a general, colonel of the 2nd troop of hourse guards, governor of Gravesend and Tilbury Fort, a F.R.S., and a trustee of the British Museum. His only son, Charles Sloane, was created Viscount Chelsea and Earl Cadogan 27 Dec. 1800.