page_title: Royal Berkshire Hotel
section_title: The Churchill family
hierarchical_section_title: Royal Berkshire Hotel / The Churchill family
caption_attribution_description: English: Charles Churchill with wife Mary (sometimes called Maria) with their son 1750
context_page_description: The Royal Berkshire Hotel is a country house hotel within a noteworthy example of a late Queen Anne mansion previously called The Oaks and located at Ascot in the English county of Berkshire.
context_section_description: The Churchill family built the Royal Berkshire Hotel, Sunninghill in 1705 and one of the earliest residents was Charles Churchill and his wife Lady Mary Churchill who was the daughter of the Prime Minister Sir Robert Walpole.
  Charles Churchill (1720-1812) was the son of Lieutenant-General Charles Churchill (1679-1745) and Anne Oldfield. In his youth he joined the military and became a Colonel. He then resigned and became a Member of Parliament. He was closely associated with the Walpole family and in 1846 married Lady Mary (sometimes called Maria) Walpole the favourite daughter of Sir Robert Walpole. The pair were frequent visitors to Strawberry Hill House which was the residence of Horace Walpole, Mary's half-brother. A painting that was hanging in the Strawberry Hill house depicting the couple and their eldest son Charles Churchill (1747-1786) is shown. Lady Mary became housekeeper at the nearby Windsor Castle and held this position for over twenty years.
  Lady Mary died in 1801 and her husband in 1812. The Sunninghill house appears to have been inherited by their eldest son Charles Churchill (1747-1786) as there is a record of his wife and only daughter Mary living there in the early 1800s.
  Charles Churchill (1747-1786) was born in 1747. In 1769 he married Joanna Murray who was the daughter of Sir Patrick Murray (1707-1764), 4th Baronet of Ochertyre. The couple had three children two sons (who died when young) and one daughter Mary Helen Churchill. Charles became a Colonel in the military forces and in 1784 obtained a post in Calcutta India as the Secretary of the Governor General. Unfortunately he died two years later in 1786 at the age of only 39. His wife and daughter Mary who did not marry appear to have lived in the Sunninghill house together for some time. Mary inherited a substantial fortune from her grandfather in 1814. She died in 1830 and left large sums of money to her relatives. Joanna her mother died in 1846 at the age of 94. The house was then sold. The notice of sale which was placed in the newspapers is shown.
caption: Charles Churchill (1720-1812) with his wife Lady Mary Walpole (sometimes called Maria) and their son Charles Churchill (1747-1786)
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