title: Charles Bennet, 3rd Earl of Tankerville
text: # Charles Bennet, 3rd Earl of Tankerville
  
  Charles Bennet, 3rd Earl of Tankerville (6 September 1716 – 27 October 1767), styled Lord Ossulston between 1722 and 1753, was a British peer and politician.
  
  ## Background
  
  Tankerville was the son of Charles Bennet, 2nd Earl of Tankerville, and was educated as a gentleman commoner at Winchester College (around 1731).
  
  ## Political career
  
  Tankerville was returned to Parliament for Northumberland in 1748, a seat he held until the following year, when he was unseated on petition. In 1753 he succeeded his father in the earldom and took his seat in the House of Lords.
  
  ## Family
  
  Lord Tankerville married Alice, daughter of Sir John Astley, 2nd Baronet, in 1742. She died in 1755. Tankerville survived her by twelve years and died in October 1767, aged 51. He was succeeded in the earldom by his son, Charles.
  
  