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About Charles Sergison
- Charles Sergison (11 January 1655 – 26 November 1732) was an English Royal Navy administrator and politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1698 to 1702. Sergison became a clerk in one of the Royal Naval dockyards in 1671 and by 1685 was a principal officer and commissioner of the Royal Navy.
- In 1693 he occupied Cuckfield Place House (Now Cuckfield Park) in Sussex which he later purchased from the Bowyer family.
- He lived at Cuckfield Place until his deathIn 1698, Sergison was elected Member of Parliament (MP) for New Shoreham.
- He held the seat until 1702.Sergison continued to work in the Admiralty as Clerk of the Accounts until his retirement in 1719.
- He built a large collection of papers relating to Admiralty orders to the Navy Board between 1603 and 1717.
- These papers have subsequently been published.Sergison died without issue at Cuckfield aged 77 and was buried at Holy Trinity Church.
- The bulk of his estate passed to his great-nephew Thomas Warden, who had married one of his nieces, and who assumed the surname of Sergison thereafter by a Private Act of Parliament.
- His House, Cuckfield Park, stayed within the Sergison Family, until the early 1970s.
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