Charles Baskerville, of Lombardy Grove, Mecklenburg County, Virginia was the son of William Rust Baskervill, Sr. and Mary Eaton. He was educated at the University of Edinburgh, his brothers at Chapel Hill. He had tutors from Trinity College, Dublin, and the University of Glasgow to teach his children. Charles was classical scholar, spoke French and was known for his literary taste.

During some of his visits to London while attending school, his portrait was painted, tradition says, by a pupil of Sir Joshua Reynolds.

After completing his course, he came home from Edinburgh during the War of 1812, and it is said that the arrival of the portrait before him alarmed his mother very much, as she feared he had either been captured or was dead.

Charles married Elizabeth Anne Coleman, eldest daughter of Henry Embry Coleman and Ann Gordon, in September of 1813. This union produced 4 children. Wife Elizabeth died shortly after childbirth in 1821. Charles remarried in June of 1823 to Lucy Goode, daughter of Samuel Goode and Mary Armistead Burwell. Five more children were born.

Charles Baskerville passed away suddenly while dining with his brothers, William and George.

Obituary from 1835

Departed this life, suddenly, on the 21st ult., at Lombardy Grove, Mecklenburg county, Charles Baskerville, Esq., in the 46th year of his age, leaving a wife and seven children, with a numerous circle of friends and acquaintances, to mourn their untimely and unexpected bereavement. - In the death of this most estimable man, his wife has been deprived of a mild and affectionate husband; his seven children, of a most indulgent and fond father; his aged mother, of a dutiful son; his brothers and sisters, of a liberal, generous, and affectionate brother; and the society of which he had so long and so honorably lived, of one of its brightest ornaments -- an unaffected, unpretending gentleman, a useful, upright citizen and an honest man. -- For all the virtues which adorn the character of the true Virginia gentleman, Charles Baskerville stood pre-eminently high; and we are reminded by this truly distressing dispensation of an all-wise and all-powerful Providence, that it too often falls to the lot of many to be snatched from the stage of action in the full tide of their usefulness, while many, who are mere drones in the hive of society, are permitted to drag out a wretched and useless existence, cumberers of the ground. He died in the full enjoyment of every temporal good, and we hope, with a prospect of being succeeded by children, who will be ambitious of emulating his many virtues.

(Info complied from Family mementos and "Genealogy of the Baskerville and Allied Families").