Family
Breese was the son of Edward Breese (1835–1881), lawyer and antiquary, who published Kalendars of Gwynedd, a complete record of the high officers (sheriffs, MPs etc.) of the counties of Anglesey, Caernarvonshire, and Merionethshire. Edward Breese was David Lloyd George’s first employer when Lloyd George became a solicitor in Portmadoc. Edward Breese was Liberal Party agent for Merioneth and South Caernarvonshire and involved Lloyd George in campaigning and canvassing for the Liberal Party in elections after 1880. In 1894 Charles Breese married Janet, daughter of the Reverend Paul Methuen Stedman. Breese was a devout Anglican by religion, even though he went on to represent a strongly nonconformist seat in Parliament. He was also a prominent Freemason.
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