Charles Darwin | Charles Dickens | Charles, Prince of Wales | Ray Charles | Charles II of England | Charles I of England | Charles Lindbergh | Charles de Gaulle | Charles II | Charles | Charles I | Prince Charles | Charles V | Charles Scribner's Sons | Fremantle | Charles Aznavour | Charles University in Prague | Charles Stanley | Charles Bukowski | Charles Mingus | Charles Ives | Charles Bronson | Charles Babbage | Charles III of Spain | Charles Cornwallis, 1st Marquess Cornwallis | Charles Baudelaire | Charles Sanders Peirce | Charles River | Charles Manson | Charles Laughton |
Their second son Charles (1800–1869) followed his father into the British Royal Navy and was instrumental in founding the Swan River Colony in Western Australia.
Swanbourne was named for Swanbourne House, in Swanbourne, Buckinghamshire, the family seat of Sir Thomas Fremantle (later Baron Cottesloe), a prominent Tory politician, and his brother, Admiral Sir Charles Fremantle, for whom the city of Fremantle was named.
Other people depicted in the work include Lieutenant Governor James Stirling, Captain Charles Fremantle, Commander Mark John Currie, Major Frederick Irwin, Captain William Dance, the Colonial Secretary Peter Broun, Dr William Milligan and the Surveyor-General Lieutenant John Septimus Roe.