Charles Warren (British soldier)
| General Sir Charles Warren | |
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Charles Warren carbon print portrait by Herbert Rose Barraud of London
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| Born |
7 February 1840 Bangor, Gwynedd, Wales |
| Died | 21 January 1927 (aged 86) Weston-super-Mare, Somerset, England |
| Buried at | Churchyard at Westbere, Kent |
| Allegiance |
 United Kingdom
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| Service/branch |
 British Army
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| Years of service | 1857–c.1905 |
| Rank | General |
| Unit | Royal Engineers |
| Commands held | 5th Division, South African Field Force (1899–00) Straits Settlements (1889–94) Commissioner of Police of the Metropolis (1886–88) Suakim (1886) Bechuanaland Expedition (1884–85) Northern Border Expedition (1879) Griqualand West Diamond Fields Horse |
| Battles/wars | |
| Awards |
Knight Grand Cross of the Order of St Michael and St George Knight Commander of the Order of the Bath Mentioned in Despatches Order of the Medjidie, Third Class (Ottoman Empire) |
| Other work |
Palestine Expeditionary Fund The Scout Association |
Transkei War
Bechuanaland Expedition
Second Boer War
General Sir Charles Warren, GCMG, KCB, FRS (7 February 1840 – 21 January 1927) was an officer in the British Royal Engineers. He was one of the earliest European archaeologists of the Biblical Holy Land, and particularly of the Temple Mount. Much of his military service was spent in British South Africa. Previously he was police chief, the head of the London Metropolitan Police, from 1886 to 1888 during the Jack the Ripper murders. His command in combat during the Second Boer War was criticised, but he achieved considerable success during his long life in his military and civil posts.
Warren was born in Bangor, Gwynedd, Wales, the son of Major-General Sir Charles Warren. He was educated at Bridgnorth Grammar School and Wem Grammar School in Shropshire. He also attended Cheltenham College for one term in 1854, from which he went to the Royal Military College, Sandhurst and then the Royal Military Academy at Woolwich (1855–57). On 27 December 1857, he was commissioned a second lieutenant in the Royal Engineers. On 1 September 1864, he married Fanny Margaretta Haydon (died 1919); they had two sons and two daughters. Warren was a devout Anglican and an enthusiastic Freemason, becoming the third District Grand Master of the Eastern Archipelago in Singapore and the founding Master of the Quatuor Coronati Lodge.
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