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Authorised form of nameWarren; Sir; Charles (1840 - 1927)
Dates1840 - 1927
NationalityBritish
Place of birthBangor, Gwynedd, Wales
Date of birth07 February 1840
Place of deathWeston-super-Mare, Somerset
Date of death21/01/1927
DatesAndPlacesBurial:
Westbere, Kent
ActivityEducation:
Cheltenham College; Royal Military College, Sandhurst; Royal Military Academy, Woolwich
Career:
Joined the Army, in the Royal Engineers (1857); explored Palestine and conducted excavations in Jeruslalem (1867-1870); served in the South African wars (1877-1879 and 1899-1900); Colonel (1882); Chief Commissioner, Metropolitan Police (1886-1888); Major General (1893); General (1904)
Honours:
CMG 1877; KCMG 1882; GCMG 1884; KCB 1888
Membership categoryFellow
Date of election12/06/1884
RelationshipsSon of Sir Charles Warren and Mary, daughter of William Hughes of Dublin; nephew of John Warren (FRS 1830; great-nephew of Charles Warren (FRS 1790) and of Pelham Warren (FRS 1813); great-grandson of Richard Warren (FRS 1764); married (1884) Fanny Margaretta, daughter of Samuel Haydon of Guildford
SourceSources:
Bulloch's Roll; DNB
References:
Vanity Fair 06 February 1886
Virtual International Authority Filehttp://viaf.org/viaf/40318203
CodeNA6676
Archives associated with this Fellow
RefNoTitleDate
NLB/32/167Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Sir Charles Warren, Fellow of the Royal Society19 January 1906
IM/004800Warren, Sir Charlesnd
NLB/1/389Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to Sir Charles Warren, Fellow of the Royal Society8 February 1887
NLB/6/890Copy letter from Theodore E James, to [Harrison & Sons][July 1892]
NLB/10/443Copy letter from Theodore E James, to Messrs Harrison & Sons26 November 1894
NLB/11/179Copy letter from an unknown correspondent, to Messrs Harrison & Sons[May 1895]
NLB/10/452Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to Major General Sir Charles Warren, Fellow of the Royal Society, 44 St George's Road, S.W.26 November 1894
NLB/17/293Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Messrs Harrison & Sons4 October 1898
NLB/18/345Copy letter from Theodore E James, to Messrs Harrison & Sons24 February 1899
NLB/18/827Copy letter from Theodore E James, to Messrs Harrison & Sons29 May 1899
NLB/32/77Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Lieutenant General Sir Charles Warren, Fellow of the Royal Society21 December 1905
EC/1884/20Warren, Sir Charles: certificate of election to the Royal Society
MC/13/62Letter from Charles Warren, Chatham, to G G [George Gabriel] Stokes, Secretary of the Royal Society14 June 1884
MC/13Volume 13 of miscellaneous correspondence regarding business matters, sent to the Royal Society1884
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