Edward Charlton (Royal Navy officer)


Sir Edward Francis Benedict Charlton was a Royal Navy officer who went on to be Commander-in-Chief, Cape of Good Hope Station.

Naval career

Charlton joined the Royal Navy in 1878 and served in the Anglo-Egyptian War in 1882. Promoted to Captain in 1903, he was made Captain in the Home Fleet in 1904. He went on to be Assistant Director of Torpedoes from 1911. He served in World War I as Admiral Commanding East Coast Minesweepers from 1914 and then as Commander-in-Chief, Cape of Good Hope Station from 1916. After the War he became Flag Officer commanding the East Coast of England. He retired in 1924.
He lived at Eastern House in Alverstoke in Hampshire.

Family

In 1903 he married Laura Mary Strutt; they had three daughters. In 1910 he married Winifred Mary Stapleton-Bretherton; they had two sons and three daughters.