Charles Adeane

Charles Robert Whorwood Adeane (2 November 1863 – 11 February 1943) was a British army officer.

Background Adeane was the only son of the politician Henry John Adeane and his wife Lady Elizabeth Philippa Yorke, eldest daughter of Charles Yorke, 4th Earl of Hardwicke. He received an Honorary Doctorate of Laws by the University of Cambridge.

Career He served in the British Army and was lieutenant of the 4th Battalion, Suffolk Regiment. and in 1920, he was invested as an Officer of the Belgian Order of the Crown.

Family The Wyndham Sisters: Lady Elcho, Mrs. Adeane, and Mrs. Tennant, by John Singer Sargent, 1899 (Metropolitan Museum)

On 23 July 1888, he married Madeline Pamela Constance Blanche Wyndham, daughter of Hon. Percy Scawen Wyndham, a son of George Wyndham, 1st Baron Leconfield. His daughter Helena Olivia Adeane (1902–1985) was the first wife of William Pleydell-Bouverie, 7th Earl of Radnor and mother of the 8th Earl of Radnor.

His grandson, through his eldest daughter, Pamela, was the jazz musician and broadcaster Humphrey Lyttelton.

His grandson, through his fourth daughter, Lettice, was Sir Timothy Colman of the Colman's mustard family.