Charles Wainwright

Major-General Charles Brian Wainwright, (17 August 1893 − 23 October 1968) was a British Army officer.

Early life Wainwright was born on 17 August 1893 and educated at Wellington College, Berkshire, and Lincoln College, Oxford, where he was part of the University Officers' Training Corps.

Military career Wainwright was commissioned a second lieutenant in the British Army on 20 June 1914, and allocated to the Royal Artillery in August. He spent much of the First World War attached to the Royal Flying Corps. He was married in 1917. and was later awarded the Norwegian King Haakon VII Freedom Cross. He retired from the army on 27 October 1948.

Duck conservation and later life Wainwright became Director of the Duck Ringing Research Station at Abberton Reservoir in Essex. Described as a "prime mover in the scientific study of migrating wildfowl", he lobbied for the Abberton site to be declared a nature reserve and it was said that he individually ringed over 100,000 birds. He lived near Colchester during this time and was a member of the council of the Wildfowl Trust.