About Edward Charlton
Lived 1865 – 1937 (aged 72). Edward Charlton was a British naval officer.
Admiral Sir Edward Francis Benedict Charlton, (21 March 1865 – 23 October 1937) 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 the rank of captain on 1 January 1903, he was made Captain (Destroyers) 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.
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Who was Edward Charlton?
Royal Navy admiral (1865-1937)
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Edward Charlton was born on 21 March 1865 in Newcastle upon Tyne.
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Edward Charlton died on 23 October 1937.
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Edward Charlton was a naval officer.
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Edward Charlton was British.
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