Sir Charles Clarke, 3rd Baronet

General Sir Charles Mansfield Clarke, 3rd Baronet, (13 December 1839 – 22 April 1932) was a British Army officer who served as governor of Malta from 1903 to 1907.

Military career Educated at Eton College, Clarke was commissioned into the 57th Regiment of Foot in 1856.

He rose to become Commandant-General of the Colonial Forces of the Cape of Good Hope between 1880 and 1882. He held a series of administrative roles before becoming Commander-in-Chief of the Madras Army in 1893 (renamed "the Madras Command of the Indian Army" in 1895).

He was appointed to the command of the Sixth Army Corps in the Second Boer War in South Africa in December 1899. He served as Quartermaster-General to the Forces from 1899 until 1903, during which he was promoted to general on 5 August 1902. The following year he became Governor and Commander-in-Chief of Malta, serving until he retired in 1907.

Royal Victorian Order Knight Grand Cross, GCVO, 1903