1. Sir Charles Warren was a British Army officer of the Royal Engineers.
34 Facts About Charles Warren
1. 2.
Charles Warren was one of the earliest European archaeologists of the Biblical Holy Land, and particularly of the Temple Mount.
3.
Charles Warren attended Cheltenham College for one term in 1854, from which he went to the Royal Military College, Sandhurst and then the Royal Military Academy at Woolwich.
4.
In 1867, Charles Warren was recruited by the Palestine Exploration Fund to conduct Biblical archaeology "reconnaissance" with a view of further research and excavation to be undertaken later in Ottoman Syria, but more specifically the Holy Land or Biblical Palestine.
5.
Charles Warren's most significant discovery was a water shaft, now known as Warren's Shaft, and a series of tunnels underneath the Temple Mount.
6.
In 1870, Charles Warren returned to Britain, where he began writing a book about archaeology.
7.
Charles Warren served briefly at Dover and then at the School of Gunnery at Shoeburyness.
8.
Charles Warren was then appointed special commissioner to investigate "native questions" in Bechuanaland and commanded the Northern Border Expedition troops in quelling the rebellion there.
9.
In 1880, Charles Warren returned to England to become Chief Instructor in Surveying at the School of Military Engineering.
10.
Charles Warren held this post until 1884, but it was interrupted in 1882, when the Admiralty sent him to Sinai to discover what had happened to Professor Edward Henry Palmer's archaeological expedition.
11.
Charles Warren discovered that the expedition members had been robbed and murdered, located their remains, and brought their killers to justice.
12.
In December 1884, by now a lieutenant-colonel, Charles Warren was sent as HM Special Commissioner to command a military expedition to Bechuanaland, to assert British sovereignty in the face of encroachments from Germany and the Transvaal, and to suppress the Boer freebooter states of Stellaland and Goshen, which were backed by the Transvaal and were stealing land and cattle from the local Tswana tribes.
13.
The expedition achieved its aims without bloodshed, and Charles Warren was recalled in September 1885 and appointed a Knight Grand Cross of the Order of St Michael and St George on 4 October 1885.
14.
In 1885, Charles Warren was appointed commander at Suakin in 1886.
15.
The Metropolitan Police was in a bad state when Charles Warren took over, suffering from Henderson's inactivity over the past few years.
16.
Charles Warren was concerned for his men's welfare, but much of this went unheeded.
17.
Charles Warren's men found him rather aloof, although he generally had good relations with his superintendents.
18.
Charles Warren was pilloried in the press for his extravagant dress uniform, his concern for the quality of his men's boots, and his reintroduction of drill.
19.
Charles Warren was appointed a Knight Commander of the Order of the Bath on 7 January 1888.
20.
Monro insisted that the first holder of the latter post should be a friend of his, Melville Macnaghten, but Charles Warren opposed his appointment on the grounds that during a riot in Bengal Macnaghten had been "beaten by Hindoos", as he put it.
21.
Charles Warren was blamed for failing to track down the killer, accused of failing to offer a reward for information, accused of assigning an inadequate number of investigators and favouring uniformed constables instead of detectives.
22.
Charles Warren was censured by the Home Office for revealing the workings of the police department and for writing an article without permission.
23.
Charles Warren returned to military duties and in 1889 was sent to command the garrison in Singapore, with a simultaneous promotion to the rank of Major-General in 1893 remaining in Singapore until 1895.
24.
In 1899 as General Officer Commanding the Thames and Medway Canal, General Sir Charles Warren presented a challenge shield for a championship cutter race on the River Medway against the Royal Navy.
25.
In January 1900, Charles Warren bungled the second attempted relief of Ladysmith, which was a west flanking movement over the Tugela River.
26.
Farwell suggested Charles Warren was "perhaps the worst" of the British generals in the Boer War and certainly the most "preposterous".
27.
Charles Warren was described by Redvers Buller in a letter to his wife as "a duffer", responsible for losing him "a great chance".
28.
Charles Warren was recalled to Britain in August 1900 and never again commanded troops in the field.
29.
Charles Warren was appointed Honorary Colonel of the 1st Gloucestershire Royal Engineers in November 1901, promoted general in 1904 and became Colonel-Commandant of the Royal Engineers in 1905.
30.
From 1908, Charles Warren became involved with Baden-Powell in the creation of the Boy Scout movement.
31.
Charles Warren had previously authored several books on Biblical archaeology, particularly Jerusalem, and wrote "On Veldt in the Seventies", and "The Ancient Cubit and Our Weights and Measures".
32.
Charles Warren died of pneumonia, brought on by a bout of influenza, at his home in Weston-super-Mare, Somerset, was given a military funeral in Canterbury, and was buried in the churchyard at Westbere, Kent, next to his wife.
33.
Charles Warren was played by Basil Henson in the 1973 miniseries Jack the Ripper.
34.
Charles Warren was played by Anthony Quayle in the 1979 film Murder by Decree, which features the characters of Sherlock Holmes and Doctor Watson in a dramatisation of a conspiracy theory concerning the Ripper case.