Sir Charles Warren (1840 -
Officer in the British Royal Engineers, and in later life was the head of the London Metropolitan Police, from 1886 to 1888, during the period of the Jack the Ripper murders.
Educated Cheltenham College, then Sandhurst and to Woolwich where he was gazetted
in 1857 in the Royal Engineers, was given his company in 1869, and six years later
became Major and Brevet Lieutenant-
Between 1867 and 1870 he carried out the explorations in Palestine which form the
basis for our knowledge of the topography of ancient Jerusalem and the archaeology
of the Temple Mount/Haram al-
After this he was sent to South Africa where during the next few years it fell to
him to settle many difficult questions in connection with the boundary of the British
possessions, which he did with the utmost tact and diplomacy. Returning to England
in 1880, he was appointed Instructor of Surveying at Chatham, but in 1882 he again
returned to Africa, where he established the claims of Great Britain over the disputed
territory known as British Bechuanaland. After holding command of the garrison in
Suakim (1886) he was recalled to England the same year to be Chief Commissioner of
the Metropolitan Police -
At the age of 19 he was initiated on 30th December, 1859, in Royal Lodge of Friendship No. 278, Gibralter
passed on 14th January and raised a week later on 21st January, 1860.
Installed as Master on 29th December, 1862. without ever serving as a Warden
On 16th January, 1861, he was accepted as a ‘Joining Member’ of Inhabitants Lodge No 153, Gibralter
District Grand Master: 1891 to 1895 of the .District Grand Lodge of the Eastern Archipelago, UGLE
He became a member of the Royal Arch and the Mark in 1861
and of the Calpe Preceptory of Knights Templar No. 60 in 1863
Founding Worshipful Master of the Quatuor Coronati Lodge No. 2076 in 1886