Author talk:Charles Harington Harington

Sources

Name: Sir Charles Harington
Birth Year: 1872
Death Year: 1940
Source:

• Biography Index. A cumulative index to biographical material in books and magazines. Volume 2: August, 1949-August, 1952. New York: H.W. Wilson Co., 1953. (BioIn 2)
• The Dictionary of National Biography. 1931-1940. Edited by L.G. Wickham Legg. London: Oxford University Press, 1949. (DcNaB 1931)
  • updated in 2004 https://www.oxforddnb.com/view/10.1093/ref:odnb/9780198614128.001.0001/odnb-9780198614128-e-33712?rskey=Nd0kN9&result=1

Burial

• Gloucestershire Archives; Gloucestershire, England; Reference Number: P46 IN 1/26

Name: Charles Harington Harington
Residence: Clare Hill
Age: 68
Burial Date: 25 Oct 1940
Burial Place: Bishops Cleeve, Gloucestershire, England
Parish as it Appears: Bishops Cleeve

• Find a Grave

Name: Charles Harington Harington
Gender: M (Male)
Birth Date: 31 May 1872
Birth Place: Chichester, Chichester District, West Sussex, England
Death Date: 22 May 1940
Death Place: Cheltenham, Cheltenham Borough, Gloucestershire, England
Cemetery: Chester Cathedral
Burial or Cremation Place: Chester, Cheshire West and Chester Unitary Authority, Cheshire, England
Has Bio?: Y
Memorial ID 203361623

British Army General Sir Charles Harington Harington GCB, GBE, DSO (Knight Grand Cross of the Order of the Bath / Knight Grand Cross of the Order of the British Empire / Distinguished Service Order) served in the army for 46 years - in the Second Boer War and during the First World War (WW1)

Married Gladys Grattan, the daughter of his Commanding Officer - Brigadier General O'Donnel Colley Grattan, at Limerick Cathedral in 1904

Probate

• Calendar of the Grants ...

Name: Charles Harington Harington
Death Date: 22 Oct 1940
Death Place: Cheltenham, Gloucestershire, England
Probate Date: 27 Jan 1941
Probate Registry: Llandudno

HARINGTON G.C.B. G.B.E D.S.O. D.C.L. sir Charles Harington of Adderstone Cleeve Hill Cheltenham died 22 October 1940 Probate Llandudno 27 January to Laurence Ilbery Harington of no occupation and Herbert Henry Harrington retired colonel H.M. army. Effects £1880 7s. 4d.

Notes.

• Laurance Ilbery Harrington (b.1861) is son of Emmanual Thomas Poe/Harington, so is brother of deceased
• Herbert Henry Harrington (b.1868) is son of Emmanual Thomas Poe/Harington, so is brother of deceased

baptism

• England, Births and Christenings, 1538-1975. Salt Lake City, Utah: FamilySearch, 2013.

Name: Charles Harington Poe
Gender: Male
Baptism Date: 30 Jun 1872
Baptism Place: Saint Paul,Chichester,Sussex,England
Father: Emmanuel Thomas Poe
Mother: Isabella Jane
FHL Film Number: 918247

Census

• 1881 England

Name: Charles Harington
Age: 8
Relationship to Head: Son
Father: Emanuel T. Harington
Mother: Isabella J. Harington
Gender: Male
Where born: Chichester, Sussex, England
Civil Parish: Paddington
County/Island: London
Country: England
Street Address: 11 Inverness Terr
Occupation: Scholar
Registration District: Kensington
Sub registration district: St John Paddington
ED, institution, or vessel: 24
Neighbors:
Piece: 20
Folio: 83
Page Number: 17
Household Members:
Name Age
Emanuel T. Harington 54, East India Merchant
Isabella J. Harington 38
Charles Harington 8
Louisa Crowdy 28
Amelia Dyde 35
Emily Fittall 23
Emmeline Stevens 22
Sophy Robinson 15
Wallace Peirce 22

• 1911 England

Name: Charles Harington Harington
Age in 1911: 38
Relation to Head: Head
Gender: Male
Birth Place: Chichester, Sussex, England
Civil Parish: Ruislip
Street Address: South Hill House, Eastcote Near Pinner, Middlesex
Marital status: Married
Occupation: Captain His Majesty's Army
Registration District: Uxbridge
Registration District Number: 127
Sub-registration District: Uxbridge
ED, institution, or vessel: 05
Piece: 6775
Household Members:
Name Age
Charles Harington Harington 38
Gladys Norah Harington 26
Annie Collins 62
Bertha Butler 20
Elizabeth Ann Andrews 24

1939 Register

Name: Charles H Harington
Gender: Male
Marital Status: Married
Birth Date: 31/05/1872 (31 May 1872)
Residence Year: 1939
Address: Bing Cottage
Residence Place: Uckfield Sussex England
Occupation: Retired General H M Army
Line Number: 40
Schedule Number: 193
Sub Schedule Number: 1
Enumeration District: EKTI
Borough: Uckfield
Registration district: 74/3
Inferred Spouse:
Gladys W Harington
Household Members Age
Charles H Harington 67
Gladys W Harington 54

UK officer service

• The National Archives; Kew, London, England; WO 76 - War Office: Records of Officers' Services; Reference: WO 76/136

Name: Charles Harrington Harrington
Gender: Male
Marital status: Married
Birth Date: 31 May 1872
Birth Place: Chichester Sussex
Enlistment Date: 1891 < completion of RMC
Regiment: 8th Foot (The King's Liverpool Regiment)
Spouse: Gladys Noral Grattan

Looking at this image at Fold3 has empty data fields for legitimate children.

states married Jan 7th 1904 in Limerick, by Bishop of Ossory, C of E.

Commentary

No children of CHH marriage.

I can also see the BIG obituary of his nephew (son of HHH) in the Times in 2007. Article states that he married Victoire Marion Williams-Freeman in 1943, she died 2000; and survived by a son and two daughters.

General Sir Charles Harington
Date: Thursday, Feb. 15, 2007
Publication: The Times (London, England)
Issue: 68936

Autobiography

General Harington's Life
Date: Saturday, Dec. 21, 1940
Publication: The Times (London, England)
Issue: 48805

Review of "Tim Harington Looks Back" by Gen. Sir Charles Harington

Available to read https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.176573

Obituary

Date: Friday, Nov. 15, 1940
Publication: The Times (London, England)
Issue: 48774

Written as letter to editor by Canon E. C. Hudson

Obituaries
Date: Thursday, Oct. 24, 1940
Publication: The Times (London, England)
Issue: 48755

by staff writer