The Hon. Sir Evan Edward Charteris (29 January 1864 – 16 November 1940, Jesmond Hill, Pangbourne) was an English biographer, barrister and arts administrator. He published notable biographies of his friend John Singer Sargent and of Edmund Gosse.
On 9 August 1930 he married Lady Dorothy Margaret Browne, the elder daughter of Valentine Browne, 5th Earl of Kenmare and Hon. Elizabeth Baring, and the widow of Lord Edward Grosvenor.[1]
Works
(ed.) A short account of the affairs of Scotland: in the years 1744, 1745, 1746
William Augustus, duke of Cumberland, his early life and times (1721-1748), 1913
William Augustus, duke of Cumberland and the seven years' war, 1925
John Sargent: with reproductions from his paintings and drawings, 1927
The Life and Letters of Sir Edmund Gosse, London, 1931
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