Evening star., 1923-10-14
Welcome Addition
To Diplomatic Corps
Is Charlton Family
New British Military Attache
Member of Famous Old
Family-Wife and Chill
dren Arrive.


Charles Graham Charlton, military at
ttache of the British embassy. has been
in Washington since the middle of
June, Mrs. Charlton and the two chill
dren have arrived only within the last
ten days. The family is now coZily
established in the attractive residence
OF Miss Wells, at 1922 Sunderland
place. Mrs Charlton was passenger
on the Mauretania with the Hon. David
Lloyd George and Mrs. and Miss Lloyd
George, and her first glimpse of the
United States and it's first city, New
York, was indeed lively one. 1t was
| she commented, an Ideal day and the
renowned harbor presented a mar
velous appearance while the bands and
shrieking tugs proclaimed a. welcome.
The small son, Wyngate Graham Charl-
ton, who is ten, and little Moyra Gra-
ham Charlton, who Is five, were, of
course, enchanted with the merrimeRt
and the gay panorama of soldiers, sail
ors and much bedecked civilians lined
up on the piers TO extend an official
greeting to the sturdy Welsh statesman
who had guided the ship of state dur
ing stormy times. Washington has
ious days in New York.
Col. and Mrs. Charlton have a per-
manent home adjacent to the pic
turesque city of Chester and there
Mrs. Charlton and her children spent
the past summer. The colonel was
stationed at the barracks in Chester
when he was sent to Washington
to succeed Gen. Hugh Keppel Beth
ell, who had been military attache
for the past three years. Both Col.
AfreS I, Hr-1%
additions to the diplomatic corps and
will round out most acceptabiy the
increasingly numerous contingent of
military attaches of foreign govern
ments established in Washington.
The colonel bears a name which has
the past fifty years, when young
William Oswald Charlton was at
tached to the British legation and
during his residence won the heart
bell, daughter of Mr.. and Mrs. Archi-
bald Campbell of this city. This
William Oswald Charlton is the uncle
of the present military attache and
is the head of this ancient and re-
nowned family, which came to Eng
in the old stronghold of the Charltons,
at Hesleyside, near Bellingham, in
Northum berland, in the same sturdy
mansion which has sheltered his an
y
Col. Charlton belongs to the branch
of the family which is known in
England as the Graham Charltons
and is usually so written. He also
is a native of Northumberland, which
borders on Scotland, but, as he had
world has practically been his home
for the past fifteen years. He grad
uated with high honors at Woolwich
in 1891 and was Immediately as
signed to the nth Infantry, of which
he was commander until his mission
to Washington. He can wear some
brilliant decorations received during
the world war from the British, Bel
gian, French and italian govern
ments and he had previously received
from the Khedive OF Egypt for en-
ineht service rendered the Egyptian
army and from the British govern
ment for exceptionally gallant con-
duct I'm the Sudan.
Mrs. Charlton was Miss Gwendolin
Whitaker, daughter of Mr.. Arthur
Whitaker Of Cadogan square, in Lon
don. Shortly after her marriage, In
1905, she accompanied Lieut. Charl-
ton to the Sudan and was with him
In that remote country the greater
part of the next five years. She had
the unique experience of travelling
weeks on camel back and of living in
tents and on the food of the desert
for months, without a peep into civil
fiZatfon. However, she and Lieut..
Charlton returned to England when
ever possible and so the long stretch
of life in the wild was broken before
1t became irksome. Since then Mrs.
Charlton has lived in almost every
part of the British possessions and on
all the continents except the Ameri-
can.
This Is Col. Charlton's first sojourn
In America, as wen as that of his
wife. Having so many half-Ameri-
can cousins, he and Mrs. Charlton
are inclined to regard. the entire
country as their Kindred and they
look forward to the winter and to
meeting the official and residential
world Of Washington with keen an
ticipation. OF the four sons of that
first Charlton to serve In the diplo-
matte corps in Washington three have
been connected with the British en-
bassy here, the last being that cru
dite commodore of the air service,
Lionel Evelyn Charlton, who was on
a special aviation mission to Wash
ington from 1919-2I. This first cousin
and good friend of the military at
tache wrote that learned volume en-
titled "A Book for the Students of
Hansa," which lis much priced by the
limited circle here interested In the
study.
The son and daughter of the charl-