Charles Corkran

Major-General Sir Charles Edward Corkran KCVO CB CMG (20 August 1872 – 9 January 1939) was Major-General commanding the Brigade of Guards and General Officer Commanding London District.

Military career
Born the son of Colonel Charles Seymour Corkran and educated at Eton College, Corkram was commissioned into the Grenadier Guards in 1893. He served on the Nile Expedition in 1898 and in the Second Boer War.

He also served in World War I and, as Commanding Officer of a Battalion of the Grenadier Guards, took his men to France in 1914.

After the War he became Commanding Officer of the Grenadier Guards Regiment and then went on to be Commandant of the Senior Officers' School. He was appointed Commandant of the Royal Military College Sandhurst in 1923 and then became Major-General commanding the Brigade of Guards and General Officer Commanding London District in 1928. He retired in 1932.

In retirement he became Serjeant at Arms of the British House of Commons. He died in a shooting accident.

Family
In 1904 he married Winifred Maud Ricardo; they had one daughter and two sons.