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5 unusual facts about Charles Warren


Cape Garrison Artillery

A small number of CGA members were also under the command of Sir Charles Warren in Griqualand West.

Dithakong

Dithakong was later subjected to bombardment by colonial forces (under Charles Warren) suppressing a Tswana uprising in 1878.

J. E. Hanauer

He was employed by Charles Warren's expedition to the Transjordan, as a translator and assistant photographer, the beginning of his interest in research on the antiquities and folklore of the region and leading to his involvement with the Palestine Exploration Fund.

Quatuor Coronati Lodge

Nine masons (Charles Warren, William Harry Rylands, Robert Freke Gould, The Revd Adolphus Frederick Alexander Woodford, Walter Besant, John Paul Rylands, Major Sisson Cooper Pratt, William James Hughan, and George William Speth), dissatisfied with the way the history of Freemasonry had been expounded in the past, founded the lodge, obtaining a warrant in 1884.

The A.R.K. Report

Moskoff's thesis is following that of the 12th century Jewish codifier, Maimonides and substantiated by the British engineer and archaeologist, Sir Charles Warren, amongst others.


California Energy Commission

Charles Warren and Al Alquist, California politicians, co-authored the 1974 Warren-Alquist State Energy Resources Conservation and Development Act that created the Commission.

Edward Henry Palmer

Their remains, recovered after the war by the efforts of Sir Charles (then Colonel) Warren, now lie in St Paul's Cathedral.

Mesha Stele

On February 8, 1870, George Grove of the Palestine Exploration Fund announced the existence of the stele in a letter to The Times, attributing the discovery to Charles Warren.

Steel engraving

When Perkins moved to London in 1818, the technique was adapted in 1820 by Charles Warren and especially by Charles Heath (1785–1848) for Thomas Campbell's Pleasures of Hope, which contained the first published plates engraved on steel.


see also

The Missouri Harmony

In 1850 a new edition appeared, with harmonies revised by “scientific musician” Charles Warren of Cincinnati, who purported to correct “several errors in the harmony.”