Charles Eustace Anson

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Admiral Charles Eustace Anson, CB, MVO (3 December 1859 – 28 April 1940) was a Royal Navy officer.[1]

A member of the Anson family, Charles Eustace Anson was the son of the Rev Frederick Anson, Canon of Windsor, and of the Hon Caroline Maria, daughter of George John Venables-Vernon, 5th Baron Vernon.[1] He entered HMS Britannia as a cadet in July 1872.[2]

He was promoted to captain on 31 December 1901.[3] Anson was the father of the electrical engineer Horatio St George Anson and the writer Peter Anson.

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