Charles Adair (Royal Marines officer)


Sir Charles William Adair was a Royal Marines officer who served as Deputy Adjutant-General Royal Marines.

Military career

Adair was born in Plymouth, the son of Maj.-Gen. Thomas Benjamin Adair Adair was appointed a lieutenant in the Royal Marines on 12 February 1842. He became colonel and second commandant at the Chatham Division on 16 February 1872, Assistant Adjutant-General at Headquarters Royal Marine Forces on 30 October 1872. and colonel-commandant of the Portsmouth Division on 29 July 1876. He went on to be Deputy Adjutant-General Royal Marines in September 1878 before retiring in September 1883.
He was appointed Aide-de-Camp to the Queen in 1870. In 1871, he was appointed a Companion of the Order of the Bath and knighted in the same order in 1882.
He married Isabella Aslett daughter of Col. Thompson Aslett. He was the father of Rear-Admiral Thomas Benjamin Stratton Adair.