Charles Barton (British Army officer)

Lieutenant-General Charles Barton (20 April 1760 – 11 June 1819) was an Anglo-Irish soldier who commanded the 2nd Regiment of Life Guards and fought in the Peninsular War.

[1] In 1804, while a Major-General, Barton sat with Henry Edward Fox as a member of a court martial to try a case against Dr Robert Gordon, Physician to the Forces.

[10] At the time of his death, Barton owned an estate in County Fermanagh called the Waterfoot, near Pettigo, which was inherited by his eldest son.

[11] Thomas Carlyle later described Barton as "...an Irish landlord and a man of connections about Court, lived in a certain figure here in Town; had a wife of fashionable habits, with other sons, and also daughters, bred in this sphere.

[20] The Dictionary of Australian Biography states that Paterson was related to Edmund Barton, the country’s first prime minister,[21] but the exact relationship is unclear.