Charles Brett

Sir Charles Edward Bainbridge Brett, KBE, CBE (30 October 1928 - 19 December 2005), was a Northern Irish solicitor, journalist, author and founding member, and first chairman, of the Ulster Architectural Heritage Society (UAHS).

[1] Between 1949 and 1950, he worked in France as a journalist with the Continental Daily Mail, where he is said to have mixed in anarchist and Trotskyist circles.

With the National Trust he put his legal skill to use in order to establish a public footpath along the cliffs of the North Coast of Ulster.

In 1974, the National Trust of Guernsey invited Brett to carry out a similar architectural survey of St Peter Port in Guernsey to mark European Architectural Heritage Year in 1975, resulting in the publication of Buildings in the Town and Parish of St Peter Port.

He also wrote a volume titled Long Shadows Cast Before , incorporating family history, political commentary and autobiography.