General Sir Charles Cameron Shute KCB DL (3 January 1816 – 30 April 1904) was a British army officer and Conservative Party politician.

[1][2] They had several children, including a younger son Cameron Dinsdale Deane Shute (1868–1938), an army reserve officer who married Amy Pepper-Staveley.

[4] In 1834 Shute entered the army with the rank of cornet in the 13th Light Dragoons,[5] and served with distinction with the regiment during operations in 1839 in the Kurnool area of India.

[1][9] In 1861 he retired on half pay with the rank of brevet colonel, but in May 1862 returned to the army as commanding officer of the 4th (Royal Irish) Dragoon Guards[10] He remained the CO of the regiment until 1871 when he was promoted to major general.

[1][18] In retirement he was active on the magistrate's bench, being a justice of the peace for Hampshire and Sussex, and a deputy lieutenant of the latter county.