Charles Castleman (1807–1876) was an English solicitor, railway planner, justice of the peace and prison inspector.
[1] Born 1807 at Allendale House in Wimborne to William Castleman (founder of the Christchurch, Wimborne and Ringwood Bank), Charles was one of ten children, only three of whom survived into adulthood (Charles, Henry and Edward - all becoming solicitors).
He married Isabel Swinburne in 1859, and in 1862 they moved to the Glasshayes estate in Lyndhurst, New Forest.
Whilst in residence at Lyndhurst he gifted the clock to the clocktower of the newly built local church of St Michael and All Angels.
[2] He and Isabel later moved to Surrey, and then on to Bishopstoke in Eastleigh where he suffered kidney failure, dying on 17 July 1876.