Charles Vernon Eccles (20 August 1843 – 21 February 1890) was an English first-class cricketer and British Army officer.
[3] A keen cricketer, he played first-class cricket for Hampshire on two occasions, playing against Lancashire in 1870 and Kent in 1875;[4] his brother, William, had served as the honorary secretary of Hampshire in the late 1860s.
[4] Eccles continued to serve in the Royal Dragoons alongside his cricket commitments and was appointed an instructor of musketry in 1872.
[7] He was appointed aide-de-camp in April 1882 to Sir William Jervois, Governor of South Australia and later Governor-General of New Zealand, a role he held until 1886.
[8][1] Eccles died in British India at Bareilly from typhoid fever on 21 February 1890.