Lieutenant General Sir Charles Edmond Knox, KCB (28 February 1846 – 1 November 1938) was an Ulster Scots soldier of the British Army.

[4] On 30 June 1865, Knox was commissioned into the British Army's 85th Regiment of Foot (Bucks Volunteers) as an ensign by purchase.

[3][14][15][16] Just five days later, with the outbreak of the Boer War, Knox was given command of 13th Infantry Brigade on the mobilisation of the 6th Division under General Kelly-Kenny,[17] which formed part of the South African Field Force.

[19] Following the end of the war in June that year, Knox returned to the United Kingdom in the SS Dunottar Castle, which arrived at Southampton in July 1902.

[20] For his services during the war, he was thrice Mentioned in Despatches,[21] awarded the Queen's South Africa Medal and the King's South Africa Medal,[3] promoted substantive major general (dated 4 December 1899),[22] and knighted as a Knight Commander of the Order of the Bath (KCB) in the April 1901 South Arica Honours list (the order was dated to 29 November 1900,[23] and he was only invested as such after his return home, by King Edward VII at Buckingham Palace on 24 October 1902).