Admiral of the Fleet Sir Charles Edmund Nugent GCH (c.1759 – 7 January 1844) was a Royal Navy officer.

[1] Nugent entered the Navy as a youngster in 1771,[2] serving aboard the sloop Scorpion, commanded by George Elphinstone (later Viscount Keith) until 1774.

On 26 December 1777 Parker sailed from Portsmouth with a squadron of ships, carrying troops under the command of Earl Cornwallis, to launch an attack on Charleston, South Carolina.

Before the Battle of San Fernando de Omoa in October 1779 Nugent was sent in the schooner Racehorse to employ local pilots from the Gulf of Honduras, but when attempting to land at St. George's Key was captured by armed Spanish boats.

[3] When the war with France began in 1793 Nugent was appointed to the 64-gun ship Veteran, and sailed for the Caribbean at the end of the year.

He served in the naval brigade in the invasions of Martinique, Saint Lucia, and Guadaloupe, receiving the thanks of the military Commander-in-Chief, Sir Charles Grey, before returning to England with despatches.