Charles Lister (7 November 1811 – 18 August 1873) was an English dandy and civil servant, who encountered money troubles from around age 30.
[5] His niece Adelaide Lister Drummond described him in his Oxford days: "... indeed, a very attractive person at this time.
[2] His sister Adelaide married firstly Thomas Lister, 2nd Baron Ribblesdale (died 1832); and then, secondly, in 1835, Lord John Russell, who that year became Home Secretary.
[7] Russell in 1836 gave Lister a clerkship in the Home Department, where in 1840 he worked in the Secretary of State's Office.
[8][9] In 1841 Lister, then of Fyfield, was declared an insolvent debtor, having lived in a number of residences, including Boulogne in 1839–1840.