Charles Stanley Partridge (10 February 1872 – 21 December 1955) was an English anthropologist and historian with a particular focus on Suffolk, and former colonial administrator in Nigeria.
[4][5] He was educated at Queen Elizabeth School, Ipswich- where he was a younger contemporary of the writer H. Rider Haggard- and at Christ's College, Cambridge, where he took a B.A.
[9] During his time in Nigeria, Partridge wrote a book, Cross River Natives: notes on the primitive pagans of Obubura District, published in 1905.
Partridge left Nigeria in 1915, subsequently serving in the Army in Greece and Italy (where he was a Railway Transport Officer) during World War I as a Staff Lieutenant.
His obituary in The Times of 10 January 1956 quoted a friend who called him: "a born scholar, with an excellent memory, wide interests, exact knowledge, a love of truth and a dislike of pomposity, inaccuracy and humbug."