General Sir Charles Trollope KCB (21 October 1808 – 5 July 1888) was a British Army officer who served as colonel of the 1st Battalion King's Shropshire Light Infantry.

Trollope was commissioned as an ensign in the 17th Regiment of Foot on 19 November 1825.

[1] After serving in the West Indies and in New Brunswick, he became commanding officer of the reserve battalion and was deployed to Cephalonia defending the island from insurgents between 1848 and 1850.

[1] There is a memorial to Trollope at St Michael and All Angels' Church at Uffington in Lincolnshire.

[2] Trollope became colonel of the 1st Battalion King's Shropshire Light Infantry in December 1868.