Charles attended Radley, where he played in the First XI from 1891 to 1893 and captained the team in 1893.
He represented Middlesex as a right-handed batsman and a right-arm slow bowler in two matches in 1902.
Charles's son Allan married the novelist Stella Gibbons.
Charles died in St John's Wood, London, aged 88.
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