Charles William George St. John (3 December 1809 – 22 July 1856), English naturalist and sportsman, son of General the Hon.
[1] St. John was educated at Midhurst, Sussex, and about 1828 obtained a clerkship in the treasury, but resigned in 1834, in which year in November he married Ann Gibson, the daughter of a rich banker in Newcastle.
He and his growing family lived in succession at several rustic residences in the Highlands in Ross-shire, Inverness, Nairn, and Moray[citation needed] and ultimately settled in the Laigh of Moray, within easy distance of mountain sport.
His works are Short Sketches of the Wild Sports and Natural History of the Highlands (London, 1846, 2nd ed.
1861); Tour in Sutherland (1849, 2nd ed., with recollections by Captain H. St. John, 1884); Notes of Natural History and Sport in Morayshire, with Memoir by C. Innes (1863, 2nd ed.