Admiral Sir Edward Francis Benedict Charlton KCB, KCMG, JP (21 March 1865 – 23 October 1937) was a Royal Navy officer who went on to be Commander-in-Chief, Cape of Good Hope Station.

Charlton joined the Royal Navy in 1878 and served in the Anglo-Egyptian War in 1882.

[3] He served in World War I as Admiral Commanding East Coast Minesweepers from 1914 and then as Commander-in-Chief, Cape of Good Hope Station from 1916.

[4] After the War he became Flag Officer commanding the East Coast of England.

[7] In 1910 he married Winifred Mary Stapleton-Bretherton; they had two sons and three daughters.