The Honourable Sir Evan Edward Charteris, KC (29 January 1864 – 16 November 1940) was a British biographer, historian, barrister and arts administrator.
He published notable biographies of his friend John Singer Sargent and of Edmund Gosse.
Evan Edward Charteris was the youngest child of Francis Charteris, 10th Earl of Wemyss and Lady Anne Frederica Anson, second daughter of Thomas Anson, 1st Earl of Lichfield.
[1] Educated at Eton, he was gazetted to a commission in the Coldstream Guards before spending 1887–88 at Balliol College, Oxford.
Elizabeth Baring, and the widow of Lord Edward Arthur Grosvenor.