Sir Charles Darling John Manners-Sutton, 3rd Viscount Canterbury Sir George Bowen Captain Frederick Charles Standish (20 April 1824 – 19 March 1883[1]), often referred to as "Captain Standish", was a Chief Commissioner of Police in Victoria (Australia).

[2] He was educated at Prior Park College, Bath, and then entered the Royal Military Academy, Woolwich.

He subsequently obtained a commission in the Royal Artillery, in which he served for nine years, and retired at the rank of captain.

[2] In 1879 he brought a contingent of Queensland Police Aboriginal trackers to assist in the hunt for the Kelly Gang.

[3][4] Standish wrote of his experiences as a senior figure in the administration of early Victoria in The Leader, a Melbourne newspaper under the bylines "The Contributor" and "An Ex-Official" in a series of sixteen informative and historically valuable articles in 1887.