[1] Sir Charles Harman was born in Kensington, the son of John Eustace Harman (1861–1927), barrister of Lincoln's Inn, and his wife, Ethel Frances née Birch, of Onslow Square, central London.
[1] His brother John Augustus (Jack), only a year and a half his senior, was killed in a 1917 flying accident, as part of his war service with the Royal Flying Corps.
He was wounded within the first year, at the Battle of Loos, and spent the rest of the war as a prisoner; he used the time to improve his languages.
[3] Harman was appointed a Justice of the Chancery Division of the High Court of England and Wales on 12 December 1947.
Following that appointment, Harman was made a member of the Privy Council of the United Kingdom.