Richard Charteris DL (25 July 1822 – 16 March 1874) was a Scottish first-class cricketer and British Army officer.
The son of Francis Wemyss-Charteris, 9th Earl of Wemyss, he was born in July 1822 at Aberlady, East Lothian.
[5] By 1854 he had transferred to the Royal Scots Fusiliers, gaining promotion without purchase to captain and lieutenant colonel.
[8] In May of the same year he was appointed a deputy lieutenant of County Tipperary in Ireland.
[10] Charteris died at his Grosvenor Square dwelling on the evening of 16 March 1874, having been suffering from an incurable disease.