General Sir Charles Warren, G.C.M.G., K.C.B., F.R.S. (1840–1927) was a British soldier and police commissioner.

Warren conducted the first major excavations of Jerusalem, thereby ushering in a new age of Biblical archaeology. His most significant discovery was a water shaft, now known as Warren's shaft , but he also unwittingly published the first artifact with an Israelite inscription--the LMLK seals (Grena, 2004, pp. 109-18; the Warren Era of LMLK research).

He was the Metropolitan Police Commissioner from 1886 to 1888, while a major-general in the British Army. During this period Jack the Ripper committed the Whitechapel murders, and no additional murders were attributed to the Ripper after Warren resigned from the force.

During the Boer War, as a lieutenant-general, he commanded the 5th Division of the South African Field Force. At the Battle of Spion Kop he had operational command and his failure of judgment was the subject of much controversy. However his modest successes later in the campaign allowed him to continue in the army and he was promoted general in 1904 just before he retired.

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• http://www.pef.org.uk/Pages/Warren.htm
• http://www.casebook.org/ripper_media/rps.spion.html