Charles Bruton

Charles Lamb Bruton (6 April 1890 – 26 March 1969) was an English colonial administrator.

Born in Gloucester on 6 April 1890, he was the son of Henry William Bruton, and was educated at Radley College and Keble College, Oxford. He was then secretary to Luke Paget, Bishop of Stepney, in 1913–4.

Bruton was in Uganda as Assistant District Commissioner (1914), District Commissioner (1924), and Provincial Commissioner of the Eastern Province (1936). He was then in Swaziland from 1937 to 1942, as Resident Commissioner and then Commissioner of the East African Refugee Admininstration, retiring in 1947. He later lived at Shiplake-on-Thames.

Bruton played for Gloucestershire in 1922.