Charles Hadden

Major-General Sir Charles Frederick Hadden KCB (1854–1924) was a British Army officer who served as Master-General of the Ordnance.

Hadden was commissioned into the Royal Artillery in 1873. He was appointed Chief Inspector at the Royal Arsenal at Woolwich in 1893 and then became a Member of the Ordnance Committee and an Associate Member of Explosives Committee in 1901.

He was made Commandant of the Ordnance College and Director of Artillery in 1904 before moving on to be Master-General of the Ordnance in 1907. In that capacity he was a member of a special committee set up by Prime Minister H. H. Asquith to exploit aerial construction in 1909. He was appointed President of Ordnance Board and Royal Artillery Committee in 1913.

He lived at Rossway near Berkhamsted.