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|name = Sir Charles Keyes<br />
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|birth_date = 25 November 1822<br />
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|death_date = 5 February 1896<br />
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|rank = [[General (United Kingdom)|General]]<br />
|serviceyears = 1843-1891<br />
|allegiance = {{UK}}<br />
|branch = {{flagicon|British Raj}} [[British Indian Army]]<br />
|commands = [[55th Coke's Rifles (Frontier Force)|1st Punjab Infantry]]<br>[[Corps of Guides (India)|Queen's Own Corps of Guides]]<br>Punjab Field Force<br>[[9th (Secunderabad) Division]]<br />
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|awards = [[Order of the Bath|Knight Grand Cross of the Order of the Bath]]<br />
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[[General (United Kingdom)|General]] '''Sir Charles Patton Keyes''', {{post-nominals|sep=,|GCB|JP}} (25 November 1822 – 5 February 1896) was a [[British Indian Army]] officer.<br />
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==Career==<br />
He was commissioned into the [[Madras Army|30th Madras Native Infantry]] in 1843, and was promoted to the rank of captain in 1858.<ref>{{London Gazette |issue=22710 |date=24 February 1863 |page=941}}</ref> He served as commanding officer of the [[55th Coke's Rifles (Frontier Force)|1st Punjab Infantry]], [[Corps of Guides (India)|Queen's Own Corps of Guides]], Punjab Field Force and the [[9th (Secunderabad) Division]]. He latterly served with the [[Indian Staff Corps]].<ref>{{London Gazette |issue=25423 |date=16 December 1884 |page=5827}}</ref> Keyes was promoted to major-general in 1881 and General in 1889. He was made [[Knight Grand Cross of the Order of the Bath]] in the [[1891 Birthday Honours]].<ref>{{London Gazette |issue=26167 |date=30 May 1891 |page=2921 |display-supp=y}}</ref> In retirement he held the office of [[Justice of the Peace]] for Kent.<br />
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==Family==<br />
Keyes was the son of Thomas Keyes and Mary Anne Patton. He married Katherine Jessie Norman, daughter of Sir James Norman (and sister of [[Henry Wylie Norman]]), on 12 January 1870. Together they had nine children:<br />
*Katherine Mary Keyes (died July 1956)<br />
*Phyllis Marion Keyes (died 1 May 1968)<br />
*Norman Keyes<br />
*Admiral [[Roger Keyes, 1st Baron Keyes|Roger John Brownlow Keyes, 1st Baron Keyes]] (4 October 1872 – 26 December 1945), father of [[Geoffrey Keyes (VC)|Geoffrey Keyes]]<br />
*Dorothea Agnes Keyes (8 July 1874 – 2 April 1962)<br />
*Charles Valentine Keyes (14 February 1876 – 1901)<br />
*[[Terence Keyes|Sir Terence Humphrey Keyes]] (28 May 1877 – 26 February 1939)<br />
*Adrian St. Vincent Keyes (19 December 1882 – 6 October 1926)<br />
*Madeline Helen Keyes (1886-25 April 1964)<br />
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Following her husband's death, Lady Keyes was in 1902 granted use of a set of apartments in Clock Tower, [[Hampton Court Palace]], by King [[Edward VII]].<ref>{{Cite newspaper The Times |title=Court Circular |date=3 July 1902 |page=8 |issue=36810}}</ref><br />
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