Charles Landon (other)
Charles Landon may refer to: * Charles Landon (cricketer) (1850–1903), English cricketer * Charles N. Landon (1878–1937), American illustrator *Charles Paul Landon Charles Paul Landon (12 October 17605 March 1826) was a French painter and popular writer on art and artists. Life and work Landon was born in Nonant and entered the studio of Jean-Baptiste Regnault, where he made a lifelong friendship with Robe ...

Charles Landon (cricketer)
Charles Whittington Landon (30 May 1850 – 5 March 1903) was an English amateur first-class cricketer, who played six games for Lancashire County Cricket Club in 1874 and 1875, and nine for Yorkshire between 1878 and 1882. Having first played for the Lancashire Gentlemen, he also appeared for the Yorkshire Gentlemen from 1876 to 1902, putting on 271 with A.D. Dickson on one occasion. Born in Bromley, Kent, England, the son of the chaplain at Bromley College, he was educated at Bromsgrove School and appeared for their first XI in 1866 and 1867. Standing just over and weighing almost , he was a right-handed batsman and a right-round-arm bowler with an eccentric action. Bowling against the Australians in 1882, a contemporary report said "the amateur's delivery was very curious and caused a great deal of laughter". He was reputed to be a brilliant field at cover-point. He played in four matches for Lancashire in 1874. Moving to Yorkshire he played for his adopted county fro ...
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Charles N
Charles is a masculine given name predominantly found in English and French speaking countries. It is from the French form ''Charles'' of the Proto-Germanic name (in runic alphabet) or ''*karilaz'' (in Latin alphabet), whose meaning was "free man". The Old English descendant of this word was '' Ċearl'' or ''Ċeorl'', as the name of King Cearl of Mercia, that disappeared after the Norman conquest of England. The name was notably borne by Charlemagne (Charles the Great), and was at the time Latinized as ''Karolus'' (as in ''Vita Karoli Magni''), later also as '' Carolus''. Some Germanic languages, for example Dutch and German, have retained the word in two separate senses. In the particular case of Dutch, ''Karel'' refers to the given name, whereas the noun ''kerel'' means "a bloke, fellow, man". Etymology The name's etymology is a Common Germanic noun ''*karilaz'' meaning "free man", which survives in English as churl (< Old English ''ċeorl''), which developed its depr ...
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