Colonel Francis Charteris, nicknamed "The Rape-Master General", was a Scottish soldier and adventurer who earned a substantial sum of money through gambling and the South Sea Bubble. He was also a serial rapist who was convicted of raping a servant in 1730 and sentenced to death, but subsequently pardoned, before dying of natural causes shortly afterwards.
- Occupation
- military personnel, soldier, adventurer
- Citizenship
- Kingdom of Great Britain
- Born
- 1675, April 4, 1675
- Died
- February 24, 1732
