Charles John Ffoulkes

Charles John ffoulkes (1868–1947) was an English historian of arms and armor and a museum curator. Trained at Oxford, where he wrote on armor for his degree, he published The Armourer and His Craft (1912) and other studies of medieval weapons and their makers. In 1913 he became Master of the Armouries at the Tower of London, a post he held until 1938, and during the First World War he was the first curator and secretary of the Imperial War Museum, which he helped to build from the start. He also wrote on the history of the Tower and on military dress.