Owen Coetzer attempted "in a small way to vindicate him" for his Boer War actions. Retirement years From 1908, Warren became involved with Baden-Powell in the creation of the Boy Scout movement. He was also involved with another group, the Church Lads' Brigade and 1st St Lawrence Scout Group, then called 1st Ramsgate - Sir Charles Warren's Own Scouts He had previously authored several books on Biblical archaeology, particularly Jerusalem, and also wrote "On Veldt in the Seventies", and "The Ancient Cubit and Our Weights and Measures". He died of pneumonia, brought on by a bout of influenza, at his home in Weston-super-Mare, Somerset, was given a military funeral in Canterbury, and was buried in the churchyard at Westbere, Kent, next to his wife. Fictional portrayals Warren was played by Basil Henson in the 1973 miniseries Jack the Ripper. He was played by Anthony Quayle in the 1979 film Murder by Decree, which features the characters of Sherlock Holmes and Doctor Watson in a dramatization of a conspiracy theory concerning the Ripper case. In the 1988 made-for-TV mini-series Jack the Ripper, which followed the same conspiracy theory as Murder by Decree, he was played by Hugh Fraser. The mini-series shows his final act as commissioner ordering lead detective Fred Abberline to suppress his findings on the investigation in order to protect the royal family from scandal. In the 2001 film From Hell he was played by Ian Richardson. Bibliography Works by Charles Warren Underground Jerusalem (1876) The Temple or the Tomb (1880) Plans, elevations, sections, &c., shewing the results of the excavations at Jerusalem (1884) On the Veldt in the Seventies (1902) The Ancient Cubit and Our Weights and Measures (1903) The Early Weights and Measures of Mankind (1914) Works on Charles Warren References Sources Austin, Ron. The Australian Illustrated Encyclopedia of the Zulu and Boer Wars, Slouch Hat Publication, McCrae, 1999. Bloomfield, Jeffrey, The Making of the Commissioner: 1886, R.W. Stone, Q.P.M. (ed.), The Criminologist, Vol. 12, No. b3, p. 139–155; reprinted, Paul Begg (Exec. ed.), The Ripperologist, No. 47, July 2003, pp. 6–15. Coetzer, Owen. The Anglo-Boer War: The Road to Infamy, 1899–1900, Arms and Armour, 1996. Farwell, Byron, The Great Boer War, Allen Lane, London, 1976 (plus subsequent publications) Fido, Martin and Keith Skinner, The Official Encyclopedia of Scotland Yard (Virgin Books, London: 1999) Kruger, Rayne. Goodbye Dolly Gray: The Story of the Boer War, 1959 Oxford