 In 1919, he married Dorothy Mary Cecilia Jameson, daughter of Rev.Canon Frederick Gosnal Jameson Page, master of Lord Leycester Hospital; they had one son and two daughters.Charrington was educated at Eton College between 1898 and 1904, before going up to New College, Oxford; he gained third-class moderations in Classics in 1906 and left with a second class Modern History degree two years later.