Charles Henry Brewitt-Taylor (1857–1938) was a distinguished official in the Imperial Maritime Customs Service in China. He is best known for his translation of Romance of the Three Kingdoms, published in 1925, marking the first complete translation of one of China’s classical novels into English.

Brewitt-Taylor was born on 11 December 1857 in Kingston, Sussex. He served a lengthy career in China, contributing significantly to the understanding and appreciation of Chinese literature in the English-speaking world.

He married Alice Mary Vale in 1880, and they had two sons. Sadly, his son Raymond was killed during World War I as a member of the Field Ambulance Service, and his other son, Leonard, died in 1933 from a cancerous blood condition. Brewitt-Taylor remarried in 1891 to Ann Michie.

He passed away on 4 March 1938 at his home, Cathay, in Earlsferry, Fife, at the age of eighty.