Charles Henry Roberts was born in Uxbridge, Middlesex, England on 19 December 1894. By 1911 he was articled to an architect and living in Bournemouth, Hampshire [now Dorset]. By the early 1920s he was practising as an architect in London and in 1923 was elected an Associate of the Royal Institute of British Architects (ARIBA).
A design for a house by him was submitted in The "Daily Mail" Ideal Houses Competition for Architects in 1927.
His address was given as Khartown Home 189 Christchurch Road Boscombe, Bournemouth, Hampshire [now Dorset] in 1911; 61 South Molton Street, London in 1923; 5, Moore Street, Cadogan Gardens, London in 1926; 58, Frith Street, Soho Square, London in 1927; 65 Windsor House, Victoria Street, Westminster, London in 1930; 19 Hatton Garden, London in 1935; and 4 Kingsley Mews, Stanford Road, Kensington, London in 1939