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CBE, MD, ChM, FRCS

Professor of Surgery

Thirteenth President of the Society, 1979-81

Sir Charles was Emeritus Professor of Surgery at the University of Glasgow. A Yorkshire man, he qualified in medicine at Edinburgh University in 1922 after a short spell in the Royal Flying Corps during the War.

For some years he was Surgical Tutor to Sir David Wilkie in Edinburgh, then in 1939 he was appointed to the Glasgow Chair, largely through the far-sighted influence of Sir Hector Hetherington.

In Glasgow, Sir Charles worked hard to promote the status of the University and the Glasgow Colleges. He wrote a well-known textbook of Surgery and, with a colleague, an equally widely read textbook of Surgical Pathology.

Living to the age of ?90, he became a much respected elder statesman.