Charles Bernard (baptised 1652 – 1710) was an English surgeon, a

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, and master of the Barber Surgeons' Company in 1703.

Life

He was born at

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, the son of Samuel Bernard, formerly vicar of Croydon, and his wife, Elizabeth; the physician Francis Bernard was his brother. In 1670 he was apprenticed to the surgeon Henry Boone. Bernard, a Tory and

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man, was elected surgeon to

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in 1686, by special command of the king. He was elected to the Royal Society in 1696. He was the chief surgical practitioner in London of his time, noted for saving the leg of a young

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, later to become

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, from

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. He became sergeant-surgeon to Queen Anne in the first year of her reign. Bernard died at

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on 9 October 1710, where he was treating

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. He was a bibliophile, and his library was auctioned on 22 March 1711.

Family

Bernard in 1679 married Susanna Gardner, and they had a son and three daughters. Of the daughters, Elizabeth married Ambrose Dickins, apprentice to Bernard who became a physician and FRS, and another married

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Charles Bernard Lectures

The first of a series of Charles Bernard Lectures, funded by the Barbers' Company, was given by Rodney Hemingfield Taylor (1942–2017) in 2001.

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* ;Attribution {{DEFAULTSORT:Bernard, Charles Year of birth missing 1710 deaths English surgeons Fellows of the Royal Society People from Surrey