Charles Hubert Roberts (1865–1929) was a British surgeon, physician and lecturer in the fields of gynaecology and obstetrics. He was highly regarded for his diagnostic and surgical skills and was considered to have been an inspiring teacher. He served as Senior Physician to the Samaritan Free Hospital for Women and Physician to In-Patients at
Queen Charlotte's and Chelsea Hospital
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Education
Roberts had a brilliant academic career. He entered
St Bartholomew's Hospital
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History
Early history
Barts was founded in 1123 by ...
from
Bedford Modern School
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in 1884 and won the junior and senior scholarships in Clinical Medicine in 1885 and 1886 and the Brackenbury Scholarship in Surgery.H.E. Vipan, ''A Register of the Old Boys of the Bedford Modern School'' (Bedford, no date), p. 104. At London University he studied
Materia Medica
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and Chemistry for the Degree of MB in 1893 and gained his MD and the Gold Medal in 1896.
Career
At St. Bart's he held a succession of appointments culminating in the position of Demonstrator of Practical Midwifery and the Diseases of Women. However, the main part of his career was spent at
Queen Charlotte's and Chelsea Hospital
Queen Charlotte's and Chelsea Hospital is one of the oldest maternity hospitals in Europe, founded in 1739 in London. Until October 2000, it occupied sites in Marylebone Road and at 339–351 Goldhawk Road, Hammersmith, but is now located betw ...
and the Samaritan Free Hospital for Women and he remained at these establishments until his retirement in 1925. During the War he served as Hon. Obstetric Surgeon at Lady Howard de Walden's Maternity Hospital for Officers' Wives and assisted at Epsom War Hospital. He also established a private practice in
Harley Street
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He served as Examiner in Midwifery and Gynaecology, Conjoint Board, London, Examiner to the Central Midwives Board and Examiner in Obstetrics and Gynaecology at the
University of Sheffield
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He was appointed a
Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons
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in 1892 and a
Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians
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in 1912. He was also a Fellow of the
Royal Society of Medicine
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History
The Royal Society of Medicine (R ...
and in 1913 chaired the Society's section on Obstetrics and Gynaecology.
His main publications were ''Outlines of Gynaecological Pathology and Morbid Anatomy'' (1901) and a translation (with M. L. Trechmann) of Ernst Gottlob Orthmann's ''Handbook of Gynaecological Anatomy'' (1904)
Charles Roberts died of influenza at
Esbjerg
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