Born at Birmingham, the son of Edwin Bartleet (qv). After attending King Edward VI’s Grammar School he entered Queen’s College and the General Hospital as a medical student, later migrating to King’s College Hospital, London. After a course in midwifery at the Rotunda Hospital, Dublin, and in operative surgery at Paris, he joined partnership, upon the retirement of his father, with Dr M Hazelwood Clayton, and after Clayton’s death in 1873 with Edward Malins. He was elected Surgeon to the Children’s Hospital, and in 1867 Surgeon to the General Hospital, after a contest which cost him £800. For some years he taught physiology at Queen’s College, but in conjunction with James Russell he took an energetic part in the amalgamation of the two medical colleges, Queen’s College and Sydenham College, and the foundation of Mason’s Science College. When this was accomplished he resigned in favour of a regular Professor of Physiology and devoted himself to the teaching of surgery. He practised at 27 Newhall Street, residing at 26 Hagley Road, Edgbaston. He was an active member of the Birmingham branch of the British Medical Association. For some years Secretary, later President of the branch, at the meeting of the Association in Birmingham in 1890 he was President of the Surgical Section. He followed his father-in-law, Samuel Berry (qv), and his senior partner, Clayton, in actively forwarding the Birmingham Medical Benevolent Association. He was also a devoted member of St George’s Church, Edgbaston, acting as churchwarden under the Rev C M Owen. He made a number of communications to the Birmingham medical periodicals on surgery. Although for some two or three years he had suffered from diabetes, he continued at work until a few days before his death in 1891. He was buried with his father and mother at Chipping Campden. He married in 1867 the only child of Samuel Berry, FRCS, and was survived by her, two sons, and three daughters.