Born 2 March 1873 at Lutterworth, Leicestershire, the second son and second child of Herbert William Fagge, MRCS 1866, LSA 1867, and his wife, *née* Watson. Herbert William Fagge, the father, had been educated at Guy's Hospital and was house surgeon at the Royal Free Hospital before he settled in general practice at Lutterworth. He was a brother of Charles Hilton Fagge (1838-83), physician to Guy's Hospital. Charles Herbert Fagge was educated at Oundle School and entered Guy's Hospital Medical School in October 1890. He distinguished himself by winning the gold medal and exhibition for anatomy at the London University intermediate examination in 1895, and the gold medal with a moiety of the exhibition in surgery at the final MB examination in 1897. Two years later he was appointed assistant demonstrator of anatomy in the Medical School at Guy's and was demonstrator and lecturer on the subject from 1906 to 1910. In 1902 he was made surgeon-in-charge of the aural department in the hospital, a position he held until 1908. He was elected assistant surgeon in 1905, when Sir Arbuthnot Lane was his senior colleague, became surgeon in 1917, resigned under the age limit in 1933, and was consulting surgeon from that date until his death. Amongst his minor hospital appointments he was surgeon to the Evelina Hospital for Children, and consulting surgeon to the Beckenham Hospital and to St John's Hospital at Blackheath. During the war Fagge was gazetted major, RAMC (T), on 18 June 1915, and served at the Hampstead Military Hospital. He was promoted temporary lieutenant-colonel on 28 July 1915, and was attached to the 2nd London General Hospital, acting at the same time as consulting surgeon to the Royal Red Cross Hospital for Officers at Fishmongers Hall, EC, where he had Lieutenant-Colonel D'Arcy Power, FRCS, as his colleague. He was ordered to France in June 1917, with the rank of brevet colonel, but he suffered from dysentery and was invalided home. At the Royal College of Surgeons he was elected an examiner in anatomy in 1909, served as a member of the Court of Examiners 1920-30 and as a surgical examiner on the Dental Board in 1923. He was a Member of Council 1921-38, being vice-president in 1929 and 1930. In 1928 he delivered the Bradshaw lecture on "Axial rotation", and in 1936 he was Hunterian Orator, taking as his subject "John Hunter to John Hilton". When the Australasian College of Surgeons obtained a Royal Charter of Incorporation the Council of the English College of Surgeons presented it with a great mace as a token of friendship. Fagge was deputed to present it formally and in person. This he did successfully and with much dignity at the inaugural meeting held in the Wilson Hall of Melbourne University on 17 February 1932. He also delivered the first Syme Oration at the College. For these services the University of Melbourne conferred upon him the honorary degree of Doctor of Medicine and the Royal Australasian College of Surgeons elected him an Honorary Fellow. On his return to England he filled the offices of president of the Association of Surgeons of Great Britain and Ireland in 1933 and president of the surgical section of the Royal Society of Medicine in 1932-33; of the Royal Society of Medicine itself he had been the honorary treasurer from 1914 to 1920. He began to suffer from Parkinson's disease, which increased to such a degree that he was obliged to become a complete invalid in February 1938. He died at Nuffield House, Guy's Hospital, on 19 March 1939. He married on 10 May 1899 Beatrice Dora, daughter of Michael Metcalfe of Sydney, New South Wales. She survived him with three daughters and a son who, like his father, received his medical education at Guy's Hospital. Mrs Fagge died at Lacey Green, Buckinghamshire on 12 July 1944. The outstanding feature of Fagge's character was his conscientious devotion to his work and to Guy's Hospital, where his professional interests were centred. His loyalty to his colleagues, his generosity to juniors, and the deep interest he took in the work and games of students endeared him to those with whom he worked. As an operator showed great technical skill and sound judgement. He was more especially interested in the surgery of the bones. Publications:- *The acute abdomen*. London: Bale, 1932. He edited the 5th (1901) to the 9th (1933) editions of the *Pocket anatomy*. The work began as *Aids to anatomy*, written by George Brown, MRCS in 1876, and was continued by Edward Cotterell, MD as *The Pocket Anatomy*. 1st edition 1879; 4th edition 1893, reprinted 1899. Editor of the *Guy's Hospital Gazette* from 1897 to 1908. He was from the outset in 1913 a valued member of the editorial committee of the *British Journal of Surgery*.