Charles Roberts, by birth a Yorkshireman, was a distinguished student at St George's Hospital at the time when Henry Gray (qv) was preparing the first edition of his *Anatomy*. Roberts was Scholar in Clinical Medicine and Surgery, Lewis Powell Prizeman in Clinical Medicine, Bath and Wells Prizeman in Animal and Vegetable Histology, Scholar and Prizeman in Anatomy, Chemistry, Botany, and Materia Medica. He was afterwards House Surgeon at the York County Hospital, Resident Medical Officer to the York Dispensary, Surgeon to the North Riding Prison, and he practised for a time in Blake Street, York. After 1871 he moved to London to practise as a surgeon at 2 Bolton Row, Mayfair, then at 68 Curzon Street, and was Surgeon to Out-patients at the Victoria Hospital for Children from 1872-1874. Possessed of ample means, he devoted himself to anthropology, was Secretary of the Anthropometrical Section of the British Association, edited the Selborne Society's magazine for some years, and promoted scientific methods of education by systematic cultivation of observation, and by physical training. Of a spare figure and intelligent face, he was singularly popular and a well-known member of the Savile Club. He married late in life and moved to Eastbourne, where he entertained his friends at Cornfield House, Devonshire Place. Towards the end he moved to Tunbridge Wells, where, after more than a year of ill health, he died at Silverdale, Boyne Park, on December 31st, 1901. Publications:- *A Manual of Anthropometry, or a Guide to the Physical Examination and Measurement of the Human Body*, London, 1878. "The Physical Requirements of Factory Children." - *Jour Statistical Soc*, 1876, xxxix, 681. *The Detection of Colour Blindness and Imperfect Eyesight*, 2nd ed, 1884. "Eyesight of Savage and Civilized People." - *Jour of Anthropological Institute*, 1886, xv, 127. *The Medical Inspection and Physical Education of Secondary Schools*. Reports of the Royal Commission on Secondary Education, 1895. *Final Report of the Anthropometric Committee of the British Association*, 1883.