Roberts, Charles Hubert (1866 - 1929)
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Royal College of Surgeons of England

Asset Name
E003108 - Roberts, Charles Hubert (1866 - 1929)

Title
Roberts, Charles Hubert (1866 - 1929)

Author
Royal College of Surgeons of England

Identifier
RCS: E003108

Publisher
London : Royal College of Surgeons of England

Publication Date
2012-11-07

Subject
Medical Obituaries

Description
Obituary for Roberts, Charles Hubert (1866 - 1929), Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons of England.

Language
English

Source
Plarr's Lives of the Fellows

Full Name
Roberts, Charles Hubert

Date of Birth
1866

Date of Death
January 1929

Place of Death
Denmark

Occupation
Obstetrician and gynaecologist

Titles/Qualifications
MRCS February 12th 1889
 
FRCS June 9th 1892
 
LRCP Lond 1889
 
MRCP 1893
 
FRCP 1910
 
MB Lond (Honours in chemistry and materia medica) 1893
 
MD (Gold Medal) 1896

Details
Educated at Bedford School, and entered St Bartholomew's Hospital on October 1st, 1884, where he gained in succession the Junior Scholarship, the Senior Scholarship, the Kirkes Scholarship and Gold Medal for Clinical Medicine, and the Brackenbury Scholarship in Surgery. His career at the University of London was equally brilliant. At St Bartholomew's Hospital he served the offices of House Surgeon, House Physician, Resident Midwifery Assistant, Casualty Physician, Assistant Demonstrator of Anatomy, Demonstrator of Practical Midwifery and Diseases of Women, and temporary Physician-Accoucheur, the last post being held under the inspiring influence of Dr Matthews Duncan. As there was no immediate prospect of a vacancy at St Bartholomew's Hospital, Roberts attached himself to Queen Charlotte's Lying-in Hospital and to the Samaritan Free Hospital, where he attracted large classes by his powers of teaching both by lectures and at the bedside. During the European War he performed useful and arduous work as accoucheur to Lady Howard de Walden's Maternity Home for Officers' Wives and also as a member of the Visiting Staff of the Epsom War Hospital. He was Secretary and Vice-President of the Section of Obstetrics and Gynaecology at the Royal Society of Medicine, and was Secretary of a similar section at the Sheffield Meeting of the British Medical Association in 1908. As an Examiner he was a member of the Midwives Board, of the Conjoint Examining Board RCP Lond and RCS Eng, and of the Sheffield University. He died of influenza in Denmark in January, 1929, having been landed from a ship in which he was making a pleasure cruise. Roberts was a great teacher of students, an able diagnostician, and a highly skilled obstetrician who by force of circumstances never gained the position to which his mental attainments justly entitled him. He practised at 48 Harley Street, and had a country house, The Riverside, Taplow, Bucks. Publications: *Outlines of Gynaecological Pathology and Morbid Anatomy*, 8vo, London, 1901. Translation of Orthmann's *Handbook of Gynaecological Anatomy* (with Max L TRECHMANN), 8vo, London, 1904. Numerous papers in *Trans Obst Soc* and *Proc Roy Soc Med*.

Sources
*Lancet*, 1929, i, 312, with portrait - not a very good likeness
 
*Brit Med Jour*, 1929, i, 273
 
Personal knowledge

Rights
Copyright (c) The Royal College of Surgeons of England

Collection
Plarr's Lives of the Fellows

Format
Obituary

Format
Asset

Asset Path
Root/Lives of the Fellows/E003000-E003999/E003100-E003199

URL for File
375291

Media Type
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