Charles Ernest Lakin (1878–1972) was an English physician, surgeon, pathologist, and anatomist.

Biography

After education at Carter’s School and the Wyggeston Grammar School for Boys, Leicester, Charles Ernest Lakin entered in 1896 the Middlesex Hospital Medical School. He qualified in 1901 MRCS, LRCP. He graduated in 1902 MB BS (Lond.) and in 1903 MD. For some years Lakin was a demonstrator of anatomy and a clinical assistant in the skin department at the Middlesex Hospital and also a clinical assistant at the Hospital for Sick Children, Great Ormond Street. He was also curator of the Middlesex Hospital's pathological museum and wrote its history in 1908. In 1908 he qualified MRCP. From 1904 to 1912 he performed all the autopsies at the Middlesex Hospital. There in 1912 he was appointed assistant physician and lecturer in morbid anatomy. He later also joined the

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. During WWI he served in the RAMC as pathologist at the Addington Park War Hospital, although he continued his civilian appointment as consultant physician at the Middlesex Hospital. During WWII Lakin moved to Mount Vernon Hospital, Northwood, London, and continued there at least until 1950.

Awards and honours

* 1905 — elected FRCS * 1916 — elected FRCP * 1932 — Lumleian Lecturer on ''The Borderlands of Medicine'' * 1934 — Lettsomian Lecturer on ''Disturbances of the Body Temperature'' * 1938 — President of the

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with Presidential Address on ''Lettsom's England'' * 1943 — Annual Orator to the Medical Society of London with Annual Oration on ''Outside the Textbooks'' * 1947 — Harveian Orator on ''Our Founders and Benefactors''

Selected publications

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References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Lakin, Charles Ernest 1878 births 1972 deaths 19th-century English medical doctors 20th-century English medical doctors People educated at Wyggeston Grammar School for Boys Physicians of the Middlesex Hospital Fellows of the Royal College of Physicians Fellows of the Royal College of Surgeons Royal Army Medical Corps officers