Charles Hubert Roberts (1865-1929) was a British surgeon, physician and lecturer in the fields of gynaecology and obstetrics. He was highly regarded for his diagnostic and surgical skills and was considered to have been an inspiring teacher. He served as Senior Physician to the Samaritan Free Hospital for Women and Physician to In-Patients at

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Education

Roberts had a brilliant academic career. He entered

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from

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in 1884 and won the junior and senior scholarships in Clinical Medicine in 1885 and 1886 and the Brackenbury Scholarship in Surgery.H.E. Vipan, ''A Register of the Old Boys of the Bedford Modern School'' (Bedford, no date), p. 104. At London University he studied Materia Medica and Chemistry for the Degree of MB in 1893 and gained his MD and the Gold Medal in 1896.

Career

At St. Bart's he held a succession of appointments culminating in the position of Demonstrator of Practical Midwifery and the Diseases of Women. However, the main part of his career was spent at

and the Samaritan Free Hospital for Women and he remained at these establishments until his retirement in 1925. During the War he served as Hon. Obstetric Surgeon at Lady Howard de Walden's Maternity Hospital for Officers' Wives and assisted at Epsom War Hospital. He also established a private practice in Harley Street. He served as Examiner in Midwifery and Gynaecology, Conjoint Board, London, Examiner to the Central Midwives Board and Examiner in Obstetrics and Gynaecology at the

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. He was appointed a

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in 1892 and a

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in 1912. He was also a Fellow of the

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and in 1913 chaired the Society's section on Obstetrics and Gynaecology. His main publications were ''Outlines of Gynaecological Pathology and Morbid Anatomy'' (1901) and a translation (with M. L. Trechmann) of Ernst Gottlob Orthmann's ''Handbook of Gynaecological Anatomy'' (1904) Charles Roberts died of influenza at

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, in Denmark on 29 January 1929.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Roberts, Charles Hubert 1865 births 1929 deaths People educated at Bedford Modern School British obstetricians British gynaecologists Fellows of the Royal College of Physicians Fellows of the Royal College of Surgeons of England 19th-century British medical doctors 20th-century British medical doctors Deaths from influenza Infectious disease deaths in Denmark