Lieutenant-Colonel Charles Ruthven Bickerton Blackburn (7 May 1913 – 12 April 2016) was a professor of medicine at the University of Sydney.Portrait of Lieutenant Colonel Ruthven Blackburn by Nora Heysen
September 1945, www.awm.gov.au
27 May 2016, Sydnet Morning Herald. His father was Lieutenant-Colonel Sir Charles Bickerton Blackburn KCMG, OBE (22 April 1874 – 20 July 1972), an Australian university chancellor and physician. During

World War II World War II or the Second World War, often abbreviated as WWII or WW2, was a world war that lasted from 1939 to 1945. It involved the vast majority of the world's countries—including all of the great powers—forming two opposin ...

Ruthven was Commanding and Senior Physician of the Land Headquarters Medical Research Unit (LHQ, 1MRU), Australian Army Medical Corps (AAMC). In 1940 he married Nell. (Eleanor Freeman 1916–1967.) They had two daughters, Susan Ann and Sandra. In 1968 he married colleague and distinguished asthma researcher Professor

Ann Woolcock Ann Janet Woolcock AO FAA FRACP (11 December 1937 – 17 February 2001) was an Australian respiratory physician–scientist and one of the world's leading asthma experts. She contributed greatly to the field of asthma research and founded the Ins ...

AO FAA FRACP (1937–2001). The couple raised two sons, Simon and Angus. In 2006 he was appointed a

Companion of the Order of Australia The Order of Australia is an honour that recognises Australian citizens and other persons for outstanding achievement and service. It was established on 14 February 1975 by Elizabeth II, Queen of Australia, on the advice of the Australian Gove ...

(AC) in recognition of his service to the development of academic medicine and medical education in Australia. He died on 12 April 2016, just short of his 103rd birthday.Death Notice
13 April 2016, The Sydney Morning Herald.

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