Charles D. Read

Sir Charles David Read FRCS FRCSE FRACS (22 December 1902 – 21 August 1957) was a British surgeon who specialised in obstetrics, gynaecology and pathology. He served as secretary and vice-president of the obstetrical division of the Royal Society of Medicine, and became President of the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists in 1955.[1] He was an honorary member of the American Association of Obstetricians, Gynaecologists and Abdominal Surgeons, the American Gynaecological Society, the South African Association of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists, and the Athens Obstetrical and Gynaecological Society.

He edited the 5th edition of Edward Lockyer's Gynaecology with Douglas MacLeod, and he was engaged with MacLeod on a revision of Bonney's Textbook of Gynaecological Surgery.

He married twice, having two sons by each marriage. His second wife was Dr F Edna Wilson, sister to the eminent Anglo-Irish surgeon T.G. Wilson. He died suddenly aged 54 aboard his yacht on 21 August 1957. Lady Read died in 2003.

References

  1. ↑ "Read, Sir Charles David - Biographical entry - Plarr's Lives of the Fellows Online". Livesonline.rcseng.ac.uk. Retrieved 2016-03-05.


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