Charles Blackburn

Lieutenant-Colonel Sir Charles Bickerton Blackburn KCMG, OBE (22 April 1874 – 20 July 1972) was an Australian university chancellor and physician. Blackburn was born in Greenhithe, Kent, England, to the cleric and entomologist Thomas Blackburn and his wife Jessie Ann, née Wood.[1] Mainly known as a long-serving chancellor (1941 - 1964) and member of the Senate of the University of Sydney, serving on the University Senate from 1919 to 1964. He was Dean of the Faculty of Medicine 1932 - 1935. He was also a councillor of the Australian Medical Association and the Association of Physicians of Australasia.[1]

Not to be confused with his son, Charles Ruthven Bickerton Blackburn.
Charles Blackburn (KCMG) (OBE)
Chancellor of the University of Sydney
In office
1941–1964
Personal details
Born
Charles Bickerton Blackburn

22 April 1874
Greenhithe, Kent, England
Died20 July 1972 (aged 98)
Bellevue Hill, New South Wales, Australia
EducationUniversity of Sydney, University of Adelaide
OccupationPhysician, chancellor

Blackburn served in World War I as a lieutenant-colonel for the Australian Army Medical Corps. He was appointed an OBE for his services towards the Medical Corps, and became the chair of the Commonwealth Royal Commission on the assessment of war service disabilities, in 1924. In World War II, Blackburn served in the 113 Australian General Hospital, in Concord.[1]

Blackburn graduated from the University of Adelaide (B.A. 1893) and went on to study medicine, transferring to the University of Sydney in 1896 – M.B. B.S.; Ch.M., 1899; M.D., 1903. He began his medical career at the Royal Prince Alfred Hospital in Sydney, Australia. He set up his own private practice in 1903, but he still remained connected with the hospital.[1]

His son was also called Charles (Charles Ruthven Bickerton Blackburn AC), was similarly a Lieutenant-Colonel for the Australian Army Medical Corps (World War II), and was similarly associated with the University of Sydney, becoming the Bosch Professor and Head of the Department of Medicine in 1957.[2]

Blackburn died in 1972 in the Sydney suburb of Bellevue Hill, at the age of 98.[1]

References
  1. Blackburn, C. R. B. (1979). Blackburn, Sir Charles Bickerton (1874 - 1972). Australian Dictionary of Biography. 7. Melbourne University Press.
  2. "Blackburn, Charles Ruthven Bickerton". Faculty of Medicine Online Museum and Archive. University of Sydney. Retrieved 12 May 2016.
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