Charles Wortham Brook

Dr Charles Wortham Brook CBE (1901–1983) was a London GP and an elected member of the London County Council.

He was born in Lincoln into a comfortably established middle-class family of Tory views. His father was an ophthalmologist. He was secretary of the Cambridge University Socialist Society. He married Iris Beynon, a nurse while he was training at St Bartholomew's Hospital.[1]

He qualified as a medical practitioner in 1925. He wrote to the Daily Herald in 1930 inviting doctors "who might be interested in forming a body of socialist doctors" to contact him. This led to the foundation of the Socialist Medical Association in 1930 and he became its Secretary, serving until 1938.[2] He is credited with being the main architect of the Spanish Medical Aid Committee.

He was a co-founder of the Royal College of General Practitioners in 1952.

He lived at Mottingdeane, High Road, Mottingham, London, SE9.

Publications

  • Battling Surgeon. A life of Thomas Wakley. 1945
  • Carlile and the surgeons 1943
  • Making Medical History 1946[3]

References

  1. ↑ "Dr Charles Wortham Brook CBE 1901-1983". Socialist Health Association. November 1983. Retrieved 1 April 2017.
  2. ↑ "Charles Brook". Spartacus Educational. Retrieved 1 April 2017.
  3. ↑ Brook, Charles Wortham (1946). Making Medical History. Retrieved 1 April 2017.
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