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Charles Theodore Williams

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C. Theodore Williams
Born(1838-08-29)29 August 1838
Died15 December 1912(1912-12-15) (aged 74)
NationalityBritish
OccupationPhysician

Charles Theodore Williams FRCP, MVO (29 August 1838 – 15 December 1912) was an English physician, known as a leading authority on pulmonary tuberculosis.[1][2]

Biography

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Charles Theodore, son of the famous physician C. J. B. Williams, was educated at Harrow School and Pembroke College, Oxford, where he received his bachelor's degree in 1860 and his M.A. in 1862.[3] He studied medicine at St George's Hospital, Wandsworth and in Paris, receiving his M.B. in 1864. At Brompton Hospital, he became Assistant Physician in 1867, Physician in 1871, and resigned from the active staff in 1894, to become Consulting Physician. He was President of the Medical Society of London for the year 1889.

In 1868 he married Mary, daughter of John Gwyn Jeffreys.

Honours

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  • 1871 — Lettsomian Lecturer[2]
  • 1893 — Lumleian Lecturer[2]
  • 1906 — M.V.O.[2]
  • 1911 — Harveian Orator[2]

Selected publications

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References

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