Charles Wortham Brook
London GP and member of the LCC
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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.[3]
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[4]