Charles Illingworth

Sir Charles Frederick William Illingworth was an English surgeon who specialised in gastroenterology, living from 1899 to 1991. Born in West Yorkshire, he served as a fighter pilot in the First World War before resuming his medical studies in Edinburgh. He taught at the Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh and in 1939 became Regius Professor of Surgery at Glasgow, where over twenty five years he established the Glasgow School of surgery. His surgical textbooks were widely used, and he led the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Glasgow as president from 1962 to 1964. He received a knighthood in 1961 and the 1964 Lister Medal, and in retirement wrote biographies of William Hunter and Hector Hetherington.