Charles Edward Newman

Charles Edward Kingsley Newman FRCP CBE (16 March 1900 – 22 August 1989) was a British physician, medical school dean, and historian of medicine, serving as president of the Osler Club of London from 1963 to 1965.

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The only hospital medical schools at the beginning of the century were those of St. Bartholomew’s, the Borough Hospitals (St. Thomas’s and Guy’s), and the London.
- The Evolution of Medical Education in the Nineteenth Century. Oxford medical publications. Oxford University Press. 1957. p. 34. (340 pages)

The College continued to meet in what had been Linacre’s house until 1614, when it moved into a larger house in Amen Corner. It was in this house that Harvey gave his lectures, and the College, with his encouragement,started seriously to build up a great library.
As early as 1659 the College started to make charitable provision for the sick poor, which culminated in the famous Dispensary at the very end of the century. This lasted only for about 30 years, but it had a great effect, and was followed, and perhaps made superfluous, by the founding of the Westminster and Guy's Hospitals, which soon led to the whole hospital system of England.
- (12 October 1968) "Royal College of Physicians of London: 450 Years". British Medical Journal 4: 108–111. (quote from p. 109)

When Sir Charles Dodds [Munk’s Roll, Vol.VI, p.151] became president of the College in 1962, Charles Newman was an obvious choice to succeed him as Harveian Librarian, an office he graced for seventeen years. ...
His association with the College had begun in 1926 with his appointment as Murchison scholar; he was the first of the new ‘young-doctor’ type of assistant registrar, 1933-38, Goulstonian lecturer in 1933, and a member of the Younger Fellows Club, which he helped to establish. He was the first Linacre Fellow, 1966, delivered a notable Harveian Oration in 1973, and the first FitzPatrick lectures in 1954-55, and again in 1968. The first of the last named made a fascinating book, Evolution of medical education in the nineteenth century, New York, Oxford University Press, 1957. His only other book was Medical emergencies, London, J&A Churchill, — a pioneer work which went through three editions (1931, 1937 and 1946) — but he was the author of many papers which reflected his wide-ranging interests.
- Leonard Maslin Payne, "Charles Edward Newton". Munk's Roll, Royal College of Physicians IX: 391.