Charles Bernard (surgeon)

Charles Bernard

Charles Bernard (baptised 1652 – 1710) was an English surgeon, a Fellow of the Royal Society, and master of the Barber Surgeons' Company in 1703.[1]

Life

He was born at Waddon in Surrey, the son of Samuel Bernard, formerly vicar of Croydon, and his wife, Elizabeth; the physician Francis Bernard was his brother. In 1670 he was apprenticed to the surgeon Henry Boone.[2][3]

Bernard, a Tory and High Churchman, was elected surgeon to St. Bartholomew's Hospital in 1686, by special command of the king.[2] He was elected to the Royal Society in 1696.[4] He was the chief surgical practitioner in London of his time, noted for saving the leg of a young Benjamin Hoadly, later to become Bishop of Winchester, from amputation. He became sergeant-surgeon to Queen Anne in the first year of her reign.[2]

Bernard died at Longleat on 9 October 1710, where he was treating Thomas Thynne, 1st Viscount Weymouth. He was a bibliophile, and his library was auctioned on 22 March 1711.[1]

Family

Bernard in 1679 married Susanna Gardner, and they had a son and three daughters. Of the daughters, Elizabeth married Ambrose Dickins, apprentice to Bernard who became a physician and FRS, and another married William Wagstaffe.[1]

Charles Bernard Lectures

The first of a series of Charles Bernard Lectures, funded by the Barbers' Company, was given by Rodney Hemingfield Taylor (1942–2017) in 2001.[5][6]

Notes

  1. ^ a b c Lyle, Ian. "Bernard, Charles". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/2238. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
  2. ^ a b c Stephen, Leslie, ed. (1885). "Bernard, Charles" . Dictionary of National Biography. Vol. 4. London: Smith, Elder & Co.
  3. ^ Lyle, Ian. "Bernard, Francis". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/2238. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
  4. ^ "Fellow details". Royal Society. Retrieved 15 November 2019.
  5. ^ "Professor Rodney Taylor, 1942-2017". The Worshipful Society of Apothecaries. 26 May 2017.
  6. ^ "Munks Roll Details for Rodney Hemingfield Taylor". munksroll.rcplondon.ac.uk.
Attribution

 This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Stephen, Leslie, ed. (1885). "Bernard, Charles". Dictionary of National Biography. Vol. 4. London: Smith, Elder & Co.