Charles D. Read

Sir Charles David Read FRCS FRCSE FRACS (22 December 1902 – 21 August 1957) was a New Zealand surgeon who specialised in obstetrics, gynaecology and pathology after moving to the United Kingdom.

Early life and education Read was born in Woodlands, in the province of Southland, New Zealand, to businessman Joseph James and Elizabeth Brown Read. Read attended Southland Boys' High School and Otago Boys' High School. In 1920 he entered Otago Medical School in Dunedin and graduated four years later. He was an honorary member of the American Association of Obstetricians, Gynaecologists and Abdominal Surgeons, the American Gynaecological Society, the South African Association of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists, and the Athens Obstetrical and Gynaecological Society.

He edited the 5th edition of Edward Lockyer's Gynaecology with Douglas MacLeod, and he was engaged with MacLeod on a revision of Bonney's Textbook of Gynaecological Surgery.

He married twice, having two sons by each marriage. His first wife was Mabyn Gill, and his second wife was Dr F Edna Wilson, sister of the eminent Anglo-Irish surgeon T.G. Wilson. Lady Read died in 2003.