Charles Ernest Lakin

Charles Ernest Lakin (1878–1972) was an English physician, surgeon, pathologist, and anatomist.

Biography After education at Carter’s School and the Wyggeston Grammar School for Boys, Leicester, Charles Ernest Lakin entered in 1896 the Middlesex Hospital Medical School. He qualified in 1901 MRCS, LRCP. He graduated in 1902 MB BS (Lond.) and in 1903 MD. For some years Lakin was a demonstrator of anatomy and a clinical assistant in the skin department at the Middlesex Hospital and also a clinical assistant at the Hospital for Sick Children, Great Ormond Street. He was also curator of the Middlesex Hospital's pathological museum and wrote its history in 1908. In 1908 he qualified MRCP. From 1904 to 1912 he performed all the autopsies at the Middlesex Hospital. There in 1912 he was appointed assistant physician and lecturer in morbid anatomy. He later also joined the London Fever Hospital's staff and became advisory physician to London's Royal National Throat, Nose and Ear Hospital. During WWI he served in the RAMC as pathologist at the Addington Park War Hospital, although he continued his civilian appointment as consultant physician at the Middlesex Hospital. During WWII Lakin moved to Mount Vernon Hospital, Northwood, London, and continued there at least until 1950.

Awards and honours 1905 — elected FRCS 1916 — elected FRCP 1932 — Lumleian Lecturer on The Borderlands of Medicine 1934 — Lettsomian Lecturer on Disturbances of the Body Temperature 1938 — President of the Medical Society of London with Presidential Address on Lettsom's England 1943 — Annual Orator to the Medical Society of London with Annual Oration on Outside the Textbooks 1947 — Harveian Orator on Our Founders and Benefactors

Selected publications