Charles Herbert Stuart-Harris

Sir Charles Herbert Stuart-Harris (born Harris; 12 July 1909 – 23 February 1996) was an English virologist and academic who was the first full-time professor of medicine at University of Sheffield.

Early life and education Stuart-Harris was born in 1909 in Kings Norton, the son of a Birmingham general practitioner Charles Herbert Harris and his wife, Helen Parsons.

Career In 1935, he received a £55 a year fellowship from the bequest of Sir Henry Royce (of Rolls-Royce) to conduct research at the National Institute for Medical Research into the cause and cure of influenza. The following year he went to the United States on a Rockefeller scholarship. In World War II he served in the Royal Army Medical Corps in Europe and the Far East, commanding field laboratories, ending with the rank of colonel and showing an early acumen in the diagnosis of infective diseases. He himself contracted some of those diseases he studied, notably typhus and typhoid.

Awards and honours He was honoured with a C.B.E. in 1961 and a knighthood in 1970. In 1984 he received the British Society for Antimicrobial Chemotherapy's Garrod Medal and delivered its accompanying lecture.

After retirement he served as postgraduate dean for five years and adviser to the new Chinese medical school in Hong Kong. He was survived by his wife, Marjorie, a daughter and two sons (one a professor of oncology in Australia).