Charles Christopher Nicholson Roberts

Charles Christopher Nicholson Roberts (“Chris”) was the quintessential family doctor. He was brought up in a medical environment; his father was a GP in Ludlow and his grandfather a paediatric surgeon.

After attending Shrewsbury School, he went on to gain a place at Clare College, Cambridge, and completed his clinical studies at the Middlesex Hospital Medical School. After qualifying his junior hospital appointments ranged far and wide, including a year …