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 English AACR2 Anglo-American Cataloguing Rules Person created 1993-10-20 human McCarthy, G.J. updated 2025-10-14 human https://www.eoas.info/biogs/P001038b.htm person Clubbe Charles Percy Barlee KBE AACR2 2 February 1854 20 November 1932 Place of Birth Buckinghamshire, England Place of Death Rose Bay, New South Wales, Australia Paediatrician Charles Clubbe was a pioneer of paediatric orthopaedic surgery and specialised in the treatment of club-feet and bow-legs. He was a founding fellow of the College of Surgeons of Australasia (later Royal Australasian College of Surgeons) and consulting surgeon at many hospitals including the Coast Hospital and Sanatorium (later the Prince Henry Hospital), the Institution for the Deaf and Dumb and the Blind, and the Greycliffe (Lady Edeline) Hospital for Babies. Clubbe appointed Knight Commander of the Order of the British Empire (KBE) in 1927 for his contribution to medicine in Australia and the world.

After completing medical studies at St Bartholomew's Hospital (England), Charles Percy B. Clubbe was admitted as a member of the Royal College of Surgeons (1876) and as a licentiate of the Royal College of Physicians, London in 1877. One of his first appointments was as a house surgeon to the Kidderminster hospital. He left this post in 1879 to work as a civil surgeon with the Army Medical Department of Natal during the Zulu War. Upon his return to England, Clubbe was appointed chief resident medical officer to the (Royal) Manchester Children's Hospital. This was the start of his lifelong interest in paediatric medicine.

For health reasons Charles Clubbe decided to migrate to Australia in 1883. He immediately set up a private practice in Randwick, New South Wales and within a year was working as an honorary surgeon to the Hospital for Sick Children, Glebe Point. By 1889 Clubbe was appointed an honorary assistant surgeon to the Royal Prince Alfred Hospital and had developed a reputation as an expert in the surgical treatment of children. His text book The diagnosis & treatment of intussusception (1907) gained world-wide praise and went into its second edition in 1921. He also wrote a series of papers for the Australasian Medical Gazette (1889-1891) on the surgical treatment of club-feet and of bow-legs which lead to the development of orthopaedic surgery in Australia.

Advanced surgical techniques were not the only contributions Charles Clubbe made to paediatric medicine. He also established a diptheria treatment centre at the Glebe hospital where he treated patients with a new diptheria antitoxin and carried out emergency traceotomies. When not dealing with patients, Clubbe gave lectures in clinical surgery at the University of Sydney (1895-1907); managed the board of the Royal Alexandra Hospital for Children; served on the Medical Board of New South Wales; was president of the New South Wales Bush Nursing Association, the District Nursing Association, the Infantile Paralysis Committee of New South Wales, and the Royal Society for the Welfare of Mothers and Babies; and was chairman of the Baby Clinics, Pre-maternity and Home Nursing Board.

1876 Career position - Member, Royal College of Surgeons of England 1877 Career position - Licentiate of the Royal College of Physicians, London 1879 1879 Career position - Civil Surgeon with the Army Medical Department of Natal 1880 1880 Career position - Chief Resident Medical Officer at the (Royal) Manchester Children's Hospital, UK 1883 1883 Life event - Migrated to Australia (Sydney) and set up a general practice in Randwick c. 1884 Career position - Honorary Surgeon at the Hospital for Sick Children in Glebe Point c. 1889 Career position - Honorary Assistant Surgeon at the Royal Prince Alfred Hospital 1895 1907 Career position - Lecturer in Medicine, University of Sydney 1897 1898 Career position - President, British Medical Association, New South Wales branch 1900 1900 Career position - Private practice established in Macquarie St, Sydney 1904 1932 Career position - Head of the Board of Management at the Royal Alexandra Hospital 1907 1907 Career event - The diagnosis and treatment of intussusception published 1907 1907 Career position - Visiting Surgeon at the Mayo Clinic in Minnesota, USA 1914 1914 Career position - Chairman, Baby Clinics, Pre-Maternity and Home Nursing Board 1915 1916 Career position - Member of the Medical Board of New South Wales 1924 1924 Career position - Honorary Fellow of the American College of Surgeons 1927 1927 Career position - Foundation Fellow, College of Surgeons of Australasia (now the Royal Australasian College of Surgeons) 1927 1927 Award - Knight Commander of the Order of the British Empire (KBE) - Service to the Commonwealth The University of Sydney (1850 - )

Lecturer in Medicine 1895 - 1907

 Royal Australasian College of Surgeons (RACS) (1927 - )

Foundation Fellow, College of Surgeons of Australasia 1927

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 'Clubbe, Charles Percy Barlee', in Encyclopedia of Australian Science and Innovation, Centre for Transformative Innovation, Swinburne University of Technology Clubbe, Charles Percy Barlee Swinburne University of Technology, Centre for Transformative Innovation Encyclopedia of Australian Science and Innovation Book: The diagnosis and treatment of intussusception Clubbe, Charles P. B. The diagnosis and treatment of intussusception Edinburgh Young J. Pentland 1907 Book Section: Clubbe, Sir Charles Percy Barlee (1854-1932), surgeon Dods, Lorimer Clubbe, Sir Charles Percy Barlee (1854-1932), surgeon Carlton, Vic. Melbourne University Press 1981 Australian dictionary of biography, volume 8: 1891 - 1939 Cl-Gib Bede Nairn and Geoffrey Serle 30-1 Journal Article: The founders of the College: New South Wales Kenny, P. J. and Miller, I. D. The founders of the College: New South Wales 1981 Australian and New Zealand journal of surgery 51 3 319-25