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Charles Dick was born in 1913 at Sevenoaks, Kent, England; the elder son of Dr Robert James Dick and his wife Hilda. He was educated at Sherborne School and Cambridge University--graduating with a BA in 1937, and MB, BChir in 1937.
His clinical training was at Guy's Hospital where he held resident appointments and was strongly influenced by a leading English physician, Sir Arthur Hurst. In 1942, they co-authored a paper on diaphragmatic hernia, published in the Quarterly Journal of Medicine.
Charles's pre-war years were notable for his success on the rugby field. He won a Cambridge Blue and was capped 13 times for Scotland; and according to The Times was 'one of the finest centres in his day'. He played for Scotland against the All Blacks in 1936--and scored a try. In...