Major Charles Hildred Brodribb (14 August 1874–1927)

British Major in the Indian Medical Service. Charles Hildred Brodribb was born in Warminster, Wiltshire, England and christened on 13 December 1876 at St Denys in the town. He was awarded an MB (Medicinae Baccalaureus), Licentiate 1900, and was a Member of the Royal College of Physicians of London. In 1903 he joined the Indian Medical Service, serving with the 13 Lancers in Bengal and was promoted through ranks of Lieutenant (August 1903), Captain (August 1906) to Major (February 1915). Ill-health eventually forced him to leave the service. He subsequently established a sanatorium in Penaenmawr on the north coast of Wales, offering treatment based on "the production of autoinocculation, produced by means of graduated walks of great beauty controlled by rest and careful clinical observation." He married in December in 1908, in Brentford Middlesex. Brodribb died in 1927, aged 52, in Conway, Wales, after years of ill-health.