Lieutenant-Colonel Sir Charles Bickerton Blackburn KCMG OBE (22 April 1874 – 20 July 1972) was an Australian university chancellor and physician.
[1] Blackburn served in World War I as a lieutenant-colonel for the Australian Army Medical Corps.
In World War II, Blackburn served in the 113 Australian General Hospital, in Concord.
He began his medical career at the Royal Prince Alfred Hospital in Sydney, Australia.
[1] His son was also called Charles (Charles Ruthven Bickerton Blackburn AC), was similarly a Lieutenant-Colonel for the Australian Army Medical Corps (World War II), and was similarly associated with the University of Sydney, becoming the Bosch Professor and Head of the Department of Medicine in 1957.