Charles Bland Radcliffe

Charles Bland Radcliffe (1822–1889) was an English physician, known for work on diseases of the nervous system.

He was educated at Batley grammar school and was then apprenticed to Mr. Hall, a general practitioner at Wortley.

[1] Radcliffe became a licentiate of the Royal College of Physicians of London in 1848, and was elected a Fellow in 1858.

In 1863 he was appointed physician to the National Hospital for the Paralysed and Epileptic in Queen Square, as successor to Charles Brown-Séquard, and it was there that he made a reputation for work on the diseases of the nervous system.

[1] Radcliffe died very suddenly on 18 June 1889, and was buried with his brother John in a family grave on the western side of Highgate cemetery.