Sir Charles David Read FRCS FRCSE FRACS (22 December 1902 – 21 August 1957) was a New Zealand surgeon who specialised in obstetrics, gynaecology and pathology after moving to the United Kingdom.
In 1920 he entered Otago Medical School in Dunedin and graduated four years later.
[2] He was an honorary member of the American Association of Obstetricians, Gynaecologists and Abdominal Surgeons, the American Gynaecological Society, the South African Association of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists, and the Athens Obstetrical and Gynaecological Society.
[3] He edited the 5th edition of Edward Lockyer's Gynaecology with Douglas MacLeod, and he was engaged with MacLeod on a revision of Bonney's Textbook of Gynaecological Surgery.
[1] Read died suddenly, aged 54, aboard his yacht on 21 August 1957.