Sir Charles Herbert Stuart-Harris CBE (born Harris; 12 July 1909 – 23 February 1996) was an English virologist and academic who was the first full-time professor of medicine at University of Sheffield.
[1][2] Stuart-Harris was born in 1909 in Kings Norton, the son of a Birmingham general practitioner Charles Herbert Harris and his wife, Helen Parsons.
In World War II he served in the Royal Army Medical Corps in Europe and the Far East, commanding field laboratories, ending with the rank of colonel and showing an early acumen in the diagnosis of infective diseases.
[1][3] When he was appointed to the chair at Sheffield in 1946 the shortlist included George White Pickering and Robert Platt who respectively became regius professor of medicine and master of Pembroke College at Oxford and professor of medicine at Manchester and president of the Royal College of Physicians.
[6] After retirement he served as postgraduate dean for five years and adviser to the new Chinese medical school in Hong Kong.