Charles Skinner Hallpike, 19 July 1900 - 26 September 1979

Abstract

Charles Skinner Hallpike was born in Murree, a hill station and health resort now in Pakistan. His father, Frank Hallpike, and the family came back to London when Charles Hallpike was three years old. During his child hood Hallpike developed Perthes disease of the hip, and spent long periods on his back during his school life. He had continuing and severe pain from this condition through out his life until finally he had his hip arthrodesed. At St Paul’s School he became a classical scholar and entered Guy’s Hospital with a scholarship in Arts in 1919. He studied physiology under Pembrey, who stressed the contribution that physiology could make in the study of disease. He obtained the Beaney Prize in Pathology and qualified as M.R.C.S., L.R.C.P. in 1924, and took the M.B., B.S. of London in 1926 and F.R.C.S. England in 1931.