Charters Symonds

{{Short description|British-Canadian surgeon}}

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Sir Charters James Symonds {{post-nominals|country=GBR|KBE|CB|FRCS}} (1852–1932) was a British-Canadian surgeon, and surgeon to Guy's Hospital, London.

Charters Symonds was born at Dalhousie, Colony of New Brunswick on 24 July 1852, the son of Charles Symonds, a barrister, who died in California in 1860.{{cite web |title=Symonds, Sir Charters James (1852 - 1932) |url=https://livesonline.rcseng.ac.uk/client/en_GB/lives/search/detailnonmodal/ent:$002f$002fSD_ASSET$002f0$002fSD_ASSET:376841/one |website=Plarr's Lives of the Fellows |access-date=2 June 2021}}{{cite journal |title=Sir Charters Symonds, K.B.E., C.B., M.D., M.S., F.R.C.S |journal=BMJ |date=24 September 1932 |volume=2 |issue=3742 |pages=611–612 |doi=10.1136/bmj.2.3742.611}}

In 1889 he married Fanny Marie Shaw (d 1930), daughter of Lieutenant-General David Shaw, of the Madras Army, and they had two sons, the elder being Sir Charles Symonds physician to Guy's Hospital.

Symonds died on 4 September 1932 in Harrow, London, England, and was buried in Christ Church, Roxeth, Harrow.