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General First nameCol. Charles Isherwood
LastnameBrierley
GenderMale
CountryEngland
Date of birth1879-03-24
Place of birthWomersley, Yorkshire, England
Date of death1940-01-25
Place of deathCheltenham, Gloucestershire, England


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From The Times, 26 January 1940:

Obituary – Colonel Sir Charles Brierley - Medical Work on the Indian Frontier

Colonel Sir Charles Brierley, C.I.E., late Indian Medical Service, died suddenly at Leckhampton, Cheltenham, yesterday of acute bronchitis at the age of 60. Charles Isherwood Brierley was the son of the late Prebendary Joseph H. Brierley, and was born on March 24, 1879. He was educated at the Victoria University, Leeds, and on qualifying in medicine in London in 1901 went out to the South African war as civil surgeon with the Imperial Light Horse. He served there until hostilities ended in the summer of 1902.

Thereafter he joined the Indian Medical Service and for four years was in military employ He was almost continuously in Frontier appointments-as agency surgeon at Wana in 1907 and in the Khyber Agency in the following year. He was civil surgeon at Peshawar when the last War broke out, and served in various Frontier operations of that time, as also in the Third Afghan War, when he was mentioned in dispatches.

A keen sportsman and lawn tennis player, he captained the Indian Davis Cup team in 1927. In the same year he was appointed Chief Medical Officer of the North-West Frontier Province, and later Inspector-General of Civil Hospitals there. A monument to his professional zeal is the Lady Reading Hospital at Peshawar, which he built and administered until his retirement in 1936. He was made Commander of the Indian Empire (C.I.E.) in 1929 and knighted on completing his service. He married his cousin, Zoë Brierley, and leaves a son and a daughter.

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Archive statistics Career1908 - 1927
Tournament wins1
Matches21
Match wins13


Tournament wins 1923 - Monegasque Championships (Amateur)


Tournaments Wimbledon - 1927 Cannes Carlton - 1924 Nice - 1924 Cannes Beau Site New Year Meeting - 1924 Cannes Gallia - 1924 Cannes Carlton Winter Tournament - 1924 Wimbledon - 1923 Monegasque Championships - 1923 North of England Championships - 1908