Cedric Oswald Carter was a British medical geneticist and eugenicist.
14 Facts About Cedric Carter
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The son of a Royal Navy captain, Cedric Carter was born in Port Said in present-day Egypt on 26 September 1917.
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Cedric Carter was educated in England, specifically at Winchester College, Queen's College, Oxford, and St Thomas's Hospital Medical School.
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Cedric Carter then resumed his medical training and achieved his Membership of the Royal Colleges of Physicians of the United Kingdom in 1948.
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From 1948 to 1951, Cedric Carter was a research fellow at the Great Ormond Street Hospital in London, England.
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Cedric Carter served as editor of the Eugenics Review from 1950 to 1952 and as secretary of the Eugenics Society from 1952 to 1957.
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Cedric Carter joined the Medical Research Council's Clinical Genetics Unit at the Institute of Child Health, London as a staff member in 1957, and succeeded John Alexander Fraser Roberts as the Unit's director in 1964, remaining in this role until his retirement in 1982.
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Cedric Carter founded the Clinical Genetics Society in 1970 and served as its first president.
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Cedric Carter became professor of clinical genetics at the University of London in 1975, holding this position until his retirement.
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Cedric Carter served as president of the Eugenics Society from 1972 to 1976.
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Cedric Carter was elected a Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians in 1964 and received a gold medal for his services to pediatrics from the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia in 1971.
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Cedric Carter was named Galton Lecturer by the Eugenics Society in 1971 and Darwin Lecturer by the same society in 1978, and was named an honorary fellow of the Japanese Society of Human Genetics in 1980.
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Cedric Carter married Peggy Hope, who had worked at St Thomas' Hospital as a nurse.
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Cedric Carter died "suddenly and unexpectedly" on 12 March 1984, at his home in Keston, Kent, England.