Charles James Cullingworth (1841–1908) was an English gynaecologist and obstetrician. Early life The son of Griffith Cullingworth, a bookseller, and his wife Sarah Gledhill of Eddercliff, he was born on 3 June 1841 in Leeds. Of Wesleyan stock, although he afterwards joined the Church of England, he was educated at Wesley College, Sheffield. On leaving school he was employed in his father's business, but on the latter's death in 1860 entered the Leeds School of Medicine (1861), and at the same time served four years as an apprentice to a general practitioner in Leeds. He became M.R.C.S. in 1865, and licentiate of the Society of Apothecaries in 1866. In Manchester After 18 months as assistant in a country practice at Bawtry, Cullingworth entered the Manchester Royal Infirmary in 1867 as resident physician's assistant, and later was appointed resident medical officer. In 1869 he set up in private practice in Manchester, and from 1872 to 1882 was police surgeon. In 1873 Cullingworth began specialist work, on being appointed honorary surgeon to Saint Mary's Hospital, Manchester for women and children. In 1881 he graduated M.D. at Durham University, and then gradually dropped private practice, becoming a consultant only. Appointed lecturer in medical jurisprudence at Owens College, in 1879, he made a success of teaching. In 1885 he was appointed to the chair of obstetrics and gynæcology in Owens College. He was secretary to the board of studies in medicine at Victoria University, Manchester, from 1883, when the university obtained in its charter power to confer degrees in medicine. Cullingworth worked for the Manchester Medical Society for 19 years, as honorary librarian (1872–8) and honorary secretary (1879–84). In Manchester, too, he helped to found the Medical Chronicle, a monthly magazine providing abstracts of work in medical journals. In London In 1888 Cullingworth gave up his posts at Manchester to become obstetric physician at St. Thomas's Hospital, London. He remained on the active staff until 1904, staying on for three years beyond the usual age limit. He was then appointed consulting obstetric physician and made a governor of the hospital. On moving to London he was appointed visiting physician to the General Lying-in Hospital, York Road. In 1879 Cullingworth became a member of the Royal College of Physicians. In 1887 he was elected a fellow, and in 1902 he was the first obstetric physician to read the Bradshaw lecture, on Intraperitoneal hæmorrhage incident to