C. P. (Charles Paton) Blacker

Born in 1895, C. P. Blacker — Charles Paton, also known as Carlos Paton Blacker — became a British psychiatrist whose career stretched across medicine, military service, and public policy. Sources describe him as a decorated war veteran as well as a physician who later became prominent in psychiatric and social debates.

Blacker is especially remembered for his work around heredity, population questions, and birth control, and for his association with figures such as R. A. Fisher and Lionel Penrose. He also wrote on these subjects, including Birth Control and the State, which shows how closely he was involved in arguments about reproduction and society during the interwar years.

Today, his legacy is a mixed and often controversial one. He remains of historical interest not only as a psychiatrist and public intellectual, but also because his career was tied to the eugenics movement, a field now widely criticized for the harm and injustice linked to its ideas and policies.