Charlie Dalton at Rules Restaurant in Covent Garden on his 101st birthday LaurelFarrington Thu 6 May 2021 12.54 EDT Last modified on Thu 6 May 2021 12.55 EDT My father, Charlie Dalton, who has died aged 103, was a war veteran, a general practitioner and a founder member of the National Society for Autistic Children (later the National Autistic Society). He was born Israel Rosenbloom in London to Jewish immigrants Maurice (Moishe/Moses) Rosenbloom, who ran a sewing machine business, and his wife, Rebecca (nee Cohen), a seamstress. He later adopted the name Charlie Dalton, inspired by Dalton’s Weekly. He gained a scholarship to Davenant foundation school, where he encountered Darwin’s theories and lost religious belief. Despite prejudices of the times, he was recommended for a place at St Bartholomew’s Medical School and qualified in 1941.