Pioneer plastic surgeon. Born Dunedin, New Zealand. Came to England as a student at Cambridge and qualified as a surgeon in 1910. The two world wars provided him with the inspiration (and the patients) for his pioneering work as a plastic surgeon. In 1946 he carried out the first sex realignment surgeries. Also a talented sportsman, playing golf for England, and an artist who exhibited and sold his work. Died at the London Clinic in Marylebone.
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Sir Harold Gillies
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Sir Harold Gillies
Sir Harold Gillies, 1882 - 1960, pioneer plastic surgeon, lived here. English...
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Cecil J. R. MacFadden, OBE, MD
Assistant Commissioner in the St John Ambulance Brigade, No. 1 District Metropolitan Corps, 1903-1930. Commander in the Order of St John.
Person, Emergency Services, Medicine, Politics & Administration
1 memorial
Lewisham Hospital
The origins of this hospital go back to a workhouse established in 1612. During WW1 it became the Lewisham Military Hospital, and after further extensions it became the University Hospital Lewisham...
2 memorials
Sydney Monckton Copeman
Medical Scientist. Born as Sydney Arthur Monckton Copeman in the cathedral close, Norwich. He was a medical inspector in the Local Government Board (forerunner to the Ministry of Health), where Sir...
1 memorial
Infants Hospital
From the always useful Lost Hospitals of London: "The St Francis Hospital for Infants was founded in a small house in Hampstead {6 Denning Road} in 1903 by Helen Levis, {first} wife of the industri...
1 memorial
The Reverend Reginald Herman Tribe
Reginald Herman Tribe was born on 26 May 1881 in Chatham, Kent, the eldest of the four children of Herman Thomas Bedingfield Tribe (1855-1894) and Alice Mary Tribe, née Holder (b. c1860). His birth...
War dead non-military, WW2
1 memorial
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