Harold Gillies attended Whanganui Collegiate School and studied medicine at Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge, where despite a stiff elbow sustained sliding down the banisters at home as a child, he was an excellent sportsman.
16 Facts About Harold Gillies
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Harold Gillies was a golf blue in 1903,1904 and 1905 and a rowing blue, competing in the 1904 Boat Race.
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Harold Gillies was a student at St Bartholomew's Hospital and won the Luther Holden Research Scholarship in 1910.
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Harold Gillies was Lecturer on Plastic Surgery in that medical school.
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Harold Gillies saw him remove a tumour on a patient's face, and cover it with jaw skin taken from the patient.
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Harold Gillies became enthusiastic about the work and on his return to England persuaded the army's chief surgeon, William Arbuthnot-Lane, that a facial injury ward should be established at the Cambridge Military Hospital, Aldershot.
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Between the wars Harold Gillies developed a substantial private practice with Rainsford Mowlem, including many famous patients, and travelled extensively, lecturing, teaching and promoting the most advanced techniques worldwide.
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In 1930 Harold Gillies invited his cousin, Archibald McIndoe, to join the practice, and suggested he apply for a post at St Bartholomew's Hospital.
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Harold Gillies organised plastic surgery units in various parts of Britain and inspired colleagues to do the same, including pioneering plastic surgeon Stewart Harrison who founded the plastic surgery unit at Wexham Park Hospital, Berkshire.
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Harold Gillies made a visit to New Zealand in 1956 after an absence of 51 years.
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Harold Gillies suffered a slight cerebral thrombosis at the age of 78 while undertaking a major operation on the damaged leg of an 18-year-old girl on 3 August 1960.
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Harold Gillies died on 10 September 1960 at The London Clinic, at 20 Devonshire Place, Marylebone.
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Harold Gillies married Kathleen Margaret Jackson on 9 November 1911, in London.
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Harold's youngest son Michael Thomas Gillies followed his father into medicine.
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Harold Gillies played in the Amateur Championship every year from 1906 to 1931 and represented England in their annual match against Scotland in 1908,1925,1926 and 1927.
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Harold Gillies won the 1913 St George's Grand Challenge Cup and was runner-up in the 1914 Golf Illustrated Gold Vase, behind Harold Hilton.