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          5. Harold Gillies

          New Zealand plastic surgeon (1882–1960)

          Sir Harold Delf GilliesOBE FRCS (17 June 1882 – 10 September 1960) was a New Zealand otolaryngologist and father of modern plastic surgery for the techniques he devised to repair the faces of soldiers coming back from the trenches.[1][2]

          Early life

          Gillies was born in Dunedin, New Zealand, the son of Member of Parliament in Otago, Robert Gillies.[3] He 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.

          He was a golf blue in 1903, 1904 and 1905 and also a rowing blue, competing in the 1904 Boat Race.[4] In 1910, he acquired a position working as an ENT specialist for Sir Milsom Rees' medical practice.[5] At Caius he became a freemason and rose to be Master of Caius Lodge.

          Gilles was a student at St Bart