Harold Gillies

Sir Harold Delf Gillies was a New Zealandborn, and later Londonbased, otolaryngologist who is widely considered the father of plastic surgery.

Gillies was born in Dunedin, New Zealand. He studied medicine at Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge University, where despite a stiff elbow sustained sliding down the banisters at home as a child he was a rowing blue and participated at the 1904 Boat Race.

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