Gallery of Icons and Heroes

Welcome to the Gallery of Heroes & Icons

Celebrating major Contributors to British Plastic Surgery, the Association and their patients.

Many individuals with acedmic talent and highly developed manual skills have made contributions to the development of plastic surgery as a specialty, and British Plastic Surgery in particular.

This gallery pays tribute to those surgeons, allied specialists and other healthcare professionals whose insight and abilities have made the greatest contributions to that development.

"The Big Four" of British Plastic Surgery.
Mowlem, Kilner, Gillies and McIndoe

Sir Archibald Hector McIndoe ?

1900

Introductory Biography

Sir Harold Gillies ?

1882

Anne Bryson Sutherland ?

1922

President 1987

Prof. Thomas Pomfret Kilner ?

1890

Back to the Museum

Welcome to the Gallery of Heroes & Icons

Celebrating major Contributors to British Plastic Surgery, the Association and their patients.

Sir Archibald Hector McIndoe ?MB ChB NZ, FRCS, FACS, CBE, Kt. Born 4th May 1900, Dunedin, New Zealand Died 12th April 1960. London. Early Life Archibald McIndoe, a citizen of New Zealand, came to London from the US...

Sir Harold Gillies ?Kt, CBE, FRCS Born 17th June 1882, Dunedin, New Zealand Died 10th September 1960, London, UK. Early Life Harold Delf Gillies was born in Dunedin, New Zealand on 17 June 1882, but he...

Anne Bryson Sutherland ?MD, FRCS Ed Born 7th January 1922, Wellford, West Lothian, Scotland Died 27th March 2011, St Columba’s Hospice, Edinburgh Contributions to Plastic Surgery First female plastic...

Prof. Thomas Pomfret Kilner ?Born 17th September 1890, Lancashire, UK Died 2nd July 1964 CONTRIBUTIONS TO PLASTIC SURGERY One of four plastic surgeons (known as “The Big Four) practicing in the UK at the start...

Sir Archibald Hector McIndoe ?

Sir Harold Gillies ?

Anne Bryson Sutherland ?

Prof. Thomas Pomfret Kilner ?