George Henry MAKINS

Background

He was born in Street Albans, Hertfordshire, the son of George Hogarth Makins, Membership of the Royal College of Surgeons, and educated at The King"s School, Gloucester, Street Thomas" Hospital and Halle, Vienna.

Education

Gloucester; Saint Thomas’s Hospital. Halle, Vienna.

Career

He was appointed resident Assistant Surgeon at Street Thomas" Hospital (1880-1885), then Surgical Registrar (1885-1887), Assistant Surgeon (1888–1898) and full Surgeon (1898-1913). He was also Assistant Surgeon at the Evelina Hospital for Sick Children (the forerunner of Evelina Children"s Hospital). During wartime Makins was a Consulting Surgeon to the South African Field Force, 1899-1900 and again a Consulting Surgeon, alongside Sir Anthony Bowlby, during the First World War, 1914-1918.

He spent much of the latter conflict in France, working in hospitals in Paris and Boulogne before taking over the supervision of new hospitals at Camiers and Étaples, where he established a research centre to trial new methods of wound treatment.

He was a Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons, gave the Bradshaw Lecture in 1913, the Hunterian Oration in 1917 and served as President from 1917 to 1919. He was awarded Central Bank in 1900, Knight Grand Cross of the Order of Street Michael and Street George in 1918 and Knight Commander of the Order of Street Michael and Saint George in 1915.

He died at his London home on 2 November 1933 and was buried in Kensal Green Cemetery. They had no children.

Works

• book

  • Surgical Experiences in South Africa, 1899-1900 - Scholar's Choice Edition

    ( This work has been selected by scholars as being cultur...)

  • Surgical experiences in South Africa 1899-1900: being mainly a clinical study of the nature and effects of injuries produced by bullets of small calibre

    (This book is a replica, produced from digital images of t...)

  • Surgical Experiences in South Africa 1899-1900; Being Mainly a Clinical Study of the Nature and Effects of Injuries Produced by Bullets of Small Calib

    (This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923. T...)

  • Surgical experiences in South Africa 1899-1900; being mainly a clinical study of the nature and effects of injuries produced by bullets of small calibre

    (This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923. T...)

  • SURGICAL EXPERIENCES IN SOUTH AFRICA 1899-1900 - BEING MAINLY A CLINICAL STUDY OF THE NATURE AND EFFECTS OF INJURIES PRODUCED BY BULLETS OF SMALL CALIBRE - second edition

    (1913 2nd Henry Frowde Hodder & Stoughton. Second edition ...)

  • Surgical Experiences in South Africa

Membership

Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons. Clubs: Athenaeum, Savile, Alpine, et cetera

• Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons. Clubs: Athenaeum, Savile, Alpine, etc.

Interests

• Mountaineering, fishing, et cetera

Connections

Spouse 1885, Margaret Augusta, widow of General Fellowes anddaughter of General Kirkland, Fordel, North.B.

Father:

G. H. Makins

Spouse:

Margaret Augusta