Thomas Kilner

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Thomas Pomfret Kilner CBE, was an early plastic surgeon. One of the four who continued to practice in Britain between the world wars after training at the Queen's Hospital, Sidcup with Harold Gillies. Kilner continued to practice until 1957 [1] The others were Harold Gillies, Arthur Rainsford Mowlem, and Archibald McIndoe. He took a special interest in repairing cleft lips and palate [2] [ full citation needed ] and was appointed in 1944 as Nuffield Professor of Plastic Surgery at the University of Oxford. [3] He occupied this chair until 1957 when he retired.

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Born, educated and trained in Manchester Kilner saw active service in the R.A.M.C. during the First World War. In 1918 he was stationed at Sidcup alongside Sir Harold Gillies. In 1921 they became the only two surgeons specializing in plastic surgery in Britain until joined later by Archibald McIndoe and Rainsford Mowlem. Kilner later became consulting plastic surgeon to a large number of hospitals. He served in the Second World War as a consulting plastic surgeon and worked at Roehampton which developed into Stoke Mandeville Hospital . Kilner was President of the British Association of Plastic Surgery in 1948 and 1955. . [4]

Early life

Kilner was born on 17 September 1890, the son of a schoolmaster at Manchester Grammar School. He attended Queen Elizabeth's Grammar School, Blackburn. He studied medicine at Manchester University. Here he won the Dauntesey Scholarship and the Sidney Renshaw Exhibition, as well as medals in anatomy and physiology. He qualified in 1912, with distinctions in surgery and pathology. [5]

Career

Following graduation in 1912, he demonstrated in anatomy and then became a house surgeon. His intended to join Dr Bateman of Blackburn in general practice, but when the First World War intervened he was enlisted in the R.A.M.C.

He rose to the rank of captain, and by 1918 was following general surgery as a career. At the armistice he was in charge of an orthopedic unit for patients with fractured femurs. His was advised he might gain an appointment with Major Harold Gillies in a new hospital unit where a new of specialty, "Plastic Surgery." was being practiced. Though not knowing what this was, Kilner was appointed to the hospital at Sidcup. [6]

Personal life

In 1915 Kilner had married Olive Brown. Their son, Hugh, was born in date. Olive Kilner died when Hugh was an infant of an acute abdominal catastrophe. Hugh qualified in medicine at St Thomas's Hospital but died during service with the Medical Branch of the Royal Air Force. In 1926 Kilner married Florence Brennan (née O'Neill), who survived him. They had one daughter together and brought up Hugh (young "Pomf") together along with their other boys, Peter and Michael, both of whom survived their father. [1]

Death

He died in 1964 having seen the profession go from 1939 when only three London teaching hospitals had appointed consultant surgeons to there being hardly a teaching hospital in the British Isles without a plastic surgeon on the permanent staff on his death. [1]

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References

  1. 1 2 3 "In Memoriam: Professor T.P. Kilner (1890–1964)". Annals of the Royal College of Surgeons of England. 35 (4): 251–4. October 1964. PMC   2311759 . PMID   14245883.
  2. ↑ Kilner TP. "Cleft Palate". Speech. 2 (3): 1–9.
  3. ↑ "Obituary". The Lancet. 284 (7350): 103–104. 11 July 1964. doi:10.1016/S0140-6736(64)90116-3.
  4. ↑ "Home - Plarr's Lives of the Fellows Online". Royal College of Surgeons of England. Retrieved 1 February 2018.
  5. ↑ "Thomas Pomfret Kilner, C.B.E., D.M. (Oxon.), F.R.C.S. (Eng.) (1890–1964)". British Journal of Surgery. 51 (12): 945–946. 1 December 1964. doi:10.1002/bjs.1800511220.
  6. ↑ Battle R (1964). "Thomas Pomfret Kilner, C.B.E., D.M., F.R.C.S." British Journal of Plastic Surgery. 17: 330–334. doi: 10.1016/S0007-1226(64)80058-8 . PMID   14218954.
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