George Makins

{{Short description|English surgeon (1853–1933)}}

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Sir George Henry Makins {{post-nominals|country=GBR|GCMG|CB|FRCS}} (3 November 1853 – 2 November 1933) was an English surgeon.

He was born in St Albans, Hertfordshire, the son of George Hogarth Makins, MRCS, and educated at The King's School, Gloucester, St Thomas' Hospital and Halle, Vienna.

He was appointed resident Assistant Surgeon at St Thomas' Hospital (1880–85), then Surgical Registrar (1885–87), 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).[http://livesonline.rcseng.ac.uk/biogs/E000223b.htm Makins, Sir George Henry – Biographical entry – Plarr's Lives of the Fellows Online]. Livesonline.rcseng.ac.uk. Retrieved on 8 June 2014.Obituaries: Sir G. H. Makins The Surgery Of War Wounds. The Times, 3 November 1933; p. 16; Issue 46592; col B[http://www.ukwhoswho.com/view/article/oupww/whowaswho/U213497 "MAKINS, Sir George Henry"], in Who Was Who, A & C Black, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing plc, 1920–2007; online edn, Oxford University Press, 2007

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, 1914-18. 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 CB in 1900, GCMG in 1918 and {{post-nominals|country=GBR|KCMG}} in 1915.{{cite web| url = http://www.kingscollections.org/catalogues/kclca/collection/m/10ma53-1| title= MAKINS, Sir George Henry (1853-1933)| publisher= King's College London|accessdate = 23 November 2014}}

He died at his London home on 2 November 1933 and was buried in Kensal Green Cemetery. He had married Margaret Augusta née Kirkland, the widow of General Fellowes. They had no children.