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Guy Dain

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Guy Dain
Born
Harry Guy Dain

(1870-11-05)5 November 1870
Died26 February 1966(1966-02-26) (aged 95)
NationalityBritish
EducationMason College
University of London
OccupationPhysician
Known forChairman of the British Medical Association (1943 to 1949)

Sir Harry Guy Dain FRCS (5 November 1870 – 26 February 1966) was a British physician.[1]

Mason College

Between 1887 and 1894 Dain studied science and medicine at Mason College (a predecessor college of the University of Birmingham). He graduated with a University of London external MB degree in medicine in 1894.[1][2]

Dain was Chairman of the British Medical Association from 1943 to 1949 at the time of the creation of the National Health Service.[1] He strongly opposed the creation of the National Health Service and led British Medical Association opposition to it, publicly clashing with Aneurin Bevan, the then Minister of Health.[3]

Dain was knighted in 1961. Dain was elected a Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons in 1945. He received an honorary LLD degree from Aberdeen University in 1939 and an honorary MD degree from Birmingham University in 1944.[1]

References

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  1. ^ a b c d "Sir Guy Dain, F.R.C.S., Hon. M.D., Hon.L.L.D. (1870–1966)". Ann R Coll Surg Engl. 38 (6): 391–392. 1966. PMC 2312112. PMID 5329162.
  2. ^ "General Register part 3" (PDF). University of London. Archived from the original (PDF) on 4 March 2016. Retrieved 20 December 2014.
  3. ^ "K O Morgan The People's Peace"