Sir Harry Guy Dain

FRCS Fellowship of the Royal Colleges of Surgeons (FRCS) is a professional qualification to practise as a senior surgeon in Ireland or the United Kingdom. It is bestowed on an intercollegiate basis by the four Royal Colleges of Surgeons (the Royal ...

(5 November 1870 – 26 February 1966) was a British

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. Between 1887 and 1894 Dain studied science and medicine at

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(a predecessor college of the

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). He graduated with a

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external MB degree in medicine in 1894. Dain was Chairman of the British Medical Association from 1943 to 1949 at the time of the creation of the

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. 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."K O Morgan ''The People's Peace''" Dain was knighted in 1961. Dain was elected a

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in 1945. He received an honorary LLD degree from Aberdeen University in 1939 and an honorary MD degree from

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in 1944.

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