Arthur Rainsford Mowlem

Arthur Rainsford Mowlem (1902–1986), born in New Zealand, was the youngest of the four plastic surgeons who practised in between the world wars in Britain.

He spent six months in general practice in Dorking, Surrey and then as a house surgeon at the Seamen's Hospital in Greenwich.

In 1936, he became a consultant plastic surgeon at Middlesex Hospital[2] and joined Gillies, Kilner and McIndoe in a partnership that lasted till the war in 1939.

After the second world war he returned to practise as both a NHS consultant, in private practice and as adviser in plastic surgery to the Ministry of Health.

He was elected to a Hunterian Professorship by the Royal College of Surgeons in 1940 for his work in the field of bone grafting.

[2] His team at Hill End Hospital are seen as one of the first to introduce pin fixation methods to enable stabilization of fractures to the lower jaw.