Carrick Robertson

Sir Carrick Hey Robertson (27 August 1879[1] – 14 July 1963) was a Scottish-New Zealand surgeon.

As surgeon in Waihi and Auckland hospitals, Robertson also served with the New Zealand Medical Corps in World War I.

He served during the First World War as a temporary major in the New Zealand Medical Corps onboard hospital ship Marama, from 1915 to 1916.

A recognised expert in surgery for goitre (then common in New Zealand), he and Dr Casement Aickin performed the first heart operation in New Zealand in 1927 and was a national pioneer of brain surgery.

He was appointed a Knight Bachelor in the 1929 New Year Honours, and awarded the Chevalier of the Légion d'honneur in 1938.