Lawrie Hugh McGavin CBE FRCS (1868 – 31 October 1932) was a British surgeon.
Commissioned into the 6th Dragoon Guards, he was promoted lieutenant in July 1890,[1] but resigned his commission in October 1892[2] and the following year began medical training at Guy's Hospital.
During the First World War he worked at the Michie Hospital and the Farnborough Court Hospital, for which he was appointed Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) in January 1920.
In the 1920s he perfected the process of silver filagree gauze for the treatment of hernia and performed the operation on both Gandhi and the King of Siam.
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