Cecily Pickerill

Dame Cecily Mary Wise Pickerill DBE (née Clarkson, 9 February 1903 – 21 July 1988) was a New Zealand plastic surgeon.

She was born in Taihape, New Zealand, in 1903 and educated at Taihape School and the Diocesan High School for Girls (in Auckland). In 1921 she began her medical studies at the University of Otago, graduating MB, ChB in 1925.[1]

Pickerill was appointed an Officer of the Order of the British Empire in the 1958 Queen's Birthday Honours, for services in the field of plastic surgery.[2]

In the 1977 Silver Jubilee and Queen's Birthday Honours she was promoted to Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire, for services to medicine, especially in the field of plastic surgery.[3]

References

  1. ↑ Brown, R. Harvey. "Cecily Pickerill". Dictionary of New Zealand Biography. Ministry for Culture and Heritage. Retrieved 23 April 2017.
  2. ↑ London Gazette (supplement), No. 41406, 3 June 1958; retrieved 12 February 2013.
  3. ↑ London Gazette (supplement), No. 47237, 10 June 1977; retrieved 10 February 2013.


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