Thomas Peel Dunhill | |
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| Born | 3 December 1876 near Kerang, Victoria, Australia |
| Died | 22 December 1957 (aged 81) Hampstead, London, England |
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| Allegiance | Australia |
| Service/ | Australian Army |
| Years of service | 1906–1926 |
| Rank | Brigadier |
| Unit | Australian Army Medical Corps |
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Sir Thomas Peel Dunhill GCVO CMG FRACS (3 December 1876 – 22 December 1957) was an Australian thyroid surgeon and honorary surgeon to the monarchs of the United Kingdom.
A graduate of the University of Melbourne, where he earned his Bachelor of Medicine (MB) degree in 1903 and his Doctor of Medicine (MD) degree in 1906, Dunhill worked as a surgeon at St Vincent's Hospital, Melbourne, from 1905 to 1914, where he pioneered a new, safer surgical treatment for exophthalmic goitre, a disease of the thyroid, an operation he conducted under local anaesthesia.
Dunhill joined the Australian Army Medical Corps in 1906. During the Great War he enlisted in the First Australian Imperial Force. He served in Egypt and on the Western Front with the 1st General Hospital and in July 1918 was appointed consulting surgeon to the Rouen area in France. He was thrice mentioned in despatches and made a Companion of the Order of St Michael and St George in 1919.
After the war he worked at St Bartholomew's Hospital in London. He became a Knight Commander of the Royal Victorian Order in 1933, a fellow of the Royal Australasian College of Surgeons in 1930, and an honorary fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons of England in 1939. He was the first surgeon still in active surgical practice in England to receive this honour.