Louis Barnett
Sir Louis Edward Barnett was a New Zealand professor of surgery and founder of the Royal Australasian College of Surgeons.
His work at the Otago Medical School, where he was one of the school's earliest students, and with the Royal Australasian College of Surgeons led to the recognition of hydatid disease, a potentially fatal parasitic disease.
Working and teaching in Dunedin, Barnett established a national reputation for safe and sound surgery. He was the first surgeon in New Zealand to wear rubber gloves and a gauze mask in the operating theatre.
Barnett retired in 1925 at the age of 60 and moved to Hampden where his home is protected today by Heritage New Zealand.
He was knighted in the 1927 Birthday Honours. In 1935, he was awarded the King George V Silver Jubilee Medal.
