# Guy Dain

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{{Short description|British physician (1870–1966)}}
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{{Infobox person
| honorific_prefix = [Sir](/source/Sir)
| name          = Guy Dain
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| image         = Guy Dain in 1949.jpg
| caption       = Dain in 1949
| birth_name    = Harry Guy Dain
| birth_date    = {{Birth date|1870|11|5|df=y}}
| birth_place   = 
| death_date    = {{Death date and age|1966|2|26|1870|11|5|df=y}}
| death_place   = 
| education     = [Mason College](/source/Mason_College) <br />  [University of London](/source/University_of_London)
| occupation    = [Physician](/source/Physician)
| years_active  = 
| known_for     = Chairman of the [British Medical Association](/source/British_Medical_Association) (1943 to 1949)
| notable_works = 
}}
thumb|right|Dain's coat of arms

'''Sir Harry Guy Dain''' [FRCS](/source/FRCS) (5 November 1870 – 26 February 1966) was a British [physician](/source/physician).<ref name="Ann R Coll Surg Engl">{{cite journal | pmid=5329162 | volume=38 | title=Sir Guy Dain, F.R.C.S., Hon. M.D., Hon.L.L.D. (1870–1966) | year=1966 | journal=Ann R Coll Surg Engl | issue=6 | pages=391–392 | pmc = 2312112 }}</ref>

Between 1887 and 1894 Dain studied science and medicine at [Mason College](/source/Mason_College) (a predecessor college of the [University of Birmingham](/source/University_of_Birmingham)). He graduated with a [University of London](/source/University_of_London) external MB degree in medicine in 1894.<ref name="Ann R Coll Surg Engl"/><ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.ulrls.lon.ac.uk/resources/general_register_part_3.pdf |title=General Register part 3 |website=University of London |access-date=20 December 2014 |archive-date=4 March 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304023058/http://www.ulrls.lon.ac.uk/resources/general_register_part_3.pdf |url-status=dead }}</ref>

Dain was Chairman of the [British Medical Association](/source/British_Medical_Association) from 1943 to 1949 at the time of the creation of the [National Health Service](/source/National_Health_Service).<ref name="Ann R Coll Surg Engl"/> He strongly opposed the creation of the National Health Service and led British Medical Association opposition to it, publicly clashing with Aneurin Bevan, the then Minister of Health.<ref>"K O Morgan ''The People's Peace''"</ref>

Dain was knighted in 1961. Dain was elected a [Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons](/source/Fellow_of_the_Royal_College_of_Surgeons) in 1945. He received an honorary LLD degree from Aberdeen University in 1939 and an honorary MD degree from [Birmingham University](/source/Birmingham_University) in 1944.<ref name="Ann R Coll Surg Engl"/>

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