Henry Gauvain

Sir Henry John Gauvain (1878 to 1945) was a British surgeon and tuberculosis specialist, born on the island of Alderney. He was educated at Trowbridge, King's College London, St John's College, Cambridge, and Barts Hospital in London. In 1908 he became the first medical superintendent of the Lord Mayor Treloar Cripples' Hospital and College at Alton in Hampshire, a post he held until his death. Gauvain was a leading advocate of heliotherapy, the use of sunlight as treatment, in Britain, and wrote the foreword to the first English translation of Auguste Rollier's book on the subject. He was knighted in the 1920 New Year Honours for his services to the Treloar Hospital.