| 1961 | T Pomfret Kilner | The Birth of a Specialty | 
        
            | 1962 | Rainsford Mowlem | Bone Grafting | 
        
            | 1963 | F Burian | The Past and Present of Plastic Surgery: Its Problems in Future Society | 
        
            | 1964 | A Ragnell | The Development of Plastic Surgery in Stockholm in the Last Decennium | 
        
            | 1965 | Sir Ivan Magill | Plastic and the Anaesthetist | 
        
            | 1967 | G M FitzGibbon | The Commandments of Gillies | 
        
            | 1969 | R V J Battle | Great Opportunities in Plastic Surgery | 
        
            | 1971 | R Millard | Jousting with the First Knight of Plastic Surgery | 
        
            | 1973 | Sir Benjamin Rank | Tides and Eddies of Plastic Surgery | 
        
            | 1975 | H Schjelderup | Plastic Surgery from Basingstoke to Norway | 
        
            | 1977 | D N Matthew | Gillies- Mastermind of Modern Plastic Surgery | 
        
            | 1979 | T Gibson | Tissue Transplantation Before, During and After the Life of Sir Harold Gillies | 
        
            | 1981 | D A Campbell Reid | The Emergence of Hand Surgery in the United Kingdom | 
        
            | 1983 | N H Antia | Organisation of Plastic Surgery in Developing Countries | 
        
            | 1985 | N C Hughes | The Legacy of the Giants | 
        
            | 1987 | M N Tempest | Editing and Audition: A Crisis in Communication | 
        
            | 1989 | A F Wallace | From Moses to Mahon | 
        
            | 1991 | I A McGregor | The Pursuit of Function and Cosmesis in Managing Oral Cancer: 1951-1991 | 
        
            | 1993 | P Tessier | From Plastic Surgery to Craniofacial Surgery | 
        
            | 1995 | I T Jackson | Plastic Surgery Contributions to Skull Base Surgery | 
        
            | 1997 | F V Nicolle | Aesthetic Plastic Surgery and the Future Plastic Surgeon | 
        
            | 1999 | R W Piggott | Speak Ye, Comfortably | 
        
            | 2001 | G I Taylor | Keeping a Head | 
        
            | 2003 | P Randall | Robert H Ivy, An Extraordinary English Gentleman | 
        
            | 2005 | T J S Patterson | Gillies- the Teacher and his Tube Pedicle | 
        
            | 2007 | A Bamji & B D Morgan | The Man Behind the Myth | 
        
            | 2009 | J K Terzis | Nerve Surgery: Evolution and Refinements | 
        
            | 2011 | M S Noordhoff | A Serendipitous Journey 
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            | 2014 | J Thompson | Melanoma | 
        
            | 2015 | A Bamji | One Hundred Years from Gillies' Damascene Moment: Surgical and Social Management of Facial Injury in the First World War 
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            | 2017 | V Ramakrishnan | Microsurgical breast reconstruction- 'a constant battle between beauty and blood supply' | 
        
            | 2019 | M Ninkovic | From Innovation and Creativity to Clinical Excellence 
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            | 2021 | Z Arnež 
 | Lower Limb Trauma From Amputation to Orthoplastic Surgery | 
        
            | 2023 | S Watson | Trying to carry the torch |