1 Boundary-pushing plastic surgeon Ian Jackson, who gained worldwide recognition after helping to restore the facial features of abandoned Peruvian boy David Lopez, was born in Glasgow in 1934. He grew up in Shettleston, where he went to school at Eastbank Academy, and he graduated from the University of Glasgow School of Medicine in 1959. Working at the renowned West of Scotland Plastic and Maxillofacial Surgery Unit at the city’s Canniesburn Hospital, he became known for his pioneering development of cleft lip and craniofacial and reconstructive surgery.

Glasgow Times: Ian with Marjorie and David

2 In 1976 in Peru, he agreed to help David, who had been abandoned in a jungle, as long as David could be brought back to Scotland. The Glasgow public helped raise funds to make it happen.

3 Professor Jackson and his colleague Khursheed Moos carried out more than 80 operations to reconstruct David’s face. Their story made headlines around the world and Professor Jackson and his wife Marjorie adopted David.

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4 Renowned journalist Desmond Wilcox made a series of documentaries about the Jacksons and David, which were eventually made into a film, The Boy David Story, in 2003.

Glasgow Times: Ian Jackson

5 In 1979 Professor Jackson moved from Bearsden to Minnesota, where he became Chairman of the Department of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery at the world-famous Mayo Clinic. He founded the Craniofacial Institute in Michigan, in the early nineties. He received many awards and honorary degrees, including the Sir Harold Gillies Gold Medal from the British Association of Plastic Surgeons in 1996 and, two years later, a medal from the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh. He worked tirelessly for charity and was Honorary chairman of The Smile Train, established to train overseas surgeons in cranio-facial surgery. He died in 2020.