Gordon Jackson Rees, known to all hisfriends   as   ‘Jack’,   was   born   on   8 December   1918. He   was   educated   at Oswestry School and entered the University of   Liverpool   to   study   medicine in 1937, and qualified M.B.Ch.B. in late1942.   His   scholastic achievements,by his   standards,   were   modest   and   gave  little hint of his later academic brilliance and practical innovative ability. Early in 1943, Jack was called up into the Royal Air Force medical branch and served as  a   station   medical   officer   before   being sent to the Radcliffe Infirmary, Oxford, to   study   anaesthesia   under   Professor  Robert   Macintosh   and   William Mushin.   He   obtained   the   one   part Diploma in Anaesthetics in 1946.He   became   a   consultant   anaesthetist  to   the   Royal   Liverpool   Hospitals   in 1949 and, on the invitation of Professor Cecil   Gray,   joined   the   new   University Department   of   Anaesthesia   as   a   part time   demonstrator. The current article is to enlight the work of this brilliant “Pioneer of paediatric anaesthesia”

Keywords: Pediatric anesthesia; Gordon Jackson; Triad of anesthesia.