Reginald Sayre

Reginald Hall Sayre (October 15, 1859 – May 29, 1929) was a prominent American orthopedic surgeon and Olympic sport shooter.

Biography Sayre was born to Eliza Ann Hall, an artist and Lewis Albert Sayre, the leading American orthopedic surgeon. He studied at the Churchill & Maury School and Columbia College, graduating in 1881. Two of his elder brothers went into medicine after the father, and thus, Reginald initially thought of becoming a lawyer. However, his brother Lewis persuaded him to follow the family tradition and enter the Bellevue Hospital Medical College in 1881. After graduation in 1884, he worked as an assistant to Hermann Biggs and then joined the practice of his brother Lewis. Later, he began helping his father teach at a college. He was also consulting surgeon at Hackensack (1891), Hospital for Crippled Children, Newark (1897), Mountainside, Montclair (1898), N. Y. State Orthopedic, West Haverstraw (1900), Englewood (1901), Hospital for Deformities (1908) and Flushing (1914). In 1917, he served as Division Surgeon, with the rank of lieutenant colonel, and during World War I, was in charge of orthopedic instruction to medical officers at the New York University.