Kilner jar for Historical Archeology. In an episode of the BBC's "Who Do You Think You Are?", the former "Top Gear" television presenter Jeremy Clarkson found out that he was a great-great-great-great grandson of John Kilner. The various names of the Kilner companies were: Kilner jar A Kilner jar is a rubber-sealed, screw-topped jar used for preserving (bottling) food. It was first produced by John Kilner & Co., Yorkshire, England. The Kilner Jar was originally made by a firm of glass bottlemakers from Yorkshire called Kilner. The original Kilner bottlemakers operated from 1842, when the company was first founded, until 1937, when
Thomas Kilner First World War. In 1918 he was stationed at Sidcup alongside Sir Harold Gillies. In 1921 they became the only two surgeons specializing in plastic surgery in Britain until joined later by Archibald McIndoe and Rainsford Mowlem. Kilner later became consulting plastic surgeon to a large number of hospitals. He served in the Second World War as a consulting plastic surgeon and worked at Roehampton which developed into Stoke Mandeville Hospital . Kilner was President of the British Association of Plastic Surgery in 1948 and 1955. . Kilner was born on 17th September 1890, the son of a schoolmaster at