Adrian Caddy, the son of Inspector-General J T Caddy MD RN, was born in London in 1879; he was educated at St Paul's School and St George's Hospital, qualifying in 1900. His early appointments included those of house surgeon at St George's and clinical assistant to the Royal Westminster Ophthalmic Hospital, London. In 1910 he was appointed clinical assistant to the Hospital for Diseases of the Throat, Golden Square, and two years later went to India as surgeon-superintendent to the Hindu Marawi Hospital in Calcutta. During the first world war he served as an officer in the Indian Auxiliary Medical Corps, a local defence corps attached to the Calcutta Light Horse. At the end of the war he retired with the rank of Lieutenant-Colonel, being awarded the Volunteer Officers Decoration. In the following six years he was a partner in a large general practice in Calcutta, and at that time was a member of the Bengal Council of Medical Registration and of the Calcutta School of Tropical Medicine. Caddy returned from India in 1925 to obtain the DOMS, which he achieved in 1926. In that year he was appointed assistant surgeon to the Royal Westminster Ophthalmic Hospital, later becoming consulting surgeon until 1939. In 1929 he became consulting ophthalmic surgeon to the Italian Hospital, London. During the second world war he served at St George's Hospital as a temporary ophthalmic surgeon. Caddy was a man of colourful personality and always popular with his house surgeons. His punctuality was a byword, as he always attended his outpatient and operating sessions dead on time. He was a quick and efficient operator; few operations on the eye took him more than ten minutes. Each successive house surgeon was treated to a luncheon at the Oriental Club where the wine he chose was invariably claret. He died at his home, Havington, Kettlewell Hill, Woking on 24 February 1966 at the age of 87.