Jean Margeurite Dollar was born in London in 1901. Her father, grandfather and uncle were veterinary surgeons practising in Bond Street. After school in London she attended the London School of Medicine for Women, from which she graduated MB BS in 1927. She early devoted herself to ophthalmology and took the DOMS in 1929. She proceeded to MS in 1935, FRCS in 1936 and in the same year was appointed to the consultant staff of the Royal Eye Hospital, London. She was also a consultant at St Olave's, the Elizabeth Garrett Anderson and the Royal Free Hospitals. Her main commitment throughout her working life was to the Royal Eye Hospital, where during the second world war she was one of the few members of the staff not on active service. Shortly after the war the hospital was amalgamated with King's College Hospital, but was separated again in the mid-1950's. As chairman of the medical staff committee she was skilful in steering the hospital through this difficult period. She subsequently remained a long-standing member of the group management committee. Miss Dollar was a deft, gentle and innovative surgeon. In 1945 she was elected Hunterian Professor at the Royal College of Surgeons of England. In the early 1950's, together with a colleague, she devised a technique of exenteration of the orbit with implantation of a prosthesis which enabled young patients with sarcoma of the orbit to lead a more tolerable life. She had a calm and reassuring approach to her patients and a lucid lecturing style, enlivened by quiet humour, much appreciated by her students. Her interests extended beyond the hospital to patients, nurses and social workers, with whom she developed a unique association. She retired from practice in 1965 and devoted herself to her main interests of reading, walking and visiting places which offered archaeological or natural attractions. She owned to being a reluctant house-keeper and gardener, but her entertaining conversation ensured visits from her many friends. She died on 20 April, 1982, at the age of 81.