Gordon James Bougher was a consultant ophthalmologist in Perth, Western Australia. Born on 17 March 1931 in Perth he was the son of Arthur Edward Bougher, a garage proprietor, and his wife Anna Flora née Schwatz who was a home economist. After attending Highgate Primary School and Perth Modern School he spent a year at the University of Western Australia before transferring to Queen’s College, Melbourne University where he studied from 1950 to 1954. Travelling to the UK he worked at the Manchester Royal Eye Hospital with Ogilvie Maxwell Duthie and then at Moorfields where he was mentored by the ophthalmologists Alexander Galbraith Cross, Arthur George Leigh and Redmond John Hamilton Smith. In 1960 he passed the fellowship of the College and returned to Perth to take up the post of consultant ophthalmologist at the Royal Perth Hospital in 1961. Later he held a similar appointment at the Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital. He was a member of the qualifications and education committee of the Royal Australian College of Ophthalmologists and president of their Western Australia branch. As a reserve in the RAAF he served as a consultant ophthalmologist with the rank of wing commander. A board member of the Blind Association of Western Australia he held the post of its president. A keen squash player when young, he enjoyed wilderness travel and backpacking trips, tennis, golf and wine appreciation. Since he embarked on semi retirement in 1992 he developed an interest in horticulture and began cultivating native Western Australian wildflowers. On 11 December 1954 he married Marie Arnold and they had four children. Two took up medicine; their daughter Suzanne became a GP and Richard was an anaesthetist. Linda married a Mr Gower and was a primary teacher and Anthony worked as an environmental scientist. He died on 4 February 2016 aged 84.