Noel Moores was a consultant ophthalmic surgeon at the Royal Eye Hospital, Surbiton, Richmond Royal Hospital and Kingston Hospital. He was born on 3 November 1922 in Bury, Greater Manchester. He was educated at Repton School, Derbyshire and studied medicine at Manchester University, qualifying in 1946. He then served as a captain in the Royal Army Medical Corps. He gained the diploma in ophthalmic medicine and surgery in 1950, became a fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons in 1952 and of the Royal College of Ophthalmologists in 1989. He was a senior ophthalmic registrar and chief assistant at St Bartholomew’s Hospital, London, and was then appointed as a consultant ophthalmic surgeon to Lambeth Hospital and East Ham Memorial Hospital, London. He later moved on to the Royal Eye, Richmond Royal and Kingston hospitals. He was a member of the Royal Society of Medicine and the Ophthalmological Society of the United Kingdom and was vice president of the Medical Contact Lens Association. Noel Moores died on 18 December 2007. He was 85.