Born 12 July 1869 at Romford, Essex, the fourth child and third son of Octavius George Daldy, coal and timber merchant, and his wife, *née* Mantell. He was educated at Cranbrook School, Kent, and at Guy's Hospital, and was awarded a gold medal at the London University MB BS examination. Daldy was in general practice at Surbiton for fourteen years after qualifying, and moved in 1905 to Hove where, after a few years in general practice, he specialized as an ophthalmic consultant. He was surgeon, to the Sussex Eye Hospital from 1914, and was appointed consulting surgeon when he retired in 1929; and he was ophthalmic specialist to the Hove education authority 1920-45. During the first world war he served as captain RAMC at the 2nd Eastern General Hospital. Daldy was at one time a vice-president of the Richmond division of the British Medical Association; he was secretary and treasurer of the Brighton division for seven years and of the Sussex branch from 1922; he acted as secretary of the ophthalmic section at the annual meeting at Brighton in 1913. Daldy married in 1895 Mary Ellen Hitchcock, who survived him with a son and a daughter. He practised first at 14 Palmeira Avenue, Hove, and latterly at Amesbury House, 10 Lansdowne Road, Hove, where he died on 31 December 1946, aged 77. He was an unassuming man with a shy manner, who did much good work both clinically and for the profession.