Rodney Brian De Saram received his medical education at University College Hospital and qualified MRCS LRCP in 1955. He obtained the MB BS in 1956; the DO Eng 1962, and the FRCS in 1966. He held resident posts at University College Hospital and Moorfields Eye Hospital, London. He was appointed consulting ophthalmic surgeon to the Bournemouth and East Dorset Hospital. He was a member of the Ophthalmological Society of the United Kingdom and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Medicine. He died suddenly on 23 July 1976, leaving his wife, Helen, and three daughters.