Stuart Brumley was an ophthalmologist in Toorak, Victoria, Australia. He was born in Melbourne on 9 November 1935. His father, Louis Purves Brumley, was an engineer; his mother was Marjorie Caroline Kirton, the daughter of a member of the state parliament in Victoria. He had a sister, Rosemary, and two brothers, Ian and Graeme. He was educated at Camberwell Grammar School in Melbourne and Scotch College (from 1946 to 1953). He went on to study medicine at the University of Melbourne, qualifying in 1961. He was an intern at the Royal Melbourne Hospital and then went to the UK, where he was a senior house officer and registrar at the Royal Eye Hospital in London, and subsequently a registrar at the Croydon Eye Unit. He gained his diploma in ophthalmology in 1967 and his FRCS in 1972. He was influenced by Sir Thomas Travers in Melbourne and Dermot Pierse in London. He returned to Australia, where he settled first in Doncaster and then Toorak, Victoria. His special interests were general ophthalmology, cataracts and refractive surgery. He enjoyed music, theatre and travelling. In 1968 he married Wendy Thorn, a psychotherapist he met while studying in London. They had a son, Stuart. Stuart Purves Brumley died on 15 April 2012 aged 78.