Lewis Herbert Savin was born in London on 26 March 1901. His parents were missionaries who had fled from China at the time of the Boxer rebellion a few months before his birth. Shortly after, his father and mother returned to the hospital that his father had founded at Chao Tung in Yunnan. He used t

Lindo Ferguson died peacefully on 19 January 2014 at the age of 90 years. Lindo was born in an historic home on his parents' dairy farm at Waimate North. He was educated by a governess until the family moved to Dunedin during the 1929 depression when he was aged 7. He attended John McGlashan Scho

Oswald Gayer Morgan was born in Seaford, Sussex, on 5 July 1889, the eldest son of William Pringle Morgan and Ethel, née Eastwood. He was educated at Epsom College, Clare College, Cambridge, and Guy's Hospital Medical School, qualifying with the Conjoint Diploma in 1913. A year later he went to Fran

Kandiah Vythilingham was born in Ceylon on 7 November 1910 and qualified with the LMS of Ceylon in 1937. He joined the Department of Health Services in 1939 and was appointed an acting medical officer at the Victoria Memorial Eye Hospital, Colombo. Thenceforward he specialized in ophthalmology, hold

Born at Tranmere, Cheshire, on 25 February 1865, the eldest son and second of the four children of Richard Sherwood, barrister and deemster of the Isle of Man, who assumed the name of Herbert in 1876. He was educated at Liverpool and at the Leeds Medical School, and took the English Conjoint qualifi

Michael Hugh Melville (Hugh) Ryan AM spent 65 years as an ophthalmologist, retiring only eight months before he died. His life was led with great intellectual integrity, a thirst for knowledge and a compassion for people. He graduated Dux of the Medical Course at Melbourne University in 1937 and

Born at Dalston, London, on 13 September 1860, the fourth son and sixth surviving child of George Hewkley, a member of the Stock Exchange, and Mary Dore his wife. He was educated at the City of London School and took his medical training at the London Hospital, Durham University, and Brussels. Hewkl

Eric John Arnott was an ophthalmologist and a pioneer of modern cataract surgery. He was born on 12 June 1929 in Sunningdale. His father, Sir Robert John Arnott, was chairman of Arnott Trust, Dublin, and director of *The Irish Times*. His mother was Emita Emelia James. He attended St Peter's Court P

Ian Alexander Mackie was an associate specialist in the external eye diseases clinic at Moorfields Eye Hospital, London, and at St George's Hospital. He studied medicine at Aberdeen, qualifying in 1954, and held house posts in the city, at Woodend General Hospital and the Royal Infirmary. He gained

Derrick Tilton Vail was born in Cincinnati on 15 May 1898, and did his medical course at Harvard University, graduating MD in 1923. He then spent a year as ophthalmic intern at the Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary and in 1926 he became instructor in ophthalmology at the University of Cincinnati C

Born at Edgbaston, Birmingham on 29 October 1845, the son of Brooke Smith. His father belonged to an old Unitarian family and the son was named after Joseph Priestley, the preacher and discoverer of oxygen, who was driven to the United States when the Birmingham mob burnt his house. Brooke Smith was

Michael Walsh qualified in Perth in 1964 and after junior posts was RMO at the Sir Charles Gairdner and the Princess Margaret hospitals, where he specialised in ophthalmology. He went to England as a registrar at the Royal Victoria Hospital, Newcastle on Tyne, followed by posts in Leeds and Bradford