Melville John Corrigan was born in Tiverton, Devon, on 17 September 1934 the son of H J Corrigan, an electrical engineer. He was educated at Tiverton Grammar School and at Blundell's School. He studied at Queen's College, Cambridge from 1952 to 1955 and was a keen athlete, playing rugby for his coll

Arnold Sorsby achieved national and international distinction as an ophthalmologist. He was a gentle, gracious and skilful surgeon, a man of great intellectual ability as shown in his works on genetics, blindness, medical history and as a poetry anthologist. He was a person of considerable charm, wi

Little is known of the career of William Adamson Gray. He read medicine at Edinburgh University and won the Gifford Edmunds Prize in 1931. He practised as an ophthalmic surgeon at Queen Mary's Hospital in London's East End. Around 1950 he went to Nova Scotia and then for many years lived in Toronto,

Frederick Ridley was born in Birmingham, where his father was a schoolteacher. Having graduated BSc at Birmingham in 1922 he took the MB, BS in 1925 and the FRCS in 1928. As a young man he worked with Fleming on lysozyme, and his basic work on purification helped in the subsequent development of pen

Francis Colin Schwerdt was born in Hertfordshire and educated at Winchester College before receiving his medical training at Oxford where he qualified in 1952. After his national service as regimental medical officer to the 3rd Royal Hussars he embarked on his chosen specialty in ophthalmic surgery

Geoffrey Cashell, born in 1906, was educated at Westminster School, London, before starting his medical training at King's College Hospital, where he qualified LMSSA and MRCS LRCP in 1930. 1933 was an eventful year: he passed the MB BS London and the FRCS Edinburgh and was appointed honorary consult

Consultant ophthalmic surgeon to University College Hospital and Moorfields Eye Hospital, Cyril Dee Shapland distinguished his career in the 1950s by pioneering new procedures using diathermy and cryosurgery in the treatment of detachment of the retina. Years earlier, in 1929 he assisted Sir William

Jacob Sherne was resident ophthalmic officer at Leeds General Infirmary before becoming consultant in ophthalmic surgery to Leeds Hospital Group A. During the second world war he served with the RAMC with the rank of Major. He died on 20 March 1974.

David Jeremiah McAuliffe was born in 1932 and after early education entered the University of Adelaide Medical School, qualifying in 1954. Having completed junior appointments in Australia he came to Britain and worked as lecturer in the department of ophthalmology at the Royal Infirmary, Edinburgh.

Alexander Galbraith Cross was born in London on 29 March 1908, the son of Walter Galbraith, a bank manager, and his wife Mary Stewart, née McKeich, a farmer's daughter. He was educated at King's College School, Caius College Cambridge, and St Mary's Hospital, where he was a University Scholar and

Peter Blaxter was a consultant ophthalmic surgeon at Manchester Royal Eye Hospital. He was born in Highbury, London, on 17 February 1918, the son of Augustus Pierce Llewellyn Blaxter, a chemical engineer, and Enid, née Lewis, daughter of the Rev H E Lewis, Arch Druid of Wales. He was educated at Els

Edward Alexander Butterworth was an ophthalmic surgeon to the Luton and Dunstable Hospital. He was born on 6 July 1907, at Port Elizabeth, South Africa, the son of Arthur Shaw Butterworth, a civil engineer, and Ida Evelyn White. He was educated at the Royal Masonic School, Bushey, from which he gain