Born on 19 June 1890 son of Robert Wheddon Gimblett he was educated at Clifton College and Caius College, Cambridge, where he took second-class honours in the Natural Science Tripos, part 1, 1911. At St Thomas's Hospital he was house surgeon and senior ophthalmic surgeon at the R N Hospitals at Chat

Thomas Collyer Summers studied medicine at the London Hospital and qualified MB BS in 1924. He held appointments as ophthalmic surgeon to the Connaught Hospital, the King George Hospital, Ilford, and the Brentwood and District Hospital. He was then appointed honorary consulting ophthalmic surgeon to

Harold Vernon Ingram was born in Durham on 6 June 1902, the second child and elder son of William Jesse Ingram, a headmaster, university lecturer and bursar of Bede College, and of Eleanor Ingram (née Coates). From school he went to the College of Medicine of Durham University and qualified in 1924.

Ralph Francis Jones studied medicine at St Bartholomew's Hospital and qualified MB BS in 1951. He held appointments as senior registrar to St Thomas's Hospital and senior research officer and chief clinical assistant to Moorfields Eye Hospital. At the time of his death he was consultant ophthalmic s

James William Tudor Thomas was born in Ystradgynlais, Breconshire, on 23 May 1893, the only child of Thomas Thomas, headmaster of Ystradgynlais County School, and Mary, daughter of a colliery proprietor, he was educated at the county school, Cardiff Medical School and the Middlesex Hospital. He won

Bernard James Bowden was born in 1927 at Mt Albert, Auckland, the only son of William and Catherine Bowden. He was educated at Takapuna Grammar School and entered Auckland University as a Sinclair Scholar, graduating BSc in 1948. He spent that year as a junior master at King's College, Auckland, but

John Myles Bickerton was born at Hoylake, Cheshire on 28 August 1894, the youngest son of Thomas Herbert Bickerton, and Mary Jessie, née Burton. He was educated at the Leas School, Hoylake, Leighton Park School, Reading, Pembroke College, Cambridge, and King's College Hospital Medical School where h

Francis Joseph Damato was born in Malta on 2 February 1914, the son of Joseph Damato, an architect, and Josephine, née Farrugia. He was educated at St Paul's School, Valetta, and the Royal Malta University Medical School where he qualified in 1937. His brother, Pierre, became an ENT surgeon and a Fe

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

Ida Mann was born in London on 6 February 1893, the only daughter of Frederick Mann OBE, a civil servant, and Ellen (née Packham). She was educated at Wycombe House School, London, and at the London Polytechnic before proceeding to the London School of Medicine for Women and St Mary's Hospital, Padd

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,

Thomas John Grahame Price was born in Exmouth, Devonshire, on 20 July 1917, the son of John Henry Noel Price, an engineer and civil servant, and his wife Rosalie Alberta, née Newcombe. His early education was at King's College, Taunton, and subsequently he entered St Mary's Hospital as a Kitchener s