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.

Hugh Hedley Skeoch was born on 18 December 1895 in Sydney, the second son of Hugh Skeoch, a mechanical engineer and Mabel, née Hedley, who came originally from Liverpool. Hugh was educated at Grafton Public and Hay High Schools in New South Wales, and then qualified in medicine from Sydney Universit

Thomas (Tony) Douglas Huon Gray qualified MB, ChB in Liverpool in 1948. After early ophthalmic appointments at the Westminster, Moorfields and the London Hospitals he returned to Liverpool, having passed the Fellowship of the College in 1960. He became consultant in ophthalmic surgery to the Live

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,

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

Henry Edwin Hobbs was born in London on 4 February 1910, the son of Henry Hobbs, an officer in the Salvation Army. His early education was at Grade schools in Winnipeg, Calgary and Vancouver in Canada before returning to England where he attended Tottenham Boys' Junior Technical School. His full-tim

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

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 Tomkin was born on 21 July 1936, the first son of Harris Tomkin, ophthalmic surgeon and his wife Sarah née Nelson. He attended Castle Park Dalkey, St Columba's College, Tathfarnham, and Trinity College, Dublin, where he took the Nurock Prize for classics and the silver medal of the Biologi

Fisher received his medical education at the Westminster Hospital Medical School and qualified both with the London MB BS and the conjoint diploma in 1952. Deciding to specialise in ophthalmology after qualifying, he held junior appointments at the Westminster Hospital and at Moorfields. He won the

Kenneth Rostron received his medical education at Cambridge and Manchester and qualified in 1937, obtaining the DOMS in 1947 and his Fellowship in 1950. After qualifying and deciding to specialise in ophthalmology he was chief clinical assistant at the Westminster branch of Moorfields and at the Cen