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

Albert Boswell Nutt was born in Sheffield on 7 July 1898, the only son of Ernest Smith Nutt. He had the essential virtue of humility, particularly in his approach to the treatment of his patients, following the classical tradition of relating their ophthalmological state to the whole body condition.

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,

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

Roy Harfitt was born in Alexandria, Egypt on 15 March 1944. He had no medical connections. His grandfather, Vicar of St Mary at Hill (the Billingsgate fish market church) founded the Christian Evidence Society. Ronald Stanley Harfitt, his father, worked in civil aviation and his mother was Josephine

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

John Giddings Milner was born in London on 7 December 1900, the second son of Thomas John Milner, a company director, and his wife, Caroline (née Carpenter), and was educated at Marlborough College and Trinity College, Cambridge, before entering St Bartholomew's Hospital. He continued his training a

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

David John Lobascher was born in Perth, Western Australia on 17 August 1932 the son of Lewin Lobascker, an accountant. His mother Violet, née Bryan, died when he was young and his early education was at the Modern Medical School, Perth, before entering the University of Adelaide Medical School. He q