Wallace Foulds was a professor of ophthalmology at the Tennent Institute, Glasgow and the founding president of the Royal College of Ophthalmologists. This is a draft obituary. If you have any information about this surgeon or are interested in writing this obituary, please email lives@rcseng.a

George Denis Elphick was senior resident and chief clinical assistant at Moorfields Eye Hospital, house surgeon to the eye department at St George's Hospital and consultant ophthalmologist to the Leicester Royal Infirmary. His last post was as consultant ophthalmologist to the Ministry of Pensions.

Ogilvie Duthie, the eldest son of the director of education at Salford, was born on 19 September 1899, in Manchester. After education at Manchester Grammar School he enlisted in the Navy in 1916, at the age of 17, as a Sub-Lieutenant. Entering Manchester University after the war he qualified in 1921

William Stewart Duke-Elder was born on 22 April 1898 at Tealing, near Dundee, the son of a Scottish minister. Before proceeding to St Andrew's University as a foundation scholar in 1915 he had been a brilliant pupil at school and was invariably top of the class. He graduated MA in 1919 with first cl

Dr John Lawrence Bignell, a leading ophthalmologist in Melbourne for many years, died on Monday 31 October 2005 after a long illness. John was born in Melbourne on 24 May 1917, the second son of Colonel and Mrs F Bignell; his father was also a doctor and served in France in the First World War. J

Anthony Gordon Palin was born in Wallington, Surrey, on 29 July 1907, the son of Frederick Palin, a barrister. He was educated at St Lawrence College, Ramsgate, Oxford University and St Thomas's Hospital, qualifying in 1933. After completing post-graduate training he was appointed consultant ophthal

George William Black was born in Boston, Lincolnshire on 21 January 1903 and was educated at Boston Grammar School and at the Middlesex Hospital, qualifying in 1926. During his early years in London he became very conscious of the divisions in English life, joining the Fabian Society and becoming a

Arne Christophe Andreas Hempel worked for many years as an ophthalmologist in clinics at the Westminster Hospital and Moorfields Eye Hospital, London. Born in Oslo on 6 May 1931, he was one of five children. He spent much of his early life in Dublin, where his father, Eduard Hempel, a career dipl

Edward ‘Terry’ S Perkins was a renowned British-American ophthalmologist and researcher in the United Kingdom, Kenya and the United States of America who made many contributions in ophthalmology. He was born on 15 October 1919, in London to Edward Walter Perkins and Gertrude Fanny Perkins née Price.

Michael Patrick Quinlan was born on 17 March 1943 in Southport, Lancashire and studied medicine at the University of Liverpool, graduating in 1967. In London he was a senior registrar at the Middlesex Hospital, associate lecturer at the Institute of Ophthalmology and resident surgical officer at Moo

James Finbarr ‘Barry’ Cullen, a consultant ophthalmologist at the Royal Edinburgh Infirmary, was one of the great names in ophthalmology, though he would never have thought that of himself. He was born in Cavan, Ireland, on 13 July 1928, the son of Bernard Thomas ‘Bertie’ Cullen, a GP, and Maura Cul

Walter Levy was an ophthalmologist in New Mexico, USA. This is a draft obituary. If you have any information about this surgeon or are interested in writing this obituary, please email lives@rcseng.ac.uk