Frank William Law was born in Isleworth, London, on 14 August 1898, the third son of Thomas Law, a drapery warehouseman, and his wife Emma, née MacRae. He was educated at St Paul's School and St John's College, Cambridge, proceeding to the Middlesex Hospital for his clinical studies where he graduated in 1927. His medical studies had been interrupted by war service in France and Flanders in the Royal Field Artillery where he was an acting Captain. After qualifying he became one of the most distinguished ophthalmologists of his time. He was appointed consultant ophthalmic surgeon to Moorfields Eye Hospital in 1936 and was also ophthalmic surgeon to Guy's Hospital, King Edward VII's Hospital for Officers, the Royal Hospital, Chelsea, and Queen Alexandra's Military Hospital. He was an honorary consultant in ophthalmology to the Army, an honorary member of several foreign ophthalmological societies and an honorary visiting ophthalmologist to the Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore. In his time he was President of the Ophthalmologists and Master of the Worshipful Company of Spectacle Makers. He was a member of the Ophthalmic Hospital Committee of the Order of St John and was made a Knight of that Order. Frank Law had many interests in addition to ophthalmology including music, fishing and shooting. He was also a keen embroiderer. In his youth he rowed for Cambridge and played rugby for the Middlesex Hospital. He was a gifted medical historian and wrote the second volume of *The history and traditions of Moorfields Eye Hospital*, and the histories of the Ophthalmological Society of the United Kingdom and the Worshipful Company of Spectacle Makers. He was a commanding speaker and an excellent chairman of committees. He died at home in Chipperfield n 26 May 1987 aged 88 and was survived by his wife Brenda (Tommy), to whom he had been happily married for 58 years, his son, Barry, and his daughter, Brynhilde.