Born at Highgate, and studied at the London Hospital, where he was successively Demonstrator of Anatomy, Assistant Surgeon in 1846, and Surgeon from 1861-1863. He is said to have been a good surgeon, showing boldness and capacity in big operations. From 1843-1877 he was attached to the Royal London Ophthalmic Hospital, Moorfields, and became one of the best known ophthalmic surgeons of the day. He was a Member of the Council of the Royal College of Surgeons from 1870-1879, President of the Hunterian Society, and of the International Congress of Ophthalmology held in London in 1872. In 1876 he was appointed Ophthalmic Surgeon and Lecturer at the Middlesex Hospital. He died on Nov 1st, 1882. His eldest son, Sir G Anderson Critchett, Bart, KCVO, FRCS Edin, also a distinguished ophthalmologist, died at the age of 80 on February 9th, 1925. Publications:- Critchett published a valuable course of Lectures on "Diseases of the Eye" in the *Lancet*, 1854.