Lewis Philip Jameson Evans was born at Edgbaston, Birmingham on 2 June 1907, the son of John Jameson Evans, FRCS, a distinguished ophthalmic surgeon and lecturer in ophthalmology in Birmingham University; his mother was a daughter of the Rev Thomas Charles Edwards DD, first Principal of the University College of Wales, Aberystwyth. From West House School, Edgbaston, he went to Charterhouse, and then to Caius College, Cambridge, where he was secretary of the University Medical Society, president of the Caius Medical Society, and won his College colours for hockey, golf, and shooting. He came to St Bartholomew's Hospital for his clinical course, where he was Shuter Scholar in 1928 and qualified with the Conjoint Diploma in 1931 and the Cambridge degrees in 1932. After house appointments at the Birmingham General and the Birmingham Eye Hospitals he took the FRCS and the DOMS diplomas in 1933, and proceeded to the MD Cambridge in 1936. At the General Hospital he came under the influence of Seymour Barling, while his father was his chief mentor at the Eye Hospital. In 1933 Jameson Evans was appointed to the consultant staff of the Queen's Hospital, the Children's Hospital, and the Birmingham and Midland Eye Hospital to which his father and he between them gave continuous service from 1898 till 1972. He also became a lecturer in ophthalmology in the University of Birmingham, and held consultant posts at the Birmingham General Dispensary, the Hallam Hospital, the Bromsgrove Cottage Hospital, and the Royal Institution for the Blind. From 1945 he was ophthalmic surgeon to the United Birmingham Hospitals, and in 1955-56 he was President of the Midland Ophthalmological Society. In addition to these local commitments he was a member of the Faculty of Ophthalmologists of the Royal College of Surgeons from its inception and its Vice-President 1961-63. He served as an examiner for the DO of the Conjoint Board, and was a member of the Court of Examiners for the Fellowship in Ophthalmology of the Royal College of Surgeons. He was elected Master of the Oxford Ophthalmological Congress in 1963, Vice-President of the Ophthalmological Society of the United Kingdom in 1966-69, and President of the Section of Ophthalmology of the Royal Society of Medicine in 1969. His most important attribute was the charm of his personality. He was a first-class clinician and teacher, and his popularity as a lecturer won him friends as far away as Australia and New Zealand. In 1934 he married Sylvia Keep and they had four children, a son who died young, and three daughters of whom the eldest became a medical biochemist, the next a speech therapist, and the youngest married a consultant physician. His home life was extremely happy, he loved his garden and enjoyed all things of natural beauty. He died suddenly of a heart attack at his home at Bromsgrove on 25 March 1973 at the age of 65; his wife and daughters survived him. Publications: Underlying causes of glaucoma. (Middlemore Prize Essay) *Brit J Ophthal* 1939, 23, 745. Modern problems in glaucoma. (Montgomery Lecture, Dublin.) *Trans Ophthal Soc UK* 1971, 91, 861.