Malcolm Graham was an ophthalmic surgeon in Dublin. Born in Dublin on 1 April 1924, he was the oldest child of Malcolm Moore Graham, a clergyman in the Church of Ireland and his wife Constance Kathleen Hilary née Vaughan who was the daughter of a solicitor. After attending Mourne Grange School, Kilkeel, County Down and Portora Royal School, Enniskillen, County Fermanagh he went up to Trinity College Dublin to study medicine. He graduated MB BCh BAO in 1947 and trained at Sir Patrick Dun’s Hospital in Dublin. He passed the fellowship of the college in 1956. Among his mentors he acknowledged the ophthalmic surgeon Ronald Pitts Crick, others were L E Warner, P Jameson Evans and A J Cameron. Secretary of a local medical society, he was also on the council of the Faculty of Ophthalmologists. In 1947 he married Ms Dooley and they had two sons. Outside medicine he enjoyed golf, camping and photography.