David Malcolm Watson studied medicine in London and qualified MB, BS in 1957. Initially, he worked as house surgeon and chief assistant in the eye department at St. Thomas’ Hospital before being appointed chief clinical assistant at the detachment unit at Moorfields Eye Hospital. He passed the fellowship of the college in 1957 and became consultant ophthalmic surgeon at Guy’s Hospital. Eventually he became emeritus consultant to Guys and St. Thomas’ while also working as ophthalmic surgeon to the King Edward VII Hospital for Officers and the Hospital of St John and St Elizabeth. He was a fellow of the Royal Society of Medicine and of the Ophthalmological Society of the UK. At one time he lived in Hampstead Garden Suburb and was living in Hook in Hampshire when he died on 9 June 2019.