Peter Clover was a consultant ophthalmic surgeon at the Royal Eye and Kingston hospitals, the Royal Hospital, Richmond, and St Thomas' Hospital, London. He gained his MB BS in 1945, his diploma in ophthalmic medicine and surgery in 1950 and his fellowship of the Royal College of Surgeons in 1959.

Born at Magdalena, Argentina on 15 September 1865, the fourth child and third son of Henry Thompson, an estanciero (manager of a country estate), and Margaret Cowen, his wife. He was educated privately at Liverpool and in Paris, and took his medical training at Edinburgh University, where he graduat

Born 15 November 1870 in Bedford Place, WC, the son of Walter Tyrrell, MRCS, anaesthetist to St Thomas's Hospital, with which he had an hereditary connexion. His father was afterwards in general practice in South Kensington in partnership with Sir Robert Fox-Symons, KBE, who was also educated at St

Born at Lublin in Poland, he came to England in 1920 and entered the Middlesex Hospital Medical School. After qualifying he took up general practice on his own at the Vale, Highbury NW but, deciding to specialise in ophthalmology, he was admitted a Fellow in 1932 and then worked as a clinical assist

Born on 1 March 1899 in Dalston, Cumberland, he found himself involved at a tender age in the war of 1914-18 during which he served in minesweepers of the Royal Navy, mostly in the Mediterranean. On demobilisation he decided to take up medicine and entered the medical school of Guy's Hospital. After

Born on 30 August 1861 at New Malton, Yorkshire the fifth son of the Rev John Walker, Rector of Bradwell, Great Yarmouth, his elder brother Robert being the first Archdeacon of Uganda 1893-1912, he was educated at Haileybury and Jesus College, Cambridge, where he took second-class honours in the Nat

John Bookless was born on 5 March 1878 and received his education at Christ's College, Brecon, and Eastbourne College. In 1897 he went up to Trinity Hall, Cambridge with a mathematical scholarship, but after leaving the University he decided on a medical career and entered Guy's Hospital Medical Sch

Born on 15 December 1901 at Mile End Newtown, he was educated at St Bartholomew's Hospital, was a house surgeon at the Nottingham and Midland Eye Infirmary, Clinical Assistant at the Royal Westminster Ophthalmic Hospital, and Chief Assistant at Moorfields. He subsequently became Ophthalmic Surgeon t

Thomas John Grahame Price was born in Exmouth, Devonshire, on 20 July 1917, the son of John Henry Noel Price, an engineer and civil servant, and his wife Rosalie Alberta, née Newcombe. His early education was at King's College, Taunton, and subsequently he entered St Mary's Hospital as a Kitchener s

Born in Buenos Aires in June 1867, son of Charles Brewerton of Whetstone, Middlesex, he came to England at the age of three and was educated at University College School. Later he went to Neuenheim College in Heidelberg and then entered St Bartholomew's Hospital Medical College in 1890, graduating i

Born on 11 March 1896 at Oudtshoorn, Cape, South Africa, he was educated at University College School and Hospital, London, winning the Lister medal for clinical surgery in 1918 and serving as house surgeon and ophthalmic registrar. He was commissioned in the South African Medical Corps towards the

Robert Lindsay-Rea was born in Belfast in 1881 and went to school there, and proceeded to Queen's University where he obtained the BSc degree with honours in 1912, and graduated MB BCh BAO with honours in 1915. He served in the army in the first world war, and supervised the X-ray work of the 4th Ar