Charles James Frederick Maguire was a consultant ophthalmic surgeon at Royal Victoria Hospital, Belfast. He was born in County Wicklow, Ireland, on 10 May 1931 to Charles Maguire, a nonconformist minister, and Gertrude née Armitage. He was at school in Belfast, attending the Methodist College, and c

Born 4 December 1867, fourth of seven sons of George Lawson, FRCS, and Mary, his wife, daughter of William Thomson, MD, surgeon in the Indian Medical Service (Crawford's *Roll of the IMS*, Bengal list, No 965). George Lawson had been invalided home from the Crimea, and later became surgeon to the Mi

The only son of George M Frean. He received his medical training at the University of Cambridge and at the London Hospital; was Surgical Clinical Assistant at the Evelina Hospital, and settled in Oxford (29 Beaumont Street). He was at one time Senior Clinical Assistant to the Oxford Eye Hospital, an

Born 7 October 1869 at Timaru, South Canterbury, New Zealand, the fourth child and second son of Samuel Stewart Griffin and Catherine Finegan, his wife. His father, born in Canada, was medical man, clergyman, politician, and pioneer settler. He was educated at Christ's College, Christchurch, where h

Born 12 November 1866 the fourth son of Thomas Frederick Grimsdale (1823-1902), MRCS 1845, of 29 Rodney Street, Liverpool, a leading gynaecologist (see *Brit med J* 1902, 2, 919; *Lancet*, 1902, 2, 712) and Jane Bury, his wife, who lived till her hundredth year. An elder son Thomas Babington Grimsda

The son of Lieut-Colonel H J Brockman. He was educated at St George's Hospital, where he was a contemporary of Pickering Pick (qv), John Cavafy, and T T Whipham. He also studied at the Royal Westminster Ophthalmic Hospital, and was Prosector at the Royal College of Surgeons in 1865. He passed first

Born about 1862 he was educated at University College, London where he served as assistant demonstrator of anatomy. He was house physician at the Great Northern Hospital and, becoming interested in diseases of the eye, was house surgeon at the Moorfields Eye Hospital 1889-91, and became surgeon to t

Philip Neville Awdry was a consultant ophthalmic surgeon at United Oxford Hospitals and Oxford Royal Hospital for the Blind. Born in 1933, he was the son of Neville John Awdry TD and his wife, Joan née Visger. Ophthalmologist to the Royal Commonwealth Society Blind Mobile Field Team, it is possible

Anthea Mary Stewart Connell was a senior ophthalmic consultant at the Queen Elizabeth Hospital, Barbados, from 1969 to 1996. She was born on 21 October 1925, the daughter of two medical doctors. Her father, John S M Connell, was a surgeon and gynaecologist and had served as a colonel in the RAMC on

Lorimer Fison was an innovative ophthalmic surgeon who introduced a revolutionary new procedure for the repair of retinal detachment from the United States. He was born on 14 July 1920 in Harrogate, the third son of William James Fison, a well-known ophthalmic surgeon, and Janet Sybil née Dutton, th

Douglas Arthur Langley was a consultant ophthalmic surgeon at the Royal Northern and Whittington hospitals in London. He was born on 18 April 1917 at Woolwich, London, to Arthur Langley, an Army officer, and Laura Elizabeth née Webber. He was educated at Cottingham College, Plumstead, and Woolwich C

The eldest son of William Dalrymple, of Norwich, and Marianne Bertram, his wife. John was one of six sons, and two of his brothers, Archibald Dalrymple (qv) and Donald Dalrymple (qv) became Fellows of the Royal College of Surgeons. He studied under his father and at Edinburgh. He made a special stud