Born on January 22nd, 1797, and entered the Madras Army as Assistant Surgeon January 19th, 1822, being promoted to Surgeon on November 18th, 1833. He was an oculist and superintendent of one of the HEIC's Eye Infirmaries. He is included by Lieut-Colonel Crawford in his list of twenty-nine members of

Born on October 3rd, 1880, the only son of William Lang, FRCS, Consulting Ophthalmic Surgeon to the Middlesex Hospital and to the Royal London Ophthalmic Hospital, Moorfields. Educated at Abbotsholme School in Derbyshire, he entered Trinity College, Cambridge and graduated BA with first class honour

Born at Kettering, Northamptonshire, the fourth son of Henry John Nettleship, solicitor, and Isabella, daughter of the Rev James Hogg, Rector of Geddington and sometime Head Master of Kettering Grammar School. He traced his paternal ancestry through six generations to John Nettleship, of Bole, whose

Peter Rycroft was born in Bradford, Yorkshire on 11 October 1928, the elder son of Sir Benjamin Rycroft and his wife, Mary, née Rhodes. He went to school at St Piran's on the Hill, Maidenhead, and at Stowe, and from there proceeded to his National Service in the Royal Army Medical Corps. He continue

Andrew Rugg-Gunn was born on 26 November 1884 at Altandhu, Ross and Cromarty, in north-west Scotland, the eldest of the five children of John Douglas Gunn, a school-master, and Mary Maclean his wife. He was educated and graduated in medicine from the University of Edinburgh in 1907. He then went int

Harold Levy was born in Montreal, Canada, on December 11, 1875. He was educated at the Catholic Academy, Montreal, where he was gold medalist in 1891 and was trained at McGill University where he was also a gold medalist and graduated BA in 1895 and MD, CM in 1899. In 1900 he took the PhD of Rostock

Geoffrey Cashell, born in 1906, was educated at Westminster School, London, before starting his medical training at King's College Hospital, where he qualified LMSSA and MRCS LRCP in 1930. 1933 was an eventful year: he passed the MB BS London and the FRCS Edinburgh and was appointed honorary consult

David Jeremiah McAuliffe was born in 1932 and after early education entered the University of Adelaide Medical School, qualifying in 1954. Having completed junior appointments in Australia he came to Britain and worked as lecturer in the department of ophthalmology at the Royal Infirmary, Edinburgh.

Robert Jack was born on 6 October 1914 in Darjeeling, India. His father, Sir Robert Jack, was a High Court Judge in Calcutta and his mother was Bertha Innerarity, née Shalcross. His boyhood and schooling, which was divided between Clifton and Cheltenham, were marked by long separations from his pare

Fisher received his medical education at the Westminster Hospital Medical School and qualified both with the London MB BS and the conjoint diploma in 1952. Deciding to specialise in ophthalmology after qualifying, he held junior appointments at the Westminster Hospital and at Moorfields. He won the

David Hugh Nixseaman was a consultant ophthalmic surgeon in Ayrshire and Galloway. He was born in Norwich, Norfolk on 16 December 1924. His father, Alfred Jonathan Seaman, was a chaplain to HM Forces in India; his mother was Edith Minna Seaman née Nix-James, a teacher and the daughter of an engraver

Born in Queensland on 16 September 1936, Karl Michael Silva studied medicine at the University of Queensland, and, after qualifying, went to England for five years specialist training in ophthalmology. He then returned to Sydney as an ophthalmic surgeon. His particular forte was in the surgery of