Kate Goddard was a consultant ophthalmologist at Hull Royal Infirmary and one of a generation who, by their persistence and determination, helped change the way we perceive women in the professions. She was born in Sheffield on 12 July 1931, the daughter of Henri Arnold Joel Merrill and Una Adelaide

Someone once stopped David Abrams at a cashpoint in Baker Street and asked if he would come into Madame Tussauds and have his hands modelled for a waxwork of the sculptor Henry Moore. The Leeds-born eye surgeon was chuffed to be asked to emulate a fellow Yorkshireman, especially a major artist. Perh