Enid Wheldon was born on 18 June 1933 in Chester-Le-Street, County Durham. Her father, Joseph William Wheldon was a farmer and her mother, Jane née Rutter was a school teacher. After attending Chester-Le-Street Grammar School, she went up to Girton College Cambridge to study medicine and trained at the London Hospital Medical College, qualifying MB, BChir in 1957. She did house jobs in ophthalmology at St James’s Hospital Balham and the Middlesex before moving to Bart’s as a senior registrar. In 1966 she was appointed consultant ophthalmic surgeon at the Elizabeth Garrett Anderson Hospital and stayed there until 1973. Eventually she returned to the North Middlesex Hospital where she stayed for over 20 years from 1974 to 1998. A woman of great energy in her chosen field, she was an advisor and tutor in ophthalmology to the college from 1980 to 1986. She was chairman of the NE Thames Regional Ophthalmic Advisory Board from 1979 to 1986, a member of the board of the Faculty of Ophthalmology from 1980 to 1988, a member of the council of the College of Ophthalmologists from 1988 to 1990, and, at the Royal Society of Medicine, a council member of the section of ophthalmology from 1981 to 1985 and its vice president from 1985 to 1988. At the British Medical Association she was a member of the Ophthalmic Group Committee and of the Ophthalmic Qualifications Committee. A Liveryman of the Society of Apothecaries, she also served for a term as it’s Master. She married Thomas H. Taylor FFARCS on 8 August 1959. They had two sons, Hugh Wheldon Taylor (born 1961), who became a consultant surgeon in Basildon, and Simon Wheldon Taylor (born 1962), who qualified as a doctor but then studied law and became a barrister. She enjoyed listening to music and attending the theatre, but also more domestic pursuits such as embroidery. She died on 2 November 2022, aged 89.