John Giddings Milner was born in London on 7 December 1900, the second son of Thomas John Milner, a company director, and his wife, Caroline (née Carpenter), and was educated at Marlborough College and Trinity College, Cambridge, before entering St Bartholomew's Hospital. He continued his training a

Arnold Sorsby achieved national and international distinction as an ophthalmologist. He was a gentle, gracious and skilful surgeon, a man of great intellectual ability as shown in his works on genetics, blindness, medical history and as a poetry anthologist. He was a person of considerable charm, wi