Abraham Werb was a surgeon in the corneo-plastic unit, Queen Victoria Hospital, East Grinstead. He was born on 1 April 1919 in Lithuania, the son of Maurice Werb and Pia Werb née Frumer. His family was Jewish, and he spent much of his childhood trying to avoid being harassed by the anti-Semitic loca

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