As the son of a surgeon, Charles Langley Owen, and the great-nephew of an eminent ophthalmologist, David Charles Lloyd Owen, it was not surprising that Robin Owen took up eye surgery as a career, becoming a consultant ophthalmic surgeon in south London. His mother was Robina Elizabeth Owen née Sincl

John Pyne was a consultant ophthalmic surgeon at the Norfolk and Norwich and West Norwich hospitals, and also worked privately at the BUPA Hospital Norwich in Colney, Norfolk. One of nature's true gentlemen, he had a courteous approach to his many grateful patients, his colleagues, junior staff and