Born at Bath on 3 August 1869, the only son of Cyril J Wood, journalist, and his wife, *née* Candy. Educated at Bath and at the University of Bristol, his main interests were devoted at first to pathology but, influenced by F Richardson Cross, he soon turned to ophthalmology. He was appointed surgeo

Born on 20 March 1872 at Ballymoney, Co Antrim, son of James Craig, he was educated at Coleraine Academical Institution and Queen's College, Belfast where he obtained first-class honours in the final medical examinations in 1895. For the next three years he held resident appointments at the Royal So