Edward Alexander Butterworth was an ophthalmic surgeon to the Luton and Dunstable Hospital. He was born on 6 July 1907, at Port Elizabeth, South Africa, the son of Arthur Shaw Butterworth, a civil engineer, and Ida Evelyn White. He was educated at the Royal Masonic School, Bushey, from which he gain

Born on 28 February 1906 son of Francis John Philps, sometime editor of the *Financial Times*, he was educated at Aldenham and St Bartholomew's Hospital, where after qualifying he was house surgeon to George Gask and Thomas Dunhill, later becoming house surgeon and resident medical officer at the Ro