Charles Edward Allen Cragg, known as ‘Ted’, was an ophthalmologist in Peterborough, Ontario, Canada. He was born in Hampstead, London, on 30 July 1920, the son of two Canadians, Cecil Claude Cragg, a doctor, and his wife Florence Everilda (‘Hilda’) Cragg née Mitford. The family returned to Canada an

Ronald Pitts Crick was a senior ophthalmic surgeon at King's College Hospital, London, and a pioneer in the use of the operating microscope in eye surgery in the UK. He was born in Toronto, Canada, on 5 February 1917. His father, Owen John Pitts Crick, was an engineer and inventor; his mother was Ma

Howard Reed was an ophthalmologist in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada. He was born in London on 28 April 1914, the son of Morris William Reed, a chartered secretary, and Emmeline Louise Reed. He attended West Ham Secondary School and first qualified as an optometrist. He then decided to become a doctor a

John Dobree was born in Woolwich on 25 April 1914, the son of Hatherley Moor Dobree OBE, a civil engineer, and Muriel née Hope. He was educated at Victoria College, Jersey, and St Bartholomew's Hospital, where he qualified in 1938. He was house physician at the Metropolitan Hospital and the Western

Perth's medical services include one of the world's most respected centres for ophthalmology, the treatment of the eye, and one of its mentors was Bernard Catchpole. Included in his skills was a gift for persuasion. He played a key role in the recruitment of Ian Constable, a world authority in hi

'Buster' Glover was a consultant ophthalmologist in Windsor. He was born in Hampstead, London, on 5 October 1917, the son of James Alison Glover (CBE, MD, FRCP), the senior medical officer to the Board of Education and the Ministry of Health, and Katherine Merriam, the daughter of a plastics manufac

Dr John Lawrence Bignell, a leading ophthalmologist in Melbourne for many years, died on Monday 31 October 2005 after a long illness. John was born in Melbourne on 24 May 1917, the second son of Colonel and Mrs F Bignell; his father was also a doctor and served in France in the First World War. J

Edward ‘Terry’ S Perkins was a renowned British-American ophthalmologist and researcher in the United Kingdom, Kenya and the United States of America who made many contributions in ophthalmology. He was born on 15 October 1919, in London to Edward Walter Perkins and Gertrude Fanny Perkins née Price.