Graham Cleverly Pritchard was a consultant ophthalmic surgeon at King's College Hospital. His father was a general practitioner in Highgate, London. He studied medicine at Clare College, Cambridge, and King's College Hospital, London, qualifying MB BChir in 1939. At the outbreak of the Second World

Barrie Samuel Jay was professor of clinical ophthalmology at the Institute of Ophthalmology, University of London. He was born in London on 7 May 1929, the son of Maurice Bernard Jay, a medical practitioner, and Julia Sterling Jay, a housewife. He attended Perse School and then Gonville and Caius Co

Michael John Absolon was an ophthalmic surgeon in Southampton and Winchester. He was born in Cheltenham in 1933 and studied natural sciences at St John's College, Cambridge, and then went on to complete his clinical studies at the London Hospital Medical School. While at Cambridge he represented the

Michael Britten was a consultant ophthalmic surgeon in Stockport and North Derbyshire. He attended Repton School and graduated in medicine from Liverpool University in 1954. He passed the fellowship in 1961 and published papers on "Glaucoma and inactive syphilitic interstitial keratitis" (jointly, *

Martin Hamilton Kemp was a consultant ophthalmic surgeon in Hereford and Worcester. He qualified MB BS in Durham in 1952. He gained his diploma in ophthalmology in 1962 and his FRCS in 1964. Prior to his consultant appointment, he was an ophthalmic registrar at the Royal Victoria Infirmary in Newcas

Howard Fyfe Harper was a pioneering ophthalmic surgeon who worked in Pakistan, Afghanistan and Iran. He was born in Te Kuiti, New Zealand, the son of William Stanley Blyth Harper, a chemist, and Esther Harper née Fortune, a schoolteacher. He was educated at Auckland Grammar School, but left early to

Born at Merthyr Tydfil on 24 December 1875, the son of Richard Thomas Jeremy, draper, and Maggie Rowe, his wife. He was educated at the Grammar School, Merthyr Tydfil, and studied medicine at University College, London, and at the London and St Bartholomew's Hospitals. He was surgical prizeman at th

Born at Manchester on 10 July 1853, the younger son of William: Johnson, ironmaster and manufacturer, and Emma, his wife, youngest daughter of George Fife Angas, of Lindsay Park, Angaston, South Australia, for whom see *DNB*. He was educated at Amersham Hall near Reading and then in Germany, at Bonn

The son of W B France, DL, of Cadogan Place. He entered Guy's Hospital as a medical student in 1835, and at once distinguished himself. In 1838 he received the Prize in Surgery of the Physical Society, and in 1839 the Silver Medal for Ophthalmic Surgery. After taking the membership he was appointed

The youngest son of the Rev Joseph Helm, Vicar of Worthing; educated at Marlborough College, then at St Catherine's College, Cambridge, where he took his BA degree as a Fellow Commoner in 1864. At the same time he became a pupil of Sir George Humphry, Surgeon to Addenbrooke's Hospital, for three yea

Studied at Charing Cross Hospital, where he was Llewellyn Scholar, Assistant Demonstrator of Anatomy and Physiology, and Clinical Assistant in the Ophthalmological Department. Later he was Chief Clinical Assistant at the Royal London Ophthalmic Hospital. He joined the Indian Medical Service, and re

Born at Bradford on December 28th, 1875, the second son of Henry Fison Killick, of Rawdon, Leeds, he came of a well-known professional family. He was educated at Rawdon School and at Bradford Grammar School, entering Trinity College, Cambridge, as a Pensioner June 13th, 1893, and graduating with hon