Born on 1 June 1862 at Kensington, second child and eldest son of Beevor Roll, chartered accountant, and Ellen Winfield, his wife. He was educated at Bedford Grammar School, at Christ's College, Cambridge, and at St Thomas's Hospital, where he served as ophthalmic house surgeon. He was later chief c

Roderick Paton was born on 14 September 1908 in Streatham where his father was a general practitioner, and was educated at Streatham College, Dulwich College and St Thomas's Hospital Medical School, and qualified in 1931. Nine years later, after various hospital appointments, he obtained his Fell

Born in London on 8 December 1871 the son of M G Ormond, he was educated at Guy's Hospital, where he was appointed house-surgeon and then obstetric assistant in charge of externs. After travelling as a ship's surgeon to South Africa in 1898, he specialised in ophthalmology and was appointed ophthalm

Andrew Rugg-Gunn was born on 26 November 1884 at Altandhu, Ross and Cromarty, in north-west Scotland, the eldest of the five children of John Douglas Gunn, a school-master, and Mary Maclean his wife. He was educated and graduated in medicine from the University of Edinburgh in 1907. He then went int

Rodney Brian De Saram received his medical education at University College Hospital and qualified MRCS LRCP in 1955. He obtained the MB BS in 1956; the DO Eng 1962, and the FRCS in 1966. He held resident posts at University College Hospital and Moorfields Eye Hospital, London. He was appointed consu

Harold Levy was born in Montreal, Canada, on December 11, 1875. He was educated at the Catholic Academy, Montreal, where he was gold medalist in 1891 and was trained at McGill University where he was also a gold medalist and graduated BA in 1895 and MD, CM in 1899. In 1900 he took the PhD of Rostock

Ronald Ivor Thomas Lloyd was born on 25 May 1907 and educated at Bradford Grammar School, after which he joined his father as an optician, qualifying FBOA with honours. Later his father encouraged him to proceed to medical qualifications and he entered Leeds University Medical School in 1936, contin

Melville John Corrigan was born in Tiverton, Devon, on 17 September 1934 the son of H J Corrigan, an electrical engineer. He was educated at Tiverton Grammar School and at Blundell's School. He studied at Queen's College, Cambridge from 1952 to 1955 and was a keen athlete, playing rugby for his coll

Thomas Collyer Summers studied medicine at the London Hospital and qualified MB BS in 1924. He held appointments as ophthalmic surgeon to the Connaught Hospital, the King George Hospital, Ilford, and the Brentwood and District Hospital. He was then appointed honorary consulting ophthalmic surgeon to

Ralph Newton McCann was born in Australia and from 1934 to 1940 was at St Peter's Collegiate in Adelaide. He then attended the University and Royal Adelaide Hospital graduating MB BS in 1946. After a year in a house appointment he served in the Australian Army with BCOF Japan in 1947-48 and at Woome

Philippa Parry Pughe was born on 3 April, 1897, at Toowoomba, Queensland, Australia, the only daughter of Canon Thomas St John Pughe. She attended Toowoomba High School until the age of 10 when her parents brought her to England. She visited Rome and Venice where she remembered the Campanile in ruin

James William Tudor Thomas was born in Ystradgynlais, Breconshire, on 23 May 1893, the only child of Thomas Thomas, headmaster of Ystradgynlais County School, and Mary, daughter of a colliery proprietor, he was educated at the county school, Cardiff Medical School and the Middlesex Hospital. He won