Thomas Boyd was born in Glasgow on 7 June 1918, the son of Harold Arthur Boyd and his wife Edith, née Somerville. He was educated at Glasgow Academy. His father was chairman and director of the family engineering business, J & T Boyd Ltd., and Thomas went through an engineering apprenticeship from 1

Mark Treisman, the son of Wolfe Treisman, an outfitter, and of Esther (née Davis) was born in London on 10 May 1898. His paternal grandparents and several generations of his family were farmers in Lithuania until Jews were forbidden to own land there. He later changed his name to Tree and states tha

Stuart Brumley was an ophthalmologist in Toorak, Victoria, Australia. He was born in Melbourne on 9 November 1935. His father, Louis Purves Brumley, was an engineer; his mother was Marjorie Caroline Kirton, the daughter of a member of the state parliament in Victoria. He had a sister, Rosemary, and

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

George William Black was born in Boston, Lincolnshire on 21 January 1903 and was educated at Boston Grammar School and at the Middlesex Hospital, qualifying in 1926. During his early years in London he became very conscious of the divisions in English life, joining the Fabian Society and becoming a

Tom Casey was born on 8 October 1929 in Limerick, the son of Michael Casey, a farmer. He was educated at University College, Dublin, and after specialising in ophthalmology became registrar first at the Westminster Hospital and later at Moorfields. He possessed a happy combination of inspiration, su

Sir Stephen Miller was born on 19 July 1915 in Arbroath, Tayside, the eldest son of Stephen Charles Miller, an engineer, and Isobel, née Hamilton. He was educated at Arbroath High School and Aberdeen University, where he qualified MB ChB in 1937. His interest in ophthalmic surgery followed a peri

Born on 18 March 1928 in Christchurch, Averill was educated at Christ's College, Christchurch, at Canterbury University College and then at the Otago Medical School. He spent two years as house surgeon to Palmerston North Hospital and then came to Britain to study ophthalmology at Moorfields, obtain

Dhanwant Singh Grewal was a distinguished ophthalmologist in Punjab, India. He was born in Barnala, in the Punjab, on 3 November 1926. His father, Raghbir Singh, was medical officer to the royal family in Patiala, Punjab; his mother was Nihal Kaur. His younger brother became an ENT surgeon. He was e

Arne Christophe Andreas Hempel worked for many years as an ophthalmologist in clinics at the Westminster Hospital and Moorfields Eye Hospital, London. Born in Oslo on 6 May 1931, he was one of five children. He spent much of his early life in Dublin, where his father, Eduard Hempel, a career dipl

Gordon James Bougher was a consultant ophthalmologist in Perth, Western Australia. Born on 17 March 1931 in Perth he was the son of Arthur Edward Bougher, a garage proprietor, and his wife Anna Flora née Schwatz who was a home economist. After attending Highgate Primary School and Perth Modern Schoo

Haripada Adhikary was an ophthalmologist at the Royal Preston Hospital. He was born in 1941 in pre-partition India in the small village of Rampal in the district of Khulna, the son of Upendra Nath Adhikary and Kalidasi Adhikary. He initially worked as a mathematics teacher, but later studied medicin