Wallace Foulds was a professor of ophthalmology at the Tennent Institute, Glasgow and the founding president of the Royal College of Ophthalmologists. This is a draft obituary. If you have any information about this surgeon or are interested in writing this obituary, please email lives@rcseng.a

Fred Hollows was born in Dunedin, New Zealand, on 9 April 1929, the son of an engine driver. After schooling in Palmerston North he entered the Church of Christ College of Otago University, intending to devote his life to the ministry. He changed his mind however and studied medicine, qualifying MB

Saw Leong was born in Burma on 19 October 1918 in Mudon, where his father, U Saw Ohn Pe, was a landowner and his mother, Daw Tan Ma Chan, a businesswoman. His uncle, Tan Chan Taik, was an ophthalmologist in Rangoon. His sisters, Ma Thwe Ohn Pe and Thein Thein Myint, became GPs in Moulmein and Streat

Harold Ridley pioneered the use of Perspex lenses in the treatment of cataract. He was born on 10 July 1906 in Kibworth, Leicestershire. His father, Nicholas Charles Ridley FRCS, was a former Naval surgeon who became an ophthalmic surgeon at Leicester Royal Infirmary. His mother, Margaret Parker - h

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

John Cappin was a consultant ophthalmologist at Leicester Royal Infirmary from 1975 to 1999. He was born in London in 1938 to Louis and Yetta Cappin; his father was a clothing manufacturer in the East End of London and Cumbernauld, Scotland. John was the eldest of three brothers. He attended Mercers

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

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.

Bruce Speight was a consultant ophthalmologist at Grimsby General Hospital. He was born on 19 February 1911 in Dunedin, New Zealand, where his father Walter was a merchant. His mother was Anna née Borrows. He was educated at Otago Boys' High School and Otago University, qualifying in 1935. After jun

Sohan S Hayreh, professor of ophthalmology at the University of Iowa, was best known for his work on the vascular circulation of the visual system and vascular diseases of the eye and optic nerve. He made profound contributions to the understanding of vascular eye diseases and received many honours.

Michael John Gilkes was a consultant ophthalmologist at the Sussex Eye Hospital, Brighton. He was born in Montreal, Canada, on 31 August 1923, the only child of Hester Dene Aram Parker, a musician, pianist and singer. She later married Martin Heming Gilkes, an author and teacher, who had lost a leg

Thomas Crawford Barras came of a distinguished Glasgow medical family. His father, William Barras, was President of the Scottish Society of Anaesthetists at the time of his death in a motoring accident in 1928, and his grandfather Thomas Crawford also practised as a doctor in Glasgow. Barras was