Born at Stockton-on-Tees, the son of John Tweedy, a solicitor. He was educated at Elmfield College, York, and at University College, London, from which he went to University College Hospital for his medical course. He qualified in 1872, and in 1873 became a Clinical Assistant at the Royal London Oph

Elizabeth Davis Liken Simpson was an honorary ophthalmic surgeon at St James' Hospital, Balham, St George's Hospital, Tooting, and the South London Hospital for Women and Children. She qualified MB BCh BAO in Dublin in 1941, and gained the diploma in ophthalmic medicine and surgery in 1944. Prior t

John Dermot Ainslie Common was a consultant ophthalmic surgeon at North Staffordshire Royal Infirmary. He studied medicine at Westminster Hospital, where he qualified in 1971. Following his house appointment at the King Edward VII Hospital, Windsor, he went to Sierra Leone, where he worked on and wr

Born 4 December 1867, fourth of seven sons of George Lawson, FRCS, and Mary, his wife, daughter of William Thomson, MD, surgeon in the Indian Medical Service (Crawford's *Roll of the IMS*, Bengal list, No 965). George Lawson had been invalided home from the Crimea, and later became surgeon to the Mi

Born at Culgower in Sutherlandshire in 1850, the youngest, and eventually the last survivor, of a family of four, consisting of two sons and two daughters. The Gunns are an old Scandinavian stock and have been settled for many generations in the north and north-east of Scotland. Marcus Gunn was educ

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

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

Born 12 November 1866 the fourth son of Thomas Frederick Grimsdale (1823-1902), MRCS 1845, of 29 Rodney Street, Liverpool, a leading gynaecologist (see *Brit med J* 1902, 2, 919; *Lancet*, 1902, 2, 712) and Jane Bury, his wife, who lived till her hundredth year. An elder son Thomas Babington Grimsda

Born at the Manor House, Barrasford, near Chollerton, Northumberland, 14 June 1862, the second child and second son of William George Laws, civil engineer, and Ellinor Shields, his wife. He was educated at the Newcastle Grammar School and at the University of Durham, where he was an associate in sci

Geoffrey Gibson Bisley was an ophthalmic surgeon who spent much of his career overseas. He was born on 23 May 1915 at Hove, Sussex, the second child of Claude and Ida Gibson. His father was an auctioneer and surveyor in the family business. His maternal grandfather and uncle were both qualified phar

Born at Monart, Co. Wexford, the second son of the Rev Philip Walter Doyne. He was educated at Marlborough and matriculated from Keble College, Oxford, Oct 18th, 1875, but was prevented by illness from remaining at the University, on leaving which he entered the Bristol Medical School and then St Ge