Michael Patrick Quinlan was born on 17 March 1943 in Southport, Lancashire and studied medicine at the University of Liverpool, graduating in 1967. In London he was a senior registrar at the Middlesex Hospital, associate lecturer at the Institute of Ophthalmology and resident surgical officer at Moo

Born on 23 June 1901 in New Amsterdam, British Guiana, he was the son of William George Boase, MRCS, LRCP. He was educated at Mount St Mary's, a Jesuit college in Chesterfield, Derbyshire, and St Thomas's Hospital, London, where he was influenced by the late Philip Mitchiner, then resident assistant

Arnost Hirtenstein was born in Slovakia in 1909 and qualified MD in Prague in 1934. After military service during which he developed an interest in ophthalmology he entered general practice in a small town in Northern Bohemia but after three years, in 1939, he was arrested by the Gestapo and forced

Roger Trimble was born in Holyhead, Anglesey, on 19 November 1946, the son of Henry John Trimble, a farmer, and his wife Barbara Margaret, née Gill, a writer. He was educated at Bristol Grammar School and Sheffield University, where he qualified in 1969. After a series of medical and surgical posts

'Grant' Tulloh was a consultant ophthalmologist at Bristol Eye and Frenchay Hospitals. He was born on 31 October 1926 in Newcastle. His father, Frank Henry Tulloh, was in banking; his mother was Elsie Minnie née Earle. His paternal uncle was an ophthalmic surgeon and two of his brothers became docto

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

Kenneth Wybar was a man whose extraordinary energy and tireless capacity for work (he was known as the 'Flying Scot'!) soon brought him to the forefront in ophthalmology, but was a little apt to put his colleagues to shame! He was born on 2 March 1921 in Glasgow, where his father was an actuary, and

Edward Zorab was born in Southampton on 28 October 1909, the second of six sons of Arthur Zorab, an ophthalmic surgeon, and Olive Parsons, the daughter of F J Parsons, the printer and publisher. He was educated at Cheltenham College, and then at Guy's Hospital Medical School where his father and fou

Sir Randal Elliott was an eminent New Zealand eye surgeon. He was the youngest member of a distinguished medical family. Born in Wellington, New Zealand, he was the son of Sir James Sands Elliott, a prominent GP-surgeon who edited the *New Zealand Medical Journal* for over 20 years, and Annie Allan

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

Alistair Evan Cameron was an ophthalmologist. He was born on 28 December 1928 and gained his FRCS in 1966.

Marion Christine Handscome was born on 25 September 1929 in Laindon, Essex. The eldest child of George Seymour Payne, a builder and farmer, and his wife, Stella Rose née Vickers a dancer, she had two younger brothers. After attending Eastholme Harleston School in Norfolk she went to Mills Grammar Sc