Search Results for Medical Obituaries - Narrowed by: Ophthalmic surgeon

First Title value, for Searching Kemp, Martin Hamilton ( - 2003)

2024-05-02T00:29:09Z

by Sarah Gillam
Publication Date 2012-01-05 2014-11-25
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Occupation Ophthalmic surgeon
Details 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 Newcastle and then a senior registrar in Coventry. He died on 6 June 2003.
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First Title value, for Searching Willetts, Gordon Stephen ( - 2005)

2024-05-02T00:29:09Z

by Sarah Gillam
Publication Date 2012-01-23 2014-07-25
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URL for Files https://livesonline.rcseng.ac.uk/client/en_GB/search/asset/374063374063
Occupation Ophthalmic surgeon
Details Gordon Stephen Willetts was a consultant ophthalmic surgeon at York District Hospital. He studied medicine in Birmingham, qualifying in 1956. He decided to become an ophthalmic surgeon, gained his diploma in ophthalmology in 1958 and became a fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons in 1966. He died on 18 April 2005 in St Leonard's Hospice, York, and was survived by his wife Jean, daughter Stephanie and son Michael.
Resource Identifier RCS: E001880
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First Title value, for Searching Clover, Peter Thomas ( - 2013)

2024-05-02T00:29:09Z

by Sarah Gillam
Publication Date 2013-11-08 2015-11-20
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URL for Files https://livesonline.rcseng.ac.uk/client/en_GB/search/asset/376796376796
Occupation Ophthalmic surgeon
Details Peter Clover was a consultant ophthalmic surgeon at the Royal Eye and Kingston hospitals, the Royal Hospital, Richmond, and St Thomas' Hospital, London. He gained his MB BS in 1945, his diploma in ophthalmic medicine and surgery in 1950 and his fellowship of the Royal College of Surgeons in 1959. Prior to his appointment as a consultant he was a clinical assistant at the National Hospital, Queen Square. Peter Clover died on 13 August 2013.
Resource Identifier RCS: E004613
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First Title value, for Searching Gentles, Andrew William ( - 2014)

2024-05-02T00:29:09Z

by Sarah Gillam
Publication Date 2014-11-25 2017-01-12
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URL for Files https://livesonline.rcseng.ac.uk/client/en_GB/search/asset/378610378610
Occupation Ophthalmic surgeon
Details Andrew Gentles was a consultant ophthalmic surgeon at Harrogate District General Hospital and Ripon and District General Hospital. He studied at Cambridge University and gained his diploma in ophthalmology in 1962 and his FRCS in 1968. Prior to his consultant appointment he was a senior registrar at Guy's Hospital and a resident surgical officer and chief clinical assistant at Moorfields Eye Hospital, London. Andrew William Gentles died on 30 September 2014.
Resource Identifier RCS: E006427
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First Title value, for Searching Sikka, Om Prakash (1928 - 2018)

2024-05-02T00:29:09Z

by Tina Craig
Publication Date 2019-08-05
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Occupation Ophthalmic surgeon
Details Om Prakash Sikka was born on 24 September in 1928 and qualified MB,BS in Lucknow in 1952. He passed the fellowship of the college in 1963 and practiced as a consultant ophthalmic surgeon at the Grimsby General and associated hospitals. He died on 12 March 2018.
Resource Identifier RCS: E009636
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First Title value, for Searching Watson, David Malcolm ( - 2019)

2024-05-02T00:29:09Z

by Tina Craig
Publication Date 2022-12-09
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Occupation Ophthalmic surgeon
Details David Malcolm Watson studied medicine in London and qualified MB, BS in 1957. Initially, he worked as house surgeon and chief assistant in the eye department at St. Thomas’ Hospital before being appointed chief clinical assistant at the detachment unit at Moorfields Eye Hospital. He passed the fellowship of the college in 1957 and became consultant ophthalmic surgeon at Guy’s Hospital. Eventually he became emeritus consultant to Guys and St. Thomas’ while also working as ophthalmic surgeon to the King Edward VII Hospital for Officers and the Hospital of St John and St Elizabeth. He was a fellow of the Royal Society of Medicine and of the Ophthalmological Society of the UK. At one time he lived in Hampstead Garden Suburb and was living in Hook in Hampshire when he died on 9 June 2019.
Resource Identifier RCS: E010194
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First Title value, for Searching Sherne, Jacob ( - 1974)

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First Title value, for Searching Britten, Michael James Arthur ( - 2010)

2024-05-02T00:29:09Z

by Tina Craig
Publication Date 2011-11-04 2013-09-30
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Occupation Ophthalmic surgeon
Details Michael Britten was a consultant ophthalmic surgeon in Stockport and North Derbyshire. He attended Repton School and graduated in medicine from Liverpool University in 1954. He passed the fellowship in 1961 and published papers on "Glaucoma and inactive syphilitic interstitial keratitis" (jointly, *Brit Jl Ophth*. 1964); "Radiation cataract - radiation dosage" (jointly, *Brit Jl Radiol.*1966) and "Transient amaurosis after mandibural nerve block" (*Brit med j* 1967). He was living in Macclesfield when his widow reported his death on 14 April 2010.
Resource Identifier RCS: E001513
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First Title value, for Searching Hungerford, John Leonard ( - 2021)

2024-05-02T00:29:09Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2022-02-23
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Occupation Ophthalmic surgeon
Details John Hungerford was an ophthalmic surgeon at the Royal London Hospital. This is a draft obituary. If you have any information about this surgeon or are interested in writing this obituary, please email lives@rcseng.ac.uk
Resource Identifier RCS: E010086
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First Title value, for Searching Tyers, Anthony Gordon ( - 2020)

2024-05-02T00:29:09Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2020-08-12
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Occupation Ophthalmic surgeon
Details Anthony Tyers was a consultant ophthalmologist and ophthalmic plastic surgeon at Salisbury District Hospital. This is a draft obituary. If you have any information about this surgeon or are interested in writing this obituary, please email lives@rcseng.ac.uk
Resource Identifier RCS: E009795
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First Title value, for Searching Thornhill, Cecil William (1922 - 2004)

2024-05-02T00:29:09Z

by Sarah Gillam
Publication Date 2012-01-13 2015-04-24
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URL for Files https://livesonline.rcseng.ac.uk/client/en_GB/search/asset/374045374045
Occupation Ophthalmic surgeon
Details Cecil William Thornhill was a senior consultant ophthalmic surgeon at Bradford Royal Infirmary. He qualified in 1945 with the LRCPI and LRCSI, the licentiates of the Royal College of Physicians of Ireland and the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland, together with the licentiates in midwifery from both colleges. He gained his diploma in ophthalmology in 1952 and his FRCS in 1959. Prior to his consultant appointment he was a senior registrar at Moorfields Eye Hospital in London and at University College Hospital. Cecil William Thornhill died on 26 August 2004. He was 82.
Resource Identifier RCS: E001862
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First Title value, for Searching Simpson, Elisabeth Davis Liken ( - 2012)

2024-05-02T00:29:09Z

by Sarah Gillam
Publication Date 2012-06-28 2014-07-04
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URL for Files https://livesonline.rcseng.ac.uk/client/en_GB/search/asset/374739374739
Occupation Ophthalmic surgeon
Details 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 to her appointments in Balham and Tooting, she was an ophthalmic surgeon at Queen Mary's Hospital for Children in Carshalton. She also served in the RAF as a squadron leader, and was a chief clinical assistant at Moorfields Eye Hospital. She died on 31 January 2012.
Resource Identifier RCS: E002556
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First Title value, for Searching Graham, Malcolm Vaughan (1924 - )

2024-05-02T00:29:09Z

by Tina Craig
Publication Date 2016-10-27 2019-12-03
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Occupation Ophthalmic surgeon
Details Malcolm Graham was an ophthalmic surgeon in Dublin. Born in Dublin on 1 April 1924, he was the oldest child of Malcolm Moore Graham, a clergyman in the Church of Ireland and his wife Constance Kathleen Hilary née Vaughan who was the daughter of a solicitor. After attending Mourne Grange School, Kilkeel, County Down and Portora Royal School, Enniskillen, County Fermanagh he went up to Trinity College Dublin to study medicine. He graduated MB BCh BAO in 1947 and trained at Sir Patrick Dun’s Hospital in Dublin. He passed the fellowship of the college in 1956. Among his mentors he acknowledged the ophthalmic surgeon Ronald Pitts Crick, others were L E Warner, P Jameson Evans and A J Cameron. Secretary of a local medical society, he was also on the council of the Faculty of Ophthalmologists. In 1947 he married Ms Dooley and they had two sons. Outside medicine he enjoyed golf, camping and photography.
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First Title value, for Searching Hahn, Humphrey John Anthony ( - 2013)

2024-05-02T00:29:09Z

by Tina Craig
Publication Date 2017-03-16 2020-09-01
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URL for Files https://livesonline.rcseng.ac.uk/client/en_GB/search/asset/381503381503
Occupation Ophthalmic surgeon Ophthalmologist
Details Humphrey John Anthony Hahn was an ophthalmic surgeon. He studied medicine at London University and qualified MB BS in 1948 passing the conjoint examination in the same year. At St George’s Hospital he did house jobs in ophthalmology and also at the St John Ophthalmic Hospital in Israel. Joining the Royal Navy he was appointed consultant ophthalmic surgeon to the Royal Hospital Haslar with the rank of captain. When he retired from the Navy he was employed by the Wessex Regional Health authority as an ophthalmic specialist. He was a member of the Southern Ophthalmological Society. In 2013 he died and was survived by his wife.
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First Title value, for Searching Woolcott, John ( - 1885)

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First Title value, for Searching Blach, Rudolph Karl ( - 2013)

2024-05-02T00:29:09Z

by Sarah Gillam
Publication Date 2014-01-10 2016-01-15
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Occupation Ophthalmic surgeon Ophthalmologist
Details Rudolph Blach was dean of the Institute of Ophthalmology, London, and a consultant ophthalmic surgeon at Moorfields Eye Hospital. He was the son of Hedwig Jeanette Blach, a nurse companion. She was originally from Germany, but became a British citizen in 1948, at the same time as her son. Blach studied at Cambridge University and St Thomas' Hospital Medical School. He qualified with his BChir in 1955 and the MB in 1956. In 1962 he gained his FRCS. He was a house physician at St Thomas' Hospital and carried out his National Service as a captain in the RAMC. He then held training posts in ophthalmic surgery at Moorfields. Prior to his appointment to the staff at Moorfields he was a consultant in ophthalmic surgery at St Mary's Hospital, London, and an honorary consultant at the Royal Postgraduate Medical School, Hammersmith Hospital. He wrote papers and chapters on diabetic retinopathy, retinal detachment, degenerative myopia, vitreous surgery and macular disease, among other subjects. He was a former deputy master of the Oxford Ophthalmological Congress. Rudolph Blach died on 14 November 2013.
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First Title value, for Searching Pyle, John (1804 - 1872)

2024-05-02T00:29:09Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2012-10-17
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Occupation Ophthalmic surgeon
Details Studied at St George's Hospital, and practised at 59 Oxford Terrace, Hyde Park. At one time he was Surgeon to the North London Infirmary for Diseases of the Eye. He died in retirement on July 10th, 1872.
Resource Identifier RCS: E003016
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First Title value, for Searching Higgitt, Alan Carstairs ( - 2005)

2024-05-02T00:29:09Z

by Enid Taylor
Publication Date 2008-10-24
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Occupation Ophthalmic surgeon
Details Alan Higgitt was an honorary consultant ophthalmologist at Charing Cross Hospital, London. He qualified at University College Hospital. After junior posts he joined the RNVR as a surgeon lieutenant, ophthalmic specialist, on a hospital ship which was on active service in the Indian Ocean. After the end of the Second World War, he returned to start his formal ophthalmic training as a registrar at University College Hospital, working for Shapland and Neame. He worked in several hospitals, being first appointed as consultant ophthalmologist to St Mary Abbott’s Hospital, Kensington, and then to Ashford Hospital, Middlesex, and the South Middlesex Hospital. He was then appointed to Fulham Hospital, west London, which evolved into Charing Cross Hospital and he was honorary consultant ophthalmologist to this hospital until he retired in 1986. There he established a contact lens department and was involved in the treatment of diabetic eye disease. He had two great interests – sailing and music. This enjoyment extended to repairing early pianos and he also built two harpsichords and a spinet by hand. In July 2005 he had a fall, fractured some ribs and developed pneumonia, from which he died on 24 July 2005. He is survived by his wife Joan, a daughter who is a consultant psychiatrist, and two sons.
Resource Identifier RCS: E000567
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First Title value, for Searching Laws, David Eamonn (1959 - 2020)

2024-05-02T00:29:09Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2021-01-07
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Occupation Ophthalmic surgeon
Details David Laws was a neonatal, paediatric and general ophthalmic surgeon at Singleton Hospital in Swansea. This is a draft obituary. If you have any information about this surgeon or are interested in writing this obituary, please email lives@rcseng.ac.uk
Resource Identifier RCS: E009907
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First Title value, for Searching Absolon, Michael John (1933 - 2010)

2024-05-02T00:29:09Z

by Sarah Gillam
Publication Date 2011-11-04 2015-02-16
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URL for Files https://livesonline.rcseng.ac.uk/client/en_GB/search/asset/373691373691
Occupation Ophthalmic surgeon
Details Michael John Absolon was an ophthalmic surgeon in Southampton and Winchester. He was born in Cheltenham in 1933 and studied natural sciences at St John's College, Cambridge, and then went on to complete his clinical studies at the London Hospital Medical School. While at Cambridge he represented the university at swimming. After qualifying he carried out his National Service. He then trained as an ophthalmic surgeon, with registrar posts in Sheffield and Bristol. He was subsequently appointed to his consultant post in Southampton and Winchester. He also took regular trips to Africa with the charity Sight by Wings. Once he had retired, he attended Wycliffe College, Oxford, and was ordained as a priest. He became a curate in Chipping Campden and his home village of Ebrington. Michael John Absolon died on 28 December 2010. Predeceased by his wife Mary, he was survived by his three children and six grandchildren.
Resource Identifier RCS: E001508
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First Title value, for Searching Awdry, Philip Neville (1933 - 2010)

2024-05-02T00:29:09Z

by Tina Craig
Publication Date 2012-01-27 2013-08-29
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URL for Files https://livesonline.rcseng.ac.uk/client/en_GB/search/asset/374112374112
Occupation Ophthalmic surgeon
Details Philip Neville Awdry was a consultant ophthalmic surgeon at United Oxford Hospitals and Oxford Royal Hospital for the Blind. Born in 1933, he was the son of Neville John Awdry TD and his wife, Joan née Visger. Ophthalmologist to the Royal Commonwealth Society Blind Mobile Field Team, it is possible he worked in Rhodesia as he published a paper entitled "Vitamin A deficiency and blindness in N. Rhodesia" jointly in *Experimental eye research* in 1964. Other previous posts were senior resident officer to Moorfields Eye Hospital and lecturer in clinical ophthalmology to London University. He married Miss Martin-Jones in 1957 and they had two daughters Johanna (born 1959) and Felicity (born 1964). He died on 1 May 2010 after a short illness survived by his wife and family. Publications:- Xerophthalmia. *Transactions of the Ophthalmological Society of the UK* 1968 Lymphangiectasia conjunctivae. *British journal of ophthalmology* 1969
Resource Identifier RCS: E001929
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First Title value, for Searching Sollom, Adrian Wilfrid ( - 1998)

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First Title value, for Searching Ryland, Frederick ( - 1857)

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First Title value, for Searching Pillai, Sundram ( - 1981)

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First Title value, for Searching Kuming, Basil Stanley (1937 - 1997)

2024-05-02T00:29:09Z

by Tina Craig
Publication Date 2016-05-13 2019-05-16
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URL for Files https://livesonline.rcseng.ac.uk/client/en_GB/search/asset/381317381317
Occupation Ophthalmic surgeon
Details Basil Stanley Kuming was an ophthalmic surgeon in Johannesburg, South Africa. Born on 4 January 1937, he was the oldest son of Chaim Kuming, an hotelier, and his wife Frieda née Lurge. Educated at St Andrew’s School in Bloemfontein where he won a prize for English in 1954, he then attended the University of the Witwatersrand and trained at Baragwanath Hospital qualifying MB ChB in 1960. He came to the UK and did house jobs at the Queen Victoria Hospital in East Grinstead where he was influenced by the ophthalmic surgeon Sir Benjamin William Ryecroft. He passed the fellowship of the college in 1967 and returned to practice as a consultant ophthalmic surgeon in South Africa. In 1961 he married Jan Nelson and they had two sons and a daughter. Outside medicine he enjoyed collecting stamps and doing woodwork. He was living in Parklands, South Africa when he died on 5 April 1997 aged 60.
Resource Identifier RCS: E009134
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First Title value, for Searching Everett, David (1818 - 1884)

2024-05-02T00:29:09Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2011-11-30
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URL for Files https://livesonline.rcseng.ac.uk/client/en_GB/search/asset/373848373848
Occupation Ophthalmic surgeon
Details Educated at University College Hospital, London. He practised at Worcester, where he was Surgeon to the Ophthalmic Institute, to the Oxford, Worcester and Wolverhampton Railway Company, and to the Police. At the time of his death he was Consulting Surgeon to the Ophthalmic Institute at Worcester. He practised latterly at St Helen's, Palace Park Road, Sydenham, and died there on August 21st, 1884.
Resource Identifier RCS: E001665
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First Title value, for Searching Reynolds, Samuel (1797 - 1884)

2024-05-02T00:29:09Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2012-10-31
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Occupation Ophthalmic surgeon
Details Studied at Guy's and St Thomas's Hospitals and at Edinburgh University. At various times he lectured on ophthalmic surgery at the Webb Street School, was Surgeon to the Kent and Surrey Eye Infirmary, and to the Stoke Newington Dispensary and Invalid Asylum for Females. He died in retirement at Courthope, Beckenham, Kent, on March 18th, 1884. His photograph is in the Fellows' Album.
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First Title value, for Searching Gray, William Adamson ( - 1990)

2024-05-02T00:29:09Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2015-05-18
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Occupation Ophthalmic surgeon
Details Little is known of the career of William Adamson Gray. He read medicine at Edinburgh University and won the Gifford Edmunds Prize in 1931. He practised as an ophthalmic surgeon at Queen Mary's Hospital in London's East End. Around 1950 he went to Nova Scotia and then for many years lived in Toronto, Canada, where he is thought to have died in 1990.
Resource Identifier RCS: E007293
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First Title value, for Searching Cogan, John Farnon ( - 2001)

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First Title value, for Searching Anandarajan, Somasundaram (1926 - 2012)

2024-05-02T00:29:09Z

by Dharman Anandarajan
Publication Date 2020-10-19 2022-03-18
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Occupation Ophthalmic surgeon
Details Somasundaram Anandarajan was a consultant ophthalmic surgeon in Sri Lanka. He was born in Kayts, a small village in northern Ceylon on 31 May 1926. Although he initially wanted to become an historian, being the only child of a blind mother inspired him to a pursue a career in medicine. He studied at the University of Ceylon and qualified in 1952. He was then appointed as a house surgeon and worked at government hospitals throughout Ceylon, including at Jaffna and Galle. In 1960 he moved with his wife Rajapoopathy and children to England and earned a diploma in ophthalmology in 1961. He worked with Edgar Frederick King at Moorfields Eye Hospital and passed his FRCS in 1966. His desire to serve his home country brought him and his family back to Ceylon in 1967, where he set up an eye practice. He spent the following decades as a leading consultant eye surgeon in Sri Lanka and set up monthly free eye clinics throughout the island to help the poor. Following his wife’s death in 1999, he created the Rajapoopathy Memorial Glaucoma Centre, with the goal of raising awareness about glaucoma and setting up free eye clinics across Sri Lanka. He had a passion for reading and writing. He published numerous articles in the *Ceylon Medical Journal* and was the author of many books published through the Rajapoopathy Memorial Glaucoma Centre, including on ophthalmic neurology, the macula and retinal pigment epithelium, the optic nerve and the history of ophthalmology. Somasundaram Anandarajan died on 11 May 2012 and was survived by his three children – Asokan, Valli and Murugan.
Resource Identifier RCS: E009802
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First Title value, for Searching Moores, Noel Sydney (1922 - 2007)

2024-05-02T00:29:09Z

by Sarah Gillam
Publication Date 2012-02-17 2019-02-20
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URL for Files https://livesonline.rcseng.ac.uk/client/en_GB/search/asset/374227374227
Occupation Ophthalmic surgeon
Details Noel Moores was a consultant ophthalmic surgeon at the Royal Eye Hospital, Surbiton, Richmond Royal Hospital and Kingston Hospital. He was born on 3 November 1922 in Bury, Greater Manchester. He was educated at Repton School, Derbyshire and studied medicine at Manchester University, qualifying in 1946. He then served as a captain in the Royal Army Medical Corps. He gained the diploma in ophthalmic medicine and surgery in 1950, became a fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons in 1952 and of the Royal College of Ophthalmologists in 1989. He was a senior ophthalmic registrar and chief assistant at St Bartholomew’s Hospital, London, and was then appointed as a consultant ophthalmic surgeon to Lambeth Hospital and East Ham Memorial Hospital, London. He later moved on to the Royal Eye, Richmond Royal and Kingston hospitals. He was a member of the Royal Society of Medicine and the Ophthalmological Society of the United Kingdom and was vice president of the Medical Contact Lens Association. Noel Moores died on 18 December 2007. He was 85.
Resource Identifier RCS: E002044
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First Title value, for Searching Rumble, John Anthony (1930 - 2011)

2024-05-02T00:29:09Z

by Sarah Gillam
Publication Date 2012-06-28 2014-06-30
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URL for Files https://livesonline.rcseng.ac.uk/client/en_GB/search/asset/374737374737
Occupation Ophthalmic surgeon
Details John Anthony Rumble was a consultant ophthalmic surgeon at Southend General Hospital. Before he attended medical school, Rumble carried out his National Service with the Royal Army Medical Corps in Hong Kong. He subsequently went to Sheffield University to study medicine, qualifying in 1955. He then spent two years as a ships surgeon with P&O, and another two years in general practice before deciding to train as an ophthalmic surgeon. He was a resident surgical officer at Birmingham and Midland Eye Hospital, and then a senior registrar to the United Birmingham Hospitals. In 1967 he became a consultant in Southend. He also worked for several ophthalmic charities in Newfoundland, India and Cambodia. Outside medicine, Rumble was an enthusiastic sailor. He learnt to sail in Hong Kong, and was a founder member of the Sheffield University Sailing Club. He returned to sailing when he gained his consultant post on the east coast. He was also interested in classical literature, music and poetry. In his retirement he took up cross stitch. John Anthony Rumble died on 29 September 2011.
Resource Identifier RCS: E002554
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First Title value, for Searching Munton, Charles Gregory Francis (1933 - 2020)

2024-05-02T00:29:09Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2020-11-25
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Occupation Ophthalmic surgeon
Details Charles Gregory Francis ‘Greg’ Munton was a consultant ophthalmic surgeon at the Kent County Ophthalmic and Aural Hospital, Maidstone. This is a draft obituary. If you have any information about this surgeon or are interested in writing this obituary, please email lives@rcseng.ac.uk
Resource Identifier RCS: E009891
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First Title value, for Searching Palmer, Colin Attwell Lynch (1929 - 2018)

2024-05-02T00:29:09Z

by Tina Craig
Publication Date 2018-06-19 2021-06-16
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URL for Files https://livesonline.rcseng.ac.uk/client/en_GB/search/asset/381871381871
Occupation Ophthalmic surgeon
Details Colin Palmer was born in China in 1929. Walter Attwell Lynch Palmer (1892-1975), his father, worked for the Shanghai municipal police force before a career with the Asiatic Petroleum Company. In the early 1920’s his mother, Lillian Emily née Burton, travelled out to China for their wedding. Colin studied medicine at London University and St Bartholomew’s Hospital, graduating in 1952. After house jobs at the Manchester Royal Eye Hospital, he passed the fellowship of the college in 1962. Appointed consultant ophthalmic surgeon to the Sheffield AHA, he was also an honorary clinical lecturer in ophthalmology at Sheffield University. He was a member of the North of England Ophthalmological Society. On 16 April 2018 he died in Sheffield aged 89 and was survived by his wife Jill and sons Christopher and Simon.
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First Title value, for Searching Obré, Henry ( - 1867)

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First Title value, for Searching Friedmann, Allan Isadore (1916 - 2005)

2024-05-02T00:29:09Z

by Enid Taylor
Publication Date 2008-10-24
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URL for Files https://livesonline.rcseng.ac.uk/client/en_GB/search/asset/372749372749
Occupation Ophthalmic surgeon
Details Allan Isadore Friedmann was a consultant ophthalmologist at the Royal Eye Hospital. He was born in Bloemfontein, South Africa, on 15 June 1916 to Joseph and Matilda Friedmann. His father was a pharmacist. He was educated locally at Grey College School in Bloemfontein, matriculating with first class honours. His undergraduate medical education was at Witwatersrand University, Johannesburg, and he then held house jobs in the General Hospital, Johannesburg, including the department of ophthalmology. He served the rest of the war in the South African Medical Corps, attaining the rank of captain. After going to England, he was initially senior lecturer to the College from 1963 to 1966 and was subsequently reader to the department of ophthalmology. At the same time, in 1963, he was appointed consultant ophthalmologist to the Royal Eye Hospital. His work was greatly influenced by two London ophthalmologists – A Sorsby and H B Stallard. He was interested in and wrote about the causes of blindness in children. He played tennis most of his life and was also interested in music and photography. He married twice. He married Marion Bernstein in 1940 and they had one son, who was “non-medical”. He died on 20 November 2005 and is survived by his second wife, Shu Qi Zhang.
Resource Identifier RCS: E000566
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First Title value, for Searching Galbraith, James Ewen Kirkwood (1931 - 2021)

2024-05-02T00:29:09Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2024-03-06
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Occupation Ophthalmic surgeon
Details James Ewen Kirkwood Galbraith, known as ‘Dick’, was head of the eye department at the Royal Melbourne Hospital and a former president of the Royal Australian 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.ac.uk
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First Title value, for Searching Viner, Geoffrey (1884 - 1974)

2024-05-02T00:29:09Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2015-03-24
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URL for Files https://livesonline.rcseng.ac.uk/client/en_GB/search/asset/379201379201
Occupation Ophthalmic surgeon
Details Geoffrey Viner studied medicine at St Bartholomew's Hospital where he became ophthalmic house surgeon. He held the post of surgeon to the Royal Westminster Ophthalmological Hospital and then was honorary consulting surgeon to Moorfields Eye Hospital. He was a member of the Ophthalmological Society. During the war he was ophthalmic specialist with the BEF in France. He died on 14 February 1974 survived by two sons, Julian and Tim and a daughter, Biddy. His wife, Edith Monica, died on 20 August, 1985.
Resource Identifier RCS: E007018
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First Title value, for Searching Jones, Ralph Francis ( - 1977)

2024-05-02T00:29:09Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2015-01-16
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URL for Files https://livesonline.rcseng.ac.uk/client/en_GB/search/asset/378809378809
Occupation Ophthalmic surgeon
Details Ralph Francis Jones studied medicine at St Bartholomew's Hospital and qualified MB BS in 1951. He held appointments as senior registrar to St Thomas's Hospital and senior research officer and chief clinical assistant to Moorfields Eye Hospital. At the time of his death he was consultant ophthalmic surgeon to the Bournemouth and East Dorset Hospital Group. He was a member of the Royal Society of Medicine and the Ophthalmological Society of the UK. He died in December, 1977 survived by his wife.
Resource Identifier RCS: E006626
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First Title value, for Searching Summers, Thomas Collyer ( - 1981)

2024-05-02T00:29:09Z

First Title value, for Searching Firth, George Warren Watts ( - 1878)

2024-05-02T00:29:09Z

First Title value, for Searching Hawkins, Thomas Henry (1838 - 1881)

2024-05-02T00:29:09Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2012-04-11
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URL for Files https://livesonline.rcseng.ac.uk/client/en_GB/search/asset/374351374351
Occupation Ophthalmic surgeon
Details Studied at King's College Hospital and in Paris. He was House Surgeon at King's College Hospital, then at the Royal Ophthalmic Hospital. He later practised at Newbury, where he was Surgeon to the Speen Cottage Hospital, Ophthalmic Surgeon to the Newbury Dispensary, and Coroner for the Borough. Shortly before his death he migrated to South Australia, began practice in Adelaide, and died there on July 2nd, 1881.
Resource Identifier RCS: E002168
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First Title value, for Searching Taylor, Enid (1933 - 2022)

2024-05-02T00:29:09Z

by Tina Craig
Publication Date 2022-12-09
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Occupation Ophthalmic surgeon
Details Enid Wheldon was born on 18 June 1933 in Chester-Le-Street, County Durham. Her father, Joseph William Wheldon was a farmer and her mother, Jane née Rutter was a school teacher. After attending Chester-Le-Street Grammar School, she went up to Girton College Cambridge to study medicine and trained at the London Hospital Medical College, qualifying MB, BChir in 1957. She did house jobs in ophthalmology at St James’s Hospital Balham and the Middlesex before moving to Bart’s as a senior registrar. In 1966 she was appointed consultant ophthalmic surgeon at the Elizabeth Garrett Anderson Hospital and stayed there until 1973. Eventually she returned to the North Middlesex Hospital where she stayed for over 20 years from 1974 to 1998. A woman of great energy in her chosen field, she was an advisor and tutor in ophthalmology to the college from 1980 to 1986. She was chairman of the NE Thames Regional Ophthalmic Advisory Board from 1979 to 1986, a member of the board of the Faculty of Ophthalmology from 1980 to 1988, a member of the council of the College of Ophthalmologists from 1988 to 1990, and, at the Royal Society of Medicine, a council member of the section of ophthalmology from 1981 to 1985 and its vice president from 1985 to 1988. At the British Medical Association she was a member of the Ophthalmic Group Committee and of the Ophthalmic Qualifications Committee. A Liveryman of the Society of Apothecaries, she also served for a term as it’s Master. She married Thomas H. Taylor FFARCS on 8 August 1959. They had two sons, Hugh Wheldon Taylor (born 1961), who became a consultant surgeon in Basildon, and Simon Wheldon Taylor (born 1962), who qualified as a doctor but then studied law and became a barrister. She enjoyed listening to music and attending the theatre, but also more domestic pursuits such as embroidery. She died on 2 November 2022, aged 89.
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First Title value, for Searching Langley, Douglas Arthur (1917 - 2002)

2024-05-02T00:29:09Z

by Enid Taylor
Publication Date 2009-03-27
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Occupation Ophthalmic surgeon
Details Douglas Arthur Langley was a consultant ophthalmic surgeon at the Royal Northern and Whittington hospitals in London. He was born on 18 April 1917 at Woolwich, London, to Arthur Langley, an Army officer, and Laura Elizabeth née Webber. He was educated at Cottingham College, Plumstead, and Woolwich County Secondary School and received his medical education at King’s College and St George’s Hospital. There he won the Johnson prize in anatomy, the Pollock prize in physiology and the Anne Selim scholarship. During the Second World War he served in the RNVR as a surgeon lieutenant. After leaving the Navy, he began his training in ophthalmic surgery and worked as resident surgical officer at Moorfield’s Eye Hospital, before his appointment as consultant ophthalmic surgeon to the Royal Northern Hospital, the Whittington Hospital and the West End Hospital for Neurology. He was particularly interested in glaucoma and held annual meetings for north London opticians at the Royal Northern Hospital. His interests were varied: he had a private pilot’s licence, was a keen yachtsman and navigator, a skilled pianist and cabinet maker, and loved watching football. He married twice. In 1942 he married Myrtle Chinnery, an old school friend. They had two sons and a daughter. His second wife was Yvonne Patricia Peterson, a nurse, by whom he had a son. His health in latter years was poor and he underwent repair of an aortic aneurysm. He died on 16 June 2002.
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First Title value, for Searching Kelsey, John Hugh (1931 - 2014)

2024-05-02T00:29:09Z

by Sarah Gillam
Publication Date 2014-06-13 2016-09-01
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Occupation Ophthalmic surgeon
Details John Hugh Kelsey (known as 'Jack') was a consultant ophthalmic surgeon at University College Hospital and Moorfields Eye Hospital. He was born in Lincoln on 26 May 1931, the son of Frederick Hugh Kelsey, an engineer's buyer, and Annie Kelsey née Greenwood. He attended the City School in Lincoln and went on to Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge, and then University College Hospital Medical School. After junior posts, he trained at Moorfields, gaining his diploma in ophthalmology in 1960. In 1964 he was appointed as a consultant ophthalmic surgeon to Edgware General Hospital, a post he held until 1973. In 1965 he joined the staff of University College Hospital and stayed there until 1992. From 1974 to 1995 he was a consultant surgeon in electrophysiology at Moorfields, where his work contributed to the development of electrooculography, a technique for measuring the corneo-retinal standing potential between the front and back of the human eye. He was a member of the International Society for Clinical Electrophysiology of Vision and editor of *Ophthalmic Literature* between 1983 and 1991. Outside medicine, he was president of the Medical Philately Study Group. He enjoyed reading, attending the opera and gardening. John Hugh Kelsey died on 6 May 2014, aged 82. He was survived his wife, Jean (née Wilkins), a former nurse, and their daughter, Anne Richinda, and a son, David Richard Hugh.
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First Title value, for Searching Bain, Walter Edward Spencer (1918 - 2007)

2024-05-02T00:29:09Z

by Tina Craig
Publication Date 2012-02-03 2013-09-30
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URL for Files https://livesonline.rcseng.ac.uk/client/en_GB/search/asset/374146374146
Occupation Ophthalmic surgeon
Details Walter Bain was a consultant ophthalmic surgeon at King Edward VII Hospital, Windsor. He was born in Ayr and educated at Loretto, Jesus College, Cambridge and Guy's Hospital. He qualified in medicine in 1942 and, joining the navy as a surgeon lieutenant, saw action in the Mediterranean and Far East. After the war he had early appointments in the ophthalmology departments of Guy's and St Thomas's and at Moorfields Hospital, meanwhile publishing papers on glaucoma. On appointment to the King Edward VII Hospital at Windsor, he was instrumental in installing the Prince Charles 25 bed eye ward with E C Glover. He was also consultant to the Royal Hospital for Neurodisability in Putney and the Heatherwood Hospital in Ascot. He was a keen fly fisherman and an 8 handicap golfer at the Berkshire. Described as "a man of great charm and wit" he died of chronic obstructive lung disease on 28 October 2007, survived by his wife, Barbara.
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First Title value, for Searching Winstanley, John (1919 - 2008)

2024-05-02T00:29:09Z

by Enid Taylor
Publication Date 2009-05-15
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URL for Files https://livesonline.rcseng.ac.uk/client/en_GB/search/asset/372795372795
Occupation Ophthalmic surgeon
Details John Winstanley was an ophthalmic surgeon at St Thomas’ Hospital, London. He was born in London on 11 May 1919, the son of Bernard Joseph Winstanley, a captain in the Burma Sappers and Miners, and Grace née Taunton, the daughter of a solicitor. The younger of three sons, he was educated at Stoke House, Seaford, Sussex, and Wellington College, Berkshire. From 1937 to 1946 he served in the 4th Battalion Queen’s Own Royal West Kent Regiment, with the British Expeditionary Force in Europe, in the Western Desert and in Burma. He was wounded twice, was twice mentioned in despatches and won the Military Cross. After leaving the Army, he studied medicine at St Thomas’, qualifying in 1951. For the next five years he held resident medical appointments at St Thomas’ and Moorfields Eye Hospital. From 1956 to 1960 he was chief clinical assistant at Moorfields and senior registrar at St Thomas’. From 1959 to 1970 he was a consultant ophthalmic surgeon to Lewisham and Greenwich health districts. In 1960 he was appointed consultant ophthalmic surgeon to St Thomas’, a post he held until 1983. At St Thomas’ he expanded eye services, amalgamating with the Royal Eye Hospital, and developed a medical eye unit and a charity, the Iris Fund. He contributed papers on medical ophthalmology and medical history. He maintained his association with the armed services, serving as honorary consultant ophthalmic surgeon to the Army, to Queen Alexandra Military Hospital, Millbank, and to the Royal Hospital, Chelsea. He was a member of the Court of Examiners of the College from 1972 to 1978. He was a fellow of the Royal Society of Medicine (and vice-president in 1979). From 1973 to 1985 he was vice-president of the Faculty of Ophthalmologists, and from 1979 to 1990 a member of the council of the Medical Protection Society. A liveryman of the Society of Apothecaries of the City of London, he served on the livery committee from 1982. During his leisure time he enjoyed fishing and reading medical history. In 1959 he married Jane Mary Frost and they had one son (Richard) and two daughters (Emma and Sophie). He died from prostate cancer on 4 January 2008.
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First Title value, for Searching Martin, William (1814 - 1879)

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First Title value, for Searching McCann, Ralph Newton ( - 1975)

2024-05-02T00:29:09Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2015-01-28
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URL for Files https://livesonline.rcseng.ac.uk/client/en_GB/search/asset/378891378891
Occupation Ophthalmic surgeon
Details 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 Woomera 1948-49. He came to England and was resident clinical assistant at Moorfields Hospital. He obtained the FRCS in 1957 and in 1958 was appointed senior assistant ophthalmic surgeon Victoria Eye and Ear Hospital, Melbourne. He married in 1967. He died on 31 July, 1975, survived by his wife Suzanne.
Resource Identifier RCS: E006708
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First Title value, for Searching Common, John Dermot Ainslie (1948 - 2005)

2024-05-02T00:29:09Z

by Enid Taylor
Publication Date 2009-02-20
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URL for Files https://livesonline.rcseng.ac.uk/client/en_GB/search/asset/372778372778
Occupation Ophthalmic surgeon
Details 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 wrote about onchocerciasis or ‘river blindness’. His formal ophthalmological training began in 1976 as a registrar at the Western Ophthalmic Hospital, followed by a senior registrar post at Birmingham and Midland Eye Hospital. He was then appointed consultant ophthalmic surgeon to North Staffordshire Royal Infirmary in 1984, where he had an active interest in anterior segment surgery and ocular trauma. He retired in 2003 due to ill health. In retirement he maintained his sporting interests despite an above the elbow amputation of the left arm due to sarcoma – driving around the Nürburgring race track in Germany in less than nine minutes and big game hunting in Zambia using a rifle single armed. He married Terri, but was widowed. He died suddenly of a stroke on 8 April 2005.
Resource Identifier RCS: E000595
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First Title value, for Searching Parker, Spencer Tauria (1897 - 1962)

2024-05-02T00:29:09Z

First Title value, for Searching Lane, Thomas Moore (1797 - 1844)

2024-05-02T00:29:09Z

First Title value, for Searching Steward, Edward Simmons (1869 - 1954)

2024-05-02T00:29:09Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2014-06-25
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URL for Files https://livesonline.rcseng.ac.uk/client/en_GB/search/asset/377758377758
Occupation Ophthalmic surgeon Otolaryngologist ENT surgeon
Details Born at York on 14 February 1869 the son of Henry Steward, he was educated at Leeds Medical School and St Bartholomew's Hospital, London. He was house surgeon at the Leeds General Infirmary in 1895 and resident ophthalmic officer 1896-98. He practised as an ophthalmologist and laryngologist at Harrogate, where he was surgeon to the ear nose and throat departments of the Infirmary. He died at Elleray Bank, Windermere on 10 January 1954, aged 84.
Resource Identifier RCS: E005575
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First Title value, for Searching Myler, John William Glenton (1873 - 1958)

2024-05-02T00:29:09Z

First Title value, for Searching Greaves, Desmond Peel (1920 - 2008)

2024-05-02T00:29:09Z

by Enid Taylor
Publication Date 2009-05-15
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URL for Files https://livesonline.rcseng.ac.uk/client/en_GB/search/asset/372794372794
Occupation Ophthalmic surgeon
Details Desmond Peel Greaves was a consultant ophthalmic surgeon at University College and Moorfields Eye hospitals in London. He was born on 14 December 1920 in the West Riding of Yorkshire to Bernard Peel, an optician, and Beatrice Peel. He was educated at High Storrs Grammar School, Sheffield, and then went on to study medicine at the University of Sheffield, where he was the Edgar Allen scholar. After qualifying, he was a demonstrator in anatomy at Sheffield before completing his National Service in the RAF, with the rank of flight lieutenant. His ophthalmic training was at Moorfields Eye Hospital. From 1950 he was senior registrar and Pigott-Wernheiz research fellow at the Institute of Ophthalmology. He was appointed consultant ophthalmic surgeon to University College Hospital in 1952 and to Moorfields Eye Hospital in 1960. He was vice-dean and lecturer at the Institute of Ophthalmology. He was a recognised teacher in London University and a member of the Court of Examiners of our College. He retired in 1985. He was a council member and honorary secretary of the Ophthalmological Society of the United Kingdom, a council member of the European Society of Ophthalmology from 1970 and in 1980 president. From his student days he was an accomplished and enthusiastic pianist and a keen sailor, becoming a member of the Royal Thames Yacht Club. He married Barbara in 1948. They had two children - Francis, who is a doctor, and Julia, a pharmacist. Desmond Greaves died on 11 March 2008.
Resource Identifier RCS: E000611
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First Title value, for Searching Ormrod, John Neville (1922 - 2009)

2024-05-02T00:29:09Z

by Enid Taylor
Publication Date 2010-11-11
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URL for Files https://livesonline.rcseng.ac.uk/client/en_GB/search/asset/373241373241
Occupation Ophthalmic surgeon
Details John Neville Ormrod was a consultant ophthalmic surgeon in Kent. He was born in Birmingham on 12 December 1922 to James Ormrod, a dental surgeon, and Dorothy Ormrod née Wilson. His early schooling was in Birmingham at Chigwell House and Lickey Hills preparatory schools, and then at Aldenham School, before he attended Birmingham University Medical School. As a student he gained prizes in medicine, pathology, ophthalmology, forensic medicine and toxicology, qualifying in 1944. He stayed in Birmingham at Queen Elizabeth Hospital as a house officer in neurology, neurosurgery and ophthalmology. He was then a registrar in neurosurgery. During these postgraduate appointments he contracted pulmonary tuberculosis and later spinal tuberculosis, and was a patient for five years. On recovery from this long illness, he devoted himself to ophthalmology, working in Maidstone, Birmingham and Moorfields Eye Hospital. He was appointed as a consultant ophthalmic surgeon to the Kent County Ophthalmic Hospital in Maidstone and Gravesend, and North Kent Hospital in 1956. He developed special interests and expertise in lamellar keratoplasty and dysthyroid eye disease, and made many contributions to the *British Medical Journal*, *British Journal of Ophthalmology* and to the *Transactions of the Ophthalmological Society of the United Kingdom*. He retired from the NHS in 1983. In his retirement he used his expertise in Kenya, doing mainly cataract surgery 'up-country' for Sight by Wings, his transport being by light monoplane. He married Kay Stone in 1956 and they had one son (James) and one daughter (Elizabeth). His wife was a nurse and acted as his scrub nurse when he worked in Kenya. He died peacefully at his home in Sutton Valence, Kent, aged 86 on 16 October 2009.
Resource Identifier RCS: E001058
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First Title value, for Searching Kapur, Satya Bhushan (1920 - 2008)

2024-05-02T00:29:09Z

by Enid Taylor
Publication Date 2009-05-15
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URL for Files https://livesonline.rcseng.ac.uk/client/en_GB/search/asset/372796372796
Occupation Ophthalmic surgeon
Details Satya Bhushan Kapur was an ophthalmic surgeon. He was born on 4 March 1920 in Rangoon, Burma, the second child but first son of Lal Chand Kapur, a civil engineer with Burma Railways, and Bhagwanti Devi, whose father was an Ayurvedic physician. He was educated in Rangoon at the primary DAV School and then at BET High School. He began his medical education in 1938 at the Medical College, Rangoon, but this was interrupted in 1942 when Burma was invaded by Japan. The family were held in Burma during the Japanese occupation, but then fled to India, where he resumed his studies at King Edward Medical College, Lahore, Punjab, qualifying in 1946. He was one of the first Indian graduates to migrate to Britain and train successfully in ophthalmology. He was an ophthalmic house surgeon then a registrar at Guy’s Hospital, London, before becoming a registrar, then a senior registrar at Moorfields Eye Hospital. He was appointed consultant ophthalmic surgeon in 1962 to West Middlesex Hospital and later to St Albans City Hospital and Queen Elizabeth II Hospital, Welwyn Garden City. He was a member of the Royal Society of Medicine and of the BMA, and he served on the council of the Medical Eye Centre Association, UK. A physically fit man, he enjoyed swimming, golf, hill walking, and reluctantly gave up skiing at the age of 85. He married Toini Kylliainen in 1955 and they had two daughters, Suri and Mira, both of whom are medically qualified and live in Australia. He died on 4 April 2008.
Resource Identifier RCS: E000613
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First Title value, for Searching Pritchard, Graham Cleverly (1913 - 2010)

2024-05-02T00:29:09Z

by Sarah Gillam
Publication Date 2011-11-14 2014-07-25
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URL for Files https://livesonline.rcseng.ac.uk/client/en_GB/search/asset/373772373772
Occupation Ophthalmic surgeon
Details Graham Cleverly Pritchard was a consultant ophthalmic surgeon at King's College Hospital. His father was a general practitioner in Highgate, London. He studied medicine at Clare College, Cambridge, and King's College Hospital, London, qualifying MB BChir in 1939. At the outbreak of the Second World War he joined the RAMC and was allowed to continue training in ophthalmology. He passed the diploma in ophthalmic medicine in 1942 and was initially posted to the Royal Victoria Hospital in Belfast. He then saw service in France, Italy, Burma and India, ending the war in Hong Kong. He returned to the UK and was demobilised in 1947. He returned to King's College Hospital as an ophthalmic registrar, and in 1953 gained his FRCS. He remained at King's for the rest of his career, retiring as a senior consultant in 1978. He also held appointments at the Royal Eye Hospital, Dr Barnado's homes, St Stephen's Hospital, Chelsea, Cheyne Children's Home, Dulwich, and St Giles' Hospital. In addition, he had a private practice in Harley Street and from his home in Dulwich. He moved to Cumbria when he retired, where he held weekly clinics at local opticians in Carlisle and Whitehaven until he was in his late eighties. Graham Cleverly Pritchard died on 23 March 2010, at the age of 96. Predeceased by his wife, Rosemary (née Newton), a former nurse he had met at King's College Hospital, and whom he married in April 1943, he was survived by two sons, two daughters, seven grandchildren and a great granddaughter.
Resource Identifier RCS: E001589
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First Title value, for Searching Eustace, Peter (1936 - 2014)

2024-05-02T00:29:09Z

by Denise Curtin
Publication Date 2016-03-24 2016-04-22
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URL for Files https://livesonline.rcseng.ac.uk/client/en_GB/search/asset/381276381276
Occupation Ophthalmic surgeon
Details Professor Peter Eustace was a Consultant Ophthalmic Surgeon with a special interest in Neuro-ophthalmology. He studied Medicine in University College Galway where he met his beloved wife Margaret. His post graduate training was undertaken in Birmingham in general practice initially and subsequently in Ophthalmology. He was appointed to the Mater Hospital and Richmond Hospitals Dublin in 1975. His energy was boundless and his enthusiasm was infectious. He had great interest in-patient care and was readily available to colleagues and trainees in particular, who he enjoyed teaching and mentoring. Peter took a keen interest in their examinations and surgical training, developed many research projects and encouraged the trainees to present at national and international meetings. It is fitting that he was appointed as Professor of Ophthalmology to University College Dublin and the Mater Hospital Dublin in 1982. He developed the Mater Eye department with a number of Consultant appointments each with a sub-specialty interest, forging strong links with Temple Street and the Beaumont Hospitals. Peter co-authored of *Neuro-ophthalmology* which was published in 1998. He established the first EBO diploma examination in Milan in 1995 to enable recognition of European training as he strongly supported the European Board of Ophthalmology and the harmonisation of training in Europe. The Peter Eustace medal for excellence in education is awarded annually since 2011 during the EBO exam in Paris. He was a co-founder of the British Isles Neuro-ophthalmology (BINOC) club with Bruce Noble in1984. All attendees were required to present a paper. Peter organised the third meeting in Ireland which was the first of several meetings held in this country. Peter was always at the centre of the discussions and is remembered for his gentle wit and great scholarship. BINOC meets annually and is attended by distinguished neuro-ophthalmologists from the US and Europe and has brought great fellowship and support to all attendees. Peter was President of the Irish College of Ophthalmology in 1993-95. He was a champion golfer and a member of Dun Laoghaire golf club all his life and he enjoyed sailing. A keen supporter of the arts, when he retired he spent many months in Connemara painting and writing poetry. He is sadly missed by his wife Margaret their children Ashling, Stephen, Nick, Joanne and Hilary, his many grandchildren, friends and colleagues. All who knew him benefited from his intelligence and his commitment. A leading figure in Ophthalmology, he enriched countless lives with his advice and support whilst his dedication to patient care was exemplary.
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First Title value, for Searching O'Driscoll, Thomas Gerrard (1924 - 2014)

2024-05-02T00:29:09Z

by Sarah Gillam
Publication Date 2014-04-09 2016-07-08
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URL for Files https://livesonline.rcseng.ac.uk/client/en_GB/search/asset/377444377444
Occupation Ophthalmic surgeon
Details Thomas Gerrard O'Driscoll was a consultant ophthalmic surgeon at the regional eye unit, Oldchurch Hospital, Romford. He was born in Kinsale, County Cork, Ireland, on 5 December 1924, the second son of Patrick O'Driscoll, a civil servant in the Customs and Excise, and Mary O'Driscoll née O'Carroll. He was educated at St John's School, Kinsale, and Roscrea College, and went on to study medicine at University College, Cork, where he gained scholarships in the first and second years of his course. He qualified in 1948. He was a house officer at Leicester General Hospital and Chester Royal Infirmary, a senior registrar at Wolverhampton Eye Infirmary and a resident medical officer at Moorfields Eye Hospital. He was subsequently appointed to his post in Romford. He gained his diploma in ophthalmology in 1951 and his FRCS in 1956. He listed John Kelly of St Finbarr's Hospital, Cork, and Seymour Philps and Frederick Ridley, both at Moorfields, as the surgeons who had most influenced him during his training. Outside medicine, he was interested in squash, swimming and the piano. In 1963 he married Mairead Keaney. They had one daughter and two sons. Thomas Gerrard O'Driscoll died on 16 March 2014. He was 89.
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First Title value, for Searching Savory, Mary (1911 - 1999)

2024-05-02T00:29:09Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2015-12-04
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URL for Files https://livesonline.rcseng.ac.uk/client/en_GB/search/asset/381092381092
Occupation Ophthalmic surgeon
Details Mary was born in 1911, the elder daughter of Howard and Mary Bodley Savory. Her medical education was at Cambridge and University College Hospital, and her ophthalmic training as SHO and registrar at Royal Eye and Elizabeth Garrett Anderson Hospitals. She held a BMA research scholarship in 1946 and was consultant ophthalmic surgeon at the Royal Eye Hosptial, South London Hospital for Women and St James Hospital Balham. She was a member of the Oxford Ophthalmological Congress and the Ophthalmological Society of the UK. She did not marry and in retirement she continued to live in North London with an old friend and devoted herself to family, friends and gardening. She died peacefully, aged 88, on 9 September 1999.
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First Title value, for Searching Cruickshanks, Bryan (1935 - 2016)

2024-05-02T00:29:09Z

by Giles Cruickshanks
Publication Date 2017-03-16 2020-01-06
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URL for Files https://livesonline.rcseng.ac.uk/client/en_GB/search/asset/381502381502
Occupation Ophthalmic surgeon Ophthalmologist
Details Bryan Cruickshanks was an ophthalmic surgeon in Sarnia, Ontario, Canada. He was born in Wallsend, Northumberland on 11 October 1935, the second child of William Blackwood Cruickshanks, a tradesman in the shipyards, and his wife, Jesse Cruickshanks née Brown. He excelled at Wallsend Grammar School and enjoyed National Service in the RAF before being accepted into University of Durham Medical School, King’s College, Newcastle upon Tyne. He qualified in 1961. While working at the Royal Victoria Infirmary, Newcastle upon Tyne in 1962 he met Mary Watson, a radiographer. They married and moved to Edinburgh, where he was an anatomy demonstrator at the University of Edinburgh from 1962 to 1963. He was a senior house officer and registrar at the university eye unit, Edinburgh from1963 to 1966 and a senior registrar in ophthalmology at Chester Royal Infirmary from 1966 to 1967. He then became a tutor in ophthalmology at the University of Birmingham, as well as a senior registrar at Birmingham and Midland Eye Hospital, from 1967 to 1970. He was appointed as a consultant at the Worcester Eye Infirmary in 1970. After passing his Canadian and American boards in ophthalmology, he began a private practice in Sarnia, Ontario in 1971. Initially, he practised a range of corneal, retinal, plastic and lacrimal surgery. Due to patient demand and personal interest, he specialised in cataract surgery for the final 17 years of his career. He was a pioneer of outpatient cataract surgery, operating while the patient reclined in a lounger. He authored papers on microsurgery, intraocular lens implants, ultrasonic biometry of the eye and total ambulatory cataract surgery. He served as chief of the eye and ENT department and was director of the outpatient cataract unit at Sarnia General Hospital. Bryan retired in 1997, after 26 years as an ophthalmic surgeon in Sarnia. Bryan was known for his determination, kindness, quick wit and his variegated interests. He could often be found sorting his extensive photography slide collection or perfecting his latest fly for his next fly-fishing adventure. His love of music inspired him to daringly attempt mastery of the cello. His passion for reading found him at the library daily and he would spend several years learning Spanish with local high school students. He cultivated a fantastic garden at his lakeside home in a style that he described as ‘Japanese Algonquin’. He was dedicated to daily exercise and in his later years was recognised as an enthusiastic walker at the local superstore. After a struggle with Alzheimer’s disease, Bryan Cruickshanks died peacefully on 17 December 2016, aged 81 and was survived by his wife Mary, two children, Lindsey and Giles, and two grandchildren, Nicholas and Maxwell.
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First Title value, for Searching Banks, Charles Neville (1938 - 2010)

2024-05-02T00:29:09Z

by Enid Taylor
Publication Date 2012-02-03 2012-03-21
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URL for Files https://livesonline.rcseng.ac.uk/client/en_GB/search/asset/374147374147
Occupation Ophthalmic surgeon
Details Charles Neville Banks was an ophthalmic surgeon in Sydney, Australia. He was born in Finchley, London, on 28 September 1938, one of two sons. His father was Arthur Leslie Banks, a professor at Cambridge University. His mother, Eileen Mary Barrett, was a housewife. He attended St Faith's School, Cambridge, and the Leys School, also in Cambridge, where he gained prizes for piano, biology and religious knowledge. His medical education was at Fitzwilliam College, Cambridge, and then Middlesex Hospital Medical School, where he gained certificates of proficiency in general pathology and ophthalmology. His was a house physician at Middlesex Hospital, a house surgeon at Addenbrooke's Hospital and then a house surgeon to the eye department at St Bartholomew's Hospital. In 1966 he became a resident surgical officer at Moorfields Eye Hospital. In 1969 he left to work for a year at St John of Jerusalem Eye Hospital, returning to Moorfields as chief clinical assistant. Subsequently, his work was entirely in Australia. He first went on a working holiday in 1972, and then joined the practice of Miles Sterling-Lewis and set up in solo practice in 1976. He held honorary posts at Marrichville Hospital, Sydney, the Royal North Shore Hospital, Balmoral Naval Hospital and Brewarrium District Hospital. In addition, he was a consultant to the Low Vision Aid Clinic, Royal Blind Society, New South Wales, and an ophthalmologist in geriatric and rehabilitation medicine, North Sydney Area Health Service (Hornsby Hospital). He was a member of the archives committee at the Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Ophthalmologists. His interests were essentially ophthalmological. He was a member of the board of optometrical registration, New South Wales, and a founder member of the Human Genetics Society of Australia. He remained unmarried. He died on 28 February 2010.
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First Title value, for Searching Starbuck, Mary Joan (1928 - 2016)

2024-05-02T00:29:09Z

by Sarah Gillam
Publication Date 2016-02-19 2019-02-20
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URL for Files https://livesonline.rcseng.ac.uk/client/en_GB/search/asset/381254381254
Occupation Ophthalmic surgeon
Details Mary Joan Starbuck was an ophthalmic surgeon at the Kent and Canterbury Hospital. She was born on 16 April 1928 in Lewisham, London, the daughter of John William Sandford Starbuck, a rope and twine merchant, and Elsie Starbuck née Williams. She was educated at Bromley High School and Bromley County Grammar School, and studied medicine at King’s College, London, qualifying with the MB BS and the conjoint examination in 1952. She was a house ophthalmic surgeon and then a senior ophthalmic registrar at King’s College Hospital and also a clinical assistant at Moorfields Eye Hospital. She gained her diploma in ophthalmology in 1955 and her FRCS in 1959. She was appointed to her consultant post in Canterbury in 1961 at the age of just 33. Here she built up the ophthalmology department and also took on responsibility for ophthalmic departments in other local hospitals. She had a particular expertise in treating squints. She ran a private practice and also took unpaid leave to work with Sight by Wings, the first charity to bring up-to-date ophthalmic surgery to parts of rural Africa. She was president of the Southern Ophthalmologists and an examiner for the diploma of ophthalmology of the Royal College of Surgeons from 1981 until her retirement in 1987. She was president of the Canterbury Soroptimists from 1984 to 1985 and was twice lady captain of Canterbury Golf Club. She was a member of St Mary Bredin Church congregation in Canterbury. She also enjoyed gardening. In retirement, she took an art history degree, travelled widely, bought a flat in southern Spain and became a member of the Garden History Society. She was also a guide at Canterbury Cathedral. Mary Starbuck died on 15 January 2016 at the age of 87. She was unmarried.
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First Title value, for Searching O'Donnell, Henry (1813 - 1870)

2024-05-02T00:29:09Z

First Title value, for Searching De Saram, Rodney Brian ( - 1976)

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First Title value, for Searching Adam, John Law (1866 - 1961)

2024-05-02T00:29:09Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2013-12-20
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URL for Files https://livesonline.rcseng.ac.uk/client/en_GB/search/asset/377007377007
Occupation General surgeon Ophthalmic surgeon
Details Born in 1866, he was educated at Aberdeen University, the Middlesex and King's College Hospitals. He was a house surgeon at the Gloucestershire General Infirmary and Eye Hospital and then ophthalmic clinical assistant at the Middlesex Hospital. He settled in practice at Lewes, Sussex and was appointed surgeon to the Victoria Hospital. Later he practised at Blackwater, Hants. He retired to Camberley, Surrey, where he died on New Year's Day 1961 aged 94. He very generously bequeathed half the residue of his fortune, on the expiry of certain life interests, to the College.
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First Title value, for Searching Delagarde, John Lempriere (1834 - 1868)

2024-05-02T00:29:09Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2011-09-21
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URL for Files https://livesonline.rcseng.ac.uk/client/en_GB/search/asset/373590373590
Occupation General surgeon Ophthalmic surgeon
Details The second son of Philip Chilwell de la Garde (qv) by Susan, second daughter of the Rev John Lempriere, DD (1765?-1824), author of the *Classical Dictionary*, who was Master of the Exeter Free Grammar School from 1809-1823. John L Delagarde was educated at St Bartholomew's Hospital, where he gave promise of a bright career. He was, jointly with his father, Surgeon to the Eye Infirmary at Exeter, and practised in Gandy Street, Exeter, where he died on December 15th, 1868, leaving one son.
Resource Identifier RCS: E001407
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First Title value, for Searching Gray, Thomas Douglas Huon ( - 1990)

2024-05-02T00:29:09Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2015-05-18
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URL for Files https://livesonline.rcseng.ac.uk/client/en_GB/search/asset/379475379475
Occupation Ophthalmic surgeon
Details Thomas (Tony) Douglas Huon Gray qualified MB, ChB in Liverpool in 1948. After early ophthalmic appointments at the Westminster, Moorfields and the London Hospitals he returned to Liverpool, having passed the Fellowship of the College in 1960. He became consultant in ophthalmic surgery to the Liverpool Area Health Authority and clinical lecturer in ophthalmology to the University of Liverpool. He was a Fellow of the Royal Society of Medicine and a member of the Ophthalmological Society of the United Kingdom. He died on 27 June 1990 survived by his wife Katie and his sons Huon, Roger and Andrew.
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First Title value, for Searching Treissman, Herman (1901 - 1963)

2024-05-02T00:29:09Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2014-06-09
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URL for Files https://livesonline.rcseng.ac.uk/client/en_GB/search/asset/377603377603
Occupation Ophthalmic surgeon
Details Born on 15 December 1901 at Mile End Newtown, he was educated at St Bartholomew's Hospital, was a house surgeon at the Nottingham and Midland Eye Infirmary, Clinical Assistant at the Royal Westminster Ophthalmic Hospital, and Chief Assistant at Moorfields. He subsequently became Ophthalmic Surgeon to the Hospital Savings Association, King Edward Memorial Hospital, Ealing, and the Regional Ophthalmic Unit at the South Middlesex Hospital, Isleworth. During the second world war he served in the Royal Air Force Medical Service as an ophthalmic specialist with the rank of Squadron Leader. He practised at 78 Harley Street, and died in January 1963 aged 61, survived by his wife. Publication: *Principles of the contact lens*, with E A Plaice. London, Kimpton 1946; 88 pages 40 illustrations.
Resource Identifier RCS: E005420
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First Title value, for Searching Maguire, Charles James Frederick (1931 - 2009)

2024-05-02T00:29:09Z

by Enid Taylor
Publication Date 2010-10-14
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URL for Files https://livesonline.rcseng.ac.uk/client/en_GB/search/asset/373224373224
Occupation Ophthalmic surgeon
Details Charles James Frederick Maguire was a consultant ophthalmic surgeon at Royal Victoria Hospital, Belfast. He was born in County Wicklow, Ireland, on 10 May 1931 to Charles Maguire, a nonconformist minister, and Gertrude née Armitage. He was at school in Belfast, attending the Methodist College, and continued in Belfast for his medical training at Queen’s University Medical School. After qualifying in 1954, he held house jobs at Royal Victoria Hospital, Belfast, before beginning his ophthalmic training in London, initially at University College Hospital and then at Moorfields Eye Hospital. He was appointed as a consultant ophthalmic surgeon to Royal Victoria Hospital, Belfast, in 1967, and was subsequently appointed as a senior lecturer at Queen’s University Medical School. At Belfast he developed the subspecialty of vitreoretinal surgery and launched diabetic and neuro-ophthalmic eye clinics. He was recognised as an expert, innovative and meticulous surgeon by his colleagues and introduced new techniques in vitreoretinal surgery and laser photocoagulation. During his working life he helped develop ophthalmic services in India and Libya, and after his retirement from the NHS in 1994 he practised ophthalmology in Bermuda. He married twice. He married Ann in 1962 and they had one son and two daughters. He died on 7 July 2009 and leaves his second wife, Barbara, his three children and a grandson.
Resource Identifier RCS: E001041
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First Title value, for Searching Davies, Ernest Walter Geoffrey (1931 - 2015)

2024-05-02T00:29:09Z

by Sarah Gillam
Publication Date 2015-03-13 2017-07-12
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URL for Files https://livesonline.rcseng.ac.uk/client/en_GB/search/asset/379134379134
Occupation Ophthalmic surgeon
Details Ernest Davies was a consultant ophthalmic surgeon at King's College Hospital, London. He was born on 18 September 1931 in Pontypool, Wales, the son of Rupert Grinnis Davies and Beryl Matilda Davies née Lewis. He was educated at West Monmouth School and then St Catherine's College, Cambridge and St Mary's Hospital Medical School. He gained his MB BChir in 1955. He was a house surgeon at St Mary's and then trained at Moorfields and at Guy's, where he was a senior registrar. Between 1958 and 1961 he was in the RAF on a short service commission. In 1967 he held a travelling fellowship and went to Miami, Baltimore, Boston and New York. In 1967 he was appointed as a consultant at West Middlesex Hospital. Two years later, he transferred to King's College Hospital. His main interest was in retinal detachment and the development of laser treatment for diabetic retinopathy. He was a lecturer for the University of London and an examiner for the diploma in ophthalmology. In August 1995 he was a visiting consultant at the Vision International Hospital, Gilgit, Pakistan. Outside medicine he enjoyed cliff walking in Pembrokeshire National Park, travelling (particularly in Mexico, Kenya and Pakistan), cycling and gardening. He was an elder at Trinity United Reformed Church, Bromley. In 1957 he married Joy Avril Pinnock. They had two sons and two daughters. Ernest Davies died on 2 February 2015. He was 83.
Resource Identifier RCS: E006951
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First Title value, for Searching Darvell, Robin Harold John (1939 - 2013)

2024-05-02T00:29:09Z

by Sarah Gillam
Publication Date 2020-08-12
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Occupation Ophthalmic surgeon
Details Robin Harold John Darvell was a consultant ophthalmic surgeon to the Kent and Canterbury and Isle of Thanet District hospitals. He was born in Amersham, Buckinghamshire, on 2 August 1939, the son of Harold Herbert Darvell, an engineer, and Doris Emily Darvell née Dover. He attended Dr Challenor’s Grammar School in Amersham and then studied medicine at King’s College, University of London, qualifying in 1963. He gained his diploma in ophthalmology in 1970, his FRCS in 1972 and his fellowship of the College of Ophthalmologists in 1988, the year of its foundation. Prior to his consultant appointment, he was a senior casualty officer at the Westminster Hospital, a registrar at the Oxford Eye Hospital, a registrar in the department of plastic surgery at Stoke Mandeville Hospital, Aylesbury, a resident surgical officer at Moorfields and a senior registrar at the Western Ophthalmic Hospital in London. He was a member of Middlesex County Cricket Club and played in the London Old Boys Association Football League. In 2013 a painting he discovered in a cardboard box in a Canterbury sale and bought as part of a job lot for £30 was found to be by the English painter John Constable and worth more than £250,000. In 1966 he married Elizabeth Swain. They had two sons. Darvell died on 8 November 2013 at the age of 74.
Resource Identifier RCS: E009768
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First Title value, for Searching Davies, Thomas Gwilym George (1930 - 2023)

2024-05-02T00:29:09Z

by Richard Shaw
Publication Date 2023-05-10
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Occupation Ophthalmic surgeon
Details Thomas Gwilym George ‘Gwil’ Davies was a consultant ophthalmic surgeon at Derbyshire Royal Infirmary from 1968 to 1990. He was born in Cilgerran, Pembrokeshire on 12 January 1930, the son of John Davies, a chief engineer in the merchant navy, and Bessy Davies née George. He attended Cardigan County School. He carried out his National Service as a private in the Royal Army Medical Corps and was posted to Hong Kong. He went on to study medicine at King’s College, London and Westminster Hospital, qualifying in 1955. After working in Ilford, he moved to Derby. At Derby he led fundraising campaigns for eye equipment, sealed with royal approval. He was also a clinical teacher at Queen’s Medical Centre, Nottingham University and president of the Midlands Ophthalmic Society and the Derby Medical Society. His outside interests were many. He was proud of his Welsh roots and was a seat-holder at Cardiff Arms Park. After retiring, he pursued other hobbies, particularly painting and sculpting and art history, gaining further university degrees. He was also a regular and enthusiastic bridge player. He travelled extensively in later years, but always returned annually to his roots in the Cardigan area of west Wales. Davies died at the Royal Derby Hospital on 3 April 2023 at the age of 93. He was survived by his wife, Joy (née Evans), a consultant psychiatrist, a daughter Ann and two granddaughters. His son John died in 2005 in a climbing accident.
Resource Identifier RCS: E010233
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First Title value, for Searching Hughes, Samuel Henry (1864 - 1935)

2024-05-02T00:29:09Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2013-07-17
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URL for Files https://livesonline.rcseng.ac.uk/client/en_GB/search/asset/376422376422
Occupation Ophthalmic surgeon
Details Born at Sydney, New South Wales, on 25 January 1864, the fourth child of Samuel Terry Hughes and Charlotte Keck, his wife. He entered Malvern College in the third term of 1880, when the Rev Thomas Cruttwell was head master, and remained there until 1882. He then proceeded to St Bartholomew's Hospital, and served as house surgeon under Henry Power at the Royal Westminster Ophthalmic Hospital. He returned to Sydney in 1895, became ophthalmic surgeon to Lewisham Hospital, and obtained a large practice as an ophthalmic surgeon. He married Christina Brydon Scott, who survived him with two sons, and died at Sydney on 7 July 1935 and was buried at Gore Hill.
Resource Identifier RCS: E004239
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First Title value, for Searching Romanes, Giles John (1918 - 2016)

2024-05-02T00:29:09Z

by Sarah Gillam
Publication Date 2016-07-27 2019-12-02
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URL for Files https://livesonline.rcseng.ac.uk/client/en_GB/search/asset/381376381376
Occupation Ophthalmic surgeon
Details Giles Romanes was a consultant ophthalmic surgeon at the Royal Eye Infirmary, Weymouth. He was born in Dublin on 8 December 1918. His father, Francis John Romanes, was of independent means; his mother was Doris Helena MacNaughton Romanes née Wright. He was educated at Eton and then Pembroke College, Cambridge. From 1939 to 1940, he was a private in the RAMC. He went on to St Mary’s Hospital Medical School, Paddington and qualified with the conjoint examination in 1945. He was a house surgeon to Christopher Patrick Sames and a house physician to L P E Laurent. He was then a registrar in the spinal unit at Park Prewett Hospital in Basingstoke in the Emergency Medical Services, and was subsequently a registrar to R W Rycroft and Sir Harold Gillies at Rooksdown House, Basingstoke. He then became a house surgeon at the Royal Eye Hospital, St George’s Circus, London. From 1960 to 1983 he was a consultant ophthalmic surgeon at the Royal Eye Infirmary, Weymouth. He was later involved in setting up the Winterbourne Hospital in Dorchester. He wrote 12 papers (six jointly), and a chapter in Rowe and Killey’s *Fractures of the facial skeleton* (Edinburgh, London, E & S Livingstone). He was president of the section of ophthalmology at the Royal Society of Medicine in 1981. Outside medicine, Romanes had a lifelong interest in steam traction engines. He owned a Wallis and Steevens traction engine he called Goliath, which he drove in local carnival processions, and was director of the Great Dorset Steam Fair. He was a member of the National Traction Engine Trust and president in the trust’s 50th anniversary year. In fine weather, he flew his private vintage aeroplane and made several trips abroad. In 2003, he was the oldest pilot in the UK to commemorate the century of powered flight by the Wright brothers. In 1943, he married Constance Margaret Gee. They had two daughters and a son. Predeceased by his son (in 1994) and his wife (in 2011), Giles Romanes died on 14 April 2016 at Chiddingstone, Kent. He was 97.
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First Title value, for Searching Wainewright, Benjamin (1853 - 1910)

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First Title value, for Searching Pronger, Charles Ernest ( - 1926)

2024-05-02T00:29:09Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2012-10-10
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URL for Files https://livesonline.rcseng.ac.uk/client/en_GB/search/asset/375188375188
Occupation Ophthalmic surgeon
Details Studied at St Thomas's Hospital, where he became Assistant Demonstrator of Anatomy. He was in general practice at Barnstaple and was Surgeon to the Barnstaple and North Devon Infirmary. He moved to Harrogate in 1892 and practised as an ophthalmic surgeon; he was Ophthalmic Surgeon to the Harrogate Infirmary, to the Yorkshire Home for Chronic and Incurable Diseases, and to the Northern Police Orphanage. He originated the Eye Department at the Infirmary and raised funds for that purpose. In particular he studied small errors of refraction, holding that individuals with minor degrees of refraction suffered more eye-strain than those with grosser errors. He was one of the first in the country to emphasize the importance of their recognition and correction. He died at Litchdow, East Parade, Harrogate, on April 2nd, 1926, and was survived by his widow. Publications: "Slight Errors of Refraction." - *Lancet*, 1905, i, 1573.
Resource Identifier RCS: E003005
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First Title value, for Searching Fisher, Ronald Frank ( - 1994)

2024-05-02T00:29:09Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2015-09-08
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URL for Files https://livesonline.rcseng.ac.uk/client/en_GB/search/asset/380111380111
Occupation Ophthalmic surgeon
Details Fisher received his medical education at the Westminster Hospital Medical School and qualified both with the London MB BS and the conjoint diploma in 1952. Deciding to specialise in ophthalmology after qualifying, he held junior appointments at the Westminster Hospital and at Moorfields. He won the Research Prize and the Treacher Collins Prize of the Royal Society of Medicine and his distinguished academic career took him to be consultant surgeon at the Western Ophthalmic Hospital and to the professorship of biophysics and ophthalmology at St Mary's Hospital and the Institute of Ophthalmology. He wrote a number of papers on cataract and the properties of basement membranes. He died on 9 December 1994, survived by his wife Barbara, a son, William, and daughter Janet. A thanksgiving and memorial service was held at Purley Baptist Church on 19 December 1994.
Resource Identifier RCS: E007928
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First Title value, for Searching Loosely, Alfred Edward Arthur (1875 - 1956)

2024-05-02T00:29:09Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2014-04-28
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URL for Files https://livesonline.rcseng.ac.uk/client/en_GB/search/asset/377453377453
Occupation Ophthalmic surgeon
Details Born in London about 1875, the son of George Loosely, he was educated at Pembroke College, Oxford, took second-class honours in physiology, and had his clinical training at St Thomas's Hospital, where he served as ophthalmic house surgeon. He was a clinical assistant at the Royal Eye Hospital and the Royal London Ophthalmic Hospital, Moorfields. He was subsequently ophthalmic surgeon to the London Temperance Hospital and the Hounslow Hospital, and practised privately at 15 Queen Anne Street. Loosely died in a nursing home at Hindhead on 20 July 1956.
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First Title value, for Searching Rostron, Kenneth William Briggs (1912 - 1996)

2024-05-02T00:29:09Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2015-10-01 2018-02-22
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Occupation Ophthalmic surgeon
Details Kenneth Rostron received his medical education at Cambridge and Manchester and qualified in 1937, obtaining the DOMS in 1947 and his Fellowship in 1950. After qualifying and deciding to specialise in ophthalmology he was chief clinical assistant at the Westminster branch of Moorfields and at the Central Eye Hospital before becoming consultant ophthalmic surgeon to the Cornwall and Isles of Scilly Hospital Authority. He died on 27 November 1996. His son, Chad Kenneth Rostron, is also a Fellow of the College.
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First Title value, for Searching Bisley, Geoffrey Gibson (1915 - 2007)

2024-05-02T00:29:09Z

by Enid Taylor
Publication Date 2009-08-07
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URL for Files https://livesonline.rcseng.ac.uk/client/en_GB/search/asset/372825372825
Occupation Ophthalmic surgeon
Details 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 pharmaceutical chemists and his elder sister qualified at the Royal Free Hospital in 1936 and practised as a general practitioner in Maidenhead for about 30 years. Geoffrey attended King’s College School, Wimbledon, and then King’s College Hospital, qualifying in 1940. After a house job in Leatherhead, he joined the RAF in September 1940 and served until March 1946, being overseas in Aden, Palestine and Cyprus. After leaving the RAF, he spent his medical life overseas, initially in Kenya (from 1946 to 1979), working in the Colonial Medical Service until 1963, and then in the Kenyan Ministry of Health. He then worked as warden and chief surgeon at St John’s Hospital, Jerusalem, for two periods, from 1970 to 1983 and 1989 to 1990. The intervening years were spent as ophthalmic surgeon to the government of the Seychelles (1984 to 1985) and to the charity Sightsavers, based in Sierra Leone (from 1987 to 1989). He lectured about prevention and treatment of blindness in Kenya at the Ophthalmological Society of the UK conference in Dublin in 1964 and wrote *A handbook of opththalmology for developing countries* (London, Oxford University Press, 1973), which was well received, with reprints and a second edition. He edited the *East African Medical Journal* (from 1976 to 1979) and was an external examiner in Uganda in medical ophthalmology. He was founder and first president of the Ophthalmological Society of East Africa, a member of the Ophthalmological Society of the UK and a fellow of the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine for more than 50 years. He enjoyed gardening, walking, bird-watching and working with wood. He was a religious man, a reader in the Anglican Church in Nairobi and the Church of England, UK. In 1941 he married Joyce Goodwin, a nurse at King’s College Hospital. They had two children – Richard David, born in 1951, who is the senior partner in an insurance company, and John Geoffrey, born in 1954 and founder and director of a safari company in Nairobi. His wife died of cancer in 1986. He died in Nairobi in November 2007.
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First Title value, for Searching Catford, Gordon Vivian (1927 - 2019)

2024-05-02T00:29:09Z

by Sarah Gillam
Publication Date 2021-01-06
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Occupation Ophthalmic surgeon
Details Gordon Vivian Catford was a consultant ophthalmic surgeon at St George’s Hospital, London. He was born on 23 November 1927 in Bristol. His father, Harry George Bascombe Catford, was a stockbroker; his mother, Gladys Annie Catford née Horton, was a licentiate of the Royal Academy of Music. Catford was educated at Clifton College, Bristol and went on to study medicine at Bristol University. He qualified in 1952. He held house appointments at Bristol Royal Infirmary and Bristol Eye Hospital and then carried out his National Service in the Royal Air Force as a graded specialist (from 1954 to 1956). He then joined the staff of Moorfields Eye Hospital, initially for a house post and then as a chief clinical assistant (from 1960 to 1964). From 1961 to 1963 he was first assistant and a senior registrar at St George’s Hospital. In 1963 he was appointed as a consultant ophthalmic surgeon at St George’s and also held consultant appointments at the Victoria Hospital for Children, the Royal London Homeopathic Hospital and the Royal Masonic Hospital. He was a clinical teacher at London University and the Missionary School of Medicine. After his retirement in 1988, he continued as a consultant ophthalmic surgeon at St Luke’s Hospital for the Clergy and was also a member of the Medical Appeals Tribunal in London. He was an examiner for the British Orthoptic Board, a member of the British Orthoptic Council (chairman from 1981 to 1985) and an adviser to the British Orthoptic Society from 1986. He was made an honorary fellow of the British Orthoptic Society in 1988. He was a founder member and council member of the UK Intraocular Implant Society-UK and Ireland Society of Cataract and Refractive Surgeons. He was a school governor of Linden Lodge School for the Blind and of his former school, Clifton College. He was a freeman of the City of London and a liveryman of the Worshipful Society of Apothecaries. A freemason, he was chairman of the Middlesex Mark Benevolent Fund, a freemason charity, from 1996. He enjoyed gardening. In 1955 in Edinburgh he married June Crichton Baxter, a dance teacher. They had two sons, Gordon Baxter, a barrister, and Paul Nicholas, a personnel manager, and two grandchildren. Catford died on 17 February 2019 at the age of 91.
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First Title value, for Searching Critchett, George (1817 - 1882)

2024-05-02T00:29:09Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2011-09-02
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URL for Files https://livesonline.rcseng.ac.uk/client/en_GB/search/asset/373511373511
Occupation Ophthalmic surgeon
Details Born at Highgate, and studied at the London Hospital, where he was successively Demonstrator of Anatomy, Assistant Surgeon in 1846, and Surgeon from 1861-1863. He is said to have been a good surgeon, showing boldness and capacity in big operations. From 1843-1877 he was attached to the Royal London Ophthalmic Hospital, Moorfields, and became one of the best known ophthalmic surgeons of the day. He was a Member of the Council of the Royal College of Surgeons from 1870-1879, President of the Hunterian Society, and of the International Congress of Ophthalmology held in London in 1872. In 1876 he was appointed Ophthalmic Surgeon and Lecturer at the Middlesex Hospital. He died on Nov 1st, 1882. His eldest son, Sir G Anderson Critchett, Bart, KCVO, FRCS Edin, also a distinguished ophthalmologist, died at the age of 80 on February 9th, 1925. Publications:- Critchett published a valuable course of Lectures on "Diseases of the Eye" in the *Lancet*, 1854.
Resource Identifier RCS: E001328
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First Title value, for Searching Armstrong, Hugh (1860 - 1935)

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First Title value, for Searching James, James Thomas (1857 - 1911)

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First Title value, for Searching Corrigan, Melville John (1934 - 1978)

2024-05-02T00:29:09Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2014-11-25
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Occupation Ophthalmic surgeon
Details 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 college. In 1955 he became a clinical student at the Westminster Medical School and qualified in 1958, eventually being appointed house surgeon at the Westminster Hospital. He then worked at St John's Ophthalmic Hospital, Jerusalem and was senior registrar at Moorfields. He was appointed consultant surgeon at Southampton Eye Hospital and the Royal Hants County Hospital at Winchester. He died at the Almana Hospital, Saudi Arabia, on 24 March 1978 survived by his wife Corinne and his children Juliet, David, Matthew and Catherine.
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First Title value, for Searching Redcliffe, Vivian Harold (1924 - 1952)

2024-05-02T00:29:09Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2014-04-28
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Occupation General surgeon Ophthalmic surgeon Orthopaedic surgeon
Details Born on 26 May 1924 the third child and second son of Alfred William Redcliffe, civil servant, and his wife Elsie Nora Diggins, of Headingley, Leeds, he was educated at the Leeds Grammar School and Medical School, qualifying with second-class honours in 1947. He served as house surgeon at the General Infirmary and demonstrator of anatomy in the Medical School; he was also successively orthopaedic and ophthalmic house surgeon at the Infirmary. He was commissioned a Lieutenant in the RAMC (T). Redcliffe married in 1948 Marguerite Joan Glover M.B., who survived him with a daughter; his parents also survived him. He died of acute polioencephalitis at 166 Otley Road, Far Headingley, Leeds, on 2 August 1952, aged 28, less than two months after taking the Fellowship.
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First Title value, for Searching Butterworth, Edward Alexander (1907 - 1997)

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First Title value, for Searching Ainley, Roger Gwynne (1932 - 2006)

2024-05-02T00:29:09Z

by Enid Taylor
Publication Date 2008-10-24
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Occupation Ophthalmic surgeon
Details Roger Gwynne Ainley was an ophthalmic surgeon in the Merseyside area. He was born in Fringford, Oxfordshire, on 8 September 1932. His father, Joe Ainley, was a headmaster and his mother, Dora (née Carter), was a music teacher, both in schools and freelance. The family are related to the Shakespearian actor Henry Ainley. Roger Ainley attended Lord Williams’ Grammar School, Thame, and then the Old Grammar School, Bicester, from 1943 to 1950. His studies were then interrupted by National Service in the Royal Air Force for two years. In 1952 he went to Keble College, Oxford, to read zoology, but a year later changed to medicine. His clinical training was also in Oxford. His medical and surgical house jobs were at the Radcliffe Infirmary and then he began his formal ophthalmological training as senior house officer and registrar at Oxford Eye Hospital from 1961 to 1963. From 1965 to 1969 he was a lecturer and then senior lecturer at the Manchester Royal Eye Hospital. During this period, in 1968, he was awarded the George Herbert Hunt travelling scholarship and visited ophthalmic departments in New York, Philadelphia, Boston and Ohio State University. In 1969 he was appointed consultant ophthalmic surgeon to Merseyside Regional Health Authority and was postgraduate medical tutor to the Wirral Group from 1974 to 1976. He was a member of the Oxford Ophthalmological Congress, a charter member of the International Association of Ocular Surgeons and a member of Wallasey Medical Society, becoming president in 1989. He wrote quite widely on ocular subjects, but was particularly interested in vitamin B12 levels in ocular fluids and tobacco amblyopia. His other interests were diverse – music, playing the clarinet, sailing, squash and particularly a lifelong interest in butterflies and moths. Initially he collected specimens and his collection covered all European countries, USA, Thailand, Morocco, Costa Rica, Kenya, the Gambia and Mediera. Later he became more interested in conservation and was a member of the Lancashire and Cheshire Entomological Society, Butterfly Conservation and Cheshire Wildlife Trust. Between 1963 and 1991 he had six papers on butterflies and moths published in *The Entomologist* and *The Entomologist’s Record*. In December 1959 he married Jean Burrows, a nurse at St Bartholomew’s Hospital. They had two children, Elizabeth Anne, born in 1965, who is a chartered accountant, and Timothy Charles, born in 1967, a linguist. Roger Ainley died in 2006.
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First Title value, for Searching Nixseaman, David Hugh (1924 - 2009)

2024-05-02T00:29:09Z

by Sarah Gillam
Publication Date 2016-07-27 2019-08-09
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URL for Files https://livesonline.rcseng.ac.uk/client/en_GB/search/asset/381357381357
Occupation Ophthalmic surgeon
Details David Hugh Nixseaman was a consultant ophthalmic surgeon in Ayrshire and Galloway. He was born in Norwich, Norfolk on 16 December 1924. His father, Alfred Jonathan Seaman, was a chaplain to HM Forces in India; his mother was Edith Minna Seaman née Nix-James, a teacher and the daughter of an engraver in the East India Company who was later involved in aircraft production. The family chose to change their surname to Nixseaman. Nixseaman was educated at Eversley School in Southwold, Suffolk, Marlborough College and then Selwyn College, Cambridge, which he initially entered with an exhibition in classics. He was taught by the Nobel prize-winning physiologist Lord Edgar Adrian and the zoologist Lancelot Alexander Borradaile, and passed the natural sciences tripos with honours in 1946. He went on to St George’s Hospital Medical School in London for his clinical studies on an entrance scholarship in anatomy and physiology. He passed the MRCS LRCP in 1949 and the MB BChir in 1950. He was a paediatric house surgeon at St George’s and then a medical house surgeon at Ipswich General Hospital. From 1950 to 1952 he carried out his National Service with the British Army of the Rhine, as a captain in the RAMC. After his return to civilian life, he was an orthopaedic house surgeon at Wingfield-Morris Hospital in Oxford, a casualty officer back at St George’s Hospital, and a general senior house officer in Coventry and Bristol. From December 1955 he spent two years as a surgical registrar at Whipps Cross Hospital in London, gaining his FRCS in 1957. He then began his specialty training in ophthalmic surgery. He was an ophthalmic senior house officer at the Ophthalmic and Aural Hospital, Maidstone and then an ophthalmic registrar at St Thomas’ Hospital, London. From February 1960 to October 1962 he was an ophthalmic registrar for the Central Middlesex Group. In December 1961 he moved to Scotland, to the Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh, where he was an ophthalmic senior registrar. In May 1964 he was appointed to the Ayrshire and Galloway Ophthalmic Unit as a consultant. He retired in May 1987. He enjoyed music; he played in the London Hospitals and the Ayrshire Symphony orchestras. He also painted and exhibited with the Medical Art Society. In November 1956 he married Elizabeth Marion France, a consultant anaesthetist. They had two children – Helen Mary and Andrew Peter. Predeceased by his wife in 1995, David Hugh Nixseaman died on 2 March 2009 at the age of 84.
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First Title value, for Searching Paget, Thomas ( - 1875)

2024-05-02T00:29:09Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2012-09-19
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URL for Files https://livesonline.rcseng.ac.uk/client/en_GB/search/asset/375068375068
Occupation General surgeon Ophthalmic surgeon
Details Educated at Guy's and St Thomas's Hospitals. He was at one time Surgeon, and then Senior Surgeon, to the Leicester Infirmary, having retired from this post some seven or eight years before his death, at which time he was Surgeon to the County Lunatic Asylum. He was a well-known figure locally, a good, clearheaded practitioner, an excellent operator, being equally successful as an ophthalmologist and as a lithotomist. He ranked with Martineau, Dalrymple, and Crichton, and, in common with other Leicester surgeons, preferred the median operation in cutting for stone. No one in the county of Leicester of his time in any surgical dilemma felt quite satisfied until he had had the benefit of the opinion of 'Tom Paget', as he was often called. He was the first provincial surgeon to be elected to the Council of the Royal College of Surgeons, of which he was a Member from 1862-1870. He was a leading Unitarian and resided at Queensborough, Leicester, and died in April, 1875. His photograph, a characteristic one, is in the College Collection. Publications: "On an Operation for Pervious Urachus with Stillicidium Urinae." - *Med-Chir Trans*, 1861, xliv, 13. "Retention of Urine, with Paracentesis Vesicae above Pubes, and Permanent Tube in lieu of Perineal Section." - *Brit Med Jour*, 1859, 526, and 1864, ii, 213, etc.
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First Title value, for Searching Jay, Barrie Samuel (1929 - 2007)

2024-05-02T00:29:09Z

by Enid Taylor
Publication Date 2011-12-21 2013-02-20
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Occupation Ophthalmic surgeon
Details Barrie Samuel Jay was professor of clinical ophthalmology at the Institute of Ophthalmology, University of London. He was born in London on 7 May 1929, the son of Maurice Bernard Jay, a medical practitioner, and Julia Sterling Jay, a housewife. He attended Perse School and then Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge, and University College Hospital, London. He trained in ophthalmology at Moorfields Eye Hospital and the London Hospital. He was a Shepherd research scholar at the Institute of Ophthalmology from 1963 to 1964. In 1965 he became a consultant ophthalmic surgeon to the London Hospital. Four years later, in 1969, he was also appointed to Moorfields Eye Hospital. He was dean of the Institute of Ophthalmology from 1980 to 1985 and professor of clinical ophthalmology from 1985 to 1992. In 1992 he was appointed as an emeritus professor and as an honorary consultant surgeon to Moorfields Eye Hospital, London. Barrie Jay was much respected as a clinician and for his research work, especially in paediatrics and genetics, in both of which fields he was honoured. His scientific contributions were considerable, with a large body of peer-reviewed publications, book chapters and books. He also showed considerable foresight in embracing information technology at an early stage, and created the first database of ophthalmic training facilities in the UK. With other far-sighted colleagues he was instrumental in setting up the Royal College of Ophthalmologists and was a senior vice-president of the college. At the Royal College of Surgeons he was an examiner for the diploma in ophthalmology from 1970 to 1975, a member of the Court of Examiners from 1975 to 1980, and a co-opted member of the Council from 1983 to 1988. In 2004 he was the first recipient of a lifetime achievement award, presented by the European Paediatric Ophthalmological Society. He had many interests outside ophthalmology. His greatest passion, or obsession as he himself described it, was British postal history. He claimed that his wife said it was more important to him than his work! He wrote a standard history on the subject and over the years amassed an internationally known collection which sold at auction in the year 2000 for a considerable sum. He was president of the Royal Philatelic Society in 1998. He was also a keen gardener with a particular interest in dwarf irises. He was master of the Society of Apothecaries in 1995. He married Marcelle Ruby Byre, a geneticist, in 1954. They had two sons, Robert Maurice, a barrister, and Stephen Mark, an accountant. Barrie Jay died on 10 March 2007, at the age of 77, after a short illness.
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First Title value, for Searching Owen, Robin Arthur (1929 - 2006)

2024-05-02T00:29:09Z

by Timothy ffytche
Publication Date 2018-11-19
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Occupation Ophthalmic surgeon
Details As the son of a surgeon, Charles Langley Owen, and the great-nephew of an eminent ophthalmologist, David Charles Lloyd Owen, it was not surprising that Robin Owen took up eye surgery as a career, becoming a consultant ophthalmic surgeon in south London. His mother was Robina Elizabeth Owen née Sinclair. Born in London on 9 May 1929, Robin was, as was his father, educated at the Dragon School, Oxford, where he is recorded as having regularly won the prize for holiday diaries! Following four years at Felsted School, he was awarded a scholarship to Trinity College, Cambridge in 1947 and read natural sciences and medicine, before completing his clinical studies at King’s College Hospital, London. He qualified in 1954 and entered the RAMC for his National Service, staying on with a short-service commission and, after passing the diploma in ophthalmology, became a senior specialist in ophthalmology at the Cambridge Military Hospital, Aldershot with the rank of major. He left the Army in 1957 and subsequently held posts in ophthalmology at Southend General Hospital and at King’s College Hospital, becoming an FRCS in 1960. His experience with the West Indian population in south London led to him being awarded an MD in 1965, the title of his thesis being ‘A study of defective vision of indeterminate pathology in West Indian immigrants living in south London.’ In addition, he published papers on other ophthalmic subjects. In 1966, he was appointed as a consultant ophthalmic surgeon to the group of hospitals which included Dartford, Sidcup, Lewisham Children’s Hospital and Farnborough hospitals, and during this time he also saw private patients at his home. He is remembered by his colleagues in south London as a competent surgeon and clinician with a special interest in squint surgery. A private man with a dry sense of humour, he resisted the advances of the computer age, writing his notes only on the right-side page (recto) in the patient’s folder and insisting that his junior staff do the same. He finally retired in 1995. He was a churchwarden at his local church, participating in many activities relating to the parish, a keen gardener and an enthusiastic golfer. He managed to combine these latter two interests by creating a nine-hole putting green on his back lawn, and no visit to his home would be complete without a very competitive round of putting! He was particularly proud of his caravan, which he loved to use for holidays, travelling round the country with his family and he was well ahead of his time in recycling, owning a press that converted old newspapers into briquettes for the fire! In 1955, he married Margaret Bennet, the paediatric ward sister at the Kent and Sussex Hospital, whom he met when he was a junior doctor. They had a son and two daughters, the elder of whom is a palliative specialist nurse and the younger was a GP in Brighton. He died on 15 April 2006 at the age of 77.
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First Title value, for Searching Russell, Henry (1801 - 1854)

2024-05-02T00:29:09Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2012-11-21
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URL for Files https://livesonline.rcseng.ac.uk/client/en_GB/search/asset/375362375362
Occupation Ophthalmic surgeon
Details Born at York, the son of a much-respected solicitor; he was the pupil of G G Brodie (qv), living in his house for five years, and studying at St George's Hospital, where he became House Surgeon. He was also House Surgeon to the Lock Hospital. Meanwhile he attended Lawrence's lectures on ophthalmic surgery at the Royal London Ophthalmic Hospital. He returned to practice in York, in 1834 was appointed Surgeon to the York County Hospital, and in 1842 Lecturer on Surgery in the Medical School. He was subsequently instrumental in establishing a special Ophthalmic Hospital, which gave him a widespread reputation as an Ophthalmic Surgeon. He suffered for some years with a chronic infection, 'osteo-necrosis with purulent secondary deposits', and died on July 27th, 1854, owing to asphyxiation following upon the bursting of an extensive pulmonary abscess. A man of much simple piety, his funeral was attended by the medical men of York, as a spontaneous and grateful tribute of respect to his unblotted memory.
Resource Identifier RCS: E003179
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First Title value, for Searching Fuchs, Ernst (1851 - 1930)

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First Title value, for Searching Maxted, George (1886 - 1971)

2024-05-02T00:29:09Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2014-09-18
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Occupation Ophthalmic surgeon
Details George Maxted was born in 1886 and educated at Guy's Hospital where he qualified with the Conjoint Diploma, and graduated with the London University MB BS in 1910. He then became a house physician at Guy's, and held a house surgeon appointment at the Wolverhampton General Hospital. After a resident post in obstetrics at Guy's he passed the MD London in Obstetrics and Gynaecology and was awarded the Gold Medal in 1912. He then obtained the Fellowship of the Royal College of Surgeons in 1914. During the first world war he was a Captain in the RAMC and subsequently Maxted, having held the post of ophthalmic registrar at Guy's Hospital, decided to follow that specialty and settled in Norwich. He was appointed ophthalmic surgeon to the Norfolk and Norwich Hospital, and to the Norfolk and Norwich Eye Infirmary. He was also ophthalmic surgeon to the Lowestoft and North Suffolk Hospital. Maxted made several contributions to the literature of his specialty. He died at the age of 84 on 15 January 1971.
Resource Identifier RCS: E005939
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First Title value, for Searching Pisani, Lionel John (1862 - 1926)

2024-05-02T00:29:09Z

First Title value, for Searching Andrews, Archibald George (1858 - 1943)

2024-05-02T00:29:09Z

First Title value, for Searching Smiley, William Kennedy (1913 - 1996)

2024-05-02T00:29:09Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2015-10-02
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Occupation Ophthalmic surgeon Ophthalmologist
Details William Smiley was born in 1913 and qualified from St Andrews University in 1937. After service in the RAMC with the rank of major, he worked at the Royal Eye Hospital with Sir Benjamin Ryecroft. He was consultant ophthalmic surgeon to the Windsor Group at Taplow, Maidenhead and Wexham Park, Slough. He became well-known for his work on uveitis in juvenile rheumatism at Taplow, particularly the complicated cases needing removal of the band keratoplasty and complicated cataracts, and combined cataract and glaucoma. This work enabled him, with Jane Schiller, a visiting scientist, to describe iridocyclitis in those with juvenile onset of arthritis (particularly girls), and its association with antinuclear factor in the blood. In retirement his interests were his garden and ornithology. He left his widow, Helen, four children and ten grandchildren. He died in July 1996 of multiple myeloma.
Resource Identifier RCS: E008349
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First Title value, for Searching Law, Frank William (1898 - 1987)

2024-05-02T00:29:09Z

by Sir Barry Jackson
Publication Date 2015-06-05 2018-05-24
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Occupation Ophthalmic surgeon Ophthalmologist
Details Frank William Law was born in Isleworth, London, on 14 August 1898, the third son of Thomas Law, a drapery warehouseman, and his wife Emma, née MacRae. He was educated at St Paul's School and St John's College, Cambridge, proceeding to the Middlesex Hospital for his clinical studies where he graduated in 1927. His medical studies had been interrupted by war service in France and Flanders in the Royal Field Artillery where he was an acting Captain. After qualifying he became one of the most distinguished ophthalmologists of his time. He was appointed consultant ophthalmic surgeon to Moorfields Eye Hospital in 1936 and was also ophthalmic surgeon to Guy's Hospital, King Edward VII's Hospital for Officers, the Royal Hospital, Chelsea, and Queen Alexandra's Military Hospital. He was an honorary consultant in ophthalmology to the Army, an honorary member of several foreign ophthalmological societies and an honorary visiting ophthalmologist to the Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore. In his time he was President of the Ophthalmologists and Master of the Worshipful Company of Spectacle Makers. He was a member of the Ophthalmic Hospital Committee of the Order of St John and was made a Knight of that Order. Frank Law had many interests in addition to ophthalmology including music, fishing and shooting. He was also a keen embroiderer. In his youth he rowed for Cambridge and played rugby for the Middlesex Hospital. He was a gifted medical historian and wrote the second volume of *The history and traditions of Moorfields Eye Hospital*, and the histories of the Ophthalmological Society of the United Kingdom and the Worshipful Company of Spectacle Makers. He was a commanding speaker and an excellent chairman of committees. He died at home in Chipperfield n 26 May 1987 aged 88 and was survived by his wife Brenda (Tommy), to whom he had been happily married for 58 years, his son, Barry, and his daughter, Brynhilde.
Resource Identifier RCS: E007409
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First Title value, for Searching Dalrymple, John (1803 - 1852)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2011-09-14
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Occupation Ophthalmic surgeon
Details The eldest son of William Dalrymple, of Norwich, and Marianne Bertram, his wife. John was one of six sons, and two of his brothers, Archibald Dalrymple (qv) and Donald Dalrymple (qv) became Fellows of the Royal College of Surgeons. He studied under his father and at Edinburgh. He made a special study of the surgery of the eye, and in 1832 was elected Assistant Surgeon to the Royal London Ophthalmic Hospital, becoming full Surgeon in 1843. He was elected FRS in 1850, and a Member of the Council of the Royal College of Surgeons in 1851. He attained a large practice and a great reputation for skill in his specialty. He died on May 2nd, 1852. A bust of John Dalrymple executed for subscribers by Thomas Campbell was presented to the College on Nov 9th, 1853. There is also a bust in the Norfolk and Norwich Hospital, which also treasures a collection of preparations of diseases of the eye which he formed. Publications: *The Anatomy of the Human Eye, being an Account of the History, Progress, and Present Knowledge of the Organ of Vision in Man*, 8vo, London, 1834. *The Pathology of the Human Eye*, London, 1851-2, in which are a number of first-rate coloured plates.
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First Title value, for Searching Hartridge, Gustavus (1850 - 1923)

2024-05-02T00:29:09Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2012-04-04
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Occupation Ophthalmic surgeon
Details The son of James Hartridge, of Yalding, Kent; educated at King's College Hospital, acted as Clinical Assistant at the Royal London Ophthalmic Hospital, then as Assistant Surgeon to the Central London Ophthalmic Hospital. Afterwards he became Surgeon and later Consulting Surgeon to the Westminster Ophthalmic Hospital, also Ophthalmic Surgeon and Lecturer on Ophthalmic Surgery to Westminster Hospital. He was also Consulting Ophthalmic Surgeon to St Bartholomew's Hospital, Rochester. At the Annual Meeting of the British Medical Association in 1889 he was Secretary of the Ophthalmic Section, and Vice-President of the Section at the Newcastle Meeting in 1898. He died at his house, 12 Wimpole Street, on September 8th, 1923. He was amongst the earliest to specialize in ophthalmic practice, for he devoted himself more especially to the subject of errors of refraction. Publications: *The Refraction of the Eye*, 1884. There were 16 English, besides American editions. It was the most widely popular students' text-book of the time, and was incorporated with *Diseases and Refraction of the Eye*, by N C MACNAMARA and G HARTRIDOE, which reached a 5th edition in 1891. Small books on the Ophthalmoscope and Retinoscopy. Translation of Schweigger's *Clinical Investigation of Squint*, 1887.
Resource Identifier RCS: E002152
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First Title value, for Searching Miller, Richard Shalders ( - 1903)

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First Title value, for Searching Rouse, James (1829 - 1895)

2024-05-02T00:29:09Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2012-11-20
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Occupation General surgeon Ophthalmic surgeon
Details Born in 1829 or 1830; studied at St George's Hospital, where he was House Surgeon, and afterwards acted as Resident Attendant to a nobleman who left him a handsome sum of money in recognition of his services. This led him to become FRCS, and he succeeded in being elected Assistant Surgeon to St George's Hospital without having served any probationary office. He also became Ophthalmic Surgeon to the Royal Westminster Ophthalmic Hospital and to the Eastern Counties Asylum for Idiots, the School for the Indigent Blind, the Hospital of St Elizabeth and St John, and Queen Anne's Royal Asylum. In due course he advanced to Surgeon at St George's Hospital, and whilst not a great or ambitious surgeon, he was practical and gained a large private practice. He was the students' friend, knew them by name and much of their circumstances, and taught clearly and simply. He practised at 2 Wilton Street, London, SW; his house became a veritable museum of pictures, coins, jewels, and medallions. For several years he was in failing health, and died on December 24th, 1895. His photograph is in the Fellows' Album.
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First Title value, for Searching Caiger, Herbert (1866 - 1957)

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First Title value, for Searching Robinson, Harry (1886 - 1941)

2024-05-02T00:29:09Z

First Title value, for Searching Patterson, Alan (1933 - 2017)

2024-05-02T00:29:09Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2018-11-19 2021-08-23
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Occupation Ophthalmic surgeon
Details Alan Patterson was born on 6 May 1933. At his secondary school he was one of the only two students considered good enough to attend university. He studied medicine at Liverpool University commencing in 1950 and qualifying in 1956. Awarded the Robert Gee fellowship in anatomy, he obtained a doctorate in 1960. He passed the fellowship of the college in 1965. After studying ophthalmology at Moorfields Eye Hospital, he moved back to Liverpool, where he was appointed consultant ophthalmologist at St Paul’s Eye Hospital and Alder Hey Children’s Hospital. Specialising in the anatomy of the anterior segment of the eye, he published numerous significant papers. Some of his groundbreaking work on herpetic infections of the cornea and on antiviral medications still dictates clinical practice today. At St Paul’s eye unit, towards the end of his career, he instigated the use of the excimer laser and refractive eye service. Ironically he himself was to develop eye problems in his old age. Apparently he commented that now he was a patient himself he *learned that when the instruction ‘read the chart from the top please’ applies to you, life is very different indeed*. When he died on 23 November 2017 aged 84, he was survived by his wife Flo, daughters, Luise and Julie, son Andrew and five grandchildren.
Resource Identifier RCS: E009498
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First Title value, for Searching Schwerdt, Francis Colin Charles (1928 - 1983)

2024-05-02T00:29:09Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2015-07-21
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Occupation Ophthalmic surgeon
Details Francis Colin Schwerdt was born in Hertfordshire and educated at Winchester College before receiving his medical training at Oxford where he qualified in 1952. After his national service as regimental medical officer to the 3rd Royal Hussars he embarked on his chosen specialty in ophthalmic surgery at Moorfields Hospital. In 1962 he was appointed as a consultant at Exeter where he was much respected as a most conscientious clinician and teacher. His standard of care for his patients was an example to be followed and he developed the art of ophthalmology by integrating his findings to all aspects of medicine. He had a love of music and family life. He is survived by his wife and two daughters.
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First Title value, for Searching Hayes, George Constable (1869 - 1944)

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First Title value, for Searching Roxburgh, Alexander Bruce (1860 - 1953)

2024-05-02T00:29:09Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2014-05-16
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Occupation Ophthalmic surgeon
Details Born on 19 August 1860 the second son of William Roxburgh MD Edinburgh, FRCP London, who practised at Bedford, and his wife Annie Elizabeth Boswell, he was educated at Bedford School and Exeter College, Oxford, where he took fourth-class honours in the final school of physiology in 1882. He qualified from the London Hospital in 1887, and graduated in medicine at Oxford in 1891. He was for some years chief clinical assistant at the Royal London Ophthalmic Hospital, Moorfields. At the London Hospital he was successively surgical registrar, surgical tutor, lecturer on ophthalmic surgery, and ophthalmic surgeon, becoming consulting ophthalmic surgeon on retirement. He practised at 7 Henrietta Street, Cavendish Square, and lived later at Oaksleigh, Locks Heath, near Southampton, where he enjoyed gardening. Roxburgh married in 1916 Edith Annie, daughter of George Fletcher MD of Highgate, who survived him but without children. He died at his home on 17 March 1953 aged 92.
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First Title value, for Searching Wilkinson, John Sebastian (1836 - 1916)

2024-05-02T00:29:09Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2013-02-06
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Occupation Ophthalmic surgeon
Details Studied at University College Hospital, where he was House Surgeon in 1858-1859. He then practised successively at 1 Carlton Villas and at Pembroke Villa, Caledonian Road, London, N. In or before 1863 he removed to Davies Street, London W, and was Surgeon to the St George's and St James's Dispensary. Having been appointed Assistant Surgeon to the Central London Ophthalmic Hospital, he removed in 1871 to 60 Wimpole Street, then to 83 Wimpole Street, and was Surgeon to the Western Ophthalmic Hospital; he next emigrated to Sydney, Australia. By 1886 he had returned to 4 Helena Terrace, Richmond, Surrey; in 1887 he removed to Oakgates, Shropshire; lastly he lived at 3 Lebanon Park, Twickenham, and died there on June 5th, 1916. Publications: "Pterygia." - *Pathol Soc Trans*, 1871-2, xxiii, 214. "Glioma." - *Ibid*, 220. "Bifurcation of Urethra in a Dog." - *Ibid*, 1872-3, xxiv, 280. "Tubular Cyst in a Kidney from a Pig." - *Ibid*, 282. "Vascular Growth in the Neck." - *Ibid*, 1874-5, xxvi, 196.
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First Title value, for Searching Roll, Grahame Winfield (1862 - 1942)

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First Title value, for Searching Tomkin, Alexander (1936 - 1984)

2024-05-02T00:29:09Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2015-08-12
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Occupation Ophthalmic surgeon
Details Alexander Tomkin was born on 21 July 1936, the first son of Harris Tomkin, ophthalmic surgeon and his wife Sarah née Nelson. He attended Castle Park Dalkey, St Columba's College, Tathfarnham, and Trinity College, Dublin, where he took the Nurock Prize for classics and the silver medal of the Biological Society. In 1960 he received both the Haughton Prize for medicine and for surgery. After house appointments at Sir Patrick Dun's Hospital, he demonstrated anatomy at Trinity and then spent some years working at Moorfields, in London. His final appointment was as consultant in ophthalmic surgery at the Royal Victoria Eye and Ear Hospital, Dr Steevens', the Rotunda and Sir Patrick Dun's Hospitals in the city of Dublin. He enjoyed music and playing tennis. He married in 1972 but the name of his wife is not known. He was only 48 years old when a friend, Mervyn Taylor TD, notified the College of his death which was probably in April or May 1984.
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First Title value, for Searching Bryant, Charles Hilary (1871 - 1959)

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First Title value, for Searching Connell, Anthea Mary Stewart (1925 - 2003)

2024-05-02T00:29:09Z

by Enid Taylor
Publication Date 2005-11-02 2008-12-12
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URL for Files https://livesonline.rcseng.ac.uk/client/en_GB/search/asset/372333372333
Occupation Ophthalmic surgeon
Details Anthea Mary Stewart Connell was a senior ophthalmic consultant at the Queen Elizabeth Hospital, Barbados, from 1969 to 1996. She was born on 21 October 1925, the daughter of two medical doctors. Her father, John S M Connell, was a surgeon and gynaecologist and had served as a colonel in the RAMC on wartime hospital ships. Her mother, Constance B Challis, had trained at Cambridge and the University of Birmingham Medical School, and became a public health doctor. Anthea was educated at Edgbaston High School, before moving to City Park Collegiate Institute, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, and then to the University of Saskatchewan, Canada. She completed her medical education at the University of Birmingham Medical School, qualifying in 1952. Her ophthalmic training was at Moorfields Eye Hospital, London, firstly as a resident, then as a registrar and subsequently as a senior registrar/first assistant in joint appointments at Moorfields, Guy’s Hospital and the London Hospital. In 1969 she moved to Barbados as a senior consultant and head of the department of ophthalmology and assistant lecturer at the University of West Indies until 1991. She initiated the Barbados Eye Study and was its director from 1987 to 1996. This group investigated glaucoma in the Barbadian population and founded the Inter-Island Eye Service. Although living in Barbados, she held courses and organised diploma of ophthalmology examinations in the Caribbean, which were recognised by the Royal College of Surgeons. She was also a fellow of the American Academy of Ophthalmology, giving presentations at their annual meetings. She wrote extensively, covering her work and research in Barbados and the islands. In 1963 she married George E P Dowglass, a master of wine, who was a wine merchant. They had one child, Charlotte, born in 1965, who became financial director to Hampton Court Palace and the Tower of London. Anthea supported the local community, was chairman of the local Conservative Policy Forum, and enjoyed painting in oil and acrylic, showing her work both locally and in London. She died on 23 September 2003 after a long series of strokes.
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First Title value, for Searching Werb, Abraham (1919 - 2015)

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by Jeanette Werb and family
Publication Date 2015-06-12 2016-03-09
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URL for Files https://livesonline.rcseng.ac.uk/client/en_GB/search/asset/379655379655
Occupation Ophthalmic surgeon Ophthalmologist
Details Abraham Werb was a surgeon in the corneo-plastic unit, Queen Victoria Hospital, East Grinstead. He was born on 1 April 1919 in Lithuania, the son of Maurice Werb and Pia Werb née Frumer. His family was Jewish, and he spent much of his childhood trying to avoid being harassed by the anti-Semitic local youths. As a consequence, Abraham missed much of his early schooling. In the late 1920s, his father managed to make his way to South Africa. Abraham, then aged eight, was left to help his mother. When his youngest brother became ill and was hospitalised, his mother worked as an auxiliary at the hospital to pay the fees and Abraham was sent away to another town to live with his aunt and uncle. After several years, Abraham and the rest of his family were sent for by his father, who had managed to start a small fish business. At the age of 13 and knowing no English, Abraham started his education proper in South Africa. After school he worked in the fish shop and studied at night. Eventually, through his consistent efforts, he made it to university. He started studying medicine at Cape Town University in 1939 and qualified in 1945. In 1946 he began working at the King Edward VIII Hospital in Durban. With no ophthalmological training available in South Africa and being aware of the political situation, Abraham and his family left for England. This was in 1955. A vacancy awaited him as a registrar at Queen Victoria Hospital in East Grinstead under Sir Benjamin Rycroft. Abraham gained his diploma in ophthalmology and a diploma in ophthalmic medicine and surgery in 1956. During the 1960s he spent many nights studying for his FRCS, which he gained in 1970. His research led him to analyse the anatomy of the tear duct and he developed 'Werb scissors' to carry out surgery on this part of the eye. Abraham also improved the surgical technique for ptosis by inverting the upper lid and operating from under the lid, to avoid scarring. Abraham was fortunate enough to have his work recognised and was invited to lecture and operate worldwide. Many of his articles were published in medical magazines and journals. He was extremely modest about his many achievements.
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First Title value, for Searching Taggart, Hugh Joseph (1893 - 1969)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2014-10-20
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URL for Files https://livesonline.rcseng.ac.uk/client/en_GB/search/asset/378363378363
Occupation Ophthalmic surgeon
Details Hugh Joseph Taggart was born on 9 April 1893 and studied medicine at the University of Belfast where he obtained the BA in 1914 and qualified with the MB BCh BAO degree with honours in 1919. He decided to specialize in ophthalmology and so took the DOMS in 1921 and the FRCS in 1926. Taggart became surgeon to the Western Ophthalmic Hospital, and ophthalmic surgeon to the Hospital of St John and St Elizabeth, and to the Chelsea Hospital Group. He was particularly interested in squints and ptosis; and in addition to being a competent ophthalmologist, the warmth of his personality distinguished him among his contemporaries, and was an inspira¬tion to his juniors, and deeply appreciated by his patients. His hobby was collecting musical boxes. After retiring from hospital work he lived with his wife Frances, who was also a doctor and interested in child-welfare work, at Boolham in Sussex and he died there on 12 October 1969 at the age of 76. His wife survived him.
Resource Identifier RCS: E006180
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First Title value, for Searching Frean, Henry George (1884 - 1922)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2012-01-25
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URL for Files https://livesonline.rcseng.ac.uk/client/en_GB/search/asset/374091374091
Occupation Ophthalmic surgeon
Details The only son of George M Frean. He received his medical training at the University of Cambridge and at the London Hospital; was Surgical Clinical Assistant at the Evelina Hospital, and settled in Oxford (29 Beaumont Street). He was at one time Senior Clinical Assistant to the Oxford Eye Hospital, and School Oculist to the Berks County Council and Oxford City. He served as eye specialist during the War (1914-1918), retiring with the rank of Temporary Captain RAMC. His first service was in Egypt, where he was taken ill. Recovering, he again went out, first to Salonika and then to the Caucasus. Resuming work at Oxford after demobilization, he found his health permanently undermined. Steadily growing worse, he was compelled to give up his appointments, and spent two winters in Switzerland. During the last few months of his life he failed rapidly, and died at Branksome, Bournemouth, on June 18th, 1922. Publication: "Case of Aneurysm in a Woman." - *Brit. Med. Jour.*, 1910, I, 318.
Resource Identifier RCS: E001908
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First Title value, for Searching Nairn, Robert (1862 - 1932)

2024-05-02T00:29:09Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2013-08-28
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URL for Files https://livesonline.rcseng.ac.uk/client/en_GB/search/asset/376556376556
Occupation General surgeon Ophthalmic surgeon
Details The second child and only son of Francis Edward Nairn, a gentleman of independent means, and his wife, *née* Curtis, was born at Greytown, New Zealand on 12 March 1862. He was educated at Nelson College and at Wellington College until he came to England and entered St Thomas's Hospital for his medical education. Here he acted as house physician and ophthalmic assistant. He served as house surgeon at the Victoria Hospital for Children, Tite Street, Chelsea in 1888. He also acted as honorary surgeon at the Royal Naval Exhibition in 1891, was clinical assistant at the Central London Ophthalmic Hospital, and was resident clinical assistant at Bethlehem Hospital. Until 1895 he lived at Ealing, after which he resided for a short time at Ilfracombe, and in 1896 returned to New Zealand. Here he practised at Hastings, Hawkes Bay, Napier until 1915, when on 10 June he offered his services and received a temporary commission as lieutenant, RAMC. He served at the Royal Herbert Hospital and afterwards in the hospital ships *St George* and *Asturias*. From 15 October 1915 until 16 June 1916 he was operating surgeon at Bramshott Camp, Surrey, with the rank of temporary captain. At the end of the war he returned to his practice at Hawkes Bay. He married on 9 April 1899 M C Russell, who survived him with two daughters and a son. He died at Hastings, Napier, NZ on 8 April 1932, and was buried at Havelock North, Hawkes Bay, NZ.
Resource Identifier RCS: E004373
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First Title value, for Searching Square, William (1844 - 1896)

2024-05-02T00:29:09Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2013-03-18
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URL for Files https://livesonline.rcseng.ac.uk/client/en_GB/search/asset/375877375877
Occupation Ophthalmic surgeon
Details Born on August 10th, 1844, the eldest son of William Joseph Square (qv), and was educated at the Baptist College, Regent's Park, London, NW. He entered Rugby, when Dr Temple was head master, in 1859, and left in 1861. He studied with his father at the South Devon and East Cornwall Hospital, and at St Bartholomew's Hospital, where he took several prizes and was Senior Scholar in 1866. He acted as House Surgeon and Clinical Assistant at the Royal London Ophthalmic Hospital. He returned to Plymouth, succeeded his father as Surgeon to the South Devon and East Cornwall Hospital, specialized in ophthalmic surgery as Surgeon to the Royal Eye Infirmary, Plymouth, and was Surgeon to the Provident Dispensary and to the Plymouth Fire Brigade. In 1895 he was President of the Plymouth Medical Society, founded in 1794. Square travelled a great deal, and was early elected a Fellow of the Geographical Society on the nomination of Sir Leopold McClintock and General O'Connor, visiting the Pyramids not long before his death. He was a charming companion, a versatile conversationalist, an excellent raconteur without malice, an ardent sportsman, an angler, a good swimmer - claiming to have taken part in the first swimming match at Plymouth - and a cyclist. At one time he sat on the Town and County Councils. He practised in Portland Square, Plymouth, and died of pneumonia, after a short illness, on April 15th, 1896.
Resource Identifier RCS: E003694
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First Title value, for Searching Harfitt, Roy (1944 - 1994)

2024-05-02T00:29:09Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2015-09-09
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URL for Files https://livesonline.rcseng.ac.uk/client/en_GB/search/asset/380168380168
Occupation Ophthalmic surgeon
Details Roy Harfitt was born in Alexandria, Egypt on 15 March 1944. He had no medical connections. His grandfather, Vicar of St Mary at Hill (the Billingsgate fish market church) founded the Christian Evidence Society. Ronald Stanley Harfitt, his father, worked in civil aviation and his mother was Josephine Lilian, née Massad. He was brought up in London and went to school at St Gabriels, Angel, and then Cardinal Vaughan, Holland Park. He trained at Bart's, winning the ophthalmology prize. After a variety of junior posts he became SHO at Oxford Eye Hospital, registrar at Moorfields, and at St Thomas's and Guy's he held the post of consultant ophthalmic surgeon in the Merton and Sutton Health District from 1977 until his death. He was also lecturer at St George's Hospital, Tooting. He established ophthalmology in paediatrics at Queen Mary's Hospital, Carshalton, and was president of the Sutton and District Blind Association. In 1966 he married Norma Mary. They had two daughters, Suzanne and Annelise. His hobbies included gardening, swimming and travelling abroad. He bought land in Portugal and helped to design a villa which, when built, became a dream come true. He had a strong sense of justice and compassion and was devoted to his family. Colleagues and members of staff relied on his judgement and advice. He died on 23 October 1994, aged 50 years.
Resource Identifier RCS: E007985
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First Title value, for Searching Havers-Strong, John Richard (1934 - 2017)

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by Timothy ffytche
Publication Date 2017-07-12 2017-11-22
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URL for Files https://livesonline.rcseng.ac.uk/client/en_GB/search/asset/381536381536
Occupation Ophthalmic surgeon Ophthalmologist
Details John Richard Havers-Strong, generally known as Richard Strong, was a consultant ophthalmic surgeon at Conquest Hospital, St Leonards-on-Sea. Educated at Oundle School and Queens' College, Cambridge, where his father had attended 30 years previously, Richard became energetically involved in rowing, canoeing and mountaineering, as well as the Cambridge Union. He studied medicine, although none of his immediate relatives were doctors, however he could claim the physician Clopton Havers (the first to describe Haversian canals in compact bone tissue) as an ancestor. He completed his training at St Bartholomew's Hospital, qualifying in 1959. There followed National Service in the RAMC, which he greatly enjoyed and which saw him posted to Libya and Cyprus. Tall, elegant, debonair with a military bearing and a penchant for three piece suits, a fob watch and even at times a monocle, he chose ophthalmology as a specialty and went on to train at Moorfields. He is remembered as a competent eye surgeon and a loyal colleague with a great sense of humour and fun, combined with a sharp wit. Richard was a very talented artist, whose clinical drawings brightened up the hospital notes and many also recall his much-admired vintage 1920's Bentley. He gained his FRCS in 1970 (and his FRCOphth in 1988) and, after a spell as a senior registrar at Bart's, in 1973 he was appointed as a consultant ophthalmic surgeon to the Royal East Sussex Hospital (later the Conquest Hospital), where he ran general ophthalmic clinics and operating sessions, and had a special interest in reconstructive surgery. He was head of the surgical division and combined his busy NHS work with a small private practice. He was married to Erika (née Hauke) and, shortly after his retirement from clinical practice in 1997, the family moved to France, to a small restored farmhouse overlooking the Pyrenees in the Department of Aude. This was the fulfillment of a lifelong love affair with France, which began at the age of 18 when he canoed from Calais to the Mediterranean with a friend and from there, via the Canal du Midi, to Bordeaux - a summer adventure which lasted two months. In his retirement, he devoted much of his time to painting and sculpture, leaving behind a superb collection of work. Richard Strong died on 11 May 2017, aged 82, and was survived by his wife, four children and their nine grandchildren, for whom he was a wonderful father and grandfather.
Resource Identifier RCS: E009353
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First Title value, for Searching Campbell, Ernest Kenneth (1861 - 1943)

2024-05-02T00:29:09Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2013-04-18
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URL for Files https://livesonline.rcseng.ac.uk/client/en_GB/search/asset/376060376060
Occupation Ophthalmic surgeon
Details Born 1 September 1861, ninth son of Hugh Campbell, MRCS 1845, MD St Andrews 1863, of 23 Wimpole Street and of Hampstead and Margaretting, Essex, and Henrietta Johnston, his wife. He was educated at University College School, London, and at Edinburgh University, where he graduated MB in 1884. He also studied medicine at St Bartholomew's Hospital, London, and in Dublin and Paris. He served as clinical assistant at the Royal London (Moorfields) and Royal Westminster Ophthalmic Hospitals, and at the Golden Square Throat Hospital. Campbell practised as an ophthalmologist in London and was appointed assistant surgeon, eventually becoming consulting surgeon, to the Western Ophthalmic Hospital, Marylebone Road. He joined the RAMC on the outbreak of the first world war, was gazetted captain on 25 July 1917 and subsequently promoted major. As an army ophthalmic specialist he served for eighteen years, and was awarded the OBE in 1932 for this service. Campbell married Rosamund, daughter of Colonel George Carson Gribbon, AMS (Johnston's *Roll* No 5867). There were no children. After retirement he lived at Millfield, Wittersham, Tenterden, Kent, and died on 10 March 1943. Publications:- "Advancement and tenotomy in cases of squint." *Lancet*, 1912, 2, 366. "Hysterical amblyopia." *Brit med J*, 1915, 2, 434.
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First Title value, for Searching Henderson, Edward Erskine (1870 - 1929)

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First Title value, for Searching Thompson, George William (1865 - 1947)

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First Title value, for Searching Ruddall, James Thomas (1828 - 1907)

2024-05-02T00:29:09Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2012-11-20
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Occupation ENT surgeon General surgeon Ophthalmic surgeon
Details Studied at St Thomas's Hospital, and was then appointed Assistant Surgeon in the Royal Navy. He sailed on HMS *Talbot* on one of the last expeditions in search of Sir John Franklin. On his return he resigned his Commission, passed the examination for the FRCS and in 1858 sailed to Melbourne, where he soon attained a leading position as a surgeon, specializing in eye, ear and throat diseases. He acted as Surgeon to the Melbourne Hospital, to the Alfred Hospital, to the Blind Asylum, to the Deaf and Dumb Asylum, and for many years he was a member of the Medical Board of Victoria. He had made himself an excellent French and German scholar, so that he was abreast of current medical literature. He was also a musician, performing on several instruments and devoting his attention to orchestral music in connection with the Melbourne Musical Societies. In later years he lived at 57 Collins Street, Melbourne, and in Armadale, Victoria. He died on March 4th, 1907, and was survived by his widow, a daughter and a son - James Ferdinand Ruddall, MB, BS Melbourne, MRCS, who also practised in Collins Street.
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First Title value, for Searching Martin, Albert Edward (1864 - 1947)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2013-10-30
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Occupation Ophthalmic surgeon
Details Born on 28 May 1864 at Ballarat, Victoria, Australia, the fifth child and third son of Charles Martin, a schoolmaster, and Elizabeth Hitchcock, his wife. He was educated at Ballarat State School and School of Mines, and practised as a chemist before going to England to study medicine. He worked at the London Hospital, where he served as house surgeon, and at Durham University, qualifying in 1889. He practised till 1898 at Plymouth, taking the Durham doctorate in 1892 and the Fellowship in 1897, and then returned to Australia. After some years in his native town of Ballarat, he moved to Western Australia about 1905, where he set up in practice at Perth as an ophthalmologist. He was appointed to the honorary staff of the Royal Perth Hospital and on retirement in 1923 was elected consulting ophthalmic surgeon. Martin married in 1895 Annie Beatrice Woods. He died in Western Australia on 12 April 1947, aged 82, survived by his wife, their son Surgeon Lieutenant-Commander E B Martin, RN MRCS, and four daughters. Martin was an excellent operator. He served for twenty-five years as president of the Perth School for Deaf and Dumb Children.
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First Title value, for Searching Harcourt, Richard Eugene (1858 - 1921)

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First Title value, for Searching Penman, Gerard Giles (1899 - 1982)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2015-02-25
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Occupation Ophthalmic surgeon
Details Gerard Giles Penman was educated at Sherborne School, Pembroke College, Cambridge, and St Thomas's Hospital, London. During the first world war he served in the Royal Field Artillery, 1917-19. After qualifying in medicine and passing through training appointments in ophthalmology, he was soon appointed to the staff of the Royal Westminster Ophthalmic Hospital and for some years was ophthalamic surgeon to the Royal Northern, Great Ormond Street and Acton Hospitals, and the Royal Hospital for Incurables, Putney. In 1935 he became surgeon to the ophthalmic departments at St Thomas's, and, when the two London ophthalmic hospitals merged after the war, he was appointed consultant at Moorfields Eye Hospital. He was a member of the executive committee of the Royal National Institute for the Blind. Partly on grounds of health he decided to retire earlier than expected and he settled in Sherborne where he spent much of his later years helping his old school and the Abbey. He died on 21 November, 1982, aged 83 years. His wife shortly predeceased him. They had three sons, one of whom qualified in medicine.
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First Title value, for Searching Whitehead, Arthur Longley (1868 - 1930)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2013-12-11
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Occupation Ophthalmic surgeon
Details Born on 1 December 1868 at 1 Welclose Place, Blackman Square, Leeds, the elder son and third child of Alfred Whitehead, cloth manufacturer, and Elizabeth Longley, his wife. He was educated at the Leeds Grammar School, at the Yorkshire College, and at the Leeds School of Medicine. He served as house surgeon to Sir Arthur Mayo Robson at the Leeds General Infirmary, where he was appointed assistant surgeon to the ophthalmic staff upon the resignation of John Nunneley. It was decided in 1912 to rearrange the work of his department, and he then became surgeon in charge of the ophthalmic department at the Infirmary, and lecturer on ophthalmology in the University of Leeds, positions he held until his resignation in 1920. He married on 7 June 1902 Clara Evelyn Lander, who survived him with one son and two daughters. He died on Sunday, 5 October 1930, and was buried in the churchyard at Pool, near Leeds. Publications: An unusual case of bilateral cerebral abscess. *Lancet*, 1904, 1, 428. Frontal sinus empyema. *Arch Ophthal* 1904, 33, 252. Ocular tuberculosis. *Proc Roy Soc Med* 1922-23, 16, ophthal. 2. Eclipse amblyopia. *Trans Ophthal Soc UK* 1922, 42, 278.
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First Title value, for Searching Curran, Peter Vincent (1947 - 1996)

2024-05-02T00:29:09Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2015-09-07
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Occupation Ophthalmic surgeon
Details Peter Curran was born on 22 May 1947 in Northampton, the fourth child of Peter Hyacinth Curran, a general practitioner in Northampton, and Alice Claire, née Kehoe. He was educated at Downside School and won an open exhibition to Brasenose College, Oxford, before entering the Middlesex Hospital Medical School to undertake his clinical studies. He qualified in 1971 and subsequently held junior appointments at the Middlesex and Central Middlesex Hospitals, and at Ipswich Hospital. In 1974 he was appointed ophthalmic registrar at the Westminster Hospital, working with Patrick Trevor-Roper, and in 1978 he became senior registrar at Moorfield's Hospital, working with Sir Allen Goldsmith. He was subsequently appointed consultant ophthalmic surgeon to Queen Mary's Hospital, Sidcup, where he worked for some years, his career being tragically interrupted when a journalist questioned his HIV status. Although he continued in practice thereafter, as an enthusiastic bibliophile he spent an increasing amount of time collecting books (preferably signed first editions) and browsing in the Athenaeum library. His other interests included opera, theatre and chess. He contributed to various journals, and was joint author of a major textbook of ophthalmology. He never married, and died of a malignant lymphoma on 23 May 1996, aged 49 years.
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First Title value, for Searching Lindsay-Rea, Robert (1881 - 1971)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2014-08-26
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Occupation Ophthalmic surgeon
Details Robert Lindsay-Rea was born in Belfast in 1881 and went to school there, and proceeded to Queen's University where he obtained the BSc degree with honours in 1912, and graduated MB BCh BAO with honours in 1915. He served in the army in the first world war, and supervised the X-ray work of the 4th Army in the British Expeditionary Force in France in 1918. He held junior hospital posts in Belfast, but continued postgraduate training at the London Hospital, Middlesex Hospital, and in Paris, passing the FRCS in 1920 and graduating MD MCh in Belfast the same year. Lindsay-Rea then specialised in ophthalmology and became consultant surgeon to the Western Ophthalmic Hospital, and oculist to the West End Hospital for Nervous Diseases. He wrote a book on neuro-ophthalmology and contributed several papers on ophthalmological subjects to the medical journals. He was a member of the Ophthalmological Society of the United Kingdom, and of the Oxford Ophthalmological Congress, and rarely missed any of their annual meetings. He was a friendly character and had a large private practice, He married Mary Eleanor, daughter of James Waddell of Glasgow, and they had two sons and two daughters. He died on 28 April 1971.
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First Title value, for Searching Skeoch, Hugh Hedley (1895 - 1978)

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First Title value, for Searching Milner, John Giddings (1900 - 1985)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2015-06-24
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Occupation Ophthalmic surgeon
Details John Giddings Milner was born in London on 7 December 1900, the second son of Thomas John Milner, a company director, and his wife, Caroline (née Carpenter), and was educated at Marlborough College and Trinity College, Cambridge, before entering St Bartholomew's Hospital. He continued his training at Moorfields Hospital and in 1936 he was appointed to the Royal Westminster Ophthalmic Branch of Moorfields. In 1940 he joined the Royal Air Force and served until 1945 reaching the rank of Wing Commander. He was then appointed to Charing Cross Hospital and also to the hospitals at Dollis Hill and Hertford County. He was Surgeon Oculist to the late Queen Mary from 1948 to 1953 and received the Coronation Medal in that year. Merlin, as he was always known to his family and friends was a keen sportsman and played hockey, golf and tennis which was gradually replaced by fishing and racing. He became an expert ornithologist in his retirement. In 1928 he married Monica Mandall (known as Um) and they had one son, David, and two daughters, Jane and Sarah. He died on 1 May 1985 aged 84 years, survived by his wife, children and ten grandchildren.
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First Title value, for Searching Dobree, John Hatherley (1914 - 1999)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2015-10-23
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Occupation Ophthalmic surgeon Ophthalmologist
Details John Dobree was born in Woolwich on 25 April 1914, the son of Hatherley Moor Dobree OBE, a civil engineer, and Muriel née Hope. He was educated at Victoria College, Jersey, and St Bartholomew's Hospital, where he qualified in 1938. He was house physician at the Metropolitan Hospital and the Western Ophthalmic Hospital, and then joined the RAMC, serving in the Middle East as regimental medical officer and ophthalmic specialist. On his return, he became chief assistant in the eye department at Bart's, and surgeon in charge there in 1956, and at the North Middlesex Hospital. He was secretary of the section of ophthalmology of the Royal Society of Medicine and vice-president of the Ophthalmological Society. He wrote extensively on the retina, contributing to volume ten of Duke-Elder's *System of ophthalmology* (London, Kimpton, 1967), and co-authoring *Differential diagnosis of fundus conditions* (London, Kimpton, 1972) with E S Perkins. He married Evelyn Maud Smyth in 1940 and had two children, Charles and Robert, one of whom became an ophthalmologist. He died at his home in Suffolk on 7 June 1999.
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First Title value, for Searching Cook, Charles Alfred George (1913 - 2003)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2007-06-08
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Occupation Ophthalmic surgeon
Details Charles Cook was an ophthalmic surgeon in London. He was born on 20 August 1913. His medical education was at Guy’s Hospital, where he qualified in 1939. During the war he served in the RAMC with great distinction. In 1944 he was awarded the George Medal for rescuing two gunners, pulling one from a burning truck, and leading another out of a minefield. Within four months he was again commended for his courage, gaining the Military Cross for his bravery in treating and evacuating the wounded under heavy shellfire during the March 1945 break into Germany. After the war he turned to ophthalmology and was initially appointed consultant ophthalmic surgeon to West Middlesex Hospital, Isleworth. He was subsequently appointed consultant ophthalmic surgeon to Moorfields and Guy’s hospitals, and for many years was vice-dean of the Institute of Ophthalmology. He was married to Edna. An intensely private man, he died on 24 December 2003.
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First Title value, for Searching Cory, Christopher Charles (1932 - 2014)

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by Sir Miles Irving
Publication Date 2015-02-16 2016-11-03
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URL for Files https://livesonline.rcseng.ac.uk/client/en_GB/search/asset/378967378967
Occupation Ophthalmic surgeon Ophthalmologist
Details Charles Cory was a consultant ophthalmic surgeon in east Surrey. He was born in 1932, the son of John Walter Edward Cory, a doctor. He was educated at Epsom College and then studied at Trinity Hall, Cambridge and King's College Hospital Medical School, London. Shortly after qualifying, he held a temporary commission in the RAMC. His first post was as a house physician in paediatrics at Belgrave Hospital, London. This was followed by a house surgeon post at the Royal Sussex County Hospital. His next appointment was as a casualty officer at St Mary's Hospital, London. After senior house officer training at Sussex Eye Hospital, he gained further experience in the department of ophthalmology at the Queen Elizabeth Hospital, Birmingham, following which higher training was undertaken at the Royal Eye Hospital, Manchester and at King's College Hospital, London. During this time, he obtained the diploma in ophthalmology and the FRCS. He then held the post of first assistant in the department of ophthalmology at the Royal Victoria Infirmary, Newcastle upon Tyne. In 1974 he was appointed as a consultant ophthalmic surgeon to the East Surrey District Health Authority, Redhill, a post he held until his retirement in the 1990s. He was also a fellow of the Royal Society of Medicine and in 1988 gained his fellowship of the College of Ophthalmologists. Following his retirement, he became clinical director of Optimax, a large private company offering photoreactive keratectomy using a hand held laser. 'PRK', as it is known, is a controversial treatment, but Cory had extensive experience in the field and was a firm advocate of the technique. The author of this obituary first met Charles Cory when they were both regimental medical officers attached to 44 Parachute Field Ambulance RAMC (Territorial Army), a close-knit group of mainly surgeons. Cory left an indelible memory of that time during a drop to test a new method of carrying medical equipment. The new 'container' was a modified Bergen rucksack, which replaced the previous cumbersome leg bag. The rucksack had to be strapped to the waist band of the parachutist and to one lower limb, and released immediately after deployment of the parachute to hang 30ft below. Unfortunately, on this occasion, Cory had forgotten to attach the rucksack to his waistband, with the result that it dropped to the ground from around 800 feet. Luckily, the expected disciplinary action did not take place as interest centred around the state of the surgical instruments in the rucksack, which had been contorted into unusual shapes. Charles Cory authored a number of papers and was an authority on the treatment of post-operative astigmatism and cat eye syndrome. His final years were marred by profound deafness, which he bore with fortitude and dignity.
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First Title value, for Searching Stewart, Andrew David Halsted (1942 - 2015)

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by Sarah Gillam
Publication Date 2016-01-21 2018-11-28
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Occupation Ophthalmic surgeon
Details David Stewart was an ophthalmic surgeon at Freemantle Hospital, Western Australia. He was born in Perth, Western Australia on 5 June 1942. His father, Andrew Malcolm Stewart, was an agricultural scientist at the University of Western Australia and a grazier; his mother, Halsted Noël Stewart née White, was an historian and a journalist on *The West Australian* newspaper. His uncle, Sir Hector Hamilton Stewart, and cousin, Ian Hector Stewart, were both surgeons. Stewart attended the local primary school in Nedlands on the outskirts of Perth and Christ Church Grammar School in Perth, and went on to study medicine at St George’s College, University of Western Australia. He was a gifted piano player and was highly commended by the judges in the state finals of the ABC Instrumental and Vocal Competition in 1961, 1964 and 1965. As a medical student, he played concerto performances with the Western Australian Symphony Orchestra. After completing his degree, he went to India, where he visited Madras Eye Clinic and decided to specialise in ophthalmology. He travelled to Germany via the Khyber Pass and the Middle East and found employment with the Canadian Air Force. He moved on to the UK for surgical training, where he was influenced by Dermot Pierse, Patrick Holmes Sellors and Patrick Condon. He worked at the Croydon Eye Unit for two years, where he learnt cataract surgery. He was also influenced by Jörg Draeger in Hamburg and Jørn Boberg-Ans in Copenhagen. On his return to Perth, he set up practice in Subiaco. From 1975 to 1997 he was a visiting ophthalmic surgeon at the Fremantle Hospital, Western Australia, and a visiting ophthalmologist to Busselton and Northam hospitals in Western Australia. He was also a consultant to the Department of Veterans’ Affairs. In 1975, he introduced lens implantation following cataract surgery to Western Australia. He was a member of the council of the Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Ophthalmologists from 1994 to 2007 and president from 2006 to 2007. He continued his interest in music. He played chamber music as a hobby and occasionally gave solo performances. He was a member of the board of the Western Australian Academy of Performing Arts from 1992 to 1997, and chairman of the advisory committee of Western Australian Conservatorium of Music from 1993 to 1997. He also enjoyed surfing and skiing and bred buffalo. He was a longstanding member of the North Cottesloe Surf Life Saving Club and a member of the Royal Agricultural Society of Western Australia from 1952. He was married to Robin Ruth Gillett and they had two children, Venetia and Michael. They later divorced. David Stewart died on 7 December 2015 following a mountain bike accident in New Zealand in April 2015, which left him severely paralysed. He was 73.
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First Title value, for Searching Harper, Howard Fyfe (1930 - 2011)

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by Sarah Gillam
Publication Date 2011-12-08 2014-01-10
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Occupation Ophthalmic surgeon
Details Howard Fyfe Harper was a pioneering ophthalmic surgeon who worked in Pakistan, Afghanistan and Iran. He was born in Te Kuiti, New Zealand, the son of William Stanley Blyth Harper, a chemist, and Esther Harper née Fortune, a schoolteacher. He was educated at Auckland Grammar School, but left early to take up a building apprenticeship. Deciding building was not for him, he became a menswear salesman in Auckland and in Sydney, before attending a two-year Bible study course in Auckland. At the age of 23 he sailed to Pakistan, as a missionary. After touring on his motorbike and seeing the desperate need for eye surgeons, he decided to train to become a surgeon. He thought England offered the best training in eye surgery, and in 1954 went to London. Having left school with no qualifications, he needed first to attend a 'cramming school', as he described it, to pass the relevant exams. He was accepted by University College London and, while at medical school, also studied Urdu and Islamic law at the School of Oriental and African Studies. Qualifying in 1961, he then became a house physician in Ipswich and a house surgeon in Hereford. In 1963 he and his German wife Monika, whom he had married in 1960, headed to Pakistan, to fulfil his long-held dream of helping the people of Central Asia. He was a senior house officer at the Christian Hospital in Taxila, west Pakistan, and a registrar in surgery and ophthalmology at the United Christian Hospital in Lahore from 1964 to 1965. He also helped run a number of eye camps, combined with missionary work. Harper moved to Afghanistan in the mid-1960s, and worked in several Kabul hospitals, and established the Noor Eye Hospital. In 1973 he was forced to leave Afghanistan following a coup, and moved to Iran, where he was professor of ophthalmology at the University of Mashhad. In 1977 Harper and his wife moved to the UK, so their three daughters could attend secondary schools and experience Western culture. He became a consultant ophthalmologist at Kent and Sussex Hospital in Tunbridge Wells, where he established the first cataract day-surgery clinic. He continued to make annual visits to Pakistan, and built a clinic at Gilgit. After the collapse of Communism, Harper, now retired from the NHS, seized the opportunity to establish eye clinics in some of the former states of the Soviet Union, and established the charity Vision International. With money from fundraising and some government help, he established a large eye hospital in Tashkent, Uzbekistan, and started to work in Mongolia, where an eye clinic, a community centre and the first ever hospice were built in Ulan Bator. In 2002, following the occupation of Afghanistan by American-led forces, Howard returned 'home' to Kabul, to help organise the rebuilding of the Noor Eye Hospital, which had been seriously damaged by the Taliban. In the same year, the former king, Mohammed Zahir Shah, wanted to present Harper with a medal for his services to the people of Afghanistan. He declined the offer, but asked for an Afghani passport instead, and on 30 November 2002 became an Afghani citizen, only the second foreigner to have been granted this status. He was also honoured in his native country. He was presented with an Augusta award from Auckland Grammar School, a prestigious award presented to old boys who have made an outstanding contribution in their field of service. He was also recognised at the annual World Class New Zealand Awards. He fought liver cancer for over two years, travelling between England and Kabul, where he oversaw the completion of the Noor Eye Hospital and the establishment of two new schools, his last Afghani project. He died in London on 19 October 2011, aged 80, and was survived by his wife, Monika, and their three daughters, Naomi, Faith and Joy. In 2010 Faith published *From Kabul with love* (Castle Publishing), an account of her father's dedicated and inspiring life, based on the letters he sent home to his father.
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First Title value, for Searching Wray, Charles (1859 - 1922)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2013-02-27
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Occupation Ophthalmic surgeon
Details Born in Yorkshire; studied at the London Hospital - during which time, in 1880-1881, he was Prosector at the Royal College of Surgeons - at the Royal Ophthalmic Hospital, where he acted as Clinical Assistant, and at the Royal Eye Hospital. He practised as an ophthalmologist at Croydon and also had consulting-rooms at 36 Victoria Street, London, SW. In 1887 he took charge of the newly opened Ophthalmological Department at the Croydon General Hospital. He also acted as Ophthalmic Surgeon to the Infirmary, to the Croydon Council Schools, and in London was Surgeon to the Western Ophthalmic Hospital. In Croydon he practised at Bank Chambers, North End. He was an active member of the Croydon Branch of the British Medical Association and exhibited several series of important cases of eye disease at the clinical meetings. He gained a vast experience, had a sound judgement, and was a skilful and careful operator. He also lectured on optics at Hoatherley's Art School. He was a tall, fresh-coloured, vigorous Yorkshireman, with a zest for small controversies, a diligent reader in the College library. He died in a London nursing home on February 13th, 1922, being survived by his widow. Publications:- "Extraction of Transparent Lenses in High Myopia." - *Trans Ophthal Soc*, 1895, xv, 233. "Two Cases of Ectopia Lentis." - *Ibid*, 1914, xxxiv, 165. "Ptosis Treated by Cautery." - *Ophthalmoscope*, 1908, vi, 767. "Points in Treatment of Corneal Ulcers." - *Ophthal Record*, 1912, xxi, 252. "Treatment of Lachrymal Stenosis." - *Proc Roy Soc Med* (Ophthal. Sect.), 1913-14, vii, 40. "Conical Cornea with Raynaud's Disease." - *Ibid* (Ophthal Sect), 1914-15, viii, 97.
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First Title value, for Searching Jaques, Robert (1862 - 1953)

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First Title value, for Searching Lee, Harry (1882 - 1933)

2024-05-02T00:29:09Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2013-08-21
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URL for Files https://livesonline.rcseng.ac.uk/client/en_GB/search/asset/376526376526
Occupation Ophthalmic surgeon
Details Born at High Close, Earlsheaton, Dewsbury, Yorkshire, 8 December 1882, the sixth child and third son of Arthur Lee, blanket manufacturer, and Phoebe Ridgeway his wife. He was educated at Batley Grammar School and at Tettenhall College, before he matriculated from St John's College, Cambridge. He received his medical education at Guy's Hospital, where he acted as tutor, registrar, and chief clinical assistant in the ophthalmic department. He was also a clinical assistant at the Royal London Ophthalmic Hospital, Moorfields. He settled at Leeds in 1913 and was appointed ophthalmic surgeon to the Public Dispensary, to the Leeds Blind Institution, and to the Jews' Home. On 1 April 1915 he received a commission as captain, RAMC (T), and was attached to the 1st West Riding division, serving later in a casualty clearing station in France, and being appointed an ophthalmic specialist. At the end of the war he returned to Leeds, and was elected ophthalmic surgeon to the General Infirmary and lecturer in ophthalmic surgery at the University, on the retirement of Secker Walker. He was also an ophthalmic referee under the Workmen's Compensation Act. He married on 12 February 1918 Mabel Ellis Allday, who survived him with two sons. He died suddenly whilst driving his motor car along Woodhouse Street, Leeds on 11 January 1933, and was buried at Lawnwood, Chapel Allerton. Lee was a first-rate Rugby football player, gaining his blue at Cambridge and his international cap. He also played for Blackheath and Kent. He was too a book collector and a good judge of etchings.
Resource Identifier RCS: E004343
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First Title value, for Searching Folca, Paul Joseph (1933 - 2016)

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by Jennifer Folca
Publication Date 2016-07-29 2017-02-08
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Occupation Ophthalmic surgeon Ophthalmologist
Details Paul Folca was a consultant ophthalmic surgeon at Torbay Hospital, Devon. He was born on 29 July 1933 in Cheltenham to Joseph and Cecilia Folca. His father had trained as an ecclesiastical joiner and worked at the renowned furniture design company Gordon Russell. During the Second World War, he worked on gliders for the war effort. Paul was educated at Cheltenham Grammar School, going on to win a place at Pembroke College, Cambridge to read languages. However, he took the unusual step of changing direction and decided to study medicine. This was in spite of fainting during an exploratory trip to a hospital while observing the setting up of a drip. Cambridge allowed him to switch, but because he had not studied any science he was required to return to school to gain the necessary A levels. Paul entered the London Hospital Medical School in 1955 to commence his clinical training. He qualified with the Bchir in 1958 and the MB in 1959. He then became a senior house officer on the professorial surgical unit. In 1961 he wrote a paper 'Studies with tritium-labelled hexoestrol in advanced breast cancer. Comparison of tissue accumulation of hexoestrol with response to bilateral adrenalectomy and oophorectomy' (*Lancet*. 1961 Oct 7;2[7206]:796-8). While working as a surgical house officer at the London Chest Hospital in 1964, he met his wife, Jennifer, a physiotherapist; they shared a common interest in sailing. It was during his time there that he decided to take up ophthalmology. He became a senior house officer at the Western Eye Hospital and then a registrar and a senior registrar at Moorfields Eye Hospital. In 1969 he published a paper on corneal vascularisation ('Corneal vascularization induced experimentally with corneal extracts' *Br J Ophthalmol*. 1969 Dec;53[12]:827-32), and in the same year took up the post of consultant ophthalmic surgeon at Torbay Hospital, Devon, where he worked for 20 years. He was one of a group of consultants that set-up Mount Stuart Hospital, the first private hospital in Torbay, which opened in 1984. From 1982 to 1988 he was a member of the Court of Examiners of the Royal College of Surgeons, and was chairman and senior examiner from 1987 to 1988. He was also a regional adviser in ophthalmology (south west) from 1987 to 1989. During his retirement, he continued to take a great interest in the NHS, writing letters to MP's and ministers, particularly concerning the increase in bureaucracy and privatisation of services. Once he retired, he was able to concentrate on his many interests. Paul became a black belt in judo, having taken it up at the age of 48, training locally and at the Budokwai Club in London. He was also a talented artist and in his seventies enrolled as a student on an art foundation course. He bound his own books, taking up this hobby when he found the cost of binding his ophthalmic journals excessive. This led to many beautifully bound books in leather. He developed a real talent for silversmithing, making many beautiful boxes, candlesticks, cutlery and pieces of jewellery. He was commissioned to make Pandora's silver box by an internationally renowned wood sculptor, which was incorporated in one of his pieces. He was concerned about animal welfare and was a supporter of Compassion in World Farming, actively promoting the charity by setting up a small stall in Newton Abbot market on a regular basis. He was an active letter writer on behalf of Amnesty International. Paul took a great interest in trees and was parish tree warden and chairman of the South Hams Tree Wardens from 2009 until his death. A few months before his death, he bought a wood at the mouth of the River Dart, but sadly did not live to enjoy it. Paul loved Devon and, at the age of 13, having spent a holiday on the River Dart, decided that was where he wanted to live. This was achieved by buying a 200-year-old cottage, which, with the surrounding garden and woodland, running mooring at the bottom of the garden and a wooden folkboat just across the river, took up many happy hours of maintenance. Paul Joseph Folca died on 13 February 2016. He was 82. He was survived by his wife Jennifer and two children, Catherine and James.
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First Title value, for Searching Fenwick, George Ernest Oswald (1878 - 1955)

2024-05-02T00:29:09Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2014-06-03
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Occupation Ophthalmic surgeon
Details Born on 20 May 1878 at Dunedin, he was educated at the University of New Zealand, University College, London, and St Bartholomew's Hospital. He held resident posts at the Hospital for Sick Children, Great Ormond Street, the London Throat Hospital, and the Royal Westminster Ophthalmic Hospital. He was assistant medical officer at Shoreditch Infirmary and at the Horton and Colney Hatch Asylums. He then went back to New Zealand and practised as an aurist and ophthalmologist at Auckland, where he was on the staff of the General Hospital. During the war of 1914-18 he served as ophthalmic surgeon at the 2nd New Zealand General Hospital at Walton-on-Thames, with the rank of Major, NZ Medical Corps. He was created OBE for his services. He was elected a foundation Fellow of the Royal Australasian College of Surgeons in 1927, and died at Auckland in June 1955, survived by his wife, son and daughter. Publication: Surgical treatment of facial paralysis. *Brit med J* 1919, 2, 700.
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First Title value, for Searching Goddard, Una Kathleen (1931 - 2012)

2024-05-02T00:29:09Z

by Jim Innes
Publication Date 2012-11-09 2013-10-04
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Occupation Ophthalmic surgeon
Details Kate Goddard was a consultant ophthalmologist at Hull Royal Infirmary and one of a generation who, by their persistence and determination, helped change the way we perceive women in the professions. She was born in Sheffield on 12 July 1931, the daughter of Henri Arnold Joel Merrill and Una Adelaide Merrill née Watson. She spent some of her early childhood in the Belgian Congo, where her father was a personal assistant to the industrialist Sir William Lever and, for a period, vice consul in Stanleyville, before returning with the family to Sheffield in the mid-1930s. She was educated at Sheffield High School, interrupted by wartime evacuation to Derbyshire, and became head girl in 1948. Her father, then managing director of a chain of chemist shops, fostered her interest in science, not least by the purchase of a quality microscope and a skeleton. She studied medicine at Sheffield University from 1949, gaining her coveted place by dint of much persuasion from Kate and her father, along with a promise to pay all the fees privately! She graduated in 1954, passed her primary fellowship examination in 1955 and became a fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons in 1959 - one of only three women to do so that year. Early house posts in Sheffield sparked her interest in ophthalmology and paediatrics (she was to remain a lifelong benefactor of the Sheffield Children's Hospital), and she trained in Sunderland and Sheffield. She was a lecturer in ophthalmology and then a senior registrar in Sheffield, before being appointed to her consultant post at Hull Royal Infirmary around the time of the opening of the new hospital, where she was able to combine her medical interests to great effect. Kate had married Mike (Charles Michael Goddard), a Master Mariner, in 1960, having a short career break to have her two children, Charles and Katherine. There was no expansion of consultant posts in the whole of Yorkshire during Kate's early years as a consultant, and as her senior colleagues retired she became the senior consultant and served as clinical lead for many years. She welcomed and supported junior doctors and new colleagues throughout this time, and oversaw the process to begin the expansion of the department in the 1980s. Kate was always friendly and approachable, with a solid opinion and advice, maintaining her interest in paediatric ophthalmology until she retired. In her later years as a consultant her management interests expanded to include work within the surgical division. In 1967 Kate began her association with Soroptimist International, an organisation of professional women focused on developing opportunities for women and girls. She was president of the Beverley Soroptimist club in 1971 and president of the Yorkshire region in 1978. During those terms of office Kate adopted ophthalmic projects, supporting Sightsavers with visits to hospitals and clinics in Dhaka and Mymensingh, Bangladesh. She was later honoured with life membership of the Beverley club. In the 1970s she was also a governor of a further education college in Beverley. Kate also had a lifelong interest in the law, sparked by seeing the barristers in wigs and gowns at the nearby Royal Courts of Justice while she was at the Royal College of Surgeons. Eventually she satisfied her interest when in 1985 she qualified LLB following five years of hard work on a part-time course at Hull University, and it was this example which encouraged her daughter Katherine (now a criminal barrister) to study law. In retirement, sadly without Mike, who died shortly before her retirement, Kate continued to work in aspects of health care, as a lay member of the local primary care trust and in law, sitting on industrial tribunals. She travelled extensively in association with the Soroptimists and privately, visiting every continent except Antarctica. She took lessons in Swedish to enhance her many visits to Scandinavia, and followed several of the historic trails of North America. Kate was a Christian, and appreciated church music and architecture. She loved opera and was a knowledgeable plantswoman. She played hockey at school and cricket at university, and later enjoyed spectating - including American football and baseball. Kate Goddard became a consultant ophthalmic surgeon at a time when surgery was mainly a male domain. By her quiet persistence she championed the place of women in the professions, both in her medical career and through the Soroptimists. Kate Goddard and other 'women doctors' led by example in her generation, leaving a lasting legacy of equality in the surgical professions. She died on 9 October 2012, aged 81.
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First Title value, for Searching Soni, Krishan Gopal (1934 - 2022)

2024-05-02T00:29:09Z

by Asha Fowells
Publication Date 2022-07-28
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Occupation Ophthalmic surgeon
Details Krishan Gopal Soni was a consultant ophthalmic surgeon at the Queen Elizabeth Hospital, King’s Lynn, Norfolk. His medical career started in Punjab, India, then took him to Kenya before he settled in the UK, where he specialised in ophthalmology and worked in London, Wolverhampton, Birmingham and Norfolk. Krishan was born in Bajwara, Punjab, India, the third youngest of nine children of Amar Chand Soni and Lakshmi Devi Soni née Bhandari. His was a farming family, but the uneasy political situation in India, particularly in Punjab during and after the Partition of 1947, resulted in all the siblings looking to other lines of work to secure their futures. For Krishan, this meant medicine, and he qualified from Punjab University in 1957. Working at Amritsar Hospital, he realised that ophthalmology was a good fit for him, mainly because there was no blood involved and he had realised he was a little squeamish! After marrying Krishna Kumari Maini in 1959, Krishan moved to Kenya, first working at the King George VI Hospital in Nairobi to register as a doctor, then as a medical officer in Kapsabet, Narok and Embu. He introduced many initiatives, including disease mapping and universal vaccination against polio, pertussis and tetanus. During this time he also travelled to the UK, completing his diploma in ophthalmology in just four months, motivated by a desire to get back to his wife and new-born son, Ashok. In 1965, the family moved to the UK permanently. The boat was delayed en route, so Krishan disembarked at Naples and flew to London to start his Royal College of Surgeons of England fellowship. His hard work – in terms of studying and observing at Moorfields Hospital – paid off, and he secured his primary fellowship in less than six months. He then relocated with his family to work at Wolverhampton Eye Infirmary, passing the second and final part of his FRCS on his first attempt only a year or so later. Krishan was quickly promoted, first to registrar and then senior registrar, rewarded for his knowledge and expertise, as well as the sympathy and understanding with which he treated all his patients. His wife Krishna had also developed an interest in eyecare and, after completing her orthoptics qualification, started work at Birmingham Eye Hospital. She was soon joined by Krishan, who took up a senior registrar role, and the family expanded with the arrival of a baby girl, Anita. In 1972 came the final professional move, this time to the Queen Elizabeth Hospital in west Norfolk to take up a consultant role. Krishan steered the ophthalmology departments at King’s Lynn, Wisbech and Doddington into the 20th century by persuading the powers that be to purchase essential equipment such as slit lamps. He also furthered himself – and patients – in several ways, for example by introducing corneal graft surgery, setting up diabetic screening clinics, and identifying the unpopular Monday morning slot as one in which he could run an additional surgery session. At the same time, he was undertaking research into the impact of road traffic accidents on eyes; his paper was included in the evidence used to introduce laminated windscreens and compulsory wearing of seatbelts to the UK (‘Eye injuries in road traffic accidents’ *Injury* 1973 Aug;5[1]:41-6). In 1976, only a couple of years after the birth of his second daughter Asha, Krishan was diagnosed with chronic kidney disease. A decade after receiving this news, his renal function had deteriorated to the point that he needed to start active management, and he was concerned that the fistula in his arm – necessary for the weekly haemodialysis procedure he now required – could impair his surgical skills. A year later, he received a kidney transplant, which meant he was able to work for a few years longer. However, retirement soon followed, with Krishan first stepping down from his NHS consultant role, then from his private practice and work at local ophthalmic optician practices. Retirement saw Krishan and his wife move back to Birmingham. While his kidney held steady, Krishan’s health was something of a rollercoaster, and he experienced various problems with his heart, as well as being prone to nasty infections as a result of the immunosuppression medication he needed to take for his transplant; a three-week stay in intensive care with pneumonia and pleurisy being a particular low point. He was contented though, happily continuing to play golf for many years and, particularly as his mobility faltered, to watch sport on television, read and spend time with his family and friends. He died, peacefully, on 9 June 2022 just after his 88th birthday and 63rd wedding anniversary, and was survived by his wife Krishna, children Ashok, Anita and Asha, and a host of grandchildren.
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First Title value, for Searching Ogg, Archibald John (1921 - 2005)

2024-05-02T00:29:09Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2005-10-19
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Occupation Ophthalmic surgeon
Details John Ogg was a consultant ophthalmic surgeon at Salisbury Infirmary and Odstock Hospital, Wiltshire. He was born on 19 November 1921 in Oxford, where his father, David Ogg, was the Regius professor of history. He went to the London Hospital for his clinical studies. After house jobs at the London he completed his National Service in the RNVR and returned to specialise in ophthalmology, training in Oxford and at Moorfields. There, as a senior registrar, he met and married Doreen, then a theatre sister. He first went to Salisbury as a locum, his predecessor having died suddenly. He was appointed to the definitive post in the same year. For most of his time in Salisbury he was single-handed and served a very large catchment area. He had many interests: he was a keen radio ham, a member of the Magic Circle, and a skilled cabinet maker who designed and made miniature dolls’ houses and automata. His scale model of Salisbury Cathedral is to be seen in the cathedral to this day. In retirement he became a skilled painter. John and Doreen bought a near derelict croft on the Hebridean island of Coll in the 1960s, which formed the focus of many family holidays and was the subject of his book *House in the Hebrides* (Salisbury, Cowrie Press, 2004). He died on 19 February 2005 from pneumonia following a small stroke. He is survived by Doreen and four children.
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First Title value, for Searching Laws, William George (1862 - 1936)

2024-05-02T00:29:09Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2012-07-06 2013-08-21
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Occupation Ophthalmic surgeon
Details 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 science, scholar, and exhibitioner. He received his medical education at Edinburgh and at St Thomas's Hospital, acting as ophthalmic house surgeon and afterwards becoming a clinical assistant at the Royal London Ophthalmic Hospital, Moorfields. Deciding to specialize in eye work he settled at Nottingham, where he soon became popular and was appointed surgeon to the Nottingham and Midland Eye Infirmary. He gave up practice in 1929 and retired to King's Langley, Hertfordshire, where he died 26 May 1936. He married, 27 December 1893, Helen Maria, daughter of the Rev. Joseph Rawson Lumby, Lady Margaret professor of divinity at Cambridge, who survived him with a family of two boys and a daughter, the eldest son having been killed in action during the first world war. Laws was a member of the council of the Ophthalmological Society 1909-11, president of the section of ophthalmology at the Nottingham meeting of the British Medical Association 1926, and assistant editor of the *Ophthalmic Review*, 18-28, 1899-1909.
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First Title value, for Searching Gunn, Donald Stilwell (1862 - 1939)

2024-05-02T00:29:09Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2013-07-25
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Occupation Ophthalmic surgeon
Details Born about 1862 he was educated at University College, London where he served as assistant demonstrator of anatomy. He was house physician at the Great Northern Hospital and, becoming interested in diseases of the eye, was house surgeon at the Moorfields Eye Hospital 1889-91, and became surgeon to the Royal Westminster Ophthalmic Hospital, the Sick Children's Hospital in Great Ormond Street, and the Seamen's Hospital at Greenwich in 1895. He also served as demonstrator of anatomy and curator of the museum at Westminster Hospital. He retired from practice in 1902 and, his health failing, he went to South Africa, where he acted as locum tenens for Dr D J Wood of Cape Town during the winter of 1905-06. During the war of 1914-18 he was a temporary surgeon in the Royal Navy, and the rest of his life appears to have been spent in travelling. He died unmarried at the Royal Aero Club in Piccadilly on 14 March 1939. He left bequests of money to the Natural History Museum, the Victoria and Albert Museum, the Royal Society of Arts, and the National Rifle Association. Gunn is described as a quiet and rather taciturn man, who would have made a name for himself in ophthalmic surgery but for failure of health. Like his friend Charles Stoneham, FRCS he was much interested in ornithology. Publication:- Injuries and disease of the eye, in *Catalogue of the Westminster Hospital Museum* 1899.
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First Title value, for Searching Moffatt, Paul McGregor (1899 - 1963)

2024-05-02T00:29:09Z

First Title value, for Searching Brookes, George Arthur (1880 - 1955)

2024-05-02T00:29:09Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2014-02-03
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Occupation General surgeon Ophthalmic surgeon
Details Born at Brisbane, Australia, 22 February 1880, he was educated at Brisbane Grammar School and entered the Queensland public service. At the age of 22 he entered the University of Sydney, and graduated in medicine in 1907. He was a resident at the Royal Prince Alfred Hospital, Sydney, started general practice at Petersham, New South Wales, and was later appointed to the staff of the Lewisham Hospital. He served with the Australian Imperial Force in France and England during the first world war. After returning to his practice for about a year, during which he married, he came to Europe again for postgraduate study. He worked at Moorfields and in the Eye Hospital at Vienna, and took the Fellowship in 1921 and the ophthalmic diploma of the Royal Colleges in 1923. Returning to Australia he set up as a consultant at 143 Macquarie Street, Sydney, and was appointed to the staff of the Royal South Sydney, the St George District, and the Lidcombe Hospitals as Ophthalmic Surgeon. He died on 16 August 1955 aged 75. His first wife died in 1945, and he married again in 1946. He was a keen musician, a great reader, and a collector of Australian paintings, one of which he bequeathed to the National Art Gallery.
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First Title value, for Searching Gerstman, Samuel Rudolf (1905 - 1954)

2024-05-02T00:29:09Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2014-06-10 2017-05-05
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Occupation Ophthalmic surgeon
Details Born at Parkville, Melbourne, 3 November 1905, he was educated at Prince's Hill State School, at Scotch College, Melbourne, where he was a scholar and second to the school *dux*, and at Ormond College where he won the first-year exhibition in natural philosophy. He held resident posts at the Royal Melbourne Hospital, the Children's and Women's hospitals, and the Victoria Eye and Ear Hospital. He was in England during 1935-37 working at Ancoats Hospital, Manchester, and St Bartholomew's and the Royal Eye Hospital in London, and then returned to practise in Melbourne. During the war of 1939-45 he served as an ophthalmic specialist with the Australian Imperial force, in Western Australia, in the Northern Territory and at Bougainville in the Pacific. He was appointed assistant surgeon to the Victoria Eye and Ear Hospital in 1946 and surgeon in 1949. He was honorary secretary of the Victoria division of the Ophthalmological Society of Australia and chairman of its visual hygiene committee. He practised at 32 Collins Street, Melbourne. He achieved high rank in Freemasonry and was an active member of the Fitzroy Football Club and the Melbourne Cricket Club. He Married Dulcie Allen in 1944. Gerstman died of poliomyelitis at 20 Bruce Street, Toorak on 22 June 1954 aged 49, survived by his wife and their two young sons. Publications: Retrobulbar neuritis in returning prisoners of war, *Trans Ophthal Soc Australia* 1946, 6, 85.
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First Title value, for Searching Iles, Arthur Ernest (1881 - 1962)

2024-05-02T00:29:09Z

First Title value, for Searching Worton, Albert Samuel (1874 - 1940)

2024-05-02T00:29:09Z

First Title value, for Searching Jeremy, Harold Rowe (1875 - 1938)

2024-05-02T00:29:09Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2013-07-24
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Occupation Ophthalmic surgeon
Details 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 the London Hospital in 1908, but soon determined to devote himself to ophthalmic surgery and was appointed house surgeon and ophthalmic house surgeon at the London Hospital, where he was afterwards assistant ophthalmic surgeon and lecturer on ophthalmology in the medical school. He was also surgeon to the Western Ophthalmic Hospital and ophthalmic surgeon to the Queen's Hospital for Children, whilst at St Peter's Hospital for Stone, at the Claybury Mental Hospital, and at the Walthamstow Hospital he acted as consulting ophthalmic surgeon. He married Agnes Jane Baxter on 29 December 1906; she survived him, with a son and a daughter. He died suddenly after a long illness on 16 August 1938, and was buried at Templeton Church, Pembrokeshire. Publications: Perithelioma of the orbit. *Proc Roy Soc Med* 1917-18, 11, Child. p 50. Injury to the fundus oculi at birth. *Ibid* 1919-20, 13, Ophthal. p 4. Retinal detachment at macula. *Ibid* 1921-22, 15, Ophthal. p 34. Cataract following thyroidectomy. *Brit J Ophthal* 1919, 3, 315.
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First Title value, for Searching Blair, Charles Samuel (1859 - 1939)

2024-05-02T00:29:09Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2013-04-10
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Occupation Ophthalmic surgeon
Details Born 9 July 1859 at Forest Hall, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, son of the Rev James Samuel Blair, vicar of Killingworth, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, and his wife, *née* Buxton. He was educated at Durham School and having won a university scholarship in 1878 entered the University of Durham College of Medicine, Newcastle, before it moved to Orchard Street. Coming to London he took postgraduate courses at the London and St Bartholomew's Hospitals. He then determined to devote himself to the practise of ophthalmic surgery, acted as chief clinical assistant at Moorfields, surgeon to the Western Ophthalmic Hospital and clinical assistant at the Royal Eye Hospital, Southwark. He then settled in Richmond, Surrey, where he was ophthalmic surgeon to the Royal Hospital. He was also ophthalmic surgeon to the National Association for promoting the welfare of the feeble-minded. He married: (1) Miss Penny, and their son, Herbert Samuel Penny Blair, was killed at Gallipoli in 1916; (2) Mary Alice Longworth, by whom he had a son, Charles James Longworth Blair, who was admitted MRCS in 1917, and a daughter, Mary Margaret; (3) Amy Elizabeth Pern, who died in May 1939. He died on 8 July 1939 at Killingworth, Claygate, Surrey. Publications:- *Errors of refraction and their treatment*. Bristol, 1905; 2nd ed 1910. Extensive non-pigmented choroidal changes. *Trans ophthal Soc UK*. 1906, 26, 99.
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First Title value, for Searching Brewerton, Elmore Wright (1867 - 1962)

2024-05-02T00:29:09Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2014-01-22
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Occupation Ophthalmic surgeon
Details Born in Buenos Aires in June 1867, son of Charles Brewerton of Whetstone, Middlesex, he came to England at the age of three and was educated at University College School. Later he went to Neuenheim College in Heidelberg and then entered St Bartholomew's Hospital Medical College in 1890, graduating in 1895. He worked for many years in the eye department at St Bartholomew's, being also in 1901 appointed to the staff of the Royal Westminster Ophthalmic Hospital and the Metropolitan Hospital. During the war of 1914-18 he was attached to the 4th London General Hospital. He was a member of the Ophthalmological Society of the United Kingdom for sixty-three years, being vice-president in 1925-28, and was President of the Ophthalmological section of the Royal Society of Medicine. Brewerton wrote *A Textbook of Ophthalmic Operations* in conjunction with H B Grimsdale, and the section on ophthalmic surgery in Carson's *Modern Operative Surgery*. In his young days he was an enthusiastic harrier, motor-cyclist and motorist, participating in various rallies including the John o'Groats to Land's End trials. Fishing was also one of his hobbies. He married in 1914 Olive, daughter of Dr M'Ivor Tindall of Market Harborough, by whom he had two sons and three daughters. She died on 17 July 1965. Brewerton died at Walton on Thames on 8 November 1962, aged 95.
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First Title value, for Searching Dorrell, Edmund Arthur (1872 - 1959)

2024-05-02T00:29:09Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2014-05-16
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Occupation Ophthalmic surgeon
Details Born in London on 1 February 1872, son of Edmund William Dorrell, Edmund Arthur Dorrell was educated at University College, Bristol and St Bartholomew's Hospital; he qualified MRCS LRCP in 1894, DPH in 1896 and FRCS in 1909. Dorrell served in the South African War as a Captain in the Imperial Yeomanry and was awarded the Queen's and King's medals. During the 1914-18 war he served as a Major in the Royal Field Artillery in France and Salonica and was twice mentioned in dispatches. He was awarded the Serbian Order Kara George 4th class with Swords. On returning to civilian life Dorrell held various posts including those of assistant ophthalmic surgeon to the Prince of Wales General Hospital, ophthalmic surgeon to the Eastern Dispensary and Ophthalmic surgeon to the Royal Merchant Navy School. Finally he was appointed consulting surgeon to the Royal Eye Hospital and consulting ophthalmic surgeon to the Royal Berkshire Hospital. He was a member of the Ophthalmological Society and Reading Pathological Society. Dorrell contributed a number of papers to the *Transactions of the Ophthalmological Society*, the *Ophthalmoscope* and the *British Medical Journal*. He married Marion Hester Archer, daughter of John Archer. After retirement Dorrell lived at 76 Bryanston Court, Wl, and he died on 23 June 1959 at the age of 87.
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First Title value, for Searching Burn, Rollin Arthur (1916 - 2001)

2024-05-02T00:29:09Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2015-10-22
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Occupation Ophthalmic surgeon Ophthalmologist
Details Rollin Arthur Burn was a consultant ophthalmic surgeon at St Mary's Hospital, Paddington. He was born in Newcastle on 26 September 1916, and was educated at Haileybury, Hertfordshire. He returned to Newcastle for his medical training at Durham University. He stayed in Newcastle for his ophthalmic training as a registrar and a senior registrar, and then moved to London, where he was a consultant ophthalmic surgeon at St Mary's Hospital, Paddington, from 1962 to 1984. He was a member of the Ophthalmic Society of the UK. He wrote papers on ophthalmic anaesthesia, lachrymal surgery and mercurialentis, and assisted Arnold Sorsby in his work on retinitis pigmentosa. During the war he served in India and Burma. He married Mary Fawcett, an artist from Riding Mill, Northumberland, and they had three sons - the eldest now an engineer, the second a ship builder, and the youngest a doctor in Canada. He was a keen sailor and initially sailed on the Thames and the Medway with his three sons and in retirement on the North Sea. In retirement he lived in Little Bealings in Suffolk and sadly died of Alzheimer's disease on 11 May 2001. He was survived by Mary, their sons, Michael, Julian and Robert and grandchildren, Rosamund, Theodore, Christopher and Frances.
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First Title value, for Searching Gurney, Peter William Valpy (1937 - 2017)

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by Timothy ffytche
Publication Date 2018-11-19 2019-09-16
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Occupation Ophthalmic surgeon
Details It was probably because of his early life as the son of a medical missionary in Burma that from the age of four Peter Gurney was determined to become a doctor. Born in England on 23 September 1937, he travelled when he was two with his parents to Panglong in Burma. Then, just managing to escape capture by the Japanese during the war and surviving cerebral malaria, after a spell in India and a long and dangerous journey, he eventually arrived back in England in 1943 and the family settled in the West Country. Peter was educated at Monkton Combe School and graduated in medicine from the University of Bristol in 1960, where he met his future wife Jenny, having persuaded her to leave her course in physiotherapy and study medicine instead! Following qualification, he took posts in general surgery, orthopaedics and tropical medicine, obtaining a diploma in tropical medicine and hygiene from the Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine with a view to working as a medical missionary like his father. He joined the Red Sea Mission Team, a Christian volunteering organisation, and in 1963 went to Peshawar, Pakistan and participated in eye camps. Over the next few years he worked in clinics and hospitals in Aden, Yemen, Eritrea and Ethiopia and learned Arabic. He went back to England on several occasions, during which time he took and passed the diploma in ophthalmology and the diploma of the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists and also got married. The worsening political situation in the Middle East and the Horn of Africa persuaded him to bring his wife and three children back to England in 1972. Having decided on a career in ophthalmology, he took the primary fellowship in 1973 and was awarded the Hallett prize and he became a fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons in 1976. He gained valuable ophthalmic experience in Southampton and in a joint senior registrar appointment between Moorfields Eye Hospital and the Royal Berkshire Hospital, specialising particularly in conditions affecting the retina, such as diabetes, vascular problems and age-related macular disease. He is remembered at Reading for his integrity and mature outlook on life and as ‘a most congenial colleague and unfailingly supportive in clinic and operating theatre’. Peter was appointed as a consultant ophthalmic surgeon for Sandwell and Dudley Area Health Authority in 1981, where he continued to combine his interest in diseases of the retina and choroid with his general ophthalmic work. He was described by colleague as ‘a good and meticulous clinician and a good surgeon’. He retired from full time service in 1998. A devout Christian all his life, Peter contributed several articles to the *Journal of Creation* on the anatomy and physiology of the eye, including challenging the comment of Richard Dawkins that the retina was badly designed, by riposting with the observation that ‘The eye continues to be the thorn in the flesh of evolutionists and to reveal the emptiness of their sophistry.’ He suffered from poor health during the last few years of his life and died on 16 June 2017 aged 79. He was survived by his wife, three children and seven grandchildren.
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First Title value, for Searching Higgens, Charles (1846 - 1920)

2024-05-02T00:29:09Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2012-04-13
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URL for Files https://livesonline.rcseng.ac.uk/client/en_GB/search/asset/374401374401
Occupation Ophthalmic surgeon
Details Born at Hambledon, Hampshire, and was educated at Brighton College and Guy's Hospital, where he was House Surgeon. In 1871 he was appointed Ophthalmic Surgeon to the Central London Ophthalmic Hospital; in 1878 Assistant Ophthalmic Surgeon to Guy's Hospital, becoming in 1883 Ophthalmic Surgeon and Lecturer on Ophthalmic Surgery until his retirement in 1906, when he became Consulting Surgeon. He was also Ophthalmic Surgeon to the French Hospital. During the War (1914-1918) he returned to active work as Surgeon to the County of London War Hospital. He performed the extraction of simple cataract admirably, as proved by his writings on the subject. As a colleague he was markedly generous, and always appreciative of work done for him by his juniors. To his equals he was cheery, wise, and full of common sense, ready to discuss disappointments in his cases, as well as his successes. His patients he impressed by his obvious capacity. Of wiry physique and tireless, he was a keen sportsman who shot and hunted whenever possible. He practised first at 38 Brook Street, and later at 52 Brook Street, after his marriage. He died suddenly whilst out shooting on December 28th, 1920. Publications: "Remarks on 150 Operations for Extraction of Cataract." - *Trans Roy Med-Chin Soc*, 1879, lxii, 347. "Two Hundred Operations for Extraction of Cataract." - *Trans Ophthalmol Soc*, 1884, iv, 116. "Note on 925 Extractions of Cataract." - *Lancet*, 1894, ii, 316. "On 130 Consecutlve Extractions of Cataract without a Failure." - *Ibid*, 1907, i, 1003. "A Note on a Case of Double Cataract: the Case of General Booth." - *Ibid*, 1912, il, 1073. *A Manual of Ophthalmic Practice*, 1888, and later editions, in addition to his *Cataract Operations*.
Resource Identifier RCS: E002218
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First Title value, for Searching Moss, John (1922 - 1997)

2024-05-02T00:29:09Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2015-11-18
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URL for Files https://livesonline.rcseng.ac.uk/client/en_GB/search/asset/380983380983
Occupation Ophthalmologist Ophthalmic surgeon
Details John Moss was a former ophthalmic surgeon at Stoke Mandeville. He was born in Birmingham in 1922 and attended Bishop Vesey School, Sutton Coldfield. At Birmingham University Medical School during the war, he was of the generation of students who regularly did fireguard duties and worked as house surgeons before qualifying. He established an early interest in 'eyes', before qualifying MB ChB in 1946. After National Service as a Captain in the Royal Army Medical Corps in Germany, he returned to the Birmingham Midland Eye Hospital, passing his diploma in ophthalmology in 1953. With rotations, he became a senior registrar; in 1958 he was appointed consultant ophthalmologist at the Royal Buckinghamshire Hospital in Aylesbury. After amalgamation, he moved to Stoke Mandeville Hospital as ophthalmic consultant, where he worked until his retirement. He was one of the first surgeons in the UK to perform a kerato-odonto-prosthesis. He passed his FRCS in 1974 and was a founder Fellow of the Royal College of Ophthalmologists in 1989. He had a gift for languages. At an early age he had learnt to speak fluent Welsh and became a member of the Aylesbury Welsh Society, and before attending an ophthalmological congress in China he learnt Mandarin Chinese. He was interested in the history of the Netherlands and was a keen student of the Dutch language. He was a keen canoeist and a regular squash player until his late sixties. He espoused the medicinal benefits of gin, especially when combined with sweet and dry vermouth. He is survived by his wife Barbara, sons Philip and John, four grandchildren, two elderly Citroens, a large collection of books on languages, astronomy and science fiction, and a rather miserable and confused cat called Hilda. He died from acute leukaemia on 14 April 1997 at Stoke Mandeville Hospital.
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First Title value, for Searching Parker, Alexander Edward Patrick (1896 - 1961)

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First Title value, for Searching Gregory, Thomas Stanley Sherwood (1916 - 1981)

2024-05-02T00:29:09Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2014-12-11
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Occupation Ophthalmic surgeon
Details Thomas Stanley Sherwood Gregory was born on 9 February 1916 at New Malden, Surrey, the son of Thomas Gregory, manipulative therapist and Ivy, nee Sherwood. He was educated at Newport Grammar School, Essex, Sherborne School and Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge. He studied medicine at St Bartholomew's Hospital, London, and qualified MB BCh in July 1940. He spent a year as house physician at St Bartholomew's and was RSO at the Royal Masonic Hospital for two years, followed by six months as ophthalmic house surgeon at Guy's Hospital. He took the DOMS in 1947 and the FRCS in 1948. During his training he was influenced by J D Morgan Cardell, O Geyer Morgan and F W Law. Gregory was an eye specialist in the RAMC 1944-47 with the rank of Captain. After the war he was in ophthalmic practice in the Aylesbury Health District and became a casualty ophthalmic surgeon for the Aylesbury and High Wycombe Health District. He married Marjory C Geyer in 1943 and had one daughter and a son, P G Gregory who is in general practice. He listed his hobby as 'property improvement'. He died on 17 July 1981 at the age of 65.
Resource Identifier RCS: E006539
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First Title value, for Searching Walker, Colin Burleigh (1926 - 2018)

2024-05-02T00:29:09Z

by Iain Chisholm
Publication Date 2018-11-19
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Occupation Ophthalmic surgeon
Details Colin Walker was an ophthalmic surgeon at the Southampton Eye Hospital from 1962 until his retirement in 1989. He was born into a medical family; his father, Victor Walker, was an eye surgeon in Ipswich, where he grew up; his mother was Marie-Louise Scott. After some difficult times at his prep school, he moved on to Stowe School in Buckinghamshire, where he blossomed academically and was much happier. He then went to Trinity College, Cambridge and completed his medical studies at St Thomas’s Hospital Medical School, London, qualifying in 1949 at the age of 23. His house officer jobs were done in Cambridge and Norwich, with a two-year spell in the RAMC (British Army of the Rhine) as a medical officer, slotted in between his house surgeon and house physician posts. Sadly, his father died when he was 16 and that affected him greatly. He did, however, decide to follow his father into ophthalmology, completing his primary FRCS in 1953 immediately after his house officer posts. It was on 5 May 1953 when, as a postgraduate trainee, he was involved in the placing of the Queen Elizabeth II Time Capsule, marking the boundary between the Barry and Nuffield buildings at the RCS, under the memorial stone. He received the capsule from Her Majesty in 1953, but sadly was not able to be present on 27 September 2018, 65 years later, when it was removed and opened. Colin would have been the last surviving guest at the ceremony other than Her Majesty, but sadly had passed away just over four months previously. His elder son Gavin was there in his place. The capsule contained: the order of proceedings of the laying of the memorial stone of the new building on 5 May 1953; a pamphlet about the architectural history of the RCS; eight photographs of the wartime destruction of the building; a roll, with RCS seal attached, giving a description of the bomb damage to the building; two copies of *The Times* newspaper dated Tuesday 5 and Wednesday 6 May 1953; a set of 1953 British coins; a bound set of photographs with typed descriptions of some Hunterian Collection specimens lost in the Second World War air raid attacks; the *Annals* of the RCS for April 1953; examination papers for the fellowship diploma for 1952; papers for the final examination for the diploma in dental surgery; the RCS general annual report for 1952; and the RCS calendar for August 1951. Colin continued his ophthalmic training at St Thomas’ Hospital (from 1954 to 1955) and then at Moorfields, City Road (from 1955 to 1957), after which he continued there but also returned to St Thomas’ as a senior registrar, obtaining his FRCS in 1958 and finally being appointed to Southampton Eye Hospital in 1962, where he remained until his retirement. It was during this time that Southampton became the new and successful teaching hospital that it is today. In 1994, the old Southampton Eye Hospital, where Colin worked, moved to the General Hospital as the eye unit, where it has flourished since those early beginnings with Colin and his four colleagues. He took an active role in the developing Southampton Medical School, teaching and lecturing to students, general practitioners and nurses. He had a number of publications to his name from the 1950's to 1970's. He visited units in Europe and North America, and travelled to Afghanistan, Pakistan and Qatar, where he gave advice on the establishment of their eye services. He had a wish to improve his own understanding and to help create a better service for others. Committee work within the NHS was not always his favourite pastime. In 1959, he met Ann, while they were both working at St Thomas’, and they were married the next year, moving with their eldest child, Gavin, to the New Forest in 1962, where their other two children, Richard and later Tracy, were born. He was a ‘man of his time’ engaging in life enthusiastically. He was morally upright with a strong sense of duty, a proud family man, but also a strict disciplinarian. He wanted to make a better world. He was devoted to Ann and was always happiest when at home with his family. He was interested in everything and lived life to the full. Colin loved his life in the country and walking in the New Forest, whilst at the same time enjoyed photography and creating all sorts of things, from telescopes to bread slicers. He filled the house with music and was a successful pianist, winning the Murdoch cup at the Portsmouth Music Festival in 1971. When he retired, he moved to Boldre in the New Forest from Cadnam near Southampton and enjoyed life there, although his health started to deteriorate in 2012 following a bout of pneumonia. He had had bypass surgery in 1984 while he was still working and again in 1991, but that did not stop him, but rather gave him a new lease of life. His last years became increasingly difficult, but he always had Ann there to help and be with him. It was difficult for them both when he finally moved into a nursing home in Sway. He died on 12 May 2018 at the age of 92 and was survived by Ann, their three children, two of whom are married and live relatively locally in the south of England, and four grandchildren. He was naturally optimistic and hopes to meet all his family again or, as his granddaughter, Megan, would say, ‘back soon later’.
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First Title value, for Searching Smith, Redmond John Hamilton (1923 - 2012)

2024-05-02T00:29:09Z

by Ron Marsh
Publication Date 2012-06-28 2013-10-18
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URL for Files https://livesonline.rcseng.ac.uk/client/en_GB/search/asset/374740374740
Occupation Ophthalmic surgeon
Details Redmond Smith was an ophthalmologist in London and an expert on glaucoma. He was born in Barnes on 10 April 1923, into a medical family: his paternal and maternal grandfathers, and his father, Hector, were all doctors. His mother was Maud Smith née Hamilton. He was educated at the Oratory School, Caversham, and entered St Mary's Medical School in 1941. He enthusiastically entered into medical school life, and was elected secretary of the students' union (the equivalent of today's president). During his period of office he welcomed the Queen Mother and her two daughters to a performance of the *Mikado*. Redmond was an enthusiastic member of the cricket and rugby clubs, and played regularly for the first teams. There is a photograph of the distinguished 1947 1st XV at Teddington, showing an easily recognisable young Stan Peart and Redmond, both enviably ageless. He continued to support the club and took part in the famous post war tour to Lyons, supervised by Arthur Dickson Wright, where one of the players was rather carelessly lost and has not been seen since. Redmond qualified in 1946 and became house surgeon to the ENT and ophthalmic departments at St Mary's, and started his interest in eye surgery. In 1954 he was appointed to the Royal Northern Hospital and to St Mary's in 1957 (with the eye department shortly moving to its present site at the Western Eye Hospital). In 1960 he was appointed to the staff at Moorfields. Redmond combined the best features of the old and new wave of ophthalmologists: whilst preserving simple, well-proven remedies, he was always looking critically at new developments and rapidly adopted worthwhile techniques, skilfully avoiding gimmicks. Apart from a considerable reputation as a general ophthalmologist, he was a foremost authority on glaucoma, bringing a much needed touch of realism to this enigmatic disease. To many of us his teaching was outstanding and his ward rounds were a joy. He attributed much of the inspiration for his teaching (like many of his contemporaries) to Sir George Pickering. Surgically he encouraged us to use simple techniques and instruments, although he was one of the first to use the operating microscope. We didn't just learn ophthalmology: we were shown how to construct a tennis court, a cider press, a Persian rug and a split cane fishing rod, and were given 101 uses for cling film and Blu-tack. Redmond had a distinguished career in research. Whilst at Mary's in the 1950s, along with Harry Keen, he carried out pioneering work on the natural history of diabetic retinopathy. At the same time, at Moorfields and the Institute of Ophthalmology, he directed his research towards rubeotic glaucoma. During his career he produced a steady stream of interesting papers and his book on glaucoma (*Clinical glaucoma* London, Cassell, 1965) was a concise classic. In 1984 he became editor of the *British Journal of Ophthalmology*. His placid temperament and modesty, amongst many other virtues, were a great example and endeared him to junior staff and colleagues. Last but not least, Redmond was a family man. Stella (née Richardson), his wife, whom he married in 1948, and his two sons and daughter were a great source of support to him. Stella helped the Friends of St Mary's for many years. Redmond died of cancer on 27 January 2012 at the age of 88, after a short illness.
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First Title value, for Searching Dixon, James (1814 - 1896)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2011-09-28
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URL for Files https://livesonline.rcseng.ac.uk/client/en_GB/search/asset/373610373610
Occupation General surgeon Ophthalmic surgeon
Details Educated at St Thomas's Hospital where he was elected Assistant Surgeon on January 1st 1847, retiring without becoming surgeon on December 17th 1851. He was also for many years Consulting Surgeon to the Royal London Ophthalmic Hospital. His private practice as an ophthalmic surgeon was very large and was carried on first in Broad Street Buildings, then in Green Street, and finally in Portman Square. Dixon was one of the most accomplished and respected surgeons of his day. He was the contemporary of Sir William Bowman (qv) and W White Cooper (qv). His distinguished manners and courteous personal bearing belonged to the best school of an earlier professional generation. In 1870, in consequence of the illness and death of his wife, he retired from practice and went to live at Harrow Lands, Dorking. Here he devoted a great part of his leisure to the study of English and of English literature, and became an authority on the eighteenth and early nineteenth century periods, and more especially on Serjeant-Surgeon Richard Wiseman. His death occurred at Harrow Lands on January 3rd, 1896. Publications: *A Guide to the Practical Study of Diseases of the Eye: with an Outline of their Medical and Operative Treatment*, 8vo, London, 1855; 3rd ed., 1866. *Diseases of the Eye*: a treatise contributed to the 2nd edition of Holmes's *System of Surgery*, 8vo, 3 plates, London, 1870; 3rd ed., 1883, vol. ii, edited by J W Hulke. "Account of a Case in which a Large Cyst containing Hydatids was developed at the Root of the Neck, Death ensuing from Rupture of the Left Subclavian Artery." - 8vo, London, 1851: reprinted from *Trans. Med.-Chir. Soc.*, 1851, xxxiv, 315. Dixon's important contribution to the life-history of Serjeant-Surgeon Wiseman is published in *Med. Times and Gaz.*, 1872, Oct. 19, 441.
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First Title value, for Searching Caddy, Adrian (1879 - 1966)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2014-09-25
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URL for Files https://livesonline.rcseng.ac.uk/client/en_GB/search/asset/378215378215
Occupation Ophthalmic surgeon
Details Adrian Caddy, the son of Inspector-General J T Caddy MD RN, was born in London in 1879; he was educated at St Paul's School and St George's Hospital, qualifying in 1900. His early appointments included those of house surgeon at St George's and clinical assistant to the Royal Westminster Ophthalmic Hospital, London. In 1910 he was appointed clinical assistant to the Hospital for Diseases of the Throat, Golden Square, and two years later went to India as surgeon-superintendent to the Hindu Marawi Hospital in Calcutta. During the first world war he served as an officer in the Indian Auxiliary Medical Corps, a local defence corps attached to the Calcutta Light Horse. At the end of the war he retired with the rank of Lieutenant-Colonel, being awarded the Volunteer Officers Decoration. In the following six years he was a partner in a large general practice in Calcutta, and at that time was a member of the Bengal Council of Medical Registration and of the Calcutta School of Tropical Medicine. Caddy returned from India in 1925 to obtain the DOMS, which he achieved in 1926. In that year he was appointed assistant surgeon to the Royal Westminster Ophthalmic Hospital, later becoming consulting surgeon until 1939. In 1929 he became consulting ophthalmic surgeon to the Italian Hospital, London. During the second world war he served at St George's Hospital as a temporary ophthalmic surgeon. Caddy was a man of colourful personality and always popular with his house surgeons. His punctuality was a byword, as he always attended his outpatient and operating sessions dead on time. He was a quick and efficient operator; few operations on the eye took him more than ten minutes. Each successive house surgeon was treated to a luncheon at the Oriental Club where the wine he chose was invariably claret. He died at his home, Havington, Kettlewell Hill, Woking on 24 February 1966 at the age of 87.
Resource Identifier RCS: E006032
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First Title value, for Searching Sorsby, Arnold (1900 - 1980)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2015-03-19
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Occupation Ophthalmic surgeon
Details Arnold Sorsby achieved national and international distinction as an ophthalmologist. He was a gentle, gracious and skilful surgeon, a man of great intellectual ability as shown in his works on genetics, blindness, medical history and as a poetry anthologist. He was a person of considerable charm, with a quiet but often disconcerting wit. He was of emigré stock, being born in Poland (Bialystock) on 10 June 1900, a son of Jacob Sourasky and his wife Elka (Slomiansky). His surname was changed by deed poll about 1930 to Sorsby. After attending a community school in Antwerp his education continued at the Central High School, Leeds, and Leeds University. He became ophthalmic surgeon to the London Jewish Hospital, the Hampstead General Hospital and the West End Hospital for Nervous Diseases. From 1931 to 1966 he was surgeon to the Royal Eye Hospital and Dean of its medical school, 1934-1938. From 1943 to 1966 he was Research Professor at the Royal College of Surgeons and the Royal Eye Hospital, becoming Emeritus Professor on retirement. He was a Hunterian Professor of the College in the years 1934 and 1942 and was awarded the Sir Arthur Keith Medal for his services to the College in 1966, the same year of his appointment as CBE in respect of his national and international service to ophthalmology. He was renowned for his work for the WHO advisory panel on trachoma, the International Organisation against Trachoma and the International Association for the Prevention of Blindness. He was also director of the Wernher Research Unit on Ophthalmological Genetics (MRC), consultant advisor, Ministry of Health, 1966-72, and editor of the *Journal of medical genetics*, 1964-69. He also edited the textbook *Modern ophthalmology* and was author of *Ophthalmic genetics* (1951), *Clinical genetics* (1953), *A short history of ophthalmology* (1933), *Medicine and mankind* (1950) and *Tenements of clay* (1974), which received wide acclaim. He married Charmaine (Guiness) in 1943 and she predeceased him by a few days. There were no children. He died on 6 May 1980, aged 79.
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First Title value, for Searching Milles, Walter Jennings (1854 - 1914)

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First Title value, for Searching Daldy, Arthur Mantell (1869 - 1946)

2024-05-02T00:29:09Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2013-04-24
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Occupation General surgeon Ophthalmic surgeon
Details Born 12 July 1869 at Romford, Essex, the fourth child and third son of Octavius George Daldy, coal and timber merchant, and his wife, *née* Mantell. He was educated at Cranbrook School, Kent, and at Guy's Hospital, and was awarded a gold medal at the London University MB BS examination. Daldy was in general practice at Surbiton for fourteen years after qualifying, and moved in 1905 to Hove where, after a few years in general practice, he specialized as an ophthalmic consultant. He was surgeon, to the Sussex Eye Hospital from 1914, and was appointed consulting surgeon when he retired in 1929; and he was ophthalmic specialist to the Hove education authority 1920-45. During the first world war he served as captain RAMC at the 2nd Eastern General Hospital. Daldy was at one time a vice-president of the Richmond division of the British Medical Association; he was secretary and treasurer of the Brighton division for seven years and of the Sussex branch from 1922; he acted as secretary of the ophthalmic section at the annual meeting at Brighton in 1913. Daldy married in 1895 Mary Ellen Hitchcock, who survived him with a son and a daughter. He practised first at 14 Palmeira Avenue, Hove, and latterly at Amesbury House, 10 Lansdowne Road, Hove, where he died on 31 December 1946, aged 77. He was an unassuming man with a shy manner, who did much good work both clinically and for the profession.
Resource Identifier RCS: E003929
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First Title value, for Searching Lodge, Samuel Durham (1893 - 1933)

2024-05-02T00:29:09Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2013-08-28
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URL for Files https://livesonline.rcseng.ac.uk/client/en_GB/search/asset/376546376546
Occupation Ophthalmic surgeon
Details Born at Springfield House, Hall Lane, Bradford on 28 February 1893, the eldest child of Samuel Lodge, OBE, MD, who survived him, dying on 19 March 1934, and Winifred Durham Garbutt his wife. His father and grandfather had practised in Bradford and his mother was the daughter of a medical man. Samuel Durham Lodge was educated at Bradford School, at Epsom, at the Leeds Medical School, and at the London Hospital. He went to Aldershot for military training as soon as he was qualified in 1915, and received a commission in the RAMC (special reserve) on 19 January 1916. He was attached to the Indian Expeditionary Force and served with the 7th Gloucester Regiment first at Basra, afterwards in Persia and the Caucasus. Being demobilized in 1919 he returned to Leeds, was appointed demonstrator of anatomy, served as house surgeon to J F Dobson, and became resident ophthalmic officer to the Leeds General Infirmary. He was elected ophthalmic surgeon to the infirmary in 1920, upon the resignation of A L Whitehead, and was subsequently consulting ophthalmic surgeon. He married Margaret Ianthe Cresswell on 27 July 1925, who survived him with one daughter. He died after a long illness on 5 December 1933. Lodge, at the time of his death, had made himself a considerable reputation as an ophthalmic surgeon. He was an excellent speaker, rather caustic at times; a good sportsman, he hunted with the York and Ainsty hounds and played hockey for the University of Leeds and for Bradford.
Resource Identifier RCS: E004363
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First Title value, for Searching Shorney, Herbert Frank (1878 - 1933)

2024-05-02T00:29:09Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2013-11-06
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Occupation ENT surgeon Ophthalmic surgeon
Details Born at Adelaide, 10 October 1878, the son of George Shorney, who was associated with the milling firm of John Dunn and Co; his father had settled in Adelaide in 1851. He was educated at Prince Alfred College, the non-conformist and principally Wesleyan secondary school. He entered the University of Adelaide in 1895, but in consequence of the great hospital trouble migrated to the University of Melbourne at the end of his third year. He undertook general practice in New South Wales for a year or two from 1903, and then came to London for a postgraduate course. He acted as house surgeon to the Middlesex Hospital and the Golden Square Throat Hospital, and then, having taken the FRCS without entering for the MRCS, he visited Vienna. Returning to Australia he settled in Adelaide as a specialist in diseases of the eye, ear, nose, and throat. He was appointed assistant ophthalmic surgeon to the Adelaide Hospital in 1910, succeeded to the full staff, and was lecturer on the subject at the University of Adelaide. When the Royal Australasian College of Surgeons was founded in 1927 he became a foundation Fellow. His leisure was devoted to gardening, he was fond of music and was a freemason. He married the daughter of a wealthy miller and died suddenly on 8 May 1933, survived by his wife but without children, at Cariana, Malvern, Adelaide. Publication: Protein therapy in affections of the eye. *Med J Austral* 1926, 1, 177.
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First Title value, for Searching Holthouse, Edwin Hermus (1855 - 1949)

2024-05-02T00:29:09Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2013-07-10
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Occupation General surgeon Historian Ophthalmic surgeon
Details Born at Smyrna on 18 November 1855, the second son of Carsten Holthouse, FRCS, and Agnes Cowcher Kent his wife. Carsten Holthouse was serving in the Civil Hospital there during the Crimean War; he was then assistant surgeon, and afterwards surgeon and consulting surgeon to the Westminster Hospital. He was educated at Westminster School and Trinity College, Cambridge, of which he was an exhibitioner, and took second class honours in the Natural Sciences Tripos 1878. He received his medical training at King's College Hospital, served as house surgeon there, and was clinical assistant at Moorfields. He qualified in 1881, and took the Fellowship in 1884 on the same day as John Bland Sutton, William Job Collins and R Lawford Knaggs. He was surgeon to the St Pancras and Northern Dispensary, and later to the Western Ophthalmic Hospital, to which he was elected consulting surgeon on his retirement. He practised at 1 Park Crescent, W. After retiring he lived at 6 Gilbert Road, Ramsgate, Kent, and became an authority on medieval history. Holthouse married in 1884 Harriet Emily, eldest daughter of Robert Hesketh, FRIBA, of Earlswood Mount, Redhill; Mrs Holthouse died on 20 October 1940. He died at Ramsgate on 2 January 1949, aged 93, being the senior Fellow as his father had been. He was survived by two sons. His ashes were buried at All Saints Parish Church, Lower Edmonton. Publications:- *Convergent strabismus and its treatment, an essay*. London, 1897. The Emperor Henry II, 1002-1024 AD *Cambridge Medieval History*, 1922, 3, 215-252: Chapter 10.
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First Title value, for Searching Walker, Cyril Hutchinson (1861 - 1955)

2024-05-02T00:29:09Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2014-06-16
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Occupation Ophthalmic surgeon
Details Born on 30 August 1861 at New Malton, Yorkshire the fifth son of the Rev John Walker, Rector of Bradwell, Great Yarmouth, his elder brother Robert being the first Archdeacon of Uganda 1893-1912, he was educated at Haileybury and Jesus College, Cambridge, where he took second-class honours in the Natural Sciences Tripos part I, 1884. He had his clinical training at the London Hospital, where he was house surgeon and was senior house surgeon at Moorfields, the Royal London Ophthalmic Hospital. He settled in Bristol to practise as an ophthalmologist, and was appointed surgeon to the Eye Hospital. Later he lectured on ophthalmology in the Bristol Medical School, and ultimately became consulting ophthalmic surgeon to the General Hospital. He was President of the Bristol Medicochirurgical Society in 1921 and of the section of ophthalmology in the Royal Society of Medicine in 1929-30, and Master of the Oxford Ophthalmological Congress in 1933 and 1934. Walker married in 1900 Theodosia Caroline daughter of the Rev J H B Green, Rector of Normanton-le-Heath, Leicestershire, who was herself a doctor of medicine (MD Brussels 1896). Mrs Walker died on 26 November 1953 aged 81, and Walker himself on 29 September 1955 aged 94, survived by two sons and three daughters. He had lived at Harewood, Clapton-in-Gordano, Bristol, but in his later years at 50 St John's Road, Clifton. Walker carried on the fine tradition of Bristol eye surgery established by F R Cross FRCS, and promoted the reconstruction of the Bristol Eye Hospital.
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First Title value, for Searching McAuliffe, David Jeremiah (1932 - 1989)

2024-05-02T00:29:09Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2015-06-08
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Occupation Ophthalmic surgeon
Details David Jeremiah McAuliffe was born in 1932 and after early education entered the University of Adelaide Medical School, qualifying in 1954. Having completed junior appointments in Australia he came to Britain and worked as lecturer in the department of ophthalmology at the Royal Infirmary, Edinburgh. He passed the Diploma in Ophthalmology in 1959 and in the following year acquired both the FRCS and the FRCS Edinburgh. Shortly afterwards he returned to Australia, initially as clinical assistant in the ophthalmology department of the Royal Perth Hospital and later as honorary assistant ophthalmic surgeon and clinical lecturer in ophthalmic surgery at the University of Western Australia. He became a member of the Royal Australian College of Ophthalmology in 1969, FRACS in 1974 and a Fellow of the Royal Australian College of Ophthalmology in 1979. His professional life included both hospital and private practice and he had a special interest in the treatment of severe ocular injuries sustained in motor accidents. He served as a member of the Court of Examiners of the Royal Australian College of Ophthalmologists and was appointed civilian consultant to the Royal Australian Air Force and the Royal Australian Navy. In addition to his professional commitment he served on many hospital committees as well as being President of the Western Australian Branch of the Australian Medical Association. He died on 2 May 1989, aged 57, and was survived by his wife Maureen, their daughter Clare, and sons William, John, James and David.
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First Title value, for Searching Jack, Robert Cecil (1914 - 1993)

2024-05-02T00:29:09Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2015-09-10 2017-01-25
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Occupation Ophthalmic surgeon
Details Robert Jack was born on 6 October 1914 in Darjeeling, India. His father, Sir Robert Jack, was a High Court Judge in Calcutta and his mother was Bertha Innerarity, née Shalcross. His boyhood and schooling, which was divided between Clifton and Cheltenham, were marked by long separations from his parents and he spent most of his vacations with various members of his large extended family of Irish origin. He read medicine at Pembroke College, Cambridge, and graduated MB BChir in 1940. He trained at Bart's and then became a registrar at Guy's. During the second world war, from 1941 to 1947, he served with the RAMC in Nigeria and rose to the rank of major. He became RMO to the Royal Westminster Ophthalmic Hospital, chief clinical assistant at Moorfields, Westminster and Central Eye Hospitals and finally consultant ophthalmic surgeon to the Northampton General and Kettering Hospitals from 1950 until he retired in 1979. Competitive sailing was one of his favourite activities and he brought great skill and knowledge to the sport. He also enjoyed gardening, bird watching and photography. In his retirement he became very skilled at wood turning and adept in culinary matters. On 8 November 1943 he married Daphne Egerton Jones SRN, a nurse at St Thomas's Hospital. They had a son, Andrew, who became a sales manager, and a daughter Sarah (Sally), who became a secretary and picture conservator. Sadly Daphne's health failed after his retirement and she predeceased him. He died on 3 July 1993, survived by his children.
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First Title value, for Searching Brown, Charles Alexander (1915 - 2002)

2024-05-02T00:29:09Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2015-10-22
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Occupation Ophthalmic surgeon Ophthalmologist
Details Charles Brown was a consultant ophthalmic surgeon in Bristol. He was born in Aberdeen on 10 July 1915 into a medical family - his father, John Brown, and uncle were both general practitioners, both his sisters married doctors, one sister and a daughter became nurses, and his son-in-law was professor of medicine at UCH. His mother Charlotte Jane, née Thomson, was a teacher. He was educated at Aberdeen Grammar School and Aberdeen University, where he won a bronze medal in anatomy, and was much influenced by Dugald Baird, the obstetrician, Sir Stanley Davidson and Sir James Learmonth. After junior posts he joined the RAMC, where he worked under Sir Benjamin Rycroft in Italy, and later with Sir Henry Holland in India, in his Shikarpur Eye Camp in Sind. After the war he continued to work under Rycroft at Moorfields and under Keith Lyle at King's. Later he was a registrar at the Bristol Eye Hospital, where he was appointed consultant in 1951. His main interests were in postnatal cataracts in premature infants, and from 1951 to 1980 he examined the eyes of every underweight baby for retrolental fibroplasias. Later he became interested in intra-ocular implants after cataract extraction. On retirement, he took up a post as locum consultant to the St John of God Hospital, Perth, Australia, where he stayed for the next ten years. In 1943, he married Vera Mary Dingley, who taught physics at Aberdeen University and later at Badminton School, Bristol. They had three sons, David, Peter and Andrew, and three daughters, Alison, Rosemary and Angela. He died on 26 March 2002.
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First Title value, for Searching Blaxter, Peter Llewellyn (1918 - 1997)

2024-05-02T00:29:09Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2015-10-22
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Occupation Ophthalmic surgeon
Details Peter Blaxter was a consultant ophthalmic surgeon at Manchester Royal Eye Hospital. He was born in Highbury, London, on 17 February 1918, the son of Augustus Pierce Llewellyn Blaxter, a chemical engineer, and Enid, née Lewis, daughter of the Rev H E Lewis, Arch Druid of Wales. He was educated at Elstree School in Hertfordshire, Tonbridge, and St John's College, Cambridge. He received his clinical training at Guy's Hospital, where he qualified in 1943. After junior appointments, he served in the RAMC, as medical officer to the North Irish Horse in Italy. On returning to England, he became a senior registrar in the ophthalmic department at Guy's, and then did a full training at Moorfields. In 1954 he was appointed consultant to the Manchester Royal Eye Hospital. He acknowledged his debt to the training he received from T K Lyle, Sir Alan Goldsmith and E F King. He developed a special interest in glaucoma, on which he wrote many articles. From 1954 until 1983 he was a lecturer in ophthalmology at the University of Manchester. He was President of the North of England Ophthalmic Society in 1971, vice-president of his section of the Royal Society of Medicine in 1970, and a member of the Court of Examiners for the FRCS Ophth from 1966 to 1972. In 1941 he married Patricia (née Barr) and they had three children, two sons, John and William, and a daughter, Philippa, who became a doctor. He was a keen fisherman and sailor. He died on 3 May 1997.
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First Title value, for Searching Silva, Karl Michael (1936 - 1999)

2024-05-02T00:29:09Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2015-12-07
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Occupation Ophthalmic surgeon
Details Born in Queensland on 16 September 1936, Karl Michael Silva studied medicine at the University of Queensland, and, after qualifying, went to England for five years specialist training in ophthalmology. He then returned to Sydney as an ophthalmic surgeon. His particular forte was in the surgery of cataract and refractive surgery. He pioneered intraocular lens implantation and phaco-emulsification, constantly improving his technique and emphasising that every movement in an operation was as important as any other. "An operation is like a symphony," he said, "any mistake will mar the entire performance." He travelled extensively to demonstrate his techniques, to the United States, China and South East Asia. In 1992, he made the first of many trips to Vietnam, where he helped rebuild the ophthalmology department of Dien Bien Phu Hospital in Ho Chi Minh City. He was a co-author of a book on cataract surgery, and was an editor of the journal *Cataract*. He was an active member of several medical societies and was founding secretary of the Ophthalmic Day Surgery Centres Association. He was an enthusiastic golfer and fly fisherman. He ran a farm near Walgett, which he managed professionally. In 1998, he won first prize in the Walgett District Cotton Growers' Competition. He qualified as a pilot, both in fixed wing aircraft and in helicopters, and used his helicopter to rescue people during the floods of 1998. He is survived by his wife, Margaret, and by his son, Jim, and daughter, Francesca. Another son, Ned, died aged 15. Karl Michael Silva died on 21 October 1999 of prostate cancer.
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First Title value, for Searching Batten, Keith Leslie (1926 - 2016)

2024-05-02T00:29:09Z

by Ann Kivett
Publication Date 2016-11-21 2017-06-09
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Occupation General surgeon Ophthalmic surgeon
Details Keith Batten served as the chief surgeon and hospital warden of the St John of Jerusalem Eye Hospital for a decade between 1969 to 1979, and later as their hospitaller between 1989 and 1992. He oversaw many of the significant occasions in the history of the hospital and left a tremendous impact on the region through his service. Keith's father, Edward Leslie Warner Batten, owned a business in the Bear Flat area of Bath. His mother Beatrice Lucy Batten (née Mullett) was a teacher at Duke Street School. Keith enjoyed a happy childhood, growing up in Bath. After attending a couple of private schools, he became a boarder at Monkton Combe Junior School and then continued on into the senior school. Whilst at the senior school he took up rowing and was in the first eight. Rowing continued to be an interest in his life and he often went to Henley Royal Regatta. Anxious to do his part for the Second World War, he opted to do his first MB at St Bartholomew's Hospital Medical School and left Monkton in 1942. Barts pre-clinical departments were evacuated to Cambridge because of the London bombings. He lived at Queens' College for his first year and then moved into digs. It was whilst in Cambridge that he met Patricia Margaret Poyner Wall, who was at Bedford College, having also been evacuated to Cambridge. They met at a tea at St Paul's Vicarage and were involved with the Cambridge Inter Collegiate Christian Union. Keith and Pat were married in July 1949, after Keith had done a couple of house jobs, but prior to conscription. Following various postings to Tidworth Military Hospital, Bicester Command Ordnance Depot and finally as a senior medical officer of the Devizes Garrison, Keith left the Army and was accepted into the Colonial Service for a post in the Uganda Medical Service. He took a course for nine months at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, where he obtained the diploma in tropical medicine and in April 1952 sailed on the *Kenya Castle* to Mombasa. After a two-day train journey to Kampala, he arrived to take up a post for six months to work at Mengo Hospital. Keith and the family then moved to Mubende, where he had been posted as district medical officer. He was working extremely hard, often more than 12 hours day running the hospital, operating, touring and holding clinics and administering the hospital and dispensaries and the public health staff. After three years in Mubende he moved to Soroti to be district medical officer in the Teso sub region for four years, where among other things he treated patients with leprosy. The local view of the disease was that it was either sent by spirits or caused by eating fish. The fishermen around Lake Kyoga lived in slum conditions around the shore gathered into small villages. They had a higher incidence of leprosy than the general population who lived in family groups surrounded by their own areas of cultivation and overcrowding was less. When Keith left four years later to start a career in ophthalmology they had over 8,000 lepers under treatment. What really made the African local administration sit up and take notice was when the children with leprosy who attended the school at the leprosy centre won the district school sports. It brought home to the councillors that loss of fingers and toes was no longer an inevitable consequence of the disease and that people could be cured and lead normal healthy lives. He left Soroti to pursue a career in ophthalmology. He moved to Kampala and worked as number two in the eye department at Mulago Hospital and then went back to the UK to study at Moorfields. Following his diploma in ophthalmology, he worked as a registrar in the eye department. The clinics were huge, the operating lists long and the work heavy. When Uganda was granted independence, Keith returned to the UK and re-joined the Royal Army Medical Corps, where he had an enjoyable tour of duty in Germany, mainly working at the British Military Hospital in Rinteln. He also worked at Millbank and Aldershot. In 1966, he was seconded from the Army to the St John Eye Hospital, which he found very interesting and rewarding. Aldershot seemed tame after his year in Jerusalem and so when Sir Stewart Duke-Elder invited him to apply for the post of warden and chief surgeon of the St John Eye Hospital he jumped at the chance. In 1969, he returned to Jerusalem for ten happy, exciting and rewarding years. He enjoyed meeting many interesting people during his time in Jerusalem: patients, people working in the community and some very well known people. He was delighted to meet Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton, who visited the hospital in 1975, and also Margaret Thatcher. No two days were the same at the hospital. In the aftermath of the Yom Kippur War in 1973, the hospital's outpatient clinic saw 510 patients in one day seen by three doctors - one of the busiest days ever recorded there. In 1976, he received a CBE for medical service to the community in Jerusalem. Returning to the UK, Keith took up a consultant post with the Ministry of Defence at RAF Wroughton and worked there for ten years. He also worked for a few weeks in an eye camp in Bihar in India, where he operated on a large number of cataracts. He visited Cyprus many times whilst working at Wroughton to hold clinics and run operating sessions. On retirement, he took a consultant post at the Riyadh Military Hospital for a few months. He led a full life, loved people and would do all he could to help humanity. Keith's Christian faith was central to his day to day living and the church played an important part in his life. He enjoyed his time as churchwarden in Kampala, London and in Jerusalem. He died peacefully at home on 18 October 2016 after a long illness, bravely borne, surrounded by his family. He was 89. He was survived by his wife, Pat, and two daughters Ann and Jane, six grandchildren and 13 great grandchildren.
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First Title value, for Searching Abrams, Joseph David (1928 - 2022)

2024-05-02T00:29:09Z

by Hester Abrams
Publication Date 2022-12-09
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Occupation Ophthalmic surgeon
Details Someone once stopped David Abrams at a cashpoint in Baker Street and asked if he would come into Madame Tussauds and have his hands modelled for a waxwork of the sculptor Henry Moore. The Leeds-born eye surgeon was chuffed to be asked to emulate a fellow Yorkshireman, especially a major artist. Perhaps the person looking at his hands had thought he too was a creative type. Sadly, though Abrams’s hands used tiny scissors and tweezers and played boogie-woogie piano and bridge, they were not large enough to be Henry Moore’s, so the model makers moved on. Abrams, known as David, was a consultant ophthalmic surgeon at London’s Royal Free Hospital for 30 years. He wrote volume five of *System of ophthalmology: ophthalmic optics and refraction* (London, Kimpton, 1970) jointly with Sir Stewart Duke-Elder, and revised several later editions of *Duke-Elder’s practice of refraction* (Edinburgh, Churchill Livingstone), long the standard textbook for trainee ophthalmologists. From his first studies in the 1940s, Abrams’ career tracked the evolution of the NHS and saw changes in the small field of ophthalmology that would make it barely recognisable by the time he retired. A generalist who would ply between theatres, clinics and domiciliary visits, and from state hospital to private consulting rooms, with thousands of patients on his lists, he became a rarity as ophthalmologists increasingly became specialists. As a houseman he even took sessions sight testing at opticians’ shops in Welwyn and High Barnet. David did it all: squints, cataracts, glaucoma, retinal detachments, injuries and eye disease in relation to general medicine. As implants and laser surgery replaced hazardous operations, one eye at a time, under general anaesthetic, preservation and restoration of sight became more predictable and recovery times shorter. Patients thanked him for the ability to read the paper or drive again. David Abrams was the son of Maurice Abrams and Tilly Abrams née Ellis, devout Jews whose families had settled in Leeds from Russia at the end of the 19th century. Maurice was a Royal Flying Corps rigger in the First World War and later a salesman. David had one sister, Marlene, 14 years younger. Consistently a year ahead of his peers despite going to three schools in one year when evacuated to Bournemouth in 1939, teenage David was also a promising classical pianist. The call of a musical career was conclusively resisted when, in 1944, he won three state and college awards to read medicine at University College, Oxford. His headmaster said he had never seen a scholarship awarded to a boy so young. He went up to Oxford aged 17. Two first cousins also became medics, brothers Leon Abrams, a cardiothoracic surgeon who developed and implanted the first variable rate pacemaker, and Michael Abrams, deputy chief medical officer of the Department of Health from 1985 to 1992. David was studying for a surgical fellowship in Edinburgh after qualifying at the Middlesex Hospital when he was introduced to Anita Berlyne, a Cambridge-trained psychologist from Manchester. They married in 1954, only for him to be promptly sent off for deferred National Service. Based at the British Military Hospital in Fayid, Egypt, the largest hospital in the Suez Canal zone, as a Royal Army Medical Corps captain, he was a rare eye specialist serving a large Army in Egypt and Libya and tested tens of thousands of eyes. He took his diploma in ophthalmology on his return to London in 1956. The following year, after a brief call back to Egypt for the Suez Crisis, and now a father of one, David was elected one of three residents at Moorfields. At the allied Institute of Ophthalmology he started to publish research and taught postgraduates on glaucoma. Duke-Elder, colossus of the eye world, was then its research director. Having gained his FRCS in 1959, David worked at the new eye unit at Neasden General, Willesden General and Central Middlesex hospitals. He joined the Royal Free Hospital as a consultant in 1964, the year he defended his doctorate in Oxford on ‘The normal and pathological pigment epithelium of the human iris’. He was appointed as an honorary senior lecturer at the Royal Free Hospital School of Medicine in 1974. He combined NHS sessions with private practice at 99 Harley Street and at home in Winchmore Hill. Courtesy, modesty and a droll sense of humour marked his dealings with patients, colleagues and students, who enjoyed his unexpected, wicked puns. Despite heading a small specialty, in 1981 he was elected chairman of the Royal Free’s medical executive committee and chairman of the North Camden Health District’s district medical team. In 1982, when the Camden and Islington Health Authority was disbanded, his North Camden role gave him a place on the new Hampstead District Health Authority. The transfer of long stay services into the local community and the development of new services in London teaching hospitals were hot topics. David enjoyed explaining eye issues to a wider readership, flashing literary flair with papers like ‘Who does what in eye disease? A guide and glossary for the gullible’, and a book aimed at generalist colleagues, *Ophthalmology in medicine: an illustrated clinical guide* (London, Dunitz, 1990). In the 90s David saw patients at Harley Street, the St John and St Elizabeth Hospital and the Nuffield Hospital, Enfield, and appeared as an expert witness. Outraged when his pension provider Equitable Life cut guaranteed annuity rates, he joined a class action and went on TV and national newspapers to decry its mismanagement. Legal arguments and the mutual provider’s subsequent collapse affected thousands of independent professionals, including fellow doctors. In a long and fulfilling retirement David tended his beloved north Oxfordshire cottage garden, penned limericks, reprised piano lessons, played weekly bridge at the Savile Club and took pride in his growing family. Shortly before Britain locked down during the Covid 19 pandemic in 2020, David’s family moved him and Anita to residential care. He died from Alzheimer’s disease on 4 November 2022 aged 94 and was survived by Anita, his wife of 68 years, and daughters Susan, Janet, Hester, Wendy and Rachel, five grandchildren and a great-granddaughter. In the final months of his life, Janet, an artist, cast his hands in bronze.
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First Title value, for Searching Pyne, John Robin (1939 - 2012)

2024-05-02T00:29:09Z

by N Alan Green
Publication Date 2012-06-28 2013-10-04
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Occupation Ophthalmic surgeon
Details John Pyne was a consultant ophthalmic surgeon at the Norfolk and Norwich and West Norwich hospitals, and also worked privately at the BUPA Hospital Norwich in Colney, Norfolk. One of nature's true gentlemen, he had a courteous approach to his many grateful patients, his colleagues, junior staff and the nursing staff who supported him in his work. He was born in Shoeburyness, Essex, on 13 April 1939 the son of Edward Gordon Pyne, a chest physician, and his wife Gladys Elizabeth Anne née Conway. He spent the first seven years of his life in India, where his father was stationed in the Army. The family returned to the UK for John's education, first in Chelmsford and then at Felsted School. He went for his medical education to Charing Cross Hospital, London, and qualified in 1965. Pre-registration house appointments followed at the hospital in surgery and medicine, followed by a casualty officer post. He recorded his gratitude to A Harding Rains, Peter Philips, the urologist, and Leslie Oliver, a neurosurgeon. John decided quite early in his career to specialise in ophthalmic surgery: his further training was at Moorfields. As a senior registrar there he also had sessions at the National Hospital, Queen's Square, and Great Ormond Street. At Moorfields he was greatly influenced by Barrie Jones, Lorimer Fison, a pioneer retinal surgeon, and Ayoub and Greaves. He joined the Norwich ophthalmic department as a consultant in 1974, and was an excellent colleague to Peter Hunter, Peter James and later Peter Davies. Although very general in his approach, he later specialised in retinal surgery. He wrote just three papers; his first, 'Carcinoma of the penis in a Jew circumcised in infancy' (*Br J Surg* 1967 Aug; 54[8]:729-31) was a particularly unusual contribution from a doctor destined to be an eye surgeon. After retiring from active NHS work, John continued to work as a locum for local opticians, conducting eye examinations and had sessions at D R Grey and at Dipple and Conway. He was well-known for his professional ability, and for his charming and compassionate manner. The opticians felt greatly privileged to have his assistance, admiring him for the depth of his knowledge. John undertook a lot of unpaid voluntary work. In Norwich he worked for the Samaritans. Further afield, he gave his valuable services to Fight for Sight in Africa, operating on and restoring the gift of sight to hundreds of Africans. Outside medicine John had many interests. He was a good pianist and enjoyed playing the works of Mozart and Chopin in particular, but had a wide knowledge of classical music, particularly orchestral works. He possessed a fine tenor voice and sang in the Norwich Philharmonic Choir and other choirs, and at many concerts throughout Norfolk. He enjoyed swimming, playing squash, and enjoyed skiing, mainly in the Trois Vallées region of France. His last skiing trip was to Verbier, Switzerland, three years before he died. As a medical student he met Judith Carolyn née Wheaton: they married in 1963 whilst they were both students. They had two sons, Stephen and Michael, and a daughter, Anna. Stephen works in education, Michael is a commercial airline pilot and Anna is a professional musician. They describe him succinctly as a 'fine man and a wonderful father'. In 1997 John married his second wife, Marcelle née Chapman, who had three children by her first marriage. They lived very happily in Shotesham village, where, coincidentally, the first surgeon to the original Norfolk and Norwich Hospital, Benjamin Gooch, lived and practised as a surgeon-apothecary in the eighteenth century. John Pyne developed bowel cancer which was treated surgically and then by courses of chemotherapy for two years. He never complained and was active into his last few months. He died at his home in Shotesham on 20 May 2012 at the age of 73. He was survived by his second wife Marcelle, his three children, 12 grandchildren and three step-children.
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First Title value, for Searching Mehta, Hemchandra Kanji (1931 - 2020)

2024-05-02T00:29:09Z

by Kathir Puvana Chandra
Publication Date 2021-02-10 2022-03-03
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Occupation Ophthalmic surgeon
Details Hemchandra Kanji Mehta Known as ‘Hemant’ to his family, friends and colleagues, was a consultant ophthalmic surgeon for the Gwynedd Health Authority, Wales. He was born in Gujarat, India, where his father was the personal tutor to a prince but, when Hemant was just six months old, the family moved to Tanganyika in East Africa. His father took up a post as a headmaster of a school and Hemant spent his formative years there, along with his five siblings. He returned to India for his higher education, where he excelled academically and in sports, playing cricket for the University of Baroda. He qualified as a doctor in 1958 with honours from Grant Medical College in Bombay. He met and married Min, a fellow medical undergraduate at the Baroda Medical College. They both moved to UK for postgraduate training: Hemant trained to be an ophthalmologist and Min a gynaecologist. Hemant’s academic achievements as an undergraduate and hard work gave him the opportunity to train at the Royal Eye Hospital in London under Arnold Sorsby, an eminent ophthalmologist, followed by postings as a registrar in Birmingham and as a senior registrar in Cardiff. On completing his higher training, in 1968 Hemant was appointed as a consultant ophthalmic surgeon to the Gwynedd Health Authority, north Wales, a post he held with great distinction, gaining recognition locally, nationally and internationally until his retirement from the NHS in 1992. Hemant became well known amongst his colleagues, rapidly gaining respect amongst his patients, colleagues and peers as an able ophthalmologist, skilled surgeon and a visionary innovator of surgical techniques and treatment. Dedication to his chosen specialty resulted in patients from the region and beyond seeking help, advice and treatment. Good application of knowledge and skills acquired over the years, together with his unique ability to research and write papers and his talents in clinical photography and medical illustration resulted in many well received publications in peer reviewed journals, chapters in text books and invitations to present papers and conduct workshops at many national and international academic meetings. Many of his earlier publications were made before digital photography and word processing and are a testament to Hemant’s commitment to teaching and a tireless desire to share his ideas. He often talked about the need for clinicians to be good innovators, seeking to improve on the existing techniques, which he compared to designing ‘a better mouse trap than the last one’. The pioneering steps taken by Hemant from a small peripheral eye unit to introduce day care eye surgery, use local anaesthetic in ocular and lid surgical procedures, and blend mainstream plastic surgical techniques into the day-to-day ophthalmic surgical repertoire were revolutionary at that time and have now been accepted as routine in almost all eye units. It is not surprising that, in recognition of his many contributions, Hemant received an A+ merit award as a consultant serving in the NHS. He was also due to be honoured with the prestigious star gold medal at the 18th International Congress on Advances in Ophthalmology, but the award ceremony planned for May 2020 was sadly postponed due to the covid pandemic. Hemant had many interests, including photography, both western and Indian classical music, and sports, especially cricket. He and Min travelled widely, and both took up photography, especially wildlife photography, resulting in invitations to speak at many meetings nationally and internationally. Many of their photographs were exhibited, winning commendations, awards and prizes. Hemant was made a fellow of the Royal Photographic Society. Hemant died peacefully in his sleep at home on 16 November 2020 aged 89. He was survived by Min, his soulmate, colleague and an able clinician in her own right, three very affectionate daughters and their spouses and five loving grandchildren, all of whom made Hemant very happy and proud. Hemant, a consummate ophthalmologist who made significant contributions to his chosen vocation as a teacher, a gifted clinician, visionary innovator, a good colleague, and a great friend will be much missed but never forgotten.
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First Title value, for Searching Starr, Philip Alan John (1933 - 2003)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2005-10-26
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Occupation Ophthalmic surgeon
Details Philip Starr, known as ‘Jimmie’, was a consultant ophthalmic surgeon at the Royal Free Hospital, London. He was born in Birmingham in 1933. After qualifying, he spent four years in Canada and then in Australia, studying ophthalmology at the Sydney Eye Hospital. He subsequently returned to England, where he continued his training at the Western Ophthalmic Hospital as a senior registrar and at Moorfields as a chief clinical assistant. He was appointed as a consultant ophthalmic surgeon to the Royal Northern Hospital, and later to the Royal Free. He was a pioneer in the field of refractive surgery, and hosted a symposium at which Slava Fyodorov, the Soviet father of modern radial keratotomy, was an active participant. He also established a successful cataract and glaucoma practice in Harley Street, taking on the patients of that doyen of ophthalmology, Sir Stuart Duke-Elder. He was a founder member of the Independent Doctors’ Forum, his particular interest being in the area of revalidation. He had many interests, including playing tennis for the Midlands, classical music and reading. He died on 19 September 2003 from carcinoma of the lung, leaving a wife, Ruth, a daughter (Juliet) and two sons (Matthew and David), one of whom is an ophthalmologist. There are three grandchildren – Joshua, Ben and Malka Atara.
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First Title value, for Searching Tyrrell, Francis Astley Cooper (1870 - 1933)

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First Title value, for Searching Lyell, Robert Wishart (1847 - 1882)

2024-05-02T00:29:09Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2012-07-06
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Occupation General surgeon Ophthalmic surgeon
Details Born in London in 1847, and educated at St Olave's Grammar School, Southwark, and at King's College, Strand, where he obtained a Warneford Scholarship. After passing through his medical training he was appointed House Physician to the Seamen's Hospital at Greenwich in 1872. In 1873 he turned his attention to the pursuit of surgery, and was elected House Surgeon to the Royal Infirmary, Manchester. At the close of 1874 he returned to London as Surgical Registrar of the Middlesex Hospital, where he remained for the remaining seven years of his life. Lyell evinced much scientific knowledge and was most assiduous in the performance of his duties. His work, owing to the existence of the Cancer Department, was no sinecure, and his annual reports of the surgical practice of the hospital are among the best of their kind up to 1882. In 1879-1880 he undertook to superintend the post-mortems of the surgical cases at the hospital, and thus rendered valuable aid to the Pathologist. In addition he practised as an ophthalmologist and became Clinical Assistant at the Moorfields Hospital, and was at the same time elected as Ophthalmic Surgeon at the Great Northern Hospital. Later he was elected Assistant Surgeon to the former institution. In 1879 he was elected Assistant Surgeon to the Middlesex Hospital. He was a Fellow of the Royal Medico-Chirurgical Society, a member of the Pathological and Clinical Societies, and a past-President of the Middlesex Hospital Medical Society. He practised at 26 Harley Street, and died from acute pneumonia on October 2nd, 1882. Publications: Besides publishing the Reports above mentioned, Lyell read a paper, in conjunction with Dr Powell, before the Royal Medico-Chirurgical Society on a "Case of Basic Cavity of the Lung treated by Paracentesis." - *Med-Chir Trans*, 1880, lxiii, 333.
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First Title value, for Searching Lawrence, John Zachariah (1829 - 1870)

2024-05-02T00:29:09Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2012-06-20
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Occupation Ophthalmic surgeon
Details Born in Paris, and educated at University College, London, being at one time House Surgeon at the Hospital. He was Surgeon to the Farringdon Dispensary, and afterwards to the Hospital for Paralysis and Epilepsy, to the St Marylebone Dispensary, and to the Surrey Ophthalmic Hospital; and was Ophthalmic Surgeon to St Bartholomew's Hospital, Rochester. He practised at 30 Devonshire Street, Portland Place, W, and died after a lingering illness of sixteen months at his residence, St Peter's Square, Hammersmith, on July 18th, 1870. Publications: *The Diagnosis of Surgical Cancer*. Liston Prize Essay, University College, 1854, 8vo, 2 plates, London, 1855; 2nd ed, 8vo, 4 plates. *Illustrations of the Pathology of Cancer*, 8vo, London, 1856. "The Influence of the Variation of the Size of the Pupil on the Accommodating Power of the Eye." - 8vo, Glasgow, 1860; reprinted from the *Glasgow Med Jour*, 1860-1, viii, 268. *Some Observations on the Sensibility of the Eye to Colour*, 8vo, Glasgow, 1861. "On the Short Sight (?) of Squinters," 8vo, Glasgow, 1860; reprinted from *Glasgow Med Jour*, 1860-1, viii, 39. *The Progress of Ophthalmic Surgery, from the Invention of the Ophthalmoscope in 1851 up to the Present Time*. An Oration, 8vo, London, 1863. "On the Treatment of Inflammation of the Eye by Morphia." - *Edin Med Jour*, 1862-3, viii, 492. "The Utrecht School of Ophthalmic Surgery." - *Med Times and Gaz*, 1860, ii, 449, 579; 1861, i, 85. *Handbook of Ophthalmic Surgery* (with ROBERT C Moon), 8vo, Philadelphia, 1856. *The Optical Defects of the Eye and their Consequences, Asthenopia and Strabismus*, 8vo, London, 1865; German translation by A KARST, 8vo, Kreuznach, 1867.
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First Title value, for Searching Macmurdo, Gilbert Wakefield (1799 - 1869)

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First Title value, for Searching Hancock, William Ilbert (1873 - 1910)

2024-05-02T00:29:09Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2012-03-29
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Occupation Ophthalmic surgeon
Details William Ilbert Hancock ('Bertie Hancock') was born at Wiveliscombe, Somersetshire, the ninth of ten brothers - two of whom became international Rugby football players, and the rest fine athletes - sons of William Hancock. He was educated at Dulwich College and Guy's Hospital, which he entered in 1891. He was a fine athlete, of splendid physique, a first-class cricket, football, and lawn-tennis player, as well as a good shot. He played for his County and represented Guy's in all three sports whilst a student; at cricket having a bowling average of 8.89 and a batting average of 41.22. He was Captain of the Guy's football team in 1893-1894, when the International Cup was won, but missed international honours by tearing a knee cartilage just before the match in two succeeding years. He began the study of ophthalmology in 1899 at Moorfields, and continued at the Royal London Hospital except for six months in 1902 spent in assisting Richardson Cross at Clifton, and as Clinical Assistant at the Westminster Ophthalmic Hospital. In 1903 he was elected Ophthalmic Surgeon to the East London Hospital for Children, Shadwell, and in 1906 Ophthalmic Surgeon to the Bolingbroke Hospital. At the Royal London Ophthalmic Hospital he was successively Pathologist and Clinical Assistant, and after ten years' work was appointed Assistant Surgeon in April, 1909. Concurrently he had developed a successful private practice at 27 Queen Anne Street, and distinguished himself as an operator. Five days before his death he underwent an apparently uncomplicated operation for appendicitis, but pulmonary embolism and thrombosis suddenly caused death on January 26th, 1910. He married Miss Margaret Hay Sweet Escott in 1899, who survived him with four young children. Publications: Hancock published a number of Ophthalmological Papers in the *Roy. Lond. Ophthal. Hosp. Rep.* and other journals.
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First Title value, for Searching Lang, Basil Thorn (1880 - 1928)

2024-05-02T00:29:09Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2012-06-20
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Occupation Ophthalmic surgeon
Details Born on October 3rd, 1880, the only son of William Lang, FRCS, Consulting Ophthalmic Surgeon to the Middlesex Hospital and to the Royal London Ophthalmic Hospital, Moorfields. Educated at Abbotsholme School in Derbyshire, he entered Trinity College, Cambridge and graduated BA with first class honours in the Natural Science Tripos in 1902. He then entered St Bartholomew's Hospital, and served as House Surgeon to W Bruce Clarke (qv) and Ophthalmic House Surgeon in 1906-1907 to W H H Jessop (qv) and T Holmes Spicer. For some years he spent his time in clinical appointments in the eye wards at St Bartholomew's, at Moorfields, at the Royal Westminster and Central London Hospitals whilst assisting in the practice of his father in Cavendish Square. During the European War he was mobilized in August, 1914, with No 8 General Hospital, which was stationed on the heights above Rouen. His fluent knowledge of French, his industry, and his engineering capability made him especially useful, and in addition to his ophthalmic work he undertook the X-ray department, proving himself so successful that he was ordered to take a mobile X-ray apparatus round the front line. He resumed practice at the end of the War, became Assistant Surgeon to the Western Ophthalmic Hospital, Hon Ophthalmic Surgeon to St Andrew's Hospital, Dollis Hill, Surgeon to the Royal Eye Hospital, and Visiting Ophthalmic Surgeon to the Royal Northern Hospital in Holloway Road. He died of pneumonia on January 18th, 1928, survived by his wife, whom he had married eleven months previously. There was no child. Lang was possessed of great mental power somewhat dissipated by the number of his interests. He made a hobby of colour photography, and obtained most satisfactory results; as an ophthalmic surgeon he was a refractionist more than an operator.
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First Title value, for Searching Square, James Elliot (1858 - 1948)

2024-05-02T00:29:09Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2013-11-13
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Occupation Ophthalmic surgeon
Details Born on 1 October 1858, the fourth son of the fourteen children of William Joseph Square, FRCS, and his wife Charlotte Anne Hancock. He was educated at Honiton, Marlborough College, and St Bartholomew's Hospital, where he served as house surgeon. He qualified MRCS in 1881, before the establishment of the Conjoint Board, but took the LRCP two years later. He took the Fellowship at the end of 1883. His elder brother, William, was already a Fellow. After serving as clinical assistant at the Royal London Ophthalmic Hospital, Moorfields, he settled in practice as an ophthalmologist at Plymouth. He was for thirty-seven years surgeon to the Royal Eye Infirmary, as his father and brother had been, and was elected consulting surgeon when he retired. He was also for many years treasurer of the Plymouth Medical Society. During the war of 1914-18 Square was administrator of the 4th Southern General Hospital, with the rank of lieutenant-colonel, RAMC (T), gazetted 29 September 1908. He practised at his father's old house, 22 Portland Square, but lived latterly at 10 Bedford Terrace, Plymouth, where he died on 23 September 1948, a week before his ninetieth birthday, being then the senior Fellow, G Andrew and W R Williams having died shortly before. Square married in 1893 Mary Louisa daughter of General John Mullins, RE, and was survived by his son and three daughters. As a young man he was a keen Rugby footballer, and played for his School and Hospital teams, also for Middlesex and Devon County Clubs. Publications: A case of strangulated internal hernia into the foramen of Winslow. *Brit med J* 1886, 1, 1163. Inflation of the Eustachian tubes. *Brit med J* 1888, 1, 295.
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First Title value, for Searching Paton, Roderick McIver (1908 - 1969)

2024-05-02T00:29:09Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2014-09-24
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Occupation Ophthalmic surgeon
Details 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 Fellowship and in 1942 was appointed ophthalmic surgeon to the Western Ophthalmic Hospital and in 1946 obtained the post of consultant ophthalmic surgeon to Chelmsford Hospital. In 1942 he joined the Army and served with the First Army in Algeria and Tunisia and later with the Eighth Army in Italy, being mentioned in dispatches in November 1945. After leaving the army he returned to his civilian duties at the Western Ophthalmic and Chelmsford Hospitals, which posts he filled with distinction until ill health forced his retirement in 1968. As an ophthalmologist he was a most competent all-rounder, with a special interest in histo-pathology. Paton had a rare gift of universal friendship and it was doubtful if any of his patients or colleagues had anything but the most cordial relations with him. He was a man of wide interests, being keen on natural history with a strong bias towards ornithology, botany, and entomology. He took a great interest in astronomy and was a Fellow of the Royal Astronomical Society. He was a keen angler and had a life-long interest also in history, archaeology, and folklore. In 1936 he married Norah Helen Hammond whom he met when she was a nurse and he a house surgeon, and their married life was ideally happy. Paton died after a long illness at the age of 60 on 13 July 1969 and was survived by his wife and two daughters.
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First Title value, for Searching Davies, David Leighton (1874 - 1945)

2024-05-02T00:29:09Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2013-05-01
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Occupation Ophthalmic surgeon
Details Born 13 February 1874 at Pencoed, Glamorgan, eldest son of Rev D P Davies. Educated at Christ College, Brecon and University College, London, he served for a period as clinical assistant in the department at University College Hospital. After taking the Fellowship he was appointed assistant ophthalmic surgeon at Cardiff Royal Infirmary in 1910, became ophthalmic surgeon in 1920 and consulting ophthalmic surgeon when he retired in 1937. He was also consulting ophthalmic surgeon to the King Edward VII Welsh National Memorial Association for Tuberculosis, and an official medical referee for ophthalmic cases for Monmouth and Glamorgan. He served as demonstrator and lecturer in anatomy at the Cardiff Medical School and later as lecturer in ophthalmology at the Welsh National School of Medicine, and was at one time examiner for the DOMS of the English Royal Colleges. Davies was a member of the Ophthalmological Society of the United Kingdom and served as president of the South-western Ophthalmological Society. He was a regular attendant at the Oxford Ophthalmological Congress. He had practised at 31 Newport Road, Cardiff and after retirement lived at Pentrosfa House, Llandrindod Wells, Radnorshire, where he of a heart attack on 6 April 1945, aged 71. He was buried in Llange churchyard. Davies was survived by his wife and two daughters. Davis was an earnest churchman and had served on the Representative Body the Governing Body of the Church in Wales. He was a careful thorough operator with a wide outlook. He was much respected by students and familiarly known as "Leighton". He was modest and retiring by disposition. Publications:- Dacryorhinostomy in treatment of lachrymal sac obstruction: results of Toti's anastomotic method. *Proc Roy Soc Med*. 1921, 14, 59. Anophthalmia and microphthalmia. *Brit J Ophthal*. 1917, 1, 415. Chronic glaucoma. *Lancet*, 1928, 1, 699.
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First Title value, for Searching Ridley, Nicholas Charles (1863 - 1937)

2024-05-02T00:29:09Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2013-10-16
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Occupation Ophthalmic surgeon
Details Born 6 April 1863 at Spilsby, Lincolnshire, the eldest son of the Rev Charles George Ridley, who came from Kimbolton, and Mary Vine, his wife. He was educated at Boston Grammar School and at St Mary's Hospital, where he gained scholarships in natural science and pathology. He acted subsequently as house surgeon, ophthalmic house surgeon, and senior clinical assistant in the ophthalmic department, and was for a time assistant demonstrator of physiology in the Medical School. In 1886 he was placed in the honours list at the intermediate MB examination at the University of London, and to improve his knowledge of diseases of the eye acted as chief clinical assistant at the Royal London (Moorfields) Ophthalmic Hospital. In 1889 he passed into the medical service of the Royal Navy and served until 1892, when he was invalided out for ankylosis of the right knee following a pyogenic infection after fever contracted in the tropics. He settled in practice in Leicester in 1895, and was later in partnership with Maurice Holdsworth Barton, MC, FRCS Ed, MRCS, the two partners specializing in ophthalmology. Ridley was appointed ophthalmic surgeon to the Leicester Royal Infirmary on 12 May 1896, becoming consulting ophthalmic surgeon on 1 May 1923, and was also ophthalmic surgeon to the Blind Institution and Infant Orphan Asylum at Leicester. He was president of the Midland Ophthalmological Society and was Middlemore lecturer in 1923. He married Margaret Parker on 9 July1905. She survived him with two sons, Nicholas Harold Lloyd Ridley, FRCS and Nicolaus Charles Alder Ridley, barrister-at-law, serving in the Colonial Service, Northern Rhodesia. He died on 8 July 1937 at 27 Horsefair Street, Leicester. Publication: Notes and specimens of a case of intraorbital neoplasm. *Brit J Ophthal* 1923, 7, 545.
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First Title value, for Searching Scott, Rupert Strathmore (1887 - 1963)

2024-05-02T00:29:09Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2014-06-04
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Occupation Ophthalmic surgeon
Details Born in Australia in 1887 he completed his education in England by going up to Caius College, Cambridge and, then, for his clinical training to St Bartholomew's Hospital where he qualified with the Conjoint Diploma in 1913 and held a house appointment as resident anaesthetist. On the outbreak of war in 1914 he joined the RAMC and served continuously throughout the war with the BEF in France, mainly with field ambulances. Returning to St Bartholomew's in 1919 he was appointed house surgeon to the eye department and from 1923 until 1926 was chief assistant in the eye department and a demonstrator of anatomy. In 1924 he was appointed pathologist to Moorfields Eye Hospital, in 1926 assistant surgeon in the eye department at St Bartholomew's, and in 1928 assistant surgeon at Moorfields. Becoming senior in the eye department at St Bartholomew's on the retirement of Foster Moore in 1937, he lived in the hospital throughout the period of the blitz during the war of 1939-45 displaying characteristic courage. A strikingly handsome man with great charm of manner, he was at the same time modest and of sincere religious conviction. A careful and sound operator, he was a kind and stimulating mentor to his house surgeons and students. In the later years of his life he bore physical adversity with stoicism but never recovered from an accident he sustained in crossing the Square at St Bartholomew's. He died on 28 September 1963 in St Bartholomew's Hospital aged 76 survived by his wife. A memorial service was held at St Bartholomew's-the-Less on 22 November 1963 when the lesson was read by H B Stallard representing the College and the address was given by Dr John Hunt.
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First Title value, for Searching Hopkins, George Herbert (1861 - 1922)

2024-05-02T00:29:09Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2012-04-25
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Occupation General surgeon Ophthalmic surgeon
Details At the age of 17 he obtained a commission in the Militia. He was educated at University College Hospital, where he acted as House Surgeon. He was afterwards Ambulance Surgeon to the Northern Hospital, Liverpool, and Surgeon on the RMS *City of Berlin*. In 1888 he was Resident Medical Officer at Swansea Hospital. He then practised at 5 Picton Place, Swansea, for eight years; was Surgeon to the Swansea General Hospital; Physician and Ophthalmic Surgeon to the Swansea and South Wales Institute for the Blind; Medical Officer to the Swansea Provident Dispensary; Surgeon Lieutenant, 1st Glamorganshire Volunteer Artillery; and Hon Secretary to the Swansea Medical Society. In 1896 he went out to Australia and settled in Brisbane, where he conducted a successful practice, being known as a competent surgeon, and was appointed Surgeon to the Brisbane General Hospital, and Hon Medical Officer of the Lady Bowen Hospital; he was also a member of the Queensland Medical Board. He was an active member of the Queensland Branch of the British Medical Association, and its President in 1903. He joined the Queensland Defence Force with the rank of Captain RAMC, and was attached to the 8th Infantry Regiment, from which he retired in April, 1914, with the rank of Lieutenant-Colonel. At the outbreak of the War he volunteered for the Defence Force, but was deemed too old for service overseas. Thus, from the age of 17, he through life exhibited an enthusiasm for military service. Of his two sons who enlisted, one was killed in action. He practised at 129 North Quay, Brisbane, and died there on January 6th, 1922, being survived by his wife. Publications: "Radical Cure of Hernia." - *Australasian Med Gaz*, 1897, xvi, 116. "Four Cases of Nephrolithotomy." - *Ibid*, 1898, xvii, 515.
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First Title value, for Searching Square, William Joseph (1813 - 1891)

2024-05-02T00:29:09Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2013-03-18
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Occupation General surgeon Ophthalmic surgeon
Details Born at Kingsbridge, South Devon, on April 28th, 1813. He was educated at a private school at Tavistock and at Crediton Grammar School. He entered St Bartholomew's Hospital in 1838, being a fellow-student of Sir James Paget (qv). After further study in Paris, he settled at Plymouth in partnership with Edmund Rendle, and in 1840 was elected Surgeon to the South Devon and East Cornwall Hospital. He held the post for thirty-five years and was succeeded by his eldest son, William Square (qv). He was also for thirty-two years Surgeon to the Royal Eye Infirmary. He was successful as a surgeon, and published a paper on the "Removal of Loose Cartilage from the Knee-joint by Puncturing the Capsule with a Tenotome and Squeezing out the Cartilage into the Subcutaneous Tissue" in the *London Medical Review* (1861-2, 162). He also published an "Address on Ophthalmic Surgery: its Progress and Present Position" in the *British Medical Journal* (1860, 715, etc). He became a Member of the Plymouth Town Council in 1881, was Chairman of the Sanitary Committee and a Poor Law Guardian. He refused the office of Mayor several times. He was an ardent admirer of Shakespeare, and occasionally lectured on his works. His carrier pigeons were known throughout the country. He was an advocate of temperance, and his lecture, "The Medical Aspects of the Temperance Question", was circulated by the Temperance League. He died after a long illness at 22 Portland Square, Plymouth, on September 17th, 1891, leaving a widow and thirteen children; the eldest son, William Square (qv), and another son, James Elliot Square, FRCS, practised with him.
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First Title value, for Searching Carswell, William Elliott (1882 - 1958)

2024-05-02T00:29:09Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2014-02-03
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Occupation ENT surgeon Ophthalmic surgeon
Details Born 27 July 1882 at Anowtown, Central Otago, New Zealand, he was educated at Otago Boys High School and Otago University where he qualified in 1906. He then came to England for two years, and after taking the Fellowship returned to practice at Gore, Southland. He soon moved to Dunedin, where in 1915 he became assistant surgeon to the Public Hospital under Professor Sir Louis Barnett. He was at the same time surgical tutor and lecturer in surgical anatomy at the Medical School, and during the war carried out much military surgery and founded a physiotherapy department for rehabilitation of ex-soldiers. After the war he made postgraduate studies in London and then specialised in ophthalmology and in the surgery of the ear nose and throat. Back in Dunedin he succeeded A J Hall in the ENT department and, in 1937, Sir Lindo Ferguson in the eye department of Dunedin Hospital. He also lectured on these subjects in the University. He retired from all these posts in 1945 but continued in active practice at 211 High St, Dunedin, till 1957. He was the first local President of the Hard of Hearing League, and a founder member of the New Zealand Ophthalmological Society and afterwards its President. He was a foundation Fellow of the Royal Australasian College of Surgeons and examined in ophthalmology for its Fellowship. Carswell was an assiduous reader and an excellent teacher, unassuming, generous, and cheerful. His recreations were trout-fishing, ornithology, and billiards at the University Club of which he was a founding member in 1923. He died on 19 September 1958 in Dunedin and his widow, Eleanor Ann (MacGibbon), died unexpectedly a few weeks later at Christchurch. Their two married daughters and their son, William Roy Carswell MC, FRCS of Palmerston North, survived them.
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First Title value, for Searching Pooley, George Henry (1867 - 1937)

2024-05-02T00:29:09Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2013-10-04
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Occupation Ophthalmic surgeon
Details Born at Stonham Aspall, of the Rev John George Pooley, vicar of Stonham Aspall. He was educated at Tonbridge during the year 1882-3 and at Lancing for three years. He was admitted to Caius College Cambridge on 1 October 1886 but left without graduating after a residence of three years. He entered St George's Hospital and subsequently filled the post of house surgeon at the Royal Westminster Ophthalmic Hospital and chief clinical assistant at Moorfields. During the South African war he served as a civil surgeon, and in 1906 was appointed ophthalmic registrar at St George's Hospital. On 2 October 1911 he received a commission as major in the RAMC (T) and was attached to the 3rd Northern General Hospital. He settled at Sheffield in 1909, where he became ophthalmic surgeon to the Royal Infirmary in succession to Simeon Snell and lecturer in ophthalmology at the Sheffield University. He gradually fell into bad health and died on 29 May 1937 while on holiday at Westgate-on-Sea and was buried there. Pooley was a man of considerable talent who carried on Snell's work on miners' nystagmus and invented an operation for the relief of glaucoma. He practised at 199 Greaves Street, Sheffield. Publications: Hydatid cyst of the orbit. *Ophthal Rev* 1912, 31, 257. Sclerostomy, an operation for glaucoma. *Ibid* 1913, 32, 202. Some technical points which increase efficiency of the operation for excision of the lacrimal sac. *Ibid* p 325. Case of cyst of the iris. *Proc Roy Soc Med* 1912-13, 6, Ophth p 140. On miners' nystagmus. *Ibid* 1913-14, 7, Neurol Ophth and Otol p 32. An improvement in local anaesthesia in operations upon the eye. *Ophthalmoscope*, 1914, 12, 464.
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First Title value, for Searching McMullen, William Halliburton (1876 - 1958)

2024-05-02T00:29:09Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2014-03-19
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Occupation Ophthalmic surgeon
Details Born in London on 19 July 1876 a son of William McMullen of Camberwell, he was educated at the City of London School, King's College, London and King's College Hospital. After qualification he served as house surgeon, curator and pathologist at the Royal Westminster Ophthalmic Hospital. His first consultant appointment was as assistant ophthalmic surgeon to the Miller General Hospital, and in 1912 he was appointed ophthalmic surgeon to the Hospital for Sick Children, Great Ormond Street, a post from which he retired in 1920. During the war of 1914-18 he acted as ophthalmic specialist at the Central London Recruiting Depot and was awarded the OBE for his services. In 1919 he became ophthalmic surgeon to the Royal Northern Hospital, relinquishing this appointment in 1923. At the Royal Westminster Ophthalmic, now part of the Charing Cross Group and at one time part of Charing Cross Hospital itself, he was at first assistant surgeon and later full surgeon until his retirement in 1936, and in 1928 was responsible for planning the new hospital in High Holborn with one hundred in place of forty beds. He was at one time President of the Ophthalmological Section of the Royal Society of Medicine and Vice-President of the Ophthalmological Society of Great Britain. A man of calm, unruffled exterior and distinguished appearance, he was a good teacher and very thorough in his approach to any clinical problem. His hobbies included water-colour sketching and golf. In 1906 he married Kate Constance, daughter of G Randall Higgins, who died seven months after her husband, and by whom he had three sons. He died suddenly on 15 April 1958 at Richmond aged 81. A memorial service was held at St John's Wood Chapel on 7 May 1958.
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First Title value, for Searching Foster, John (1903 - 1984)

2024-05-02T00:29:09Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2015-05-13
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Occupation Ophthalmic surgeon
Details John Foster, the eldest son of John Robert Foster, an ophthalmic surgeon, and of Emily Jane (née Elliot) was born on 31 October 1903 in West Hartlepool. He was educated at Aysgarth School, Uppingham School and Caius College, Cambridge, before entering the London Hospital Medical School where he won prizes for clinical medicine, clinical surgery, minor surgery and the Treves Prize. After qualifying in 1928 he held three house appointments at the London Hospital and was then house surgeon at the Royal Westminster Eye Hospital where he secured the Guthrie Research Prize and passed the final FRCS in 1930. He was appointed consultant ophthalmic surgeon to the Leeds General Infirmary in 1933 and later recorded his professional indebtedness to Russell Howard and Charles Goulden in England, and to Hermegildo Arruga and Louis Pufique abroad. He served the Leeds General Infirmary for 35 years and was also senior lecturer in ophthalmology at the University of Leeds. He was a Hunterian Professor of the Royal College of Surgeons in 1956 and President of the Ophthalmic Section of the Royal Society of Medicine in 1961. At various times he gave the May, Middlemore and Montgomery Lectures; he also gave the Doyne Lecture at Oxford in 1951, later published as *Aims and obstacles in the ophthalmic clinic*. He edited the second edition of Philps's *Ophthalmic operations*, 1961. John Foster was a man of notable integrity who, during his hospital service, took a great interest in every junior doctor who worked with him. He was a gifted after dinner speaker, a keen golfer, and a lifelong bachelor who continued in private practice until his death on 7 April, 1984.
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First Title value, for Searching Arkle, John Stanley (1890 - 1969)

2024-05-02T00:29:09Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2014-07-14
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Occupation Ophthalmic surgeon
Details John Arkle was born in Newcastle-upon-Tyne on 28 July 1890 and was educated at St George's Private School at Gosforth. Subsequently he went to Edinburgh with a view to becoming an actuary, but after 12 months left Edinburgh to study medicine at Durham University. Arkle was a brilliant student and won numerous prizes including a gold medal. After graduation in 1913 he held house appointments in the Royal Victoria Infirmary, Newcastle, and joined the RAMC in 1914. During the war he served for five years, first as a regimental medical officer with the Royal Scots in Flanders and later as a Major with the 3rd Casualty Clearing Station. He was appointed OBE in 1919 for his services in France and Flanders. On demobilisation he studied for a time at Moorfields Eye Hospital, London, before going to Edinburgh to obtain his Fellowship in Ophthalmology. In 1920 he was appointed honorary assistant ophthalmic surgeon to the Royal Infirmary, Newcastle and eight years later became full surgeon and head of the department of ophthalmology, and lecturer in the same subject at Durham University. In 1949 he was elected FRCS *ad eundem*. In 1950 he relinquished the posts in Newcastle and Durham, but continued to serve the Hospital in Newcastle until his final retirement in 1955. Arkle was an ideal chief to his juniors and an excellent teacher. He was a regular attender at the Oxford Ophthalmological Congress, the Society of the United Kingdom, and the North of England Ophthalmological Society of which he was president in 1949. In 1916 he married Euphemia Banks Wade, who died in 1955. He died suddenly at his home on 19 November 1969 at the age of 79. He was survived by his son and daughter, both doctors, and six grandchildren.
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First Title value, for Searching Cross, Alexander Galbraith (1908 - 1996)

2024-05-02T00:29:09Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2015-09-07
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Occupation Ophthalmic surgeon
Details Alexander Galbraith Cross was born in London on 29 March 1908, the son of Walter Galbraith, a bank manager, and his wife Mary Stewart, née McKeich, a farmer's daughter. He was educated at King's College School, Caius College Cambridge, and St Mary's Hospital, where he was a University Scholar and won the Cheadle Gold Medal and the Broadbent Prize. He qualified MB BCh and MRCS LRCP in 1933 and went on to hold house physician and house surgeon posts at St Mary's and Moorfields, obtaining his FRCS in 1936. In 1937 he played fly half for St Mary's in their cup winning side. He served in the RAF Voluntary Reserve from 1941 to 1946 as a wing commander, and was adviser in ophthalmology to the South East Asia Air Forces, based in Burma. After the war he became consultant ophthalmic surgeon to St Mary's and Moorfields (and many other hospitals), served as dean of the Medical School at St Mary's from 1951 to 1960, and in 1967 became dean of the Institute of Ophthalmology. He served as a co-opted member (ophthalmology) on the Council of the Royal College of Surgeons between 1962 and 1967. Other responsibilities included the Presidency of the Faculty of Ophthalmologists from 1968 to 1971, Chairmanship of the Ophthalmic Group Committee from 1963 to 1971 and civilian consultant in ophthalmology to the Royal Navy in 1946. He was also ophthalmic surgeon to St Dunstan's and the Royal National Institute for the Blind. In 1939 he married Eileen, the niece of the then professor of surgery at St Mary's, C A Pannett. He enjoyed sports (rugby and later tennis, golf and squash) gardening and, an unsuspected accomplishment, tapestry. He died on 4 February 1996, survived by his wife, daughter Diana, a physiotherapist, and two grandchildren, Alison and John.
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First Title value, for Searching Lowe, Ronald Francis (1913 - 1998)

2024-05-02T00:29:09Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2015-11-18
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Occupation Ophthalmic surgeon Ophthalmologist
Details Ron Lowe was consultant ophthalmic surgeon to the Royal Victorian Eye and Ear Hospital. He was born in Melbourne on 14 November 1913, the third son of William E Lowe, a contractor, and Isabella née Hinde. He was educated at Wesley College, Melbourne, and qualified as a pharmacist at the University of Melbourne before changing to medicine. He graduated with first class honours and the prize in surgery. After junior posts, he joined the RAAMC and served in Papua New Guinea and Darwin, but towards the end of the war the Army seconded him to the Royal Victorian Eye and Ear Hospital to specialise in ophthalmology. After the war, he took the FRACS and came to England to gain the first Fellowship in ophthalmology to be awarded by examination by the College. On his return to Australia, he became consultant surgeon to the Royal Victorian Eye and Ear Hospital, and eventually became senior ophthalmic surgeon and ophthalmologist in charge of the glaucoma unit. He published numerous papers, many of them on angle closure glaucoma, but more recently on the development of ophthalmic pioneers, both in Australia and overseas. He travelled extensively, studying glaucoma in China and noting many regional differences. The conjoined libraries of the Royal Victorian Eye and Ear Hospital and the Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Ophthalmologists, named after him, was opened in 1996. A tall and imposing man, he married Lois Olga Evans in 1941, by whom he had two sons, Rupert and Richard, one of whom painted the portrait of Ron which is preserved in his library. Lois predeceased him in 1985 and he then married Zena, a fellow ophthalmologist. He died on 26 March 1998.
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First Title value, for Searching Nunneley, Thomas (1809 - 1870)

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First Title value, for Searching Neame, Humphrey (1887 - 1968)

2024-05-02T00:29:09Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2014-09-23
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Occupation Ophthalmic surgeon
Details Humphrey Neame was born on 8 May 1887 and went to school at Cheltenham College; he was President of the Cheltonian Society in 1951-52. He did his undergraduate course at the London Hospital, and after qualifying with the Conjoint Diploma in 1910 he spent a year in Serbia at the time of the Balkan war as resident surgeon in the Military Hospital at Kragujevač. He held appointments at the London and at Poplar Hospital and took the Fellowship in 1913. Then came the first world war in which he served with the RAMC and was awarded the Croix-de-Guerre. After the war he decided to specialize in ophthalmology, and, in addition to appointments as registrar and pathologist at the London Hospital, he joined the staff of the Central London Ophthalmic Hospital, which is now the Institute of Ophthalmology, and somewhat later became pathologist at Moorfields Eye Hospital. In 1926 he was appointed to the surgical staff of Moorfields, on which he served till 1947. In 1923 he was made honorary ophthalmic surgeon to University College Hospital and worked there till his retirement in 1952 at the age of 65. He might have continued to practise after retiring from hospital work had it not been for failing health, and for this reason he went to live in the country, at West Hendred on the north slope of the Berkshire Downs, near Wantage, where he was able to enjoy his garden in peace. In his time he played a leading part in his specialty, having been secretary of the Section of Ophthalmology at the Annual Meeting of the British Medical Association in 1924, and in 1953-54 he was President of the Section of Ophthalmology of the Royal Society of Medicine. In his writing, both in articles in the journals and in text books, notably *A handbook of ophthalmology* which was compiled jointly with Williamson-Noble, and also in frequent contributions to discussions at ophthalmological meetings he emphasised the medical as well as the surgical aspects of his subject. Humphrey Neame was married twice. In 1924 he married Minnie Gordon Skirving who died tragically after a car accident in 1932, leaving two small sons. In 1938 he married Elizabeth Monroe, a distinguished historian and economist, and she with his sons survived him when he died on 25 July 1968, after a long illness, at the age of 81.
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First Title value, for Searching Lister, Arthur (1905 - 1975)

2024-05-02T00:29:09Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2015-01-28
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Occupation Ophthalmic surgeon
Details Arthur Lister was born in Aberdeen on 12 February 1905. His father was a physician and Lord Lister was his great-uncle. He was educated at Lancing and Trinity College, Cambridge, where he graduated BA in 1927. He began his clinical studies that year, entering the London Hospital with a Price University Scholarship. He qualified MB BCh Cambridge in 1934. As a nephew of Sir William Lister, who undoubtedly influenced him profoundly, he turned early to the study of ophthalmology and was elected to the staff of both Moorfields and the London in 1939. This stage of his career was interrupted by the second world war, when he served in the Army as a Lieutenant-Colonel. He was adviser in ophthalmology to 21st Army Group and to Allied Land Forces South-east Asia. At the end of the war there was an outburst of new ideas, mainly in Europe and America. With characteristic enthusiasm he took up the newer techniques of corneal and cataract surgery, which, together with those used in the treatment of glaucoma and retinal detachment, marked a clear transition into the period of modern practice as we now know it. Particularly interested in congenital glaucoma and in the angle of the anterior chamber, he made a collection of superb stereoscopic photographs of this structure. He was influential in introducing into Britain the technique of goniotomy, which radically improved the prospects for vision in children with congenital glaucoma. Lister travelled to many parts of the world, and the contacts and friends he made at that time formed a nucleus from which have grown the many links which Moorfields now has overseas. His spare time was spent in a great variety of interests with his devoted family. He enjoyed walking and bird watching, and in later years made a modest collection of fine clocks. On duty his attendance at hospital could be inferred by the presence of his well known old open 1937 LG45 Rapide 4½-litre Lagonda in British racing green, which he loved to 'let out' on the open road. He was modest and unassuming, but his integrity and honesty of purpose will not be forgotten and he was a great champion of lone causes. Highly conscientious, his first consideration was always for his patients. He married Margaret Pryor in 1930 and had three sons and two daughters, one son is a doctor. He died on 21 March 1975, aged 70 years.
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First Title value, for Searching Wolff, Eugene (1896 - 1954)

2024-05-02T00:29:09Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2014-06-23
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Occupation Ophthalmic surgeon
Details Born on 11 March 1896 at Oudtshoorn, Cape, South Africa, he was educated at University College School and Hospital, London, winning the Lister medal for clinical surgery in 1918 and serving as house surgeon and ophthalmic registrar. He was commissioned in the South African Medical Corps towards the end of the first world war, but returned to University College as demonstrator of anatomy in 1919 under the famous Grafton Elliot Smith; he also lectured on anatomy to the students of the Slade School of Art at University College 1920-30. After a period as chief clinical assistant at Moorfields, he succeeded Basil Lang in 1928 as ophthalmic surgeon to the Royal Northern Hospital, became pathologist at the Royal Westminster Ophthalmic Hospital in 1930 and surgeon there in 1936. He was also on the staff of the Metropolitan, the Albert Dock, and the London Jewish hospitals. He was a consulting ophthalmic surgeon to the London County Council, and after the second world war he taught at the Institute of Ophthalmology and was a member of the North-Western Metropolitan Regional Hospital Board. Wolff excelled not merely as a skilled surgeon and sympathetic physician, generous of time and concern in his patients' problems, he was also a good anatomist, pathologist, teacher, artist and writer. His successful books, which were illustrated by his own drawings and photographs, included: *Anatomy for Artists* (1926; 3rd edition 1947), *A shorter Anatomy* (1928), *Anatomy of the Eye and Orbit* (1933; 4th edition 1953, later revised by R J Last), *Pathology of the Eye* (1934; 3rd edition 1951), and *Diseases of the Eye* (1937; 4th edition 1952), He was also on the editorial board of the *British Journal of Ophthalmology*, to which he contributed several papers. He was a vice-president of the Ophthalmological Society in 1945 and of the Ophthalmology sections of the Royal Society of Medicine and the British Medical Association, and an honorary member of the Belgian and Greek Ophthalmology Societies. He was awarded the William Mackenzie Memorial Medal at Glasgow in 1947. Wolff married in 1923 Lydia Abravenel, member of a prominent French Sephardic family. He died suddenly on 25 February 1954 at 46 Wimpole Street, aged 57, survived by his wife and daughter, and was buried at the Jewish Cemetery, Hoop Lane, NW. He was a genial, modest, thoughtful, industrious, enthusiastic man, especially kind and hospitable to his graduate students. Music provided his chief recreation.
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First Title value, for Searching Ridley, Frederick (1904 - 1977)

2024-05-02T00:29:09Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2015-03-04
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Occupation Ophthalmic surgeon
Details Frederick Ridley was born in Birmingham, where his father was a schoolteacher. Having graduated BSc at Birmingham in 1922 he took the MB, BS in 1925 and the FRCS in 1928. As a young man he worked with Fleming on lysozyme, and his basic work on purification helped in the subsequent development of penicillin. His publications while mainly concerned in later years with contact lens practice, covered a diversity of subjects such as psychology of vision, measurement of visual acuity, and the disinfection of plastics. He began to take an interest in contact lenses during the second world war. The application of dental techniques to making a model of the eye and then copying it in plastic to form a scleral lens required precision equipment, in his opinion. He developed this equipment and procedure, and the technology is still in use 25 years later. When the NHS began and the Central London Hospital closed to become the Institute of Ophthalmology he was appointed consultant surgeon to Moorfields Eye Hospital at the High Holborn branch. In the early 1950s he developed there a contact lens department primarily concerned with the protection of the diseased anterior eye segment and the correction of high refractive errors. The department now has an international reputation in no small measure due to the sound foundations he laid. The procedure of protecting the anterior segment of the eye by plastic to promote healing instead of sewing the lids together, while not entirely new, was fully developed by Ridley in the early sixties. He gave the Middlemore Lecture in 1951 and the Doyne Memorial Lecture in 1954; was awarded the Edward Nettleship Prize and Medal in 1953; became President of the Section of Ophthalmology at the Royal Society of Medicine in 1963; and received the Sight Foundation award of Baylor University in 1966. Frederick Ridley was a tall, handsome man and had charm that some of his patients and staff never forgot. He was always anxious to help those in need, and as senior surgeon in the few years before retirement he enjoyed the role of father figure to his hospital. He was twice married, first in 1940, to Josephine Rose Ansell by whom he had two daughters. This marriage was dissolved and he married in 1965, Pauline Cartier Bourgeois. He died on 2 February 1977, aged 73 years.
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First Title value, for Searching Lloyd, Ronald Ivor Thomas (1907 - 1977)

2024-05-02T00:29:09Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2015-01-28
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Occupation Ophthalmic surgeon
Details 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, continuing to work part time as an optician. Despite this encroachment on his time for medical studies he had a brilliant academic career. He took the chemistry and physics prize in his first MB examination, the anatomy prize in the second MB, and later the surgical anatomy prize. He graduated with second class honours in 1941, taking the Hillman and Butterworth Prizes in medicine and surgery. At Leeds General Infirmary he held appointments successively as house surgeon, house physician, and junior casualty officer. He was a demonstrator in anatomy in 1942 and senior casualty officer in 1943. In 1944 he became FRCS. The following year he took an appointment as ophthalmic house surgeon at Stoke and then returned to Leeds as resident ophthalmic officer. In 1946 he was appointed ophthalmic surgeon to the Royal Eye and Ear Hospital at Bradford Royal Infirmary in 1965, where he later became senior consultant. He held this post until his retirement in 1972. He was elected a member of the Faculty of Ophthalmologists, and was secretary of the North of England Ophthalmological Society from 1961 to 1973. His recreations were golf and fishing, in both of which he excelled. In addition he was a fully qualified pilot. He was married and had two sons. He died on 16 December 1977, aged 70 years.
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First Title value, for Searching Hallidie, Andrew Hallidie Smith (1862 - 1947)

2024-05-02T00:29:09Z

First Title value, for Searching Minton (originally Mintzman), Joseph (1900 - 1961)

2024-05-02T00:29:09Z

First Title value, for Searching Wood, Cyril George Russ (1869 - 1938)

2024-05-02T00:29:09Z

First Title value, for Searching MacLaughlin, Francis Alexander (1899 - 1984)

2024-05-02T00:29:09Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2015-06-15
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Occupation ENT surgeon Ophthalmic surgeon
Details Francis MacLaughlin was born in Belfast on 27 May 1899 the only child of Alexander, a banker, and Elizabeth (née Brown). He was educated at Campbell College and Queen's University, Belfast, qualifying with honours in June 1921. He embarked on a career of otorhinolaryngology, but also ophthalmology, being at one time in the Royal Ophthalmic Hospital, London. He became FRCS in 1926. In the second world war he was, as Surgeon Commander RNVR, senior ophthalmic surgeon, Scotland, and then in the Nore Command, Chatham Royal Naval Hospital. He was a member of the RNVR for 20 years, being awarded the VRD while at Chatham. His clinical consultant career was entirely in Belfast and he also served as Chairman of the Royal Victoria Hospital, as President of the Ulster Medical Society and as President of the Irish Otolaryngological Society. He was elected Honorary FRCSI in 1977. He was an accomplished man with wide interests including ornithology, archaeology, philately, numismatology, model railways but especially in model ship building. He built over 100 finely detailed models, many of which were displayed in his consulting rooms; part of the collection is now housed in the Ulster Transport Museum. He had a great love of the countryside and a walk with him was an enriching experience. On 3 October 1933 he married Florence Clokey and they had two sons and one daughter, none of whom took up medicine. He died on 4 May 1984 aged 84, his wife having predeceased him by only a few weeks.
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First Title value, for Searching Bankes, James Leslie Kennerley (1935 - 1993)

2024-05-02T00:29:09Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2015-09-02
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Occupation Ophthalmic surgeon
Details James Bankes was born in Romiley, Cheshire, on 10 March 1935, the son of Reginald and Alice Bankes, who were both pharmacists. He was educated at King's School Macclesfield, King Edward VII School, King's Lynn, and the City University, London, before entering St Mary's Hospital Medical School where he won the physiology prize and qualified in 1961. After junior appointments at St Mary's and the Whittington Hospitals he became senior house officer at the Western Ophthalmic Hospital, and then rose up the ladder at Moorfields Eye Hospital. He was appointed consultant ophthalmic surgeon to St Mary's Hospital , Paddington, the Western Ophthalmic Hospital and St Luke's Hospital for the Clergy. Later he became ophthalmic surgeon to the Royal Naval Officers' Association. secretary to the Ophthalmic Society of the United Kingdom and sub-dean at St Mary's Hospital Medical School. His publications included important contributions in ophthalmology, such as *Clinical ophthalmology: a text and colour atlas* and *Sports eye injuries*. In 1991 James Bankes was appointed Master of the Worshipful Company of Spectacle Makers of London. His other interests included painting in oils, opera, theatre, wine, bookbinding, and collecting eighteenth century furniture and silver. In 1962 he married Josephine Anne Kingswell, JP, BSc, known as 'Jofan'. They had two sons, Angus, a computer consultant and Marcus, an orthopaedic surgeon. He died on 16 October 1993 at the early age of 58 from carcinoma of the prostate, survived by his wife and sons.
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First Title value, for Searching Fife, Joseph Bainbridge (1823 - 1891)

2024-05-02T00:29:09Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2011-12-14
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Occupation General surgeon Ophthalmic surgeon
Details The second of the four sons of Sir John Fife (qv), who was the leading operator in the North of England, and a founder of the Newcastle College of Medicine. His mother was a Miss Bainbridge, and his paternal grandfather was a Scottish medical man who settled in Newcastle-upon-Tyne. He entered the newly-formed Newcastle-upon-Tyne School of Medicine and Surgery in the session 1836-1837. His father was lecturing upon the Principles and Practice of Surgery, and the School had just engaged, at a rental of forty pounds a year, the Hall of the Worshipful Company of "Barber Surgeons together with Wax and Tallow Chandlers" in 'The Manors' adjoining the east end of the Jesus Hospital. He was appointed Demonstrator of Anatomy jointly with his brother, W H Fife, in October, 1843, but only held the office for a year. It is not until October, 1851, that he appears as a teacher of operative surgery in the school. This post he held until 1854, when he was appointed to teach clinical ophthalmic surgery. He was also one of the Surgeons to the Newcastle Eye and Ear Infirmary and to the Newcastle Hospital for Sick Children. Fife is described as a good general and ophthalmic surgeon with a large consulting practice as an eye specialist. He retired many years before his death, and though retaining for a time his address at 9 Hood Street, Newcastle, he withdrew eventually to a hunting seat at Croft, near Darlington, his hereditary practice passing to Christopher Samuel Jeaffreson. He was unmarried, and very like his father in appearance and manners, the latter being described in the *Dictionary of National Biography* as courtly in manner and neat in person. The father worked very hard in his profession, but the son disliked drudgery and was always glad to escape for a day with the hounds. Old Newcastle men remembered their favourite lecturer as 'Joe' Fife. He died at Croft, where he had a house as early as 1839, on February 12th, 1891.
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First Title value, for Searching Uhthoff, John Caldwell (1857 - 1927)

2024-05-02T00:29:09Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2013-01-09
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Occupation General surgeon Ophthalmic surgeon
Details Educated at Brighton College, and studied at Guy's Hospital, where he highly distinguished himself at the London University examinations and acted as House Surgeon, House Physician, Obstetric Resident, and Assistant Demonstrator of Anatomy, and was good at sports. He was next House Surgeon at the Royal Surrey County Hospital and then settled in Hove and acquired a large practice; he next moved to Wavertree House, Brunswick Place, Brighton. He held the posts of Assistant Surgeon to the Sussex County Hospital, Surgeon to the Brighton and Hove Lying-in Institution, and to the Sussex Eye Hospital; in the latter connection he became known as an ophthalmologist. For a time from 1881 he was a MRCP, but resigned his membership to go into partnership. The membership was restored to him at his request in 1896, and in 1908 he again surrendered it to take a partner. In 1915 he took as partner Frederick A S Hutchinson, MD Cantab, Furze Hill, Brighton. During the European War (1914-1918) he acted as Medical Officer to one of the Military Hospitals in Brighton. He was an active member of the British Medical Association, serving on the South-Eastern Branch Council from 1888-1893; he was also one of the Secretaries of the Pathological Section and Vice-President of the Section of Pharmacology and Therapeutics at the Brighton Meeting in 1913. He retired to Bournemouth in 1921, but continued his interest by representing the Bournemouth Division on the Council of the Association. He died at Bournemouth on January 19th, 1927, and was buried at Hove. His partner, Dr F A S Hutchinson, had died on the previous January 6th in Switzerland. He was twice married: (1) to a daughter of Charles King, North Lodge, Enfield; and (2) to a daughter of F G Cunningham, Bentley House, Hampshire.
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First Title value, for Searching Cant, William Edmund (1844 - 1936)

2024-05-02T00:29:09Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2013-04-18
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Occupation Ophthalmic surgeon
Details Born at Colchester, Essex, 30 June 1844, the only child of William Cant, seedgrower, and Elizabeth Cross, his wife. He was educated at the Royal Grammar School, Colchester, and afterwards entered St George's Hospital, where he acted as house surgeon. For some years he took house surgeoncies at the Royal Westminster Ophthalmic Hospital, at the Seamen's Hospital, Greenwich, and at the Great Ormond Street Hospital for Sick Children. From 1878 to 1885 he was surgeon in charge of the government lock hospitals and was assistant surgeon at the Central London Ophthalmic Hospital. He was, too, tutor in the medical school at Bristol. In March 1888 he went to Jerusalem under the auspices of the Order of St John of Jerusalem to take charge of their ophthalmic hospital, which at that time was the only hospital in Palestine devoted to the treatment of eye disease. Here he soon made a name for himself. In the early days many patients - nervous, wild, and free - escaped from the hospital and only returned months later in a worse state than when they had first been admitted. The skill and patience of Dr Cant, ably assisted by his wife, caused the Arabs in time to bring their children as well as their elders. The growth of the work led to the appointment of an English assistant ophthalmic surgeon and later still of English nurses in addition to the devoted native assistants who had been properly trained. Dr Cant resigned his position and returned to England in December 1911. As a reward for his services he was made a Knight of the Order of St John of Jerusalem, and was later decorated MBE. He died on 17 August 1936 at the Mill House, Lexden, Colchester, survived by his widow, nee Mary Hill, but without children. He was at the time of his death the senior FRCS. Mrs Cant died on 5 December 1936.
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First Title value, for Searching Hepburn, Malcolm Langton (1866 - 1942)

2024-05-02T00:29:09Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2013-07-03
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Occupation Ophthalmic surgeon
Details Born in London on 20 October 1866, second child and eldest son of Paul Augustus Hepburn, member of a firm of tanners, and Mary his wife, daughter of Henry John Langton. Mrs Hepburn's youngest brother was John Langton, surgeon to St Bartholomew's Hospital. P A Hepburn was the eldest son of his parents and, as he died young, his son became head of his branch of the "clan". Malcolm Hepburn was educated at Uppingham and at St Bartholomew's, where he won the Foster prize in 1888. He specialized in ophthalmology and joined the staff of the Royal London Ophthalmic Hospital, Moorfields, where he became dean of the Medical School and ultimately consulting surgeon. He served for a time as assistant surgeon at the Central London Ophthalmic Hospital, and was also consulting ophthalmic surgeon to the Royal Free Hospital. He was lecturer in ophthalmology at the London (RFH) School of Medicine for Women, and examined in ophthalmology for the Conjoint Board in Part 2 of the Diploma, 1922-27. He practised at 111 Harley Street. Hepburn served on the council of the Ophthalmological Society of the United Kingdom, became president of the section of ophthalmology at the Royal Society of Medicine, and delivered the Doyne memorial lecture at the Oxford Ophthalmological Congress 1935. He was a Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society and a member of the Alpine Club. Hepburn married on 30 September 1896 Ruby Worthington, who survived him with a son and three daughters. He died on 16 May 1942. Publications:- *The ophthalmology of general practice*. London, Cassell, 1922. 195 pages. Conjunctiva, Cornea, Refraction, in *Dictionary of Practical Medicine*, 1921. Differential diagnosis of certain white deposits seen in the fundus. *Proc Roy Soc Med* 1932, 25, 993. The role played by the pigment and visual fields in the diagnosis of diseases of the fundus. Doyne memorial lecture. *Trans Ophthal Soc UK* 1935, 55, 434.
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First Title value, for Searching Ogilvie, Fergus Monteith (1862 - 1918)

2024-05-02T00:29:09Z

First Title value, for Searching Watson, William Spencer (1836 - 1906)

2024-05-02T00:29:09Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2013-01-30
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Occupation Ophthalmic surgeon
Details Born 2nd March, 1836, son of John Watson, who practised for fifty years in Bloomsbury; entered Merchant Taylors' School, Sept, 1843, gained the Warneford Entrance Scholarship at King's College, and the Senior Warneford Scholarship in Medicine. He practised at 8 Henrietta Street, Cavendish Square, and was Surgeon to the Throat Department of the Great Northern Hospital, to the Central London Ophthalmic Hospital, and the Royal Eye Hospital, Southwark. He was in particular a pioneer in the surgery of the nose and nasal sinuses. He directed attention to the fact that suppuration might occur in the antrum without pain or external swelling. He was also held in high esteem as an ophthalmologist. Failing eyesight compelled him to retire to 44 Chepstow Place, Kensington, and an operation for cataract failed to prevent almost total blindness. Yet he kept up his attendance at the Courts of the Sadlers' Company, where he had served as Master, and thus met his fellow-liverymen almost to the last. He died on September 17th, 1906. There is a photograph of him in the College Album. Publications: *Diseases of the Nose and its Accessory Cavities*, 8vo, London, 1875; 2nd ed, with special sections by R LIVEING, W Adams, and A E CUMBERBATCH, 1890. A standard work. "On the Influence of Nasal Stenosis." - *Trans Med Soc*, 1889, xv, 306. "Case of Deflected Nasal Septum Successfully Treated." - *Lancet*, 1895, ii, 93. "On Keratitis." - *Med Mirror*, 1864, i; also *Ophthalmic Soc Trans*, 1894, xiv, 77. "On Traumatic Keratitis." - *Medical Mirror*, 1865, ii. "On Abscess of Tumours of the Orbit." - *Ibid*, 1865-9, ii-vi. *Eye-ball Tension*, 12mo, London, 1879. *The Anatomy and Diseases of the Lachrymal Passages*, 8vo, London, 1892. "Subacute Glaucoma Successfully Treated by Iridectomy." - *Lond Med Times and Gaz*, 1863, i, 481. "Intra-orbital Dermoid Cyst." - *Lancet*, 1872, ii, 118.
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First Title value, for Searching Philps, Alan Seymour (1906 - 1956)

2024-05-02T00:29:09Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2014-04-07
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Occupation Ophthalmic surgeon
Details Born on 28 February 1906 son of Francis John Philps, sometime editor of the *Financial Times*, he was educated at Aldenham and St Bartholomew's Hospital, where after qualifying he was house surgeon to George Gask and Thomas Dunhill, later becoming house surgeon and resident medical officer at the Royal Westminster Ophthalmic Hospital. In 1931 he was chief assistant in the eye department at St Bartholomew's Hospital. In 1932 he was appointed ophthalmic surgeon to the Victoria Hospital for Children, Chelsea, and to the Miller General Hospital, Greenwich. In 1938 he became an assistant surgeon at Moorfields and full surgeon in 1940. During the war he was commissioned in the RAMC and served as ophthalmic specialist, being particularly involved during the invasion of Normandy in 1944. After the war he was appointed assistant ophthalmic surgeon at St Bartholomew's Hospital and full surgeon in 1948, at the same time acting as consulting ophthalmic surgeon to the Mid-Herts Hospital Group and serving as secretary of the ophthalmic advisory committee of the NE Metropolitan Regional Hospital Board. In 1949 the Ministry of Transport appointed him their adviser. A good teacher, he joined the Institute of Ophthalmology in 1951, following the publication of his book *Ophthalmic Operations*, illustrated with his own drawings and photographs, in 1950. In 1952 he carried out a valuable lecture tour in Australia, New Zealand and Canada. An artist of skill and the friend of artists, his hobbies included cabinet making. He married first Joan Wood Hill by whom he had three daughters, and secondly Dilys Bronwen Jones by whom he had two sons. He died after two years' illness on 26 April 1956 at his home in Hampstead. A memorial service was held in the church of St Bartholomew the Less on 4 May, when the lesson was read by O S Tubbs and an address given by Dr Geoffrey Bourne.
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First Title value, for Searching Rao, Dhulipala Kameswara (1905 - 1973)

2024-05-02T00:29:09Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2014-10-02
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Occupation General practitioner Ophthalmic surgeon
Details Dhulipala Kameswara Rao was born in Andhra Pradesh, South India, on 18 August 1905, the son of a lawyer. He was educated locally until he entered the Madras Medical College, from which he graduated MB BS in 1930. He was a junior house officer at the Government General Hospital and at the Government Maternity Hospital Madras, and obtained the diploma in gynaecology and obstetrics in 1932. He then worked for four years in general practice in 1936 came to Britain to obtain higher qualifications. He passed the FRCS Edinburgh in 1938 and then settled down for the rest of his working life in the Birmingham district. Rao was first a house surgeon at the Birmingham Ear and Throat Hospital in 1938-9, and then in 1940 he went to the Birmingham and Midland Eye Hospital as house surgeon, and, in 1941, resident surgical officer. From 1942 onwards, for the rest of his career, he worked there as senior hospital medical officer and clinical assistant. Ophthalmology thus became his principal interest and he obtained the FRFPS Glasgow in 1950, and the Diploma in Ophthalmology in 1951. From 1956 he was also ophthalmic clinical assistant at the West Bromwich and District Hospital, and SHMO at the Birmingham Children's Hospital from 1960. As the years passed his interest in ophthalmology deepened, and it became his ambition to obtain the Fellowship in ophthalmology. After many failures in the examination during the 1960's he ultimately succeeded in 1971. Rao was married in 1923 and had a son and two daughters of whom the younger took up medicine and became a Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh, and worked as an anaesthetist in Southport. He left his family in India when he first came to Britain. He died at the age of 67 on 9 July 1973, in Birmingham.
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First Title value, for Searching Craig, James Andrew (1872 - 1958)

2024-05-02T00:29:09Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2014-02-05
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Occupation ENT surgeon Ophthalmic surgeon
Details Born on 20 March 1872 at Ballymoney, Co Antrim, son of James Craig, he was educated at Coleraine Academical Institution and Queen's College, Belfast where he obtained first-class honours in the final medical examinations in 1895. For the next three years he held resident appointments at the Royal Southern Hospital, Liverpool, and then studied eye and ear diseases in Vienna. Craig was appointed demonstrator of anatomy at Queen's College, Belfast in 1899, and in 1901 was elected honorary assistant in the Eye, Ear and Throat Department of the Royal Victoria Hospital, retiring in 1937 at the age of 65. He was appointed lecturer in ophthalmology and otology at Queen's University in 1913. On the outbreak of war in 1939 he returned to his old hospital post to release younger men for war service. His work was rewarded by the MD honoris causa. Craig was a generous benefactor to the University and, among other gifts, he established a lectureship associated with the James Craig Prize. Craig was a member of the Ophthalmological Society of the United Kingdom, the Oxford Ophthalmological Congress, the Société française d'Ophtalmologie, and the editorial committee of the *British Journal of Ophthalmology*. He was also a past-president of the Irish Ophthalmological Society and of the Ulster Medical Society. A keen sportsman, Craig was one of the early enthusiasts for skiing. Later he played golf and was Captain of the Royal Co Down Golf Club in 1943 and 1944. Craig loved the sea and in retirement lived at Mayfield, Cultra, Co Down on the shore of Belfast Lough. He married Blanche daughter of J R Waldron of Hythe, Kent, in 1917; Mrs Craig died in 1952. He died on 26 November 1958 aged 86, survived by his two sons, the elder of whom, Maurice Craig, is an antiquary and historian.
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First Title value, for Searching Fenton, Frederick George (1904 - 1982)

2024-05-02T00:29:09Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2014-12-01
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Occupation Ophthalmic surgeon Ophthalmologist
Details After graduating MB BS from the University of Melbourne in 1926, Frederick George Fenton became a resident medical officer at St Vincent's Hospital, Melbourne. Deciding to specialise in ophthalmology he became a resident medical officer and later, registrar at the Royal Westminster Ophthalmic Hospital, London. During the four years that he spent at the Westminster Ophthalmic (1934-1938) he also worked at Moorfields Eye Hospital and at Guy's. Returning to Melbourne he served with the RAAF as an ophthalmologist in their recruitment centre during the second world war and retired with the rank of Flight Lieutenant in the Reserve. In 1950 he became senior ophthalmic surgeon at the Royal Victorian Eye and Ear Hospital and on his retirement was appointed consulting surgeon emeritus. While at the hospital he was chairman of the honorary medical staff from 1955 to 1963. He took a special interest in orthoptics - he was chairman of the Orthoptic Board of Australia, 1948-1964, and served as a member of the Board of the Ophthalmic Research Institute of Australia, 1960-1968. He continued to maintain a lively interest in all the latest advances in ophthalmology and had no hesitation in suggesting relatively new procedures and treatments if he thought that they were in the patient's best interests. As a young man he was an almost obsessive skier. He was one of the first to climb the south-east face of Mount Kosciusko and did it in winter, with primitive equipment. In Switzerland in 1928, he entered a downhill race for novices. While the other competitors carefully executed measures traversing the approaches, he set forth hurriedly, pointing his skis straight down the slope and to everyone's astonishment arrived, without mishap, an easy winner. He died on 3 June, 1982 aged 78. His wife Doris predeceased him and he was survived by their three sons.
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First Title value, for Searching Quick, Hamilton Ellis (1882 - 1967)

2024-05-02T00:29:09Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2014-09-24
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Occupation Ophthalmic surgeon
Details Hamilton Ellis Quick was born in Sydney on 13 November 1882, and when he was 18 months old was brought over to Swansea where he spent most of the rest of his active life. He went to Swansea Grammar School and then to the Royal College of Science, South Kensington where he graduated BSc in 1902. His medical studies were carried out at St Bartholomew's Hospital where he qualified with both the MB BS degree and the Conjoint Diploma in 1906. In 1909 he took the FRCS and returned to Swansea to practise ophthalmology, being appointed ophthalmic surgeon to the General and Eye Hospital there. In the first world war he served with the 3rd Welsh Field Ambulance in Gallipoli, and was mentioned in dispatches. After demobilization he returned to Swansea and continued to serve in several neighbouring hospitals till he reached retiring age in 1947. In 1949 he retired completely and went to Reading where he lived with a daughter for the rest of his life. Quick was a quiet, reserved and studious person who devoted all his energies to his clinical work and associated professional activities - he was secretary and later chairman of the local division of the British Medical Association and to a life-long interest in natural history, especially malachology. He was president of the Conchological Society in 1941-42, and of the Malachological Society of London from 1950-53, contributing to the literature of the Linnaean Society, and an article on British snails to the *Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History)*. He had a great love for the Gower peninsula and also for the Isles of Scilly. In 1918 he married Adelaide Ruth Hollins, and they enjoyed a very happy life together till she died in 1946. They had two daughters, one of whom, Mrs Mary Thomas, made a home for her father in Reading where he died aged 84 on 23 May 1967.
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First Title value, for Searching Walker, George Edward (1839 - 1909)

2024-05-02T00:29:09Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2013-01-16
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Occupation Ophthalmic surgeon
Details Born at Wigan, went to the town Grammar School, and to a school at Chester. In 1859 he entered University College Hospital as a student, and later was House Surgeon there, House Physician at Brompton Hospital, and House Surgeon at the Manchester Royal Infirmary. After becoming FRCS he studied ophthalmology and was Clinical Assistant under Sir William Bowman at the Royal Ophthalmic Hospital, Moorfields. In 1870 he settled in general surgical practice in Liverpool, and opened a free Eye Dispensary in two small rooms in St Paul's Square. The work grew rapidly and attracted voluntary support, so that the house was turned into a hospital - St Paul's Eye and Ear Hospital. From small beginnings the Hospital grew to contain 50 beds with a yearly attendance of nearly 10,000 patients. At one time Walker was Ophthalmic Surgeon to the Royal Albert Edward Infirmary, Wigan, to the Hospital for Skin Diseases, Liverpool, and to the Southport Convalescent Home; Ophthalmic Surgeon to the David Lewes Northern Hospital and to the School for Indigent Blind; Vice-President of the Lancashire and Cheshire Branch of the British Medical Association and of the Liverpool Medical Institution. He made a number of communications on ophthalmology in which he advocated active treatment - ligature of the internal carotid for aneurysm causing exophthalmos; mercurial inunction for intra-ocular inflammation, including sympathetic ophthalmia; subconjunctival sclerotomy for glaucoma; corneal incision for keratitis; division of anterior and posterior adhesions of the iris. He practised at 45 Rodney Street. Towards the end of 1908 his health failed; he sailed to the Canary Islands, and died at Las Palmas on February 15th, 1909. A memorial service was held in the Church for the Blind School, Liverpool, for which he had done so much. He had married in 1870 Louise, daughter of William Nimmo, cotton broker, of Birkdale, who survived him with four sons, one of whom had assisted him from 1902, and two daughters.
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First Title value, for Searching Cairns, John Edward (1925 - 1986)

2024-05-02T00:29:09Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2015-04-27
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Occupation Ophthalmic surgeon
Details John Edward Cairns was born on 15 August 1925 the son of T D Cairns, a Northumberland shepherd. After early education in the single room school in his local village he won a scholarship to King Edward VII Grammar School in Morpeth and later went to King's College, University of Durham to read classics as he intended to become a schoolmaster. In 1943 he was called up for military service and was commissioned in the Indian Army as Lieutenant. On demobilisation in 1947 he decided to make a career in medicine and entered St Bartholomew's Hospital Medical School. He qualified in 1953 and served as house surgeon to Sir James Paterson Ross and house physician in the professorial unit before being appointed house surgeon to the ophthalmic department under Henry Stallard. At this stage he decided to embark on a career in ophthalmology and after passing the primary Fellowship in 1957 was appointed to the junior staff at Moorfields. He passed the FRCS in 1963 and was appointed consultant ophthalmic surgeon at Addenbrooke's Hospital, Cambridge, in the following year. In addition to a large clinical workload he developed an interest in the treatment of glaucoma and perfected the operation of trabeculectomy as well as modification of iridectomy and latterly internal trabecular surgery. This work was published in a two volume textbook on the treatment of glaucoma. He served as Vice-President of the Ophthalmological Society of the United Kingdom and as a member of the board of governors of the International Association of Ophthalmic Surgeons. He was characteristically a perfectionist, not only in his work but also in his hobby of gardening, winning the Challenge Cup at his local village show on many occasions. Sadly his active professional life was cut short by the onset of leukaemia and he died on 22 January 1986. He is survived by his wife Denise and two sons, Hugh and Neil. A memorial service was held on 14 February 1986 in the Chapel at Addenbrooke's Hospital.
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First Title value, for Searching Dick, Alan MacDonald (1884 - 1970)

2024-05-02T00:29:09Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2014-07-22
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Occupation ENT surgeon Ophthalmic surgeon
Details Alan Dick was born on 30 July 1884, the son of Dr James Dick, and was educated at St Bees School and Edinburgh Medical School, from whence he qualified with honours in 1906. After qualification he spent three years in resident appointments in Edinburgh. In 1909 he passed into the Indian Medical Service by examination and took the Fellowship the following year. During his early years in the military department he saw active service in the Cachin Hills in North-East India; later in the Mesopotamian campaign of the first world war he served with distinction, gaining three mentions in dispatches, a brevet majority and the CBE. His civil service was spent in the capital of the Punjab, Lahore, where for the greater part of twenty years he was Professor of Ophthalmology at King Edward Medical College, and was widely known as a skilful surgeon. During those years his department included that of ear, nose and throat, and he practised in these fields long after other Indian universities had subdivided them. In his later years he became the Principal of King Edward Medical College, and in 1936 was appointed CBE. In 1939 Dick was promoted Brevet-Colonel and retired from the active list but in 1941 he was re-employed with the rank of Brigadier as consultant in ear, nose and throat diseases to the Southern Command India 1942-44. During 1944-48 he held the post of chief medical officer to the State of Bahawalput. When Dick left India he practised for some years in Natal as an ophthalmologist, before retiring to England. He was a member of the BMA for over 50 years, and was a representative at the annual meeting in 1933 and President of the Punjab Branch in 1935-36. Brigadier Dick died peacefully in the Royal Berkshire Hospital, Reading, on 20 March 1970; he was survived by his wife and by their son and daughter.
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First Title value, for Searching Coats, George (1876 - 1915)

2024-05-02T00:29:09Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2011-06-07
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Occupation Ophthalmic surgeon
Details Born at Paisley, the fourth and youngest son of Allan Coats, who was brother of Joseph Coats, Professor of Pathology in the University of Glasgow. He entered Glasgow University in 1892 and took the first place in the pathology class and in surgery. He held resident appointments in the Royal, Western, and Eye Infirmaries in Glasgow, and determined to adopt ophthalmology as his life's work. He therefore went to Vienna in the autumn of 1901 and attended the Ophthalmic Clinics in Munich, Freiburg, and Zurich, bicycling from one town to another. He returned to London in 1902 and became Clinical Assistant at the Royal London Ophthalmic Hospital, Moorfields, and in 1905 was appointed Pathologist and Curator at that hospital. In this position he devoted himself to scientific research on the eye, both in its human and comparative aspects. He dealt more especially with vascular diseases of the eye, on which he published numerous important papers, the most valuable being on "Exudative Retinitis" (which came to be referred to as 'Coats' disease') and on "Obstruction of the Central Vein of the Retina". Both papers gained him a European reputation. Another research dealt with congenital abnormalities of the eye and formed the basis of his Hunterian Lectures at the Royal College of Surgeons in 1910. He published a paper in 1915 on the "Choroid and Retina of the Fruit-eating Bat", which embodied the results of much study at the Gardens of the Zoological Society. He served for three years as Secretary to the Ophthalmological Society of Great Britain and Ireland, and in 1912 was awarded the Nettleship Medal and Prize. He was elected Assistant Ophthalmic Surgeon to the Great Northern Central Hospital in 1906, Assistant Surgeon to the Royal London Ophthalmic Hospital, Moorfields, in 1909, and Assistant Ophthalmic Surgeon to St. Mary's Hospital in 1911. He was also for a short time Ophthalmic Surgeon to the Great Ormond Street Hospital for Sick Children. He died, unmarried, after an operation in a nursing home at Edinburgh on November 2nd, 1915. Coats had a truly scientific mind, and everything that he undertook was done thoroughly. His bent was in the direction of pathology, but he was also a good practical surgeon. He was an omnivorous reader and a great lover of music, being himself a good musician. He was hampered throughout his life by ill health. Shortly before his death he presented his *Collected Works* (2 vols, London, 1904-1914) to the Library of the Royal College of Surgeons.
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First Title value, for Searching Middlemore, Richard (1804 - 1891)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2012-08-15
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Occupation Ophthalmic surgeon
Details Born on October 12th, 1804. He was descended from the family which had been Lords of the Manor and owners of estates at Edgbaston and other parts of Worcestershire and Warwickshire from the time of Henry II. He was apprenticed in 1820 to Chawner, a well-known surgeon at Lichfield, and in 1823 entered St Bartholomew's Hospital, where he was dresser to Abernethy and to Vincent, gaining their favourable regard. Among other Birmingham fellow-students were Edwin Bartleet, Frederick Ryland, and Richard Owen, who became his life-long friend. Abernethy recommended him warmly to Joseph Hodgson (qv), Surgeon to the Birmingham General Hospital. Middlemore was for three years Hodgson's dresser at the hospital, and for ten years Hodgson's assistant. But it was to Sir William Lawrence that Middlemore owed the direction which determined his life. In 1831 he gained the Jacksonian Prize for his dissertation "On Diseases of the Eye and its Appendages, and the Treatment of them", which in 1835 he extended to *A Treatise on the Diseases of the Eye and its Appendages* (2 vols., 8vo, London, 1835). The Birmingham Eye Hospital had been founded in 1823. Middlemore was appointed Assistant Surgeon, then Surgeon from 1828. In 1836 he issued a prospectus of a journal of ophthalmology which failed for lack of support; but he frequently published lectures, reports, and papers on ophthalmology which made him the chief authority at the time in this country, and he was quoted abroad. It was no unusual thing for him to be engaged upon magazine and review work for a great part of the night, and then begin to see free patients, after an early and meagre breakfast, until ten o'clock. He would afterwards attend to his private patients till three in the afternoon, and would drive to Lichfield, Leamington, or some other town for a consultation, taking a hasty meal on the way. In 1877 he founded a Triennial Prize in Ophthalmology to be awarded by the British Medical Association, a body he warmly supported from its earliest days. In 1888 he made a donation of £1000 to endow a course of post-graduate lectures in ophthalmology at the Birmingham and Midland Eye Hospital, and in 1890 gave £2000 to the Birmingham Asylum for the Blind, which he had been instrumental in establishing in 1838. He continued in practice until 1889, and maintained his active interest in ophthalmology until his death at The Limes, Bristol Road, Edgbaston, Birmingham, on March 1st, 1891.
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First Title value, for Searching Poland, Alfred (1822 - 1872)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2012-10-10
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Occupation Ophthalmic surgeon
Details The son of William Poland, of Blackheath; born in London and educated at Highgate, in Paris, and at Frankfort. In 1839 he became an articled pupil to Aston Key, and thus enjoyed advantages of the favoured class of students at Guy's Hospital. After qualifying he became Demonstrator of Anatomy, Assistant Surgeon to Guy's Hospital in 1849, Surgeon in 1861, and was placed in general charge of the Ophthalmic Department previously under France. From 1848-1861 he was Surgeon to the Royal Ophthalmic Hospital, Moorfields, but he gradually dropped out of ophthalmic practice, being hindered by ill health induced by a purulent affection contracted in the wards. In 1867 he had to give up lecturing, and in 1870 he also gave up his consulting-rooms at 42 Finsbury Circus, EC, and lived in his father's house at Blackheath. In spite of a violent cough, he continued to see patients at Guy's Hospital, his last visit being on August 17th, 1872. Poland's reputation as a teacher of surgery and as an expert operator was mainly confined to the Hospital and the pupils attached to him. He died of consumption on August 21st, 1872. His Triennial Prize Dissertation on "The Origin, Connection and Distribution of the Nerves of the Human Eye and its Appendages" was awarded an honorarium of fifty guineas, the actual prize having been won by Henry Gray (qv) in 1848. His manuscripts of this and of the Jacksonian Essay on "Gunshot Wounds and their Treatment" are in the College Library. His Fothergillian Prize with the Gold Medal was for the essay on "Injuries and Wounds of the Abdomen" at the Medical Society of London, 1853. With Sir Samuel Wilks he edited the *Guy's Hospital Reports* (1843-1865) and contributed thereto numerous papers. Sir Samuel Wilks says:- "If Poland could have been kept for hospital duties only his position would have been an admirable one, being a good surgeon, an expert operator, and an excellent teacher. His systematic method was much appreciated by the students. With them he was a great favourite, although his unprepossessing appearance made it seem unlikely. Probably ill health and domestic trials tended to make him quite reckless of professional success. It was said of him with great truth that if Poland had been shut in a room containing not a single book, but only pens and paper, he could have written a complete work on surgery: not in a vague way, giving merely general descriptions, but in a systematic manner detailing the distinct forms and varieties of the diseases then in his mind."
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First Title value, for Searching Killick, Charles (1875 - 1923)

2024-05-02T00:29:09Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2012-06-13
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Occupation Ophthalmic surgeon
Details Born at Bradford on December 28th, 1875, the second son of Henry Fison Killick, of Rawdon, Leeds, he came of a well-known professional family. He was educated at Rawdon School and at Bradford Grammar School, entering Trinity College, Cambridge, as a Pensioner June 13th, 1893, and graduating with honours in the Natural Science Tripos (1896). In 1897 he gained a University Scholarship at St Mary's Hospital, where he took up ophthalmology almost from the first and became Junior Ophthalmic Clinical Assistant. He was next appointed Ophthalmic Surgeon to the Royal Bucks Hospital, and later settled in ophthalmic practice in Maidstone, where he spent a number of years and was House Surgeon, and at the time of his death Consulting Surgeon, to the Kent County Ophthalmic Hospital. In spite of his success in Kent, he found that the heavy climate of the banks of the Medway was not sufficiently bracing for his children. Accordingly he returned to Bradford, and was appointed Ophthalmic Surgeon to the Royal Eye and Ear Hospital and also Ophthalmic Surgeon to the Royal Infirmary. He had already gained the respect of his colleagues in Bradford when he infected his finger while examining an eye patient, and died within nine days of septicaemia. His death occurred at his residence, 14 Springbank Place, Bradford, on April 27th, 1923. He was survived by his widow and young children. He had practised at 103 Manningham Lane in partnership with Dr Andrew Little. During the European War (1914-1918) Killick was Ophthalmic Specialist to the Eastern Command, with the rank of Captain RAMC. He was much of a student, greatly preferring literary and scientific studies to outdoor recreation. His geniality and mental alertness as well as his great medical abilities made him universally popular in Bradford. For some years before his early death he became interested in Freemasonry. Publications: Killick contributed constantly to the medical journals, and made it his chief hobby to translate French and other foreign ophthalmic works. His publications include: *Short History of the Kent County Ophthalmic Hospital*. "Case of Perforated Wound of the Eye." - *Brit Med Jour*, 1909, ii, 1671. "Interesting Case of Congenital Cataract." - *Ibid*, 1910, i, 318. "A Year's Record of Cataract Extraction." - *Ophthalmoscope*, 1913, xi, 11. "Post-operative Complications of Cataract Extraction." - *Trans Ophthalmol Soc*, 1914, xxxiv, 62. "Prevention and Treatment of Ophthalmia Neonatorum." - *Ibid*, 1920, xl, 112. "Idiopathic Detachment of the Retina." - *Brit Jour Ophthalmol*, 1921, v, 54.
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First Title value, for Searching Hein, Pierre Louis Raymond (1937 - 2018)

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by Anthony J Atkinson
Publication Date 2018-12-13 2020-03-10
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Occupation Ophthalmic surgeon
Details Pierre Hein was a consultant ophthalmic surgeon at Northampton General Hospital from 1979 to 2000. He was born on 8 April 1937 in Mauritius, the son of Marcelle Hein née Piat and Sir Raymond Hein, a senior barrister and former mayor of the capital, Port Louis. Pierre grew up in Mauritius, with French as the family tongue and frequent use of Creole and English. The rich intellectual and cosmopolitan family environment imbued him with a deep affinity with French language, literature and culture. He was educated at the Royal College on the island, before moving to Balliol College, Oxford, supported by an Anderson scholarship. Qualifying in 1965 with the Brian Johnson prize for pathology, he remained in Oxford for house jobs at the Radcliffe Infirmary and Churchill Hospital. In 1966 he moved to Paris, to work for three years at the American Hospital and the l’Hôpital Lariboisière. It was after returning to Oxford that he met his future wife Nicolette Oppenheimer, daughter of David Oppenheimer, senior lecturer in neuropathology, who became an anaesthetist. Intent on a career in ophthalmology, Pierre began specialty training at the Oxford Eye Hospital and then at Moorfields Eye Hospital, London. He completed the four-year rotation training programme, passing the FRCS in 1974, before returning to experience clinical practice in his home country, Mauritius, in 1975 as a consultant ophthalmologist at the Clinique Darné. In 1979, he decided to return and settle with his family in England, and was subsequently appointed as a consultant to the Northampton eye department. Pierre Hein was above all a practical clinician with finely tuned and perceptive clinical judgement. He was intrigued by the surgical minutiae of ophthalmic microsurgery, and by the selection of specific instruments required to achieve success in particular cases. He was a good teacher. The registrars on the Oxford rotation valued learning skills from him, their experience enhancing the close connection Northampton enjoyed with Oxford ophthalmologists. Despite his lively intelligence and natural curiosity, he was not drawn to undertake research, but concentrated on developing lasting mutual relationships with his patients. Whilst having well thought through and definite opinions, his non-confrontational personality led him to eschew involvement in hospital politics, preferring instead to contribute ably to the fostering of good relationships within the department. He was always open to new ideas and developments and regularly attended the annual Oxford Ophthalmological Congress, meetings of the Midland Ophthalmological Society and Moorfields alumni meetings. In his youth, Pierre had been an international athlete, representing Mauritius as a sprinter at the 1958 British Empire and Commonwealth Games in Cardiff, becoming one of the first to represent the then colony of Mauritius in any international sporting event. He had a lifelong love of French and English poetry and literature. In 1988, his fluency in Latin brought him success in the competition to find a motto for the new College of Ophthalmologists – ‘ut omnes videant’ (‘so that all may see’). On retirement, he requested and was presented by the Medical Society with a bicycle, but never saw the need to cycle when a car was available. He became a strong bridge player, and indulged his passion for classical music and films, his keen appreciation of fine wine, and his armchair enthusiasm for and expertise in horse racing. He also made frequent visits to friends and relatives across the globe in France, Australia and Mauritius. Pierre’s health started to decline ten years into his retirement, and he died on 9 March 2018 at the age of 80. He was survived by his wife Niki, sons, Dominic and Olivier, daughter, Sophie, and their families.
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First Title value, for Searching Phillips, Calbert Inglis (1915 - 2023)

2024-05-02T00:29:09Z

by The Phillips family
Publication Date 2023-05-11
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Occupation Ophthalmic surgeon
Details Calbert Inglis Phillips was a professor of ophthalmology at the University of Edinburgh. An only son of the manse, he was born in Glasgow on 20 March 1925, the son of the Rev David Horner Phillips and Margaret Calbert Phillips née Inglis. The family moved to Aberdeen in 1938 and the young Phillips attended Robert Gordon’s College, where he studied Latin and Greek (originally intending to follow his father into the ministry). He went on to Aberdeen University where, in 1946, aged just 21, he graduated in medicine. His first year had been hard catching up on physics and chemistry, but was rescued by freestyling in the swimming and water polo teams. Phillips was attracted to ophthalmology because of the small scale of the microsurgery, combined with its neurological, medical and genetic interest. Having first served in the Royal Army Medical Corps (from 1947 to 1949) and obtained a diploma in public health at Edinburgh University (in 1950), Phillips’s residency was at Moorfields. He was then a senior registrar at St Thomas’ Hospital and a research assistant at the glaucoma clinic at the Institute of Ophthalmology. From 1958 to 1963 he was a consultant at Bristol Royal Infirmary, a period which included an instructive year (from 1960 to 1961) at Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary in Boston to learn about retinal detachments. His surgical visit to Edinburgh’s department of ophthalmology in January 1962 was more auspicious still, as it was there that he met the registrar, Anne Fulton; they married in December 1962. In 1965, Phillips was appointed to the new chair in ophthalmology at the University of Manchester but, in 1972, took the high road back to his beloved native Scotland to the Forbes chair at Edinburgh University combined with clinical and surgical duties at the Princess Alexandra Eye Pavilion, retiring in 1990. He was chairman of the European Association for Eye Research from 1975 to 1977. Important ‘firsts’ included: elucidation of the mechanism of closed-angle glaucoma; that ‘normal pressure glaucoma’ is an artefact of indentation (Schiotz) tonometry applied to large (myopic) eyes; that ocular hypertension could often be explained by small eyes; and being the prime mover in motivating the first mapping of a retinal dystrophy to a site within the X chromosome. A eureka moment that benefitted patients with glaucoma was Phillips’ discovering the ocular hypotensive properties of an early beta-adrenergic blocking drug, which eventually led to the pharmaceutical revolution of glaucoma treatment with eye drops. The second edition of his *Logic in medicine* (London, BMJ Publishing, 1995) included chapters by two statisticians, Gore and Spiegelhalter. Calbert’s interest in statistics, piqued by his diploma in public health, was evident in analytical studies that he published in the *British Journal of Ophthalmology* in the late 1950s on strabismus and anisometropia and on the sectoral distribution of goniosynechiae. These studies predated his later randomised controlled trials of treatments for glaucoma. Outside medicine, his recreations were generally energetic, from sailing and skiing to tree-planting and hill-walking (especially in his beloved Deeside). Phillips died from aortic stenosis and respiratory infection on 28 February 2023 at the age of 97. He was survived by Anne, his wife of 60 years, their son, Andrew, and granddaughters Lucy and Chloe.
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First Title value, for Searching Clarke, Ernest (1857 - 1932)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2013-05-20
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Occupation Ophthalmic surgeon
Details Born at Hampstead on 21 July 1857, the elder son of Henry Clarke, JP who was in business in the City. He was educated at University College School, then in Gower Street, and he afterwards studied in Germany. He went to St Bartholomew's Hospital with an exhibition in science in 1876, and entered Downing College, Cambridge with an exhibition in 1879. He acted for a short time as assistant demonstrator of anatomy in the Cambridge medical school but did not graduate in the university. He was, however, elected an honorary Fellow of Downing College in 1927. He took the degree of MB at the University of London in 1881 and proceded MD in 1885. He then practised at Blackheath until 1894 when, having come into a little money, he took the FRCS and specialized in ophthal¬mic surgery. He was elected surgeon to the Central London Ophthalmic Hospital in Gray's Inn Road and ophthalmic surgeon to the Miller Hospital, Greenwich. He soon acquired a large and influential practice, and for professional services to several members of the Royal family he was created CVO. He was a vice-president of the Ophthalmological Society of Great Britain and Ireland. He married in 1883 Kate Litton, daughter of John Hirst Taylor of Windermere. She died in 1928 leaving him with two daughters, a third having died before him. He died suddenly on 22 November 1932, at 44 Bryanston Court, W and was buried at Putney Vale cemetery. Clarke was a good operating surgeon, who in later life devoted himself more especially to the treatment of errors of refraction. He was especially successful in this branch of practice, for he paid attention to the correction of slight degrees of astigmatism. He was a skilled musician and presented to Downing College an organ which he had long used in his own house in Chandos Street. He was also much interested in the affairs of the Royal Institution, where he was one of the managers and a vice-president. He held high rank in the craft of masonry as well as in the allied degrees, and he was thus able to give essential help in founding the Freemasons Hospital and Nursing Home in the Fulham Road, where he became the first ophthalmic surgeon and afterwards a valued member of the medical advisory committee. He left £500 to his "old college", Downing College, Cambridge, for the building fund, and to the library of the medical school of the Central London Ophthalmic Hospital he left such medical books as the authorities thereof might select. Publications:- *Eyestrain, commonly called asthenopia*. London, 1892. *The errors of accommodation and refraction of the eye and their treatment*. London, 1903; 5th edition 1924; reprinted 1929. *Problems in the accommodation and refraction of the eye*. London, 1914. *The fundus of the human eye, an illustrated atlas for the physician*. London, 1931.
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First Title value, for Searching Lang, William (1852 - 1937)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2013-07-31
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Occupation Ophthalmic surgeon
Details Born at Exeter 28 December 1852, the fourth child and third son of Isaac Lang, corn and seed merchant, and Sarah Lindon Parnell, his wife. He was educated at the Moravian School, Lausanne, and entered the London Hospital on 1 October 1870. Here he was house surgeon, house physician, and demonstrator of anatomy and physiology, and came into close touch with James Edward Adams, whose clinical assistant he was. In 1881 he was elected ophthalmic surgeon to the Middlesex Hospital, on the resignation of George Critchett, and held office until 1914. From 1884 to 1912 he was surgeon, at first assistant surgeon, to the Royal London Ophthalmic Hospital, Moorfields, where he succeeded his former master, J E Adams, who had become totally blind. Lang retired from practice in 1927 but continued to live in Cavendish Square, for many years at No 22 but latterly at No 35, where he died on 13 July 1937. He married twice: (1) on 27 August 1879 Susan, daughter of W T Buckland of Auckland, New Zealand; and (2) Isabella Jane (d 1927), widow of A M Dunlop. By his first wife he had a son Basil Lang (1880-1928), FRCS, and a daughter, who survived him. Lang was a great clinical teacher, and a good operator in spite of marked tremor of his hands. He was amongst the first to recognize the importance of focal sepsis as a cause of chronic inflammatory disease of the eye, for instance that iritis which used to be thought of as rheumatic in origin was more often due to septic teeth. He had a mechanical mind and invented a speculum which guarded the lashes and kept them out of the field of operation, twin knives for the division of synechiae, a lachrymal syringe, a blunt dissector, and a scoop. He was, too, amongst the first to advocate an artificial globe in the capsule of Tenon after enucleation, as a means of preventing the deformity following shrinkage of the orbital tissues and so permitting good movement of the artificial eye. He was an original member of the Ophthalmological Society founded in 1880, was a vice-president and served as interim president in 1903 when Dr David Little died during his year of office. He was also a prominent member of the ophthalmological section of the Royal Society of Medicine, where he was president in 1916-17. Socially he was shy, hated speaking in public and went but little into society. Early in his professional life he lived at Chiswick and enjoyed the friendship of William Morris, buying the volumes of the Kelmscott press as they were issued. His collection of Kelmscott and Doves press books and bindings was sold by auction at Hodgson's, Chancery Lane, 28 February 1946. He showed his artistic taste later in life by presenting a charming statuette as a prize for the Middlesex Hospital golf club. Publication: *The methodical examination of the eye*. London, 1895. It was a favourite textbook for students; although it is labelled "Part 1" no second part was ever issued.
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First Title value, for Searching Napier, Francis Horatio (1861 - 1949)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2013-08-28
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Occupation Ophthalmic surgeon
Details Born 7 February 1861, the eldest son of the Hon William Napier of MacMac, Lydenburg, South Africa, and his wife Louisa Mary, youngest daughter of John Horatio Lloyd, QC. His grandfather was William, 9th Lord Napier and Ettrick. He was educated at St Bartholomew's Hospital, London, where he served as house surgeon and ophthalmic house surgeon, and was clinical assistant at the Royal London Ophthalmic Hospital, Moorfields. He went back to South Africa for a time as ophthalmic surgeon to the New Somerset Hospital. In 1893 he settled in Glasgow on appointment as ophthalmic surgeon to the Royal Infirmary and professor of ophthalmology at St Mungo's College; he was also surgeon to the Ophthalmic Institution. He returned to South Africa as a civil surgeon with the British Army during the Boer War, and won the Queen's and the King's medals. He is mentioned by name in Sir Winston Churchill's memoirs of the siege of Ladysmith, in connexion with the armoured train disaster at Chieveley. In the first world war he served as a major with the South African Medical Corps, was mentioned in despatches and created a military OBE. Napier practised as an ophthalmologist at Johannesburg for fifty years, and was consulting surgeon at the General Hospital, where the Napier Eye Department was named after him. He was president of the Medical Association of South Africa in 1931. The British Medical Association later presented him with a presidential medal, through the hands of Sir Hugh Lett, FRCS. Napier took an active share in public affairs, serving in the Johannesburg City Council and the Transvaal Legislative Assembly. He was made an honorary Doctor of Law by the University of the Witwatersrand. He married twice: (1) in 1893 Margaret, daughter of Lieutenant-Colonel William Hope, VC, from whom he obtained a divorce; two of their three sons survived him; (2) in 1923 Isoline Richards Shotter, who survived him. Napier died in Johannesburg on 8 October 1949, and his ashes were sent home to Scotland. They were buried in Ettrick churchyard by Lord Napier and Ettrick on 18 January 1950.
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First Title value, for Searching Helm, George Frederick (1838 - 1898)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2012-04-13
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Occupation Ophthalmic surgeon
Details The youngest son of the Rev Joseph Helm, Vicar of Worthing; educated at Marlborough College, then at St Catherine's College, Cambridge, where he took his BA degree as a Fellow Commoner in 1864. At the same time he became a pupil of Sir George Humphry, Surgeon to Addenbrooke's Hospital, for three years, during which he acted as Demonstrator of Anatomy. He distinguished himself also as a cricketer, especially as a bowler, and played twice in elevens against Oxford, also in the Sussex County Eleven, and formed one of the representative eleven which for the first time visited Australia. At the end of his apprenticeship he won an open scholarship at St Bartholomew's Hospital, where he gained the approval of Sir James Paget, and became House Surgeon. After a study in Paris and becoming FRCS he was appointed Physician to Rugby School when Dr Temple was Head Master. In 1867 a failure of health forced him to travel; he was in Australia for two years, and then returned to Marazion, Cornwall, where the climate so far restored his health that about 1888 he was able to accept the appointment of Ophthalmic Surgeon to the Royal Cornwall Infirmary, Truro, and won a consulting practice in that specialty. He was a member of the Ophthalmological Society, and as a member of the Penzance Board of Guardians was largely instrumental in obtaining an efficient water-supply for Marazion. Besides he practised in Truro at 81 Ferris Street. Although he suffered from heart disease he continued in active work until he expired suddenly in his carriage as he was driving home to The Greenfield, Marazion, on March 31st, 1898. Helm married: (1) in 1863 a daughter of the Rev F Thomas, Rector of Parkham, Devon, and (2) a daughter of Mr Edward Shearme, of Stratton, North Cornwall, who with a son and two daughters survived him. Publications: *Long Sight, Short Sight, and Astigmatism*, 1886. "Retinoscopy in Errors of Refraction." - *Prov Med Jour*, 1890, ix, 455. "Sympathetic Ophthalmia 14 Years after the Receipt of Original Injury." - *Lancet* 1890, ii, 1157. "Advantage and Use of Lang's Knives in Division of Anterior Synechiae." -*Ibid*, 1891, i, 655.
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First Title value, for Searching Gibb, Harold Pace (1878 - 1955)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2014-06-10
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Occupation Ophthalmic surgeon
Details Born in 1878 son of James Gibb, M P for Harrow, he was educated at St Paul's School and Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge, where he took first class honours in the Natural Sciences Tripos, part I, in 1900. He took his clinical training at St Bartholomew's Hospital where he served as house surgeon to (Sir) D'Arcy Power. He then was house physician at the Brompton Hospital and for two years at the National Hospital for Paralysis and Nervous Diseases. It was at this period that he collaborated with F E Batten in producing an important study of Myotonia atrophica, which was published in * Brain* 1909. Gibb had by now decided to specialise as an ophthalmic surgeon, and was elected to the staff of the Central London Ophthalmic Hospital; he also became ophthalmic surgeon to the West London Hospital and the Victoria Hospital for Children in Chelsea. Thoroughly altruistic, Gibb cared little for private practice and devoted himself whole-heartedly to his work on the honorary staff of his hospitals. When war broke out in 1914 he tried to enlist as a combatant, but was subsequently commissioned as a temporary Captain in the RAMC. He served in Mesopotamia under Sir Victor Horsley, whom he had known at the National Hospital, and attended Horsley's funeral there. Later he was appointed an ophthalmic specialist with Frank Juler at No 24 General Hospital, Etaples, France. After the war he resumed his London practice at 53 Harley Street and his hospital appointments. He retired just before the beginning of the second world ward, but returned to his duties at the Central London Ophthalmic hospital from 1939 to 1945. He then retired to his house at Gerrard's Cross, Bucks, where he died on 21 November 19555 aged 77. Gibb was a brilliant but diffident man, with a flair for playing ball games. At Cambridge he played cricket for his college, as he had for his school; in later life he was an excellent golfer with a beautiful style. He was an omnivorous reader and painted in water colours. He was admired and liked by all who worked with him.
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First Title value, for Searching Campbell, Dorothy Rose (1902 - 1982)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2014-11-21
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Occupation Ophthalmic surgeon
Details Dorothy Rose Adams was born in St Albans, Herts, on 12 April 1902, the first child of Harry Adams a contractor, and Miriam, nee Rose. She was educated at Claire House School, St Albans, and North London Collegiate School and gained an entrance exhibition to Girton College, Cambridge, in 1920. Dorothy Campbell had a brilliant university career, gaining first class honours in natural sciences as well as numerous medals and the Scientific and Industrial Research Studentship for research on Metabolism of the crystalline lens for the Glass Blowers' Cataract Committee of the Royal Society. Her clinical studies were carried out at University College, London, followed by a clinical assistantship at the Royal London Ophthalmic Hospital in 1927; house surgeon, Central London Ophthalmic Hospital, 1930-1931; ophthalmic surgeon, Hospital of St Cross, Rugby, 1931-1937 and she became assistant surgeon Birmingham and Midland Eye Hospital, 1934-1940. Mrs Campbell was an ophthalmic surgeon in the EMS for Coventry, Warwick, Leamington and Nuneaton, from 1939 to 1944 and was ophthalmic surgeon at the Coventry and Warwickshire Hospital from 1937 to 1962. There were few ophthalmic committees, councils or associations with which Dorothy Campbell was not associated. She examined for the DOMS, was a member, treasurer, vice-president or president of many societies and congresses, including the Ophthalmic Section of the Royal Society of Medicine, the Ministry of Health and the Royal National Institute for the Blind. She lectured in many universities and hospitals from 1944 to 1964; her researches into the causes of blindness were carried out under the MRC (1927-1930); the Ross Foundation, Edinburgh; and Birmingham and Midland Eye Hospital between 1945 and 1965. Dorothy Adams married George Campbell MA, BM BCh Oxford in 1931 and they had a daughter and a son. In spite of her very full life and her husband's general practice they both managed to find time for their life-long enthusiasm for small boat sailing, chiefly in the Royal Corinthian 1 design class in Burnham-on-Crouch. They were also keen horse riders. Dorothy Campbell died in her eightieth year in South Petherton Hospital on 12 March 1982. She was survived by her husband, daughter, son and two grandchildren.
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First Title value, for Searching Dollar, Jean Margeurite (1901 - 1982)

2024-05-02T00:29:09Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2014-11-26
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Occupation Ophthalmic surgeon
Details Jean Margeurite Dollar was born in London in 1901. Her father, grandfather and uncle were veterinary surgeons practising in Bond Street. After school in London she attended the London School of Medicine for Women, from which she graduated MB BS in 1927. She early devoted herself to ophthalmology and took the DOMS in 1929. She proceeded to MS in 1935, FRCS in 1936 and in the same year was appointed to the consultant staff of the Royal Eye Hospital, London. She was also a consultant at St Olave's, the Elizabeth Garrett Anderson and the Royal Free Hospitals. Her main commitment throughout her working life was to the Royal Eye Hospital, where during the second world war she was one of the few members of the staff not on active service. Shortly after the war the hospital was amalgamated with King's College Hospital, but was separated again in the mid-1950's. As chairman of the medical staff committee she was skilful in steering the hospital through this difficult period. She subsequently remained a long-standing member of the group management committee. Miss Dollar was a deft, gentle and innovative surgeon. In 1945 she was elected Hunterian Professor at the Royal College of Surgeons of England. In the early 1950's, together with a colleague, she devised a technique of exenteration of the orbit with implantation of a prosthesis which enabled young patients with sarcoma of the orbit to lead a more tolerable life. She had a calm and reassuring approach to her patients and a lucid lecturing style, enlivened by quiet humour, much appreciated by her students. Her interests extended beyond the hospital to patients, nurses and social workers, with whom she developed a unique association. She retired from practice in 1965 and devoted herself to her main interests of reading, walking and visiting places which offered archaeological or natural attractions. She owned to being a reluctant house-keeper and gardener, but her entertaining conversation ensured visits from her many friends. She died on 20 April, 1982, at the age of 81.
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First Title value, for Searching Maynard, Frederic Pinsent (1864 - 1921)

2024-05-02T00:29:09Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2012-08-01
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Occupation Ophthalmic surgeon
Details Born at Preston, Lancashire, the son of Thomas Maynard; studied at St Bartholomew's Hospital and the Universities of Durham, Paris, Würzburg, and Bonn. He was House Surgeon at the Newcastle Infirmary and Clinical Assistant at the Royal Ophthalmic Hospital. Proceeding to Netley, he passed out third on the list, at the age of 23 in 1887, into the Indian Army, and won the Montefiore Prize in 1888. He was first attached to the Allahabad Station, then in succession was Medical Officer of the Baleuch-Afghan Boundary Commission, transferred to cholera duty at Kohat, placed in medical charge of the 27th Punjab Infantry at Bareilly, of the Gurkhas at Kaludanda, and of the 13th Brigade of Infantry at Dinapore. In 1905 he became Professor of Ophthalmic Surgery at the Medical College, Calcutta, and Ophthalmic Surgeon to its Hospital, and was Surgical Superintendent of the Mayo Hospital. He practised in Calcutta at 13 Harington Street, and retired from the Indian Medical Service in 1920. On returning to England he lived at Audlem, Cheshire, and practised as an ophthalmic surgeon in Crewe, holding the appointment of Oculist to the Cheshire County Council. As a proof of continued energy, shortly before his death he went to Barcelona to witness Professor Barraquer's revival of cataract suction under the name of phacoerisis by means of a cupping glass and vibratory suction. He died at Audlem of double septic pneumonia on September 30th, 1921, and was buried there. He was survived by his widow, a son, and a daughter. Publications:- Maynard was the author of two text-books of ophthalmology for Indian students: *A Manual of Ophthalmic Operations*, 1908. *Manual of Ophthalmic Practice*, the 2nd edition of the former, 1920. He also published a number of ophthalmological papers, including an "Analysis of 1000 Cataract Extractions." - *Indian Med Gaz*, 1903, xxxviii, 41. In India he edited the *Indian Medical Gazette* for 1898, vol xxxiii, and when in England was assistant editor of the *Ophthalmic Review* and of the *American Journal of Ophthalmology*.
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First Title value, for Searching Wells, John Soelberg (1824 - 1879)

2024-05-02T00:29:09Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2013-01-30
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Occupation Ophthalmic surgeon
Details Born at Norwich, and was partly of German extraction. He graduated MD at Edinburgh in 1856, and then studied ophthalmology for four years under von Graefe in Berlin as one of his assistants, under Helmholtz, and under Donders in Holland. On his return to England in 1860 Bowman appointed him his Clinical Assistant at the Royal Ophthalmic Hospital, Moorfields. In 1867 Soelberg Wells was elected an additional Assistant Surgeon to the Hospital, and full Surgeon in 1873. In addition he was for a time Ophthalmic Surgeon and Lecturer on Ophthalmology at Middlesex Hospital, and later Professor of Ophthalmology and Ophthalmic Surgeon to King's College Hospital. He practised at 16 Savile Row, was tall, of fine appearance, courteous, genial, with a warm and loyal heart behind a placid exterior. His excellent training combined with undoubted ability won him a high position as an ophthalmic surgeon. Punctual and zealous both as a worker and teacher, he had a rich and select clientele, and by his writings he familiarized English students and practitioners with the clinical and scientific advances made on the Continent. He was amongst the earliest to inculcate the necessity of systematic testing of the sight for errors of refraction. He enjoyed good health until after 1875; in 1879 he had been compelled to spend some months in France and Italy. When at Cannes, after ten days' illness during a severe mistral, he died of an obscure liver complaint on December 2nd, 1879. Publications:- Wells's writings were amongst the best of his day:- *A Treatise on Diseases of the Eye*, 8vo, London, 1869; 3rd ed, 1873; 4th American ed, Philadelphia, 1883. It was translated into French and German, and embodied the best teaching and practice of Continental and British practice. It was thus the standard text-book on the subject. *On Long, Short and Weak Sight and their Treatment by the Scientific Use of Spectacles*, 8vo, London, 1862; 4th ed, 1873; 3rd ed, Philadelphia, 1869; French translation, 8vo, Paris, 1874. This embodies the teaching of Donders on the subject. *Glaucoma and its Cure by Iridectomy*, 8vo, London, 1864. Clinical lectures and papers on Ocular Paralyses, Glaucoma, etc.
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First Title value, for Searching Wordsworth, John Cawood (1823 - 1886)

2024-05-02T00:29:09Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2013-02-27
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Occupation General surgeon Ophthalmic surgeon
Details Came of a Yorkshire family collateral with that of the poet, and born at Manchester, where his father, the Rev William Wordsworth, was curate. He was apprenticed in 1840 to John Jesse, a well-known Manchester practitioner, from whom he derived all the advantages of a well-ordered apprenticeship. He entered the London Hospital in 1841, where he was a diligent student, and was for two years House Surgeon. For the sake of his health he went to St Kitts and practised there for two or three years. In 1849 he returned, was elected Demonstrator of Anatomy and Assistant Surgeon to the London Hospital, and in 1852 Assistant Surgeon to the Royal Ophthalmic Hospital, Moorfields, a post he resigned in 1883. He practised at 41 Finsbury Square. In 1855 Wordsworth responded to the call of Sydney Herbert for volunteers, and went out to the Crimea. He was attached to the Castle Hospital above Balaclava for three months, treated the wounded after the Redan attack, and at the close was awarded the Crimean Medal with the Sebastopol Clasps, and the Turkish Medal. In the spring of 1856 he married a Turkish lady, daughter of M Chasseaud, of Smyrna, returned to ophthalmic practice only, resigning his post of Assistant Surgeon to the London Hospital in 1859. He lived first at 50 Queen Anne Street, then at 20 Harley Street. As an ophthalmic surgeon he had a large scope for gathering experience at Moorfields, and gained the high opinion of all those brought into contact with him. At one time he was Vice-President of the Ophthalmological Society, also of the Medical Society, a member of the Army Medical and Surgical Society, and Ophthalmic Surgeon to the Stockwell Orphanage. He suffered during fifteen years from gout complicated by heart disease and latterly from definite attacks of angina pectoris. He died at 20 Harley Street on February 22nd, 1886, and was buried at Highgate. He wrote on the ophthalmoscope in 1859. He was survived by Mrs Wordsworth, and by a son, William John, who was MRCS Eng.
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First Title value, for Searching Levy, Aaron Harold (1875 - 1977)

2024-05-02T00:29:09Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2015-01-23
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Occupation Ophthalmic surgeon
Details 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 University and then came to St Bartholomew's Hospital, London. He obtained the MRCS LRCP in 1902 and the FRCS in 1909. He was appointed ophthalmic surgeon to Willesden General Hospital 1908, surgeon to the Central London Ophthalmic Hospital, ophthalmic surgeon to Putney General Hospital, and to the British Hospital for Incurables in 1911. In 1919 he was the first ophthalmic surgeon to be appointed to the London Jewish Hospital. He was also ophthalmic surgeon to Hayes Industrial School, Home for Aged Jews, Deaf and Dumb Home, Jewish Blind Society, Montefiore House for Girls, St Monica's Hospital for Children. During the first world war he was ophthalmic surgeon to Tooting Military Hospital and to the Mitcham Military Hospital. In 1918 he became a Captain in the RAMC. He was a member of the Council of the Ophthalmic Society of the United Kingdom and Fellow of the Royal Society of Medicine. He was President of the Ophthalmic Section of the Royal Society of Medicine in 1947 and was elected an honorary member of that section. He was managing director of the British journal of ophthalmology for twenty-five years starting in 1920. Sound and competent in his work he was beloved by all his patients and admired and respected by all his colleagues. A man of vast erudition he was a connoisseur, especially of painting and literature, and a delight to talk to on any subject. Even the infirmities of age, deafness and defective vision did not disturb his equanimity or the charm of his company. He did much work for the Jewish community, was a member of the Jewish Board of Deputies and President of the Jewish Health Organisation. In 1908 he married Lena Samuel and had one son and daughter. He died on 31 March 1977, aged 101 years.
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First Title value, for Searching Bickerton, John Myles (1894 - 1977)

2024-05-02T00:29:09Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2014-11-14
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Occupation Ophthalmic surgeon
Details John Myles Bickerton was born at Hoylake, Cheshire on 28 August 1894, the youngest son of Thomas Herbert Bickerton, and Mary Jessie, née Burton. He was educated at the Leas School, Hoylake, Leighton Park School, Reading, Pembroke College, Cambridge, and King's College Hospital Medical School where he was Burney Yeo Scholar. He held a number of appointments including senior ophthalmic surgeon, King's College Hospital; Dean of the Royal Eye Hospital and ophthalmic consultant to the London County Council. During the first world war he served in the RNVR as a surgeon probationer in HM Ships *Lawford* and *Sybille*, and in HMS *Royal Oak* 1918-1919 as Surgeon Lieutenant. He returned to King's College Hospital and in 1921 he joined Sir Robert Houston's yacht as surgical specialist for some months, again returning to his hospitals and private practice. Between the wars he became interested in flying, learned to fly and joined the RAFVR in 1937, becoming the first doctor to do so. He was made a Wing Commander. Flying became his chief recreation, with the result he had an aerodrome built at Denham. It was used a great deal during the second world war and is now very useful to the community at large. He came from a famous Liverpool medical family who all became ophthalmic surgeons. His grandfather Thomas was an FRCS Ed. His father Thomas Herbert was elected FRCS in 1926 and was the first person to draw attention to the problem of colour blindness in marine personnel. His uncle Col R E Bickerton DSO was an eye specialist in London, Vienna and Zurich working for the Army in the first world war and afterwards for St Dunstan's. John Myles's many publications included *The inheritance of blindness*, *Eye diseases in general practice* and *The bespectacled pilot*. He always maintained that the surgeons who gave him the most help and encouragement were L V Cargill, Sir Robert Jones, W Lyle, Sir Cecil Wakeley and Sir St Clair Thomson. He was an entertaining and witty companion. He married twice, and had one son and three surviving daughters. He died on 13 March 1977.
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First Title value, for Searching Letchworth, Thomas Wilfrid (1874 - 1954)

2024-05-02T00:29:09Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2014-04-02
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Occupation Ophthalmic surgeon
Details Born at Brighton on 5 July 1874, he was educated privately, then at Emmanuel College, Cambridge and St Bartholomew's Hospital. Qualifying in 1898 he became house surgeon at Wolverhampton General Hospital and the Royal County Hospital, Winchester, and ophthalmic house surgeon to B J Vernon and W H H Jessop at St Bartholomew's Hospital. From 1902 to 1908 he was in general practice at Bournemouth, but after obtaining his Fellowship in 1909 he turned entirely to ophthalmic surgery, serving as house surgeon to E W Brewerton at the Royal Westminster Ophthalmic Hospital at the age of thirty-six and later holding appointments at the West End Hospital for Nervous Diseases, the Central London Ophthalmic Hospital, and the Royal Eye Hospital where he was appointed surgeon in 1915. Other posts to which he was appointed included that of ophthalmic surgeon to the Tottenham Education Committee and the Western General Dispensary in 1912, the Hampstead General Hospital in 1913, and the Hospital of St John and St Elizabeth in 1914. At the Royal Eye Hospital he was an inspiring surgeon and teacher, kind and considerate to everyone, retaining his boyish approach in old age. He took his MD at the age of 73 in order to keep his son company when the latter took his MA. After retiring in 1934, he continued as an honorary clinical assistant until 1937. He lived at Surbiton from 1911 onwards, and in 1923-24 he was chairman of the Kingston-upon-Thames Division of the BMA. He had a patriarchal white beard and twinkling eyes behind gold-rimmed spectacles, was fluent in French, German and Latin, was a skilled mathematician, inventing the rotary prism, and in his leisure hours a skilful chess player representing the county of Surrey. In 1903 he married Ethel Kate, eldest daughter of Ederic Worth of Bournemouth, and she died on 14 December 1951. They had two sons, the elder of whom was in the winning Cambridge crews of 1927 and 1928. He himself died after an operation on 22 July 1954 aged 80.
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First Title value, for Searching Damato, Francis Joseph (1914 - 1986)

2024-05-02T00:29:09Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2015-05-08
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Occupation Ophthalmic surgeon
Details Francis Joseph Damato was born in Malta on 2 February 1914, the son of Joseph Damato, an architect, and Josephine, née Farrugia. He was educated at St Paul's School, Valetta, and the Royal Malta University Medical School where he qualified in 1937. His brother, Pierre, became an ENT surgeon and a Fellow of the College and another brother, Emanuel, who predeceased him, was a popular general practitioner. Two of his nephews also took up medicine and one of them, Bertil Damato, became FRCS. Francis Damato survived the bombardment of Malta during the second world war when he was a house surgeon in the emergency hospital in the dockyard area until it was forced to close. He came to the UK to train in ophthalmology in 1944 working with F A Williamson-Noble at the Western Ophthalmic Hospital and Sir Allan Goldsmith at the Central London Eye Hospital. He took the DO course at Oxford University in 1948, and returned to Malta in 1949 where he was appointed ophthalmic surgeon to the Central Hospital on the retirement of Professor Preziosi. He wrote various articles on the causes and incidence of blindness in Malta, including trachoma (a study stimulated by a visit to Tunisia as a young man) and diabetic retinopathy. Later he was appointed senior ophthalmic surgeon to the Maltese Health Department and the University of Malta, and consultant in ophthalmology to the Royal Navy in Malta. Damato was an extremely cultured man, fluent in several languages and interested in philately, archaeology, walking and travelling. He married his cousin, Marcelle D'Amato, on 16 March 1954. She was a medical student whose family had been killed by a stray bomb apparently from an American aircraft, which had destroyed her house in Sfax, Tunisia. Francis and Marcelle had two daughters, Isabelle (Hero) who became a lecturer in ocular pathology at St Bartholomew's Hospital, London and married Marco Hero Preziosi, FRCP, and Josette (Bettany) who became a physiotherapist in Buffalo, NY. He died on June 13 1986 in Malta, survived by his wife and daughters.
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First Title value, for Searching Taaffe, Richard Patrick Burke (1829 - 1888)

2024-05-02T00:29:09Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2012-11-28
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Occupation General surgeon Ophthalmic surgeon
Details Born in the West of Ireland; Sligo had been the home of several distinguished Taaffes. In early life he came to England and was educated at St Bartholomew's Hospital. In 1856 he settled in practice at Brighton as partner of Sir John Cordy Burrows, afterwards practising alone. He was appointed in 1858 Assistant Surgeon to the Brighton and Sussex Eye Infirmary, of which he was Consulting Surgeon at the time of his death. In 1874 he became the first Medical Officer of Health appointed for Brighton, and carried out his important duties with zeal and ability to the last. In 1877-1878 he was President of the Brighton and Sussex Medico-Chirurgical Society, President of the Section of Public Medicine at the Annual Meeting of the British Medical Association which was held in Brighton in 1886, and he took a prominent part in the proceedings of the Brighton Health Congress in 1881. He practically founded the Royal Alexandra Hospital for Sick Children and was its earnest supporter. The Prince of Wales opened the Hospital on July 21st, 1881, Taaffe formally asking the Prince to declare the building open and presenting him with a gold key to fit its principal lock. At the time of his death he was also Consulting Physician to the Institution, Physician to the Brighton Dramatic Company, and a member of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. He died at his residence, 45 Old Steyne, on Saturday, March 3rd, 1888, leaving a widow and two sons. Publications: "Address on the Transmission of Diseases through the Media of Food and Drink," delivered at the Brighton Health Congress, 1881. *Reports on Health of Brighton*, 1874-86.
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First Title value, for Searching James, George Thomas Brooksbank (1867 - 1928)

2024-05-02T00:29:09Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2012-05-16
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Occupation Ophthalmic surgeon
Details Studied at Westminster Hospital, where he gained an entrance scholarship, and later was House Surgeon and House Physician. Then he was Clinical Assistant at the Royal Westminster Ophthalmic Hospital, and, having become FRCS in 1896, was appointed Surgeon to the Royal Eye Hospital, Southwark; Assistant Ophthalmic Surgeon and then Ophthalmic Surgeon to Westminster Hospital. He practised at 5 Harley Street, but also had a house and practised at Eastbourne, where he was Ophthalmic Surgeon to the Princess Alice Memorial Hospital. James began rapidly to exhibit originality over various problems in ophthalmology. Difficult refraction errors were treated in his paper "On the Measurement of the Stereoscopic Visual Acuity", which was written in conjunction with J Stroud Horsford, and appeared in the *Lancet* in 1909. He was particularly successful in the treatment of gonorrhoeal conjunctivitis in the adult by avoiding irritation with nitrate of silver and substituting continuous bland irrigation (*Lancet*, 1911). In "The Operative Treatment of Strabismus" (*Trans Ophthalmol Soc*, 1909) he noted advances made over the ordinary treatment by tenotomy. His "Operative Treatment of Glaucoma: a New Method" (*Trans Ophthalmol Soc*, 1909) described an original method of setting up permanent filtration which he practised with increasing success during his last years. Irritation of the buccal pouch by an upper third molar caused, within three months, an epitheliomatous ulceration which quickly spread to the neck, so that within a few months squamous-celled carcinoma had invaded the internal jugular vein, and spread in its lumen upwards and downwards. Several operations failed to overtake the disease, and he died on November 15th, 1928. He was unmarried, and was devoted to his mother and the home he had made for her at Eastbourne.
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First Title value, for Searching Cashell, Geoffrey Thomas Willoughby (1906 - 1994)

2024-05-02T00:29:09Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2015-09-07
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Occupation Ophthalmic surgeon
Details Geoffrey Cashell, born in 1906, was educated at Westminster School, London, before starting his medical training at King's College Hospital, where he qualified LMSSA and MRCS LRCP in 1930. 1933 was an eventful year: he passed the MB BS London and the FRCS Edinburgh and was appointed honorary consultant ophthalmic surgeon to Reading and district hospitals. His choice of specialty was shared with his cousin Keith Lyle, eminent ophthalmologist on the honorary consultant staff at King's. He pursued a distinguished career in Reading, where he built up an outstanding eye department. He established a school of orthoptics, and devoted much of his time to the training of the young orthoptists there. He took on a heavy load of medical administration, and was a prime mover in fund-raising for the Postgraduate Medical Centre. In 1966 he was invited to collaborate with Isabel Durran on the *Handbook of orthoptic principles*, which became a classic text. His achievements were rewarded with many honours in later years. He was ophthalmic consultant to the RAF medical service, honorary Fellow of the Australasian College of Ophthalmologists and the recipient of an honorary DSc at Reading University. He was a Knight of the Order of St John of Jerusalem, Master of the Worshipful Society of Apothecaries, treasurer of the Faculty of Ophthalmology and Chairman of the British Orthoptic Board. Bernard Cashell was a man of great personal charm who achieved much through careful planning and determination. He went on to enjoy a lengthy retirement as the devoted father of two sons, Patrick and Peter, and nine grandchildren. He died in 1994; sadly his beloved wife Hilda had predeceased him.
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First Title value, for Searching Cook, Edwin Harry Leonard (1916 - 1971)

2024-05-02T00:29:09Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2014-10-30
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Occupation Ophthalmic surgeon
Details Edwin Cook received his medical education at Liverpool University, graduating in 1940, early in the second world war. After holding resident posts at Liverpool he soon joined the RAFVR. One of his early postings was to 266 Rhodesia Squadron RAF, and his association with this squadron was to remain one of his most cherished memories. He completed his service in India where he developed his interest in ophthalmology. On returning to England he took the DOMS in 1947 and became senior registrar at the Eye, Ear and Throat Infirmary in Liverpool. Five years later he took the Fellowship and became consultant ophthalmic surgeon to the Wigan, Leigh and Wrightlington group of hospitals and later to Bootle General Hospital and the Providence Hospital in St Helens. In 1958 he was also appointed to the staff of the United Liverpool Hospitals in the capacity of consultant ophthalmic surgeon to St Paul's Eye Hospital. Cook was a member of the Faculty of Ophthalmologists and represented his region on the Council of the Faculty. At the time of his death he was the senior consultant ophthalmic surgeon to the Liverpool Regional Hospital Board and was clinical lecturer in ophthalmology to Liverpool University. Cook's kindly personality combined with skill in his specialty made him a much loved colleague; in his spare time he used to go to his cottage in the Shropshire countryside near Oswestry and his times there were a great joy to him and his family. His untimely death on 4 February 1971 at the early age of 55 was a great loss to the profession; he was survived by his wife, two sons and one daughter, two of them being in the medical profession.
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First Title value, for Searching Ayoub, John Edward Moussa (1908 - 1999)

2024-05-02T00:29:09Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2015-10-13
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Occupation Ophthalmic surgeon Ophthalmologist
Details John Ayoub was a consultant ophthalmic surgeon at the London Hospital, a former Vice-President of the Faculty of Ophthalmologists and a College Council member. He was born on 7 September 1908 in South Kensington, the son of Moussa Ayoub, the celebrated portrait painter, who painted the Council in 1926, and Maria André, daughter of an architect and sister of J E André, a general practitioner. Ayoub was educated at St Paul's and then won a science scholarship to Lincoln College, Oxford, where he was soon recognised as an outstanding oarsman, rowing for his college. He did his clinical training at St Thomas's where, after junior appointments in casualty and general surgery, he became house surgeon to the ophthalmic department and made this his speciality. After appointments in Lincoln and Leicester, he became house surgeon at Moorfields, ending there as chief assistant. During this period he acknowledged the influence of Charles Goulden. He also travelled extensively, visiting the clinics of Louis Paufique in Lyons, Lindner in Vienna and Custodis in Dusseldorf. He had joined the RNVR in 1938 and served throughout the war as an ophthalmic specialist with the rank of Lieutenant Commander. He was appointed consultant ophthalmic surgeon to the London Hospital in 1947 and to Moorfields three years later. At the College, he was Vice President of the Faculty of Ophthalmologists and a member of Council. A tall, genial, kindly man, John Ayoub was popular with his students, to whom he was unfailingly courteous, and a much-respected colleague who was always available, no matter the hour. He had married Madelaine Martin in 1939 and they had a son and daughter. He retired to Alderney where his garden was soon winning prizes and he could indulge his passion for sailing and bell ringing. He died on 6 July 1999.
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First Title value, for Searching Lobascher, David John (1932 - 1984)

2024-05-02T00:29:09Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2015-06-08
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Occupation Ophthalmic surgeon
Details David John Lobascher was born in Perth, Western Australia on 17 August 1932 the son of Lewin Lobascker, an accountant. His mother Violet, née Bryan, died when he was young and his early education was at the Modern Medical School, Perth, before entering the University of Adelaide Medical School. He qualified in 1955 and after early appointments at the Royal Perth Hospital joined the Flying Doctor Service from 1958 to 1960. He then decided to pursue a career in ophthalmology and after spending four years as registrar at the Western Ophthalmic Hospital in London and passing the FRCS in 1964 was appointed assistant ophthalmic surgeon to the Royal Perth Hospital. Three years later he returned to England and was chief clinical assistant to the contact lens and prosthetic department at Moorfields Eye Hospital. He also practised privately in Harley Street and contributed to professional journals on the use of contact lenses in patients with aphakia. In 1960 he married Mary Evelyn Cowan, née Vetter, a clinical psychologist and the following year they had a daughter, Fleur who became a TV documentary researcher. He loved antiques and was a collector of Chinese ceramics. An enthusiastic tennis player in his early years, he had won the championship of his state. He was also interested in music, attaining professional standard as a jazz pianist. When he had been with the Flying Doctor Service in the late 1950's he was involved in rescuing the survivors from the atomic bombs set off at Monte Bello Islands and Maralinga and it was considered that he was irradiated at that time leading to his premature death from adenocarcinoma. Four other flying doctors all died within eighteen months of each other. He died at his home in London on 16 August 1984, aged 51 years, survived by his wife and their daughter.
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First Title value, for Searching Tyson, William Joseph (1851 - 1927)

2024-05-02T00:29:09Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2013-01-09
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Occupation General surgeon Ophthalmic surgeon Physician
Details The son of William Taylor Tyson, for many years a medical practitioner in Folkestone. He was educated at Queen's College, Taunton, and at Guy's Hospital, where he was afterwards House Physician and Resident Obstetrician. In 1876 he set up in practice in Folkestone, though not in partnership with his father. For fifty years he was constantly associated with the Royal Victoria Hospital, first as Medical Officer, then as Physician, resigning only shortly before his death. In addition to his duties as Physician he had charge of the Ophthalmic Department. He was Chairman of the Hospital, and in that capacity received Prince Henry on the occasion of the opening of the new wing in August, 1927. He was an active member of the British Medical Association, representing the South-Eastern Branch on the Council from 1897-1908, and was a member of the Central Council from 1912-1918, Secretary of the Section of Public Medicine at the Annual Meeting of 1886, and Vice-President of the Section of Medicine in 1907. He was an original member of the Association of Physicians of Great Britain and Ireland, whose meetings he regularly attended. As Justice of the Peace for Kent he was Chairman of the Bench for the Elham Division. He died on September 5th, 1927, being survived by his widow, a daughter of J H du Boulay, of Sandgate, and by three daughters. Publications: "Rectal Alimentation," 8vo, London, 1882; reprinted from *Brit Med Jour*, 1882, i, 420. "Lately Developed Signs in Pneumonia." - *Trans Clin Soc*, 1880-1, xiv, 97.452 "Simple Stricture of Pylorus." - *Trans Pathol Soc*, 1881-2, xxxiii, 142. "Three Cases of Universal Alopecia." - *Trans Clin Soc*, 1886, xix, 120. "Case of Suppurating Hydatid Cyst of Liver opened through Chest Wall." - *Ibid*, 1894, xxvii, 76. "Tracheotomy in Croup." - *Brit Med Jour*, 1880, ii, 464. "Soporific Action of Mereury." - *Ibid*, 1891, i, 221. "On Acute Phosphorus Poisoning, with Case." - *Practitioner*, 1882, xxix, 432. "Some Thoughts on Prevention and Early Treatment of Disease." - *Trans Med Soc* Lond, 1905, xxvii, 262. "Clinical Types of Pneumonia." - *Lancet*, 1897, i, 1738. "Acute Suffocative Œdema of Lung." - *Ibid*, 1922, ii, 859, etc. "A Plea for more Precise Classification of Diseases." - *West London Med Jour*, 1897, ii, 91. *Notes and Thoughts from Practice*, 1909. *Medical Notes*, 8vo, London, 1926.
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First Title value, for Searching Brailey, Arthur Robertson (1877 - 1930)

2024-05-02T00:29:09Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2013-04-22
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Occupation Ophthalmic surgeon
Details The younger of the twin sons, with William Herbert Brailey, of William Arthur Brailey (1845-1915), MA, MD, ophthalmic surgeon to Guy's Hospital, and Agnes, daughter of John Robinson, was born 8 October 1877. He was educated at Westminster School from 25 September 1890 until April 1896. He was admitted to a minor scholarship at Downing College, where his father was a Fellow and matriculated in the University of Cambridge in Michaelmas term 1896 and in the following year gained a foundation scholarship at the college. He entered Guy's Hospital, his father being then ophthalmic surgeon, with a university scholarship in 1899, acted as ward clerk to W H A Jacobson and was house surgeon to Louis Albert Dunn. He then served as clinical assistant to his father in the ophthalmic department of the hospital, and afterwards went to China as general surgeon and oculist to the Chinkiang Hospital. During the war of 1914-18 he held a commission as surgeon-captain in the Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve, rising to the position of senior medical officer in the London division, and was afterwards consulting ophthalmic surgeon to the Royal Air Force. He was also appointed honorary surgeon to King George V. In 1925 he retired from practice and devoted himself to his favourite pursuits of farming and yachting, living at the Clock House, Dunmow, Essex, which he had restored almost single-handed, for he was skilled at many trades. He was drowned with five others on 20 August 1930 from the yacht *Islander* which foundered in a gale in Lantivet Bay, near Fowey, and his body was buried at sea six miles out between Polruan and Fowey. On 12 July 1931 a ship's bell of silver was unveiled in HMS *President* in memory of Commodore H D King, RNVR with an ivory tablet nearby recording that it was given by the officers and ratings who served with and under Commodore King and the two brother officers of London division, RNVR, Surgeon-Captain Brailey and Commander Searle, who all lost their lives in the wreck of the *Islander*. Publications:- Congenital distichiasis. *Trans ophthal Soc UK*. 1906, 26, 16. Cysts of the pars ciliaris retinae. *Ibid*. 1907, 27, 95.
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First Title value, for Searching Wherry, George Edward (1852 - 1928)

2024-05-02T00:29:09Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2013-01-30
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Occupation General surgeon Ophthalmic surgeon
Details Born at Bourne in Lincolnshire on December 31st, 1852. He was educated at St Thomas's Hospital and passed the examination for MRCS a few months before he attained the legal age for qualifying. He served as an Assistant Demonstrator of Anatomy at St Thomas's Hospital for a short time until he was elected House Surgeon to Addenbrooke's Hospital, Cambridge, in 1874. He held the post for three years, became a member of Downing College, and graduated BA and MB in 1878. Sir George Humphry (qv) nominated him to act as his deputy at the Hospital, where he was elected as an additional Surgeon on Nov 24th, 1879, having just previously passed the examinations for the Fellowship of the College and the Master of Surgery in the University. He resigned his office of Surgeon in 1915 and was elected a Consulting Surgeon. Soon after his appointment as Surgeon he instituted the Ophthalmic Department. From 1884-1911 he was University Lecturer on Surgery and undertook the course of operative surgery and the clinical teaching. After the death of Professor Howard Marsh (qv) in 1915 Wherry acted as supervisor of the surgical examinations in the University. In 1927 he was complimented by being elected an Hon Fellow of Downing College. Wherry married in 1881 Albinia Lucy, daughter of Robert Needham Cust, LLD, of the Bengal Civil Service. She was killed in a motor accident on March 4th, 1929, leaving a daughter who married Major R W Oldfield, Military Attaché to the Legation at Prague. Wherry died with acute abdominal symptoms at Zermatt whilst on a holiday in Switzerland on Aug 12th, 1928. Three years before his death he was successfully operated upon for a popliteal aneurysm by ligature of the femoral artery at the apex of Scarpa's triangle. Wherry was tall, spare, and active, a good runner in early days and an Alpine climber. He was on the Committee of the Alpine Club and contributed to the Alpine Journal. At home he was a local antiquary, and was a lover of Charles Lamb, about whom he published Cambridge and Charles Lamb in 1925, telling the story of six Cambridge 'Charles Lamb dinners' held between 1909 and 1914. Publication: "Notes from a Knapsack," 8vo, Cambridge, 1900.
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First Title value, for Searching Walsh, John Henry (1810 - 1888)

2024-05-02T00:29:09Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2013-01-23
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Occupation Ophthalmic surgeon
Details John Henry Walsh, better known by his pen name 'Stonehenge', was born at Hackney, London, on October 21st, 1810, the son of Benjamin Walsh. He was educated privately, and after qualifying became Surgeon to the Ophthalmic Institution. He lectured for a time on surgery and descriptive anatomy at the Aldersgate School of Medicine and practised in Worcester until he returned to London in 1852. He always had an intense love of sport, rode to hounds, kept greyhounds, broke in his own pointers, and trained hawks. He was also fond of shooting and lost a portion of the left hand by the accidental bursting of his gun. In 1853 he published a work on *The Greyhound, on the Art of Breeding, Rearing and Training Greyhounds for Public Running, their Diseases and Treatment*, by Stonehenge; 3rd ed, 1875. The treatise was based on articles written for *Bell's Life* and it immediately became the standard work. Three years later, in 1856, the *Manual of British Rural Sports* was published. It treats of the whole range of sports and of the scientific breeding of horses. The sixteenth edition appeared in 1886, by which time it had become encyclopaedic. In 1856 he originated the *Coursing Calendar* and conducted it through fifty half-yearly volumes. He became editor of the *Field* at the end of 1856, and instituted a series of trials to show that breech-loaders were superior to muzzle-loaders (1858-1866). He also organized trials to ascertain the cause of the frequent breakages in guns, and his comments in the *Field* on proof powder involved him in litigation with the Birmingham Proofhouse Guardians in 1885, in which he lost the action on technical grounds. Walsh was one of the founders of the National Coursing Club and of the All-England Lawn Tennis Club as well as of the All-England Croquet Club. He married: (1) in August, 1833, Margaret, daughter of Thomas Stevenson, of Claines, Worcestershire, who died nine months later; (2) in 1835, Susan Emily, daughter of Jonas Malden, MD, of Worcester, who died eight months later; and (3) in 1852 Louisa, eldest daughter of the Rev William Parker. She survived her husband with two daughters. He died at 43 Montserrat Road, Putney, on February 12th, 1888, and was buried in the Old Cemetery on Putney Common.
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First Title value, for Searching Ormond, Arthur William (1871 - 1964)

2024-05-02T00:29:09Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2014-04-07
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Occupation Ophthalmic surgeon
Details 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 ophthalmic registrar and clinical assistant at Guy's. He was given leave for three months in 1901 to tour the ophthalmological centres of Europe. During the 1914-18 war Ormond supervised the ophthalmic work at St Mark's College, Chelsea, the 2nd London General Hospital where all blinded men were drafted. Ormond and his colleagues published two official reports, one presenting an analysis of the 15,584 ophthalmic cases treated at St Mark's, and the other listing 1000 blinded men who had been treated there and transferred to St Dunstan's. Ormond had the painful duty of telling hundreds of people that they would be blind for the rest of their lives, which he did with grace, kindness and good sense. Little progress was made in treatment for detachment of the retina before Jules Gonin of Lausanne devised his operation and Alfred Vogt of Zurich reported a case in which he had obtained complete success by Gonin's method (Gonin: *Annales d'Oculistique* 1927, 164, 817; Vogt: *Klinische Monatsblätter für Augenheilkunde* 1929, 82, 619). Ormond visited Gonin and published the first English description of this new treatment in the *British Medical Journal* 1930, 1, 940. Between the wars Ormond was joint ophthalmic surgeon to St Dunstan's with Sir Arnold Lawson. He was honorary secretary of the section of ophthalmology at the British Medical Association's annual meeting at Birmingham in 1911, and Vice-President at the Bath meeting in 1925. He was a member of the ophthalmic committee of the BMA from 1926 to 1937, and a representative of the Association on the National Ophthalmic Treatment Board from 1928 to 1930. When he retired from Guy's in 1931 he was appointed consulting ophthalmic surgeon emeritus. Ormond practised at 9 Devonshire Place, W1 and lived at The Summit, Mount Ephraim, Tunbridge Wells. He died on 14 February 1964, aged 92. He married Mary C Eason who survived him.
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First Title value, for Searching Cunningham, John Francis (1875 - 1932)

2024-05-02T00:29:09Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2013-06-20
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Occupation Ophthalmic surgeon
Details Born at Kobe, Japan on 25 September 1875, the elder son of John Kirkaldy Cunningham, a merchant, and Florence Heaslop, his wife. His father retired from business and settled at Axminster in 1887, and sent his son to Sherborne School. He entered at Michaelmas term 1889 and left in 1894, having been captain of the school XV. He proceeded at once to St Thomas's Hospital and became known as a distinguished athlete, winning the mile in three successive years and playing football both for the hospital and the united hospitals. He filled the office of house surgeon, ophthalmic house surgeon, and the newly created post of ophthalmic-registrar. He also served as clinical assistant at the Royal London Ophthalmic Hospital, and was house physician at Bethlem Royal Hospital. He acted for a time as demonstrator of physiology in St Thomas's Hospital Medical School. In 1910 he joined the staff of the Central London Ophthalmic Hospital, and in 1920 he was appointed consulting surgeon to St Charles's Hospital, formerly the Marylebone Infirmary. During the first world war Cunning¬ham, with the rank of major, RAMC(T), served in France 1915-18, where he had remarkable success in the treatment of trachoma amongst many thousands of Egyptians and Chinese. For his services he was decorated OBE on 3 June 1919. He married on 17 June 1909 Phyllis Lovell, daughter of Mr Justice Clarence of the supreme court of Ceylon. She survived him with two sons and three daughters. Cunningham was a man of singularly lovable nature, which won for him the affection of all with whom he was brought in contact. He never spared himself, doing everything to the best of his ability, thinking only of the work and never of any reward. He was interested to the end of his life in the success of the Sherborne Old Boys Society. He acted for many years as its secretary, and brought it to the acme of success. He died in St Thomas's Hospital on 13 July 1932, and was buried in the cemetery at Sherborne. Publications:- Contagious diseases of the conjunctiva in wartime, with J Wharton. *Trans Ophthal Soc UK* 1918, 38, 18. Analysis of a series of cases of interstitial keratitis. *Ibid*. 1922, 42, 44. The eye and emergencies of general practice, in Sargent and Russell's *Emergencies of general practice*. London, 1910.
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First Title value, for Searching Hudson, Arthur Cyril (1875 - 1962)

2024-05-02T00:29:09Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2014-03-03
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Occupation Ophthalmic surgeon
Details Born on 30 November 1875 at Bingley, Yorks, fourth and youngest son of the Rev Albert Hudson, he was educated at Rugby, Trinity College, Cambridge and St Thomas's Hospital. After qualification he became house surgeon and then junior and senior ophthalmic house surgeon in succession and finally ophthalmic registrar at St Thomas's. He was also for three years house surgeon at Moorfields and later curator of the museum, being appointed to the consulting staff in 1913 and retiring in 1928. At St Thomas's he was appointed ophthalmic surgeon to out-patients in 1915 on the retirement of J B Lawford and in 1924 full surgeon on the retirement of J H Fisher, retiring himself in 1935 at the age of sixty. During the war of 1914-18 he had a commission in the RAMC(TA) and was attached to the 2nd London General Hospital. In 1932-33 he was President of the Ophthalmological section of the Royal Society of Medicine and he became Vice-President of the Ophthalmological Society of the United Kingdom. During the war of 1939-45 he returned to assist his old hospital, St Thomas's, for the duration. A skilful operator, he was a master craftsman and perfectionist, and as a diagnostician outstanding. Shy and kindly, he had a charming courteous manner with a dry sense of humour, being himself exceedingly droll without realising it. While at Cambridge he gained a half-blue at tennis and was a member of a famous college Rugby XV. At St Thomas's he captained the tennis side which captured the inter-hospitals cup. He was also captain of the Hospital Rugby XV in the season 1901-02. A wealthy man, he was a most generous benefactor of St Thomas's. He was an unobtrusive guide and stimulus to his students, and being a keen and skilful fisherman, he delighted to entertain them on the Oykel; it also gave him great pleasure to dispense hospitality in his London home, which was filled with works of art, for he was a great connoisseur. He died, a bachelor, on 13 May 1962 aged 87. Publications: Cross-armed reversible screen Stereoscope. *Brit J Opthal* 1955, 39, 634. Cataract surgery. *Proc Roy Soc Med* 1933.
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First Title value, for Searching Toye, Edwin Josiah (1871 - 1938)

2024-05-02T00:29:09Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2013-11-27
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Occupation General surgeon Medical Officer Ophthalmic surgeon
Details Born 3 November 1871 at 8 Bonner's Lane, Bethnal Green, the second child of Edwin Josiah Toye, chemist, and Jane Buggel, his wife. He entered St Bartholomew's Hospital in 1890, where he had a brilliant career. He won the junior and the senior scholarships, and was ophthalmic house surgeon under Henry Power and Bowater J Vernon. He was equally successful at the University of London, where he gained honours in physiology at the BSc examination, the gold medal for obstetrics at the MB, and was judged worthy of the gold medal at the BS. For a year he was house physician at the Metropolitan Hospital, and in 1898 took a locum tenancy at Bideford with Ezekiel Rouse and Matthew Richard Gooding. Dr Rouse died, and Toye became assistant to Gooding and later his partner. In addition to his routine general practice, Toye maintained his interest in ophthalmic surgery and acted as ophthalmic surgeon as well as medical officer to the Bideford Hospital until he died. He held a unique position at Bideford, for in addition to his professional work he was interested in municipal affairs and served as mayor in 1925. The Bideford bridge was rebuilt during his year of office, and his name is engraved upon the memorial stone. He was chairman of the Barnstaple division and president of the South-Western branch of the British Medical Association, and served as president of the Devon and Exeter Medico-Chirurgical Society. He married on 8 September 1903 Mary Ellen Keene, widow of Captain T C P Keene, KOSB. She died in 1933, leaving him with three stepchildren: one son and two daughters. He died suddenly at Stanhope, Bideford, Devon on 25 January 1938. He left £100 each to Bideford and District Hospital, Bideford and District Nursing Association, Bideford Rotary Club, St Bartholomew's Hospital Medical College, and the Metropolitan Hospital. Toye was an influence for good during the whole of his life, and was very highly respected both as a man and a doctor by all his fellow townsmen. He loved music, and kept himself abreast of medical progress by attending postgraduate classes whenever it was possible to do so. Publications: Acute haemorrhagic pancreatitis. *Brit med J* 1906, 1, 200. Mortality in the medical profession, presidential address to BMA, SW branch, 1909.
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First Title value, for Searching Moore, Robert Foster (1878 - 1963)

2024-05-02T00:29:09Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2014-03-28
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Occupation Ophthalmic surgeon
Details Born on 25 October 1878 at Cambridge son of Edward Moore he matriculated in 1897 as a non-collegiate student, entered Christ's College in 1898 where he was elected a scholar on winning first-class honours in the Natural Sciences Tripos part I, 1900, and won a scholarship to St Bartholomew's Hospital. While an undergraduate he rescued two ladies from drowning in the frozen Cam and was awarded the Royal Humane Society's medal. At Bart's he was house surgeon to D'Arcy Power, ophthalmic house surgeon, demonstrator of anatomy, and chief assistant in the eye department. He won the Middlemore prize in 1914, was elected assistant eye surgeon in 1915, and surgeon to Moorfields Eye Hospital in 1917. During the war he served as a Captain RAMC in charge of the eye centre at Étaples in France 1916-18, was mentioned in dispatches, and was created an Officer of the Order of the British Empire in 1919. He was appointed surgeon in charge of the eye department at Bart's in 1924 and consulting surgeon on retirement in 1937. Moore examined for the University of London, and was President of the Ophthalmological Society in 1934. He was Montgomery lecturer at Trinity College, Dublin in 1927 and Middlemore lecturer in 1949; he was an Officer of the Order of St John. He practised at 53 Harley Street and retired to The Red House, Lower Bemerton, Salisbury, where he was appointed a Justice of the Peace for Wiltshire in 1943. Foster Moore was beloved by his colleagues and former pupils, who founded the Foster Moore Club and entertained him to dinner each year after his retirement. He was ambidextrous and an exquisite craftsman both as surgeon and as a water-colourist. He was a man of absolute integrity, imperturbable and resourceful, with a whimsical humour. He died at Bemerton on 1 March 1963 aged 85 survived by his son. At the memorial service in St Bartholomew-the-less on 4 April the funeral oration was delivered by H B Stallard, who also contributed eulogies to *The Times*, *The Lancet* and the *British medical Journal*. Publication: *Medical Ophthalmology* London, Churchill 1922, 2nd edition 1925.
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First Title value, for Searching Bookless, John Smeed (1878 - 1972)

2024-05-02T00:29:09Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2014-07-14
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Occupation Ophthalmic surgeon
Details John Bookless was born on 5 March 1878 and received his education at Christ's College, Brecon, and Eastbourne College. In 1897 he went up to Trinity Hall, Cambridge with a mathematical scholarship, but after leaving the University he decided on a medical career and entered Guy's Hospital Medical School in 1900. While a medical student he was captain of cricket and on one occasion had the privilege of taking the wicket of Dr W G Grace. After graduation he held two house appointments at Guy's and then became a partner in a general practice at Sawbridgeworth, Herts. In 1911 he returned to Guy's Hospital where he worked for his Fellowship and at the same time took up ophthalmology. After taking his Fellowship he was soon appointed to the post of ophthalmic surgeon at Croydon Hospital. In 1916 he was commissioned in the RAMC with the rank of Captain, and spent the next two years treating eye casualties at Le Havre. In 1919 he returned to Croydon, and subsequently was appointed to the staffs of Queen Mary's Hospital for the East End and Fulham, Mayday (Croydon) and Purley Hospitals. In 1924 he began practice in Harley Street and continued there until his rooms were destroyed by enemy action in the second world war. In 1929 he took a partner and during 1940-1945 they worked together treating eye casualties from the Blitz. He was a member of the BMA for over fifty years and in 1934 was Chairman of the Croydon Division. He was President of the Croydon Medical Society in 1935. In 1946 Bookless retired to Crowborough, Sussex where he lived for twenty-six years. He enjoyed golf, tennis and bridge and he and his first wife made their home a centre of hospitality. Walking was also a favourite pursuit, especially in the Cairngorms, and in his later years he enjoyed ornithology and bowls. For many years he was a sidesman at Croydon Parish Church, and after his ninetieth birthday continued to be actively involved with the Colonial and Continental Church Society. In 1907 he married Nora Evelyn who died in 1961; they had three sons one of whom became a doctor. In 1964 he married Joyce Proud, a family friend for forty-three years, who survived him. He died at his Sussex home on 26 May 1972 at the age of 94.
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First Title value, for Searching Alabaster, Edward Beric (1893 - 1971)

2024-05-02T00:29:09Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2014-07-14 2014-07-18
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Occupation Ophthalmic surgeon
Details Edward Alabaster was born on 14 April 1893 at Parkhill, Moseley, Birmingham the fifth son of Arthur Alabaster, a manufacturing jeweller, and Catherine Birch. He was educated at King Edward VI School and Birmingham University. When the first world war broke out in 1914 Alabaster was only two-thirds through his medical training; he immediately joined Lady Sybil Paget's Red Cross Unit serving as a dresser in Serbia and Salonika, but in 1915 he returned to England and qualified in 1916. He then joined the RAMC and was posted to Mesopotamia where he remained until the end of the war, with the rank of Captain. He received in recognition of his services the Serbian White Eagle Cross and the 1914-18 war medals. After the war he decided to specialise in ophthalmic work, and took the DO in 1921 at Oxford. Soon afterwards he was appointed surgeon to the Birmingham and Midland Eye Hospital, which he served for over 30 years. He was elected a Fellow of the College in 1948. Alabaster became an authority on the treatment of squint, and he took this as his subject for the Montgomery Lecture in Dublin in 1973. He was also a Richard Middlemore lecturer in 1936 and 1954. Alabaster was the first in Birmingham to perform cataract extraction by the intracapsular method. Among other appointments he was consulting surgeon to the Children's Hospital, Birmingham, and ophthalmic surgeon to the Worcestershire County Council Education Department. In later years he developed an interest in diet and nutrition and lectured on the nutritional background of certain ophthalmic problems. He became President of the Midland Ophthalmological Society. In 1924 he married Margaret Verrinder Sydenham, daughter of Colonel Edward Verrinder Sydenham, DSO, who was a descendant of the famous seventeenth-century Dr Thomas Sydenham. After retirement Alabaster served in National Health clinics, but unfortunately developed diabetes and in 1967 underwent an amputation of a leg. In younger days Alabaster was a keen player of tennis and golf, but his chief interest was always his work. Three months before his death he had to enter hospital for the amputation of his other leg, and he died from diabetes on 13 July 1971 at the age of 78, survived by his wife, son and daughter (Dr A C Alabaster MB ChB).
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First Title value, for Searching Talbot, Graeme Gibson (1902 - 1992)

2024-05-02T00:29:09Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2015-10-08
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Occupation Ophthalmic surgeon
Details Graeme Gibson Talbot was born in Auckland, New Zealand, on 1 February 1902, the son of Alfred Talbot, an eye and ENT surgeon, and Beatrice, née Gibson. He was educated at King's College, Auckland, where he was dux. He then went on to the Otago Medical School, where he was awarded the McCallum medal, and senior and junior medals in surgery. He graduated MB ChB in 1925 and in the same year came to Britain to undertake his surgical training. He obtained the FRCS Edinburgh in 1925 and the English Fellowship in 1931. He held junior appointments at the Royal Northern Hospital, Freemason's Hospital and Princess Elizabeth Hospital for Sick Children. When he returned to Auckland in 1931 the country was in the grip of the depression. He decided to take up ophthalmic surgery and returned to London for training. He held junior posts at Golden Square Throat Hospital, the Royal Northern Hospital and the Central London Ophthalmic Hospital. A period of study in Vienna was followed by consultant posts at the Royal Westminster Ophthalmic Hospital, the Royal Northern Hospital and East Ham Memorial Hospital. At the outbreak of war in 1939 he immediately went on active service as a major in the RAMC, serving in the Middle East, Italy, France and Germany. For the invasion of Europe he was ADMS with the rank of colonel to the British 5th Infantry Division, and was later awarded the OBE. In 1946 he returned to Auckland and was appointed ophthalmic surgeon at Auckland Hospital, retiring in 1963 as senior ophthalmic surgeon. He was an innovative surgeon with a heavy workload and a busy private practice, but he still found time to engage in a wide range of professional and community activities. He was at one time President of the Auckland division of the BMA, the Ophthalmological Society of New Zealand and the Auckland Medicolegal Society. He was an examiner in ophthalmology for the Royal Australasian College of Surgeons and a trustee of the Royal New Zealand Foundation for the Blind. He was a long-standing member and deputy Chairman of the Auckland Hospital Board and a member of the steering committee for the Auckland Medical School. In 1932 he married Joan Kathleen Betts of London. He died on 11 October 1992 after a long and debilitating illness, survived by his wife, twin sons and a daughter.
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First Title value, for Searching Romano, John Henry Morad (1926 - 1994)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2015-12-04
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Occupation Ophthalmic surgeon Ophthalmologist
Details John Henry Morad Romano was a consultant ophthalmic surgeon at Hillingdon. He was born in Egypt on 24 May 1926, the only child of Albert Romano, a solicitor in Cairo. His primary education was at École de Zamalek and from the age of 11 years at the Lycée Français in Cairo. He completed his Baccalaureat, then transferred to the English School in Cairo for one term. He began his medical training in Beirut in 1944, but left because of rioting and violence in the Lebanon and recommenced at Fuad el Awal University in Cairo. The instruction was in English and Arabic, and he had to pass an Arabic matriculation examination before entering medical school. He then spent a mandatory year working in the villages of the Nile delta, before returning to Cairo and then on to London to train in ophthalmology in 1952. He passed the diploma in ophthalmology in 1955. He returned to Cairo and was appointed consultant ophthalmic surgeon to the Victoria Hospital, Cairo. He and his family came to London permanently in 1959. His Egyptian qualification was not recognised in England, so he re-qualified with the LMSSA in 1960 and the FRCS in 1964. He was a registrar in ophthalmology at the Central Middlesex Hospital and chief clinical assistant at Moorfields Eye Hospital. He was appointed consultant ophthalmic surgeon at Hillingdon Hospital and honorary consultant to the Italian Hospital. He maintained his association with Moorfields, as a research fellow in the glaucoma clinic, which was his special interest, and on which he wrote and lectured for many years. He married Susie Castro in 1950, in Cairo. They had one daughter, Manya, who works as an interpreter for the Foreign Office. He was interested in sport, playing golf and cricket, and in music. He played the flute and the harmonica and was at one time music critic for the British Council. He died on 9 October 1994 from heart failure.
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First Title value, for Searching Wingate, Richard John Buccleugh (1946 - 2014)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2014-10-17
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Occupation Ophthalmic surgeon
Details Richard Wingate emigrated from England to Australia in his late 30s to continue a career in ophthalmology which started at Moorfields Eye Hospital. After completing his Australian ophthalmic training at the Sydney Eye Hospital, he became a Fellow of the Royal Australian College of Ophthalmologists in 1992. He worked in Sydney, Gulgong in regional NSW, Bathurst and Katoomba. He had a wide clinical practice with a sub-specialist interest in medical retinal diseases. His clinics included high volumes of fluorescein angiography, retinal laser treatments and later intravitreal injections. He was also involved in the Aboriginal medical outreach program called Thubbo, which provided medical retinal services to the aboriginal community in Dubbo. He was involved in the Myanmar Eye Care Program and contributed to the work of the clinic in diagnosing and treating conditions rarely encountered in Australia. His upbringing in post-Second World War Central Africa, where his father worked as a government medical officer, had provided him with useful first-hand experience in tropical medicine. Other medical interests included hyperbaric medicine after a spell as a medical officer in the Royal Navy aboard HMS *Reclaim*. He trained in naval deep-sea diving, so that he could better understand the conditions encountered by his diver patients. He was an aviation medical examiner and assisted with the formulation of the current visual standards for the Civil Aviation Safety Authority. Richard Wingate was also a clinical lecturer to Sydney University medical students in alcohol and drug dependency: he was suited for this role, having overcome dependencies of his own. His death was due to cancer, which he described as at last a misfortune he had not caused himself. At school in Malvern College in England, he showed ability in music and singing, which at one stage were career options. This interest was lifelong, and he became a patron to up-and-coming young Australian composers. A work he commissioned shortly before his death was played at his funeral.
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First Title value, for Searching McNab, Angus (1875 - 1914)

2024-05-02T00:29:09Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2012-07-11
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Occupation General surgeon Ophthalmic surgeon
Details Born in New Zealand, a brother of the Hon Robert McNab, at one time Minister of Agriculture. He graduated BA and BSc at Otago, then entered Edinburgh University, where he became distinguished as a Rugby football player, being in the first reserve for Scotland, and President of the Athletic Club. He went out to the South African War with the Edinburgh Hospital, and on his return, having graduated in medicine and surgery, acted as House Surgeon in the Ophthalmic Department of the Royal Infirmary under Professor G A Berry. He next studied ophthalmology in Vienna and in Freiburg under Axenfeld, and became so proficient in German as to contribute articles to the German medical papers. In 1903 he acted as Refractionist at the Central London Ophthalmic Hospital, and was Clinical Assistant at the Royal Ophthalmic Hospital, Moorfields. Meanwhile he studied general surgery at King's College and the London Hospitals, and passed the FRCS at the end of 1904. By 1905 he was in ophthalmic practice at 59 Davies Street, Berkeley Square, next at 31 New Cavendish Street, and finally at 118 Harley Street. He continued as Clinical Assistant at Moorfields, eventually becoming Chief. He was also Clinical Assistant to the Ophthalmic Department of Charing Cross Hospital and Ophthalmic Surgeon to King Edward VII Hospital, Windsor. For more than three years he had been attached to the London Scottish Regiment. He took up rifle-shooting and got into the last 200 at the Bisley Meeting. Immediately on the outbreak of the War in 1914 he went into camp, and thence with his regiment to France. Before going to the Front, whilst at Villeneuve, he was busy as a general surgeon treating the wounded from the battles on the Marne and Oise whilst 100 of the London Scottish acted as stretcher-bearers. In a characteristic letter he remarks: "There is a great satisfaction in saving a man's life; pottering about with eyes may be a neater and cleaner job, but it is a poor business compared with what we are doing here." An officer at the Front wrote that he had saved many lives under most adverse circumstances. In the first engagement in which the London Scottish Regiment was concerned in Belgium he was wounded, and although bleeding continued calmly bandaging a wounded man; the Germans advancing he was killed, bayonetted whilst bending down attending to two wounded men. It was bright moonlight, at 2 am on November 1st, 1914, he had a white badge of the Red Cross on his arm, and was in a blue tunic. Such was the report of a motor-cyclist dispatch rider. He is one of the first three FRCS on the Roll of Honour. He left a widow and two small children. Publications: Translation of Axenfeld's *Bacteriology of the Eye*, 1908; also Lohmann's *Disturbances of the Visual Functions*, 1913. "Diplococcus Liquefaciens." - *Klin Monats f Augenheilk*, 1904, i, 54. "Ueber Infektion der Kornea." - *Ibid*, 65. "Marginal Blepharitis." - *Royal Ophihal Hosp Rep*, 1906, xvi, 307.
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First Title value, for Searching Clegg, John Gray (1869 - 1941)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2013-05-20
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Occupation Ophthalmic surgeon
Details Born on 16 February 1869 at Eccles, near Manchester, the first child of Thomas Clegg, agent, and Elizabeth Gray, his wife. He was educated at Manchester Grammar School and at the Victoria University where he graduated MB with honours in 1893, having taken the Conjoint qualification in 1891. Transferring to London he was university scholar and gold medallist in forensic medicine, and took first-class honours in obstetric medicine at the MB examination in 1893. He served as house surgeon at Manchester Royal Infirmary and collaborated with Alexander Wilson, FRCS in a descriptive catalogue of the pathological museum. In 1894 he took both the London M.D. and the Fellowship, and decided to specialize in ophthalmology. He then served as house surgeon at the Manchester Royal Eye Hospital, where he was subsequently surgeon. In 1918 he was elected ophthalmic surgeon to the Royal Infirmary, retiring, from ill-health, in 1924, though he continued his connexion with the Eye Hospital and his private practice at 22 St John Street. He was lecturer in ophthalmology at Manchester University. Clegg was a founder and sometime president of the North of England Ophthalmological Society, president of the section of ophthalmology at the British Medical Association Manchester meeting in 1929, and president of the Manchester Medical Society. He was a regular attendant at scientific meetings at home and abroad, and frequently contributed to professional journals both here and in America. He left Manchester for London in 1933, but went back from time to time to see patients, until his retirement in 1938. Clegg was a good operator and an excellent teacher, always ready to try new methods. He was a pioneer in the treatment of glaucoma, and an early advocate of orthoptic training for squint. He studied central scotoma in anterior uveitis, and detachment of the choroid as a postoperative complication in trephined eyes. He invented a retro-ocular trans-illumination lamp for studying detachment of the retina and for the detection of intro-ocular tumours. Gray Clegg married on 10 February 1926 Edith Anna Nightingale, who survived him, but without children. He died on 23 December 1941. He was a prominent Wesleyan Methodist, and was interested in social welfare work, particularly among students. A tall man of great energy and activity, he was a life-long teetotaller and never smoked. Publications:- 250 trephinings of the sclerocomeal junction for hypertony. *Trans Ophthal Soc UK* 1917, 37, 308. Clegg frequently contributed case-reports and joined in discussions at the Ophthalmological Society; his articles occur in almost every volume of the *Transactions* throughout his active career.
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First Title value, for Searching Dunn, Hugh Percy (1854 - 1931)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2013-05-20
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Occupation Ophthalmic surgeon
Details Born at Warkworth, Northumberland on 24 August 1854, the third son of the Rev J Woodham Dunn, Vicar of Warkworth, and Sarah Emily, second daughter of the Rev Luke Yarker of Leyburn Hall, Yorkshire. He received his education at Richmond Grammar School in Yorkshire, at the Clapham Grammar School, at St Bartholomew's Hospital, and in Paris. He filled the office of house surgeon at the Belgrave Hospital for Children, was clinical assistant at the Royal South London Ophthalmic Hospital and was house surgeon at the Seamen's Hospital, Greenwich. He became pathologist to the West London Hospital at Hammersmith, and in 1885 was appointed assistant ophthalmic surgeon to this hospital, where he became surgeon in the eye department on the resignation of Bowater J Vernon in 1898, and consulting surgeon on his own resignation in 1914. Dunn was throughout his professional life a stalwart worker in the cause of postgraduate medical education, and was instrumental with Leonard A Bidwell, FRCS in establishing on a satisfactory basis the West London Postgraduate College which had been foreshadowed by Robert Bell Keetley, FRCS. Dunn also did much to enhance the reputation of the West London Medico-Chirurgical Society of which he became secretary in the fourth session (1885-86) and was vice-president in 1889-90, having acted as editor of the Transactions in 1884-88. In later years he was an Honorary Fellow of the Fellowship of Medicine. Dunn was equally well known as a medical journalist, and was for many years the assistant editor of the *Medical Press and Circular* and conducted the *West London Medical Journal* (1896-1904). He edited the Fellowship of Medicine's *Bulletin* and was editor of the *Franco-British Medical Review* (1924-31). He also contributed articles to the lay press on such subjects as "The loss of orientation in insured workmen", "What London people die of" (*Nineteenth Century* 1893), "Modern surgery" (*Ibid*. 1894), "Is our race degenerating" (*Ibid*. 1894). His writings were always clear, well expressed, and interesting. He married Marian, only daughter of J C H Flood, who survived him with two sons and two daughters. He died 2 March 1931. Publications: An enquiry into the causes of the increase of cancer. *Brit med J*. 1883, 1, 708 and 761. *The theory of cancerous inheritance*. London, 1886. *Infant health: the physiology and hygiene of early life*. London, 1888. New method in the discission of soft cataracts. *Lancet*, 1900, 2, 871. Reminiscences of the library of the Royal College of Surgeons. *Med Press*, 1919, 158, 71.
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First Title value, for Searching Davenport, Robert Cecil (1893 - 1961)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2014-02-05
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Occupation Ophthalmic surgeon
Details Born on 18 December 1893, in Chungking, China, son of C J Davenport FRCS, Robert Cecil Davenport was educated at Mill Hill School and St Bartholomew's Hospital, where he qualified in 1916, and then joined the RAMC, serving as a captain in the first world war. After demobilisation he returned to St Bartholomew's and took the MB BS in 1920 and the FRCS in 1921. He held resident posts at St Bartholomew's and began to specialise in ophthalmology. He won a research scholarship at the Royal London Ophthalmic Hospital (Moorfields) and became ophthalmic surgeon to the East London Hospital for Children. In 1930 he became a member of the staff of Moorfields. Robert Davenport's personal characteristics made him an excellent doctor, teacher and counsellor; in 1938 he was appointed Dean of the Moorfields postgraduate School, a post he held until 1959. During these 21 years Davenport worked unceasingly, interviewing graduate students from home and the Commonwealth, encouraging them in their studies, and listening to their varied personal problems too. Davenport set a fine example in his out-patient clinics. He was always punctual, tolerant, wise and kindly, viewing each patient as an individual person rather than an ophthalmic case. Davenport's other great concern followed his appointment as Medical Commandant of St Dunstan's on the outbreak of the second world war. He and his team saved the sight of many, while to the hundreds of blinded ex-servicemen his firm, cheerful, sensible guidance was invaluable. It was characteristic of him that he began to learn Braille himself, so that he could really share in their problems. From 1951 to 1954 Davenport was vice-president of the Faculty of Ophthalmology, from 1955 to 1957 president of the Section of Ophthalmology, Royal Society of Medicine, and from 1958 to 1960 president of the Ophthalmological Society of the United Kingdom. When the Institute of Ophthalmology was set up in 1948 Davenport was its first Dean. In 1928 he married Helen Elizabeth Mayfield MRCS LRCP; they had two sons and one daughter. It was a most happy marriage and they were generous hosts to scores of young commonwealth doctors. Perhaps Davenport's outstanding characteristic was his ability to remember by name and detail all his students and all his patients at St Dunstan's. A much loved man, he died on 17 June 1961, aged 67. Publications: Recovery of visual field in pituitary tumour without operation. *Trans Ophth Soc UK* 1925. Senile macular exudative retinitis. *Trans Ophth Soc UK* 1926. After results of corneo scleral trephining. *Brit J Ophthal* 1926.
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First Title value, for Searching Gimblett, Charles Leonard (1890 - 1957)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2014-06-10
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Occupation Ophthalmic surgeon
Details Born on 19 June 1890 son of Robert Wheddon Gimblett he was educated at Clifton College and Caius College, Cambridge, where he took second-class honours in the Natural Science Tripos, part 1, 1911. At St Thomas's Hospital he was house surgeon and senior ophthalmic surgeon at the R N Hospitals at Chatham and Portsmouth in the years immediately after the end of tehwar. The East Ham education committee utilised his services during the twenties and for them he produced a valuable *Report on the incidence of myopia in school-children 1920-26*. He became assistant surgeon to the Royal Westminster Ophthalmic Hospital in 1923 and also ophthalmic surgeon to the Royal Northern Hospital, but resigned from the latter in 1927 on promotion to be full surgeon at the Royal Westminster. He became senior surgeon in 1947 and retired in 1956. In 1930 he was the first surgeon in charge of the new orthoptic department. Gimblett continued the good work of Claud Worth FRCS in the treatment of strabismus in children, and did more than anyone else to promote a wide public interest in the use of orthoptic eye-exercises for this purpose. He was the first chairman of the Orthoptic Board when it was established in connection with the British Orthoptic Society and the Board of Registration of Medical Auxiliaries established by the British Medical Association in 1933. From 1937 to 1956 he was ophthalmic surgeon to the Lord Mayor Treloar's Orthopaedic Hospital at Alton. He was a vice-president of the Ophthalmology Section in the Royal Society of Medicine. He worked during the war of 1939-45 at Haymeads Hospital, Bishop's Stortford, Herts, and was elected ophthalmic surgeon to the town's General Hospital there, and was also for a time at Saffron Walden, Essex. Gimblett married in 1935 Audreen Isobel McKenzie, daughter of Duncan McNicol, who survived him with their two sons. He died in the Westminster Hospital on 21 January 1957 aged 66. The funeral was at Newport Pagnell parish church, and a memorial service was held at St Giles in the Fields WC2 on 8 February. He formed a good collection of books on mediaeval art, and was a connoisseur of antique furniture. His favourite recreation was sailing, when taking his holiday in the Mull of Kintyre. Publications: Report on the incidence of myopia in school-children (East Ham Borough council) 1920-26. Eye diseases, in Romanis and Mitchiner *Science and practice of surgery*, London, Churchill 1927.
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First Title value, for Searching Lawford, John Bowring (1858 - 1934)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2013-07-31
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Occupation Ophthalmic surgeon
Details Born in Montreal on 6 August 1858, the second child and elder son of Frederick Lawford, architect, and Anne Shaw Low, his wife. He was educated at a private school before entering McGill University, where he graduated MD in 1879. He came to London immediately and entered the medical school at St Thomas's Hospital. Having determined from an early period to devote himself to ophthalmology he became clinical assistant to Edward Nettleship, and after acting as assistant house physician at St Thomas's Hospital and resident clinical assistant at Bethlem Royal Hospital he was appointed house surgeon at the Royal London Ophthalmic Hospital, Moorfields, in 1883. He became pathologist and curator of the hospital museum in 1884, assistant surgeon in 1892, surgeon in 1895, and consulting surgeon in 1918. At St Thomas's Hospital he was elected assistant ophthalmic surgeon in 1886, and was surgeon and lecturer on ophthalmic surgery from 1891 until 1915, when he resigned and was made consulting ophthalmic surgeon. At the time of his death he was ophthalmic surgeon to the Medical Appeal Board of the Royal Navy and a member of the Committee for the Prevention of Blindness. He was secretary of the Ophthalmological Society of the United Kingdom 1895-97, and president 1911-13. He was editor of the *Ophthalmic Review* from 1910 to 1916, and was chairman of the editorial committee and afterwards the managing director of the *British Journal of Ophthalmology* from 1917 to 1926. He was also president of the Council of British Ophthalmologists, and during his tenure of the office he arranged with the Ministry of Health for the institutional treatment of children suffering from diseases of the eye. Lawford was a highly accomplished operator who used either hand with equal facility. He was endowed with an exceptional sense of duty and carried out the work of every office he filled with punctilious care. He never married, but lived after his retirement with his mother and two sisters at Ashtead, Surrey, where he died on 3 January 1934. He left one-half of the ultimate residue of his fortune to St Thomas's Hospital and the other half to McGill University Montreal. Publications: Eye symptoms in insanity in Tuke's *Dictionary of Psychological Medicine*, 1892 1, 485. Pupil reactions. *Ibid*. 1892, 2, 1052. Diseases of the orbit. *Encyclopaedia Medica*, 1901, 8, 549, unsigned. Ocular lesions in disorders of secretory and excretory organs, Norris and Oliver *System of diseases of the eye*, 1900, 4, 645.
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First Title value, for Searching Rugg-Gunn, Andrew (1884 - 1972)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2014-10-06
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Occupation Ophthalmic surgeon
Details 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 into general practice at Lochbroom. He had already begun to specialise in ophthalmology when the first world war broke out in August 1914. He was commissioned in the RAMC, but was evacuated with typhoid from the Gallipoli campaign in 1915; when he recovered he was posted to India, as an ophthalmic specialist with the 16th Indian Division. After the war he settled in London, made postgraduate study at St Bartholomew's, and was appointed to the staff at the Western Ophthalmic Hospital, the Central Middlesex and Metropolitan Ear, Nose and Throat Hospitals, and at the Cripples Training Centre at Stanmore. He took the Fellowship in 1925. Rugg-Gunn was active in several societies, particularly the Chelsea Clinical Society, of which he was secretary and then President, the Hunterian Society, the Medico-Legal Society, and the Medical Society of London. He served on the Council of British Ophthalmologists and on the Council of the Section of Ophthalmology in the Royal Society of Medicine. Rugg-Gunn was a skilful maker and user of instruments: he designed a binocular ophthalmoscope and was a pioneer in prescribing contact lenses. He wrote often in the ophthalmic journals, especially on retinal detachment, and published a useful textbook, *Diseases of the eye* in 1933. Outside his profession his chief interest was in Scandinavian antiquities, and he travelled widely in Europe and Asia. He was President 1934-36 of the Viking Society for Northern Research, and published his, the *Osiris and Odin origin of kingship* in 1940. He was a keen mountaineer, and in later life took up gardening. Rugg-Gunn was married to Gertrude Smith in 1906, and following her death, to Cecilia Mary Graham-Wells in 1938. He died on 1 September 1972 aged eighty-seven, after suffering for some years from severe arterio-sclerosis. He was survived by his wife, and by the daughter and two sons of his first marriage; one son, Mark Andrew Rugg-Gunn, became FRCP, and a granddaughter and her husband were both medically qualified. Publications: Data concerning radiation and protective glasses with a note on retinoscopes. *Brit J Ophthal* 1934, 18, 65. A case of recurrent aphthous uveitis with associated ulcus vulvae acutum (Lipschutz). *Brit J Ophthal* 1947, 31, 396.
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First Title value, for Searching Gibb, James Glenny (1874 - 1912)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2012-02-08
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Occupation General surgeon Missionary Ophthalmic surgeon
Details Born on August 1st, 1874, the eldest son of James Gibb, insurance broker and underwriter at Lloyd's, who was MP (Lib) for the Harrow Division of Middlesex. His mother was Helen, daughter of the Rev David Nimmo, Congregational minister. Gibb was educated at the City of London School and served for six years in his father's office. He entered St Bartholomew's Hospital in 1900 and won the two-mile steeplechase open to all hospitals in 1901, his time being 11 min 50 secs. He entered the University of Durham in 1902 and won the three-mile race in 1903. He served as House Physician at Westminster Hospital in 1906 and was appointed House Surgeon to Sir D'Arcy Power at St Bartholomew's Hospital in April, 1907. He was elected Ophthalmic House Surgeon to W H H Jessop (qv) and to Holmes Spicer in April, 1908. At the end of his term of office he married 'Sister Coborn' (Miss Henman), of Islip, Oxon. He started at once for Pekin as Surgeon to the Union Medical College, where a staff of brilliant and earnest teachers had already been collected under the London Missionary Society. An outbreak of bubonic plague in 1910 sent him to Harbin, as he had already made a study of its bacteriology under Dr Emanuel Klein. He worked heroically with the help of his colleague, Dr Wu Lien Te, and received the thanks of the Imperial Government, but declined, with characteristic modesty, the high decoration offered him as well as any personal emolument. The Government, therefore, sent the salary he had earned as a donation to the funds of the Union Medical College. He was called upon by the Chinese to organize the work of the Central Red Cross Society when the Revolution broke out in 1911, and again showed administrative ability of a very high order. He died at Pekin of amoebic dysentery on October 2nd, 1912, when he was on the eve of returning to Europe with his wife and two children, and was buried in the British Cemetery. One of his sons, aged 3 years, died a week after his father. Gibb was shy and somewhat reserved in manner, a man of fixed religious principles, which were never obtruded, though they guided every action of his life. His motto was 'Thorough', his first care was for his patient; of himself he took no thought. Harold Pace Gibb, FRCS, is the younger brother of James Glenny Gibb.
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First Title value, for Searching Fison, Lorimer George (1920 - 2004)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2005-09-23
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Occupation Ophthalmic surgeon
Details Lorimer Fison was an innovative ophthalmic surgeon who introduced a revolutionary new procedure for the repair of retinal detachment from the United States. He was born on 14 July 1920 in Harrogate, the third son of William James Fison, a well-known ophthalmic surgeon, and Janet Sybil née Dutton, the daughter of a priest. He was educated at Parkfield School, Haywards Heath, and then Marlborough College. He then studied natural sciences at Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge, and then went on to St Bartholomew’s Hospital. After qualifying, he joined the Navy during the war as a Surgeon Lieutenant. Following demobilisation, he became a resident surgical officer at Moorfield’s, despite having caught tuberculosis. He then became a senior registrar at St Thomas’s Hospital and later at Bart’s. In 1957 Fison went to the Schepens unit in Boston in the United States, after Sir Stuart Duke-Elder, the then doyen of British ophthalmology, suggested that fellows be despatched to learn the new techniques of retinal detachment surgery. There Fison learnt the procedure of scleral explantation, and was also impressed by the ophthalmic instruments then available in the US. Back in England, Fison faced some opposition when he attempted to introduce the new procedures he had been taught in the States, but was finally given beds at Moorfield’s annexe in Highgate. With the help of Charles Keeler, he modified the Schepens indirect ophthalmoscope, which was put into production and sold around the world. Fison was also the first to introduce the photocoagulator, the forerunner of the modern ophthalmic laser, which was developed by Meyer-Schwickerath in Germany. In 1962, after a brief appointment at the Royal Free Hospital, he was appointed as a consultant at Moorfield’s. He was held in great affection by his colleagues and juniors, who remember his warmth and generosity. Fison was President of the Faculty of Ophthalmologists from 1980 to 1983 and of the Ophthalmological Society of the United Kingdom from 1985 to 1987. He was an ardent supporter of the merging of these two organisations – they became the Royal College of Ophthalmologists in 1988. At the Royal College of Surgeons he was an examiner for the FRCS in ophthalmology, Chairman of the Court of Examiners in 1978 and a member of Council. He married Isabel née Perry in 1947 and they had one daughter, Sally, who qualified in medicine. On his retirement he moved to Sidmouth, where he continued his hobbies of woodworking and sailing. He died on 12 February 2004.
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First Title value, for Searching Frost, William Adams (1853 - 1935)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2013-06-26
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Occupation Ophthalmic surgeon
Details Born at 47 Ladbroke Square, Notting Hill, London, on 10 March 1853, the third son and third child of Charles Maynard Frost, FRCS and his wife, wife *née* Adams. He was educated at Kensington Grammar School and entered St George's Hospital in 1872. Here he was a successful student and was prizeman in 1874. He served as house surgeon at the North Staffordshire Infirmary, and then returned to St George's Hospital, where he was house surgeon and demonstrator of anatomy. Having determined to practise as an ophthalmic surgeon he became a clinical assistant at Moorfields and ophthalmic registrar at St George's Hospital. In 1881 he was elected assistant ophthalmic surgeon to the Hospital, his senior being R Brudenell Carter, and was surgeon from 1892 until his retirement in 1906. He was the first ophthalmic surgeon at the Victoria Hospital for Children in Tite Street, Chelsea, and held office from 1887 until 1890, when he was succeeded by T Holmes Spicer. He won the Middlemore prize of the British Medical Association in 1882 and again in 1886, was honorary librarian of the Ophthalmological Society, and was lecturer on ophthalmic surgery at St George's Hospital. His health failed in 1906, he suffered from glaucoma and retired to Forest Row, Sussex. On the occasion of his retirement he was made consulting ophthalmic surgeon to St George's Hospital and to the Royal Westminster Ophthalmic Hospital, where he had for some years acted as surgeon. He married Minnie D Anderson on 8 January 1881, who survived him but without children. Mrs Frost's sister, Amy, married H E Juler, FRCS in 1879. Frost died 25 October 1935 at 5 Lansdowne Crescent, London, W. He left, subject to his wife's life interest, £200 each to Epsom College and the Royal Medical Benevolent Fund, £100 each to the Hostel of St Luke, the Invalid Children's Aid Association, and the Royal National Life-boat Institution, and the ultimate residue as to two-thirds to St George's Hospital, and one-third to the Royal Westminster Ophthalmic Hospital. Publications:- *The Fundus Oculi, with an ophthalmoscopic Atlas illustrating the physiological and pathological conditions*. Edinburgh, 1896. The atlas is a magnificent piece of work, in the production of which he had the assistance of A W Head. *An artificial Eye, with some practical suggestions as to its use.* London, no date. *An enlarged model of an eye, upon which students could practise the use of the ophthalmoscope*. *Ophthalmic Surgery*, with R Brudenell Carter, FRCS London, 1887; Philadelphia, 1888. *The Jenner centenary, an inaugural address at St George's Hospital*. London, 1896.
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First Title value, for Searching Griffin, William Watson (1869 - 1937)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2013-07-25
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Occupation Ophthalmic surgeon
Details Born 7 October 1869 at Timaru, South Canterbury, New Zealand, the fourth child and second son of Samuel Stewart Griffin and Catherine Finegan, his wife. His father, born in Canada, was medical man, clergyman, politician, and pioneer settler. He was educated at Christ's College, Christchurch, where he did brilliantly gaining five first class prizes in 1885, the first Tancred prize for English history in 1887, and the senior Somes scholarship. He entered the Otago University in 1888 and graduated MB BCh in 1891, after winning a special prize given for proficiency in diseases of the eye and ear. In 1892 he served as the first junior resident surgeon at the Dunedin Hospital, and at the end of: term of office sailed for England in the s s *Fifeshire* to continue his medical studies in London. During the voyage the *Fifeshire* rescued the crew of the barque *Corinth*, which had taken fire whilst sailing from Tasmania. In London he acted as clinical assistant to Edward Nettleship at the Ophthalmic Hospital, Moorfields, and to William Lang at the Middlesex Hospital, and attended the National Hospital for Nervous Diseases at Queen Square, Bloomsbury. In 1894 he was admitted Fellow, and it was noted with pride by the University of Otago that he was the first to obtain the distinction in so short a time after leaving New Zealand. By the advice of Lang and other friends he then determined to settle in England and devote himself to ophthalmology. He therefore went to Brighton, where he was elected ophthalmic surgeon to the Royal Sussex County Hospital on 12 June 1901 and to the Worthing Hospital, acquired a good practice, and was a vice-president of the ophthalmic section when the British Medical Association met in the town in 1913. On 27 April 1908 he joined the newly formed Territorial Army with the rank of major, RAMC; in 1914 he was called up and was attached to the Second Eastern General Hospital, where he served throughout the war as the eye specialist. After demobilization in 1919 the health of his wife compelled him to live abroad, so that he resigned his posts at Brighton; on his return to England he practised at Margate. He married in 1895 Annie Hamilton Dinwiddie, the second daughter of General Dinwiddie, who survived him until 14 January 1938 when she died at the age of 91, without issue. Griffin died suddenly at Margate 26 December 1937, aged 68. He was remembered as a man of delightful personality and as a colleague whose opinions could always be relied upon.
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First Title value, for Searching Shapland, Cyril Dee (1899 - 1980)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2015-03-10
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Occupation Ophthalmic surgeon
Details Consultant ophthalmic surgeon to University College Hospital and Moorfields Eye Hospital, Cyril Dee Shapland distinguished his career in the 1950s by pioneering new procedures using diathermy and cryosurgery in the treatment of detachment of the retina. Years earlier, in 1929 he assisted Sir William Lister at the first operation for detachment of the retina in the United Kingdom by Gonin's method of cautery puncture. Coming from a strong medical and University College Hospital background he was born on 22 November 1899 at Exmouth, South Devon. In his education he showed great promise from the time he attended Streatham Hill College gaining first class honours in the Oxford preliminary examinations, being third in all England. Success was repeated in University College and University College Hospital where he was fortunate to be trained under Wilfrid Trotter and Batty Shaw before he became the resident medical officer at the private hospital at Ruthin, North Wales, in 1923. Returning to London he trained in ophthalmology at Moorfields becoming assistant surgeon in 1933 to University College Hospital and to Moorfields in 1938. He was also consultant to the Royal Marsden Hospital and had many other appointments including those to the Middlesex County Council, Willesden, Harrow, Epsom, Harefield and Roehampton Hospitals. During the first world war he was active in the University of London OTC and an infantry training unit, while in the second world war he served in the EMS until 1942 and then the RAMC, being ophthalmic specialist at Netley, Southern Command and Millbank, becoming advisor in ophthalmology UK with the rank of Lieutenant-Colonel at the end of the war. Beside his advances in the treatment of detached retina he contributed significantly to general ophthalmology and to the teaching of undergraduates and postgraduates. He was a good opinion, a good operator and a good teacher. He was made a membre d'honneur of the Jules Gonin Club at Lausanne in 1966. He was Vice-President of the Ophthalmological Society of the United Kingdom and of the Ophthalmic Section of the Royal Society of Medicine. In 1927 he married Elizabeth Stratton who died in 1971; there were no children. In the following year he married Gertrude Gellatly, gaining a stepson and a stepdaughter who qualified at Charing Cross Hospital. He was keen on cricket, tennis and gardening, also astronomy. This latter pursuit was close to his heart because of the 'Dee' in his name, there being a forebear Dr John Dee (1527-1609), an Elizabethan prominent in mathematics, chemistry and philosophy, who was also an astronomer. He died on 18 June 1980 at the age of 80.
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First Title value, for Searching Hobbs, Henry Edwin (1910 - 1990)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2015-05-22
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Occupation Ophthalmic surgeon
Details Henry Edwin Hobbs was born in London on 4 February 1910, the son of Henry Hobbs, an officer in the Salvation Army. His early education was at Grade schools in Winnipeg, Calgary and Vancouver in Canada before returning to England where he attended Tottenham Boys' Junior Technical School. His full-time education ended at the age of 15 when he became a testing room assistant to a firm of microscope makers. He acquired a diploma of the Worshipful Company of Spectacle Makers and continued his education at night school passing the London University matriculation. He then entered the London Hospital Medical College where he was awarded the Buxton Prize in anatomy and the Andrew Clark Prize in clinical medicine and pathology. He qualified in 1938 and during house appointments was influenced by Russell Howard, Sir James Walton and Professor Victor Dix. After the outbreak of war he served as a surgeon in the Emergency Medical Service, passing the FRCS in 1941 and both the DOMS and DO in the following year. He then joined the Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve and was appointed an ophthalmic specialist with the rank of Squadron Leader. After demobilisation he was registrar at Moorfields, Westminster and Central Eye Hospitals before being appointed to the consultant staff of the Metropolitan Hospital, the Maida Vale Hospital for Nervous Diseases, the Royal Free Hospital and the Royal Northern Hospital. He served as a member of the Court of Examiners for the final FRCS examination in ophthalmology and was also an examiner for the DOMS and the British Orthoptic Board. He contributed original articles to the *Lancet* on chloroquine keratopathy and chloroquine retinopathy and wrote the chapter on the cornea in *Clinical surgery* 1963 and the chapter on the optic nerve in *Modern ophthalmology* 1972. He was the author of *Principles of ophthalmology*, published in 1965. Towards the end of his professional life he was appointed an honorary consultant at Moorfields and honorary ophthalmic surgeon to the Home of St Giles, East Hanningfield. He was made a Commander of the Most Venerable Order of the Hospital of St John of Jerusalem in 1970. In 1942 he married Jean Kennedy and there were three daughters, one of whom is a qualified doctor practising in paediatrics. After he gave up active practice, his wife died and he retired to Anstey, near Salisbury, where he was able to pursue his hobbies of music and gardening. He died in a nursing home near Newbury on 3 October 1990 aged 80.
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First Title value, for Searching Cresswell, Frank Pearson Skeffington (1867 - 1936)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2013-06-20
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Occupation Ophthalmic surgeon
Details Born 22 March 1867 at Hillside, Dowlais, Glamorgan, the second child and eldest son of Pearson Robert Cresswell, CB and Jane Catherine Robinson, his second wife. His father (1834-1905) was a well-known surgeon in the colliery district of South Wales who, after he was appointed chief surgeon to the Dowlais Iron and Colliery Company in 1860, was instrumental in introducing Listerian methods into South Wales (obituary memoir with portrait in *Brit med J* 1905, 2, 1493). Frank Cresswell was educated at Christ's College, Brecon, and was one of the first pupils in the University College, Cardiff. Having taken the BSc at the University of London and served the post of house surgeon at the Cardiff Royal Infirmary he entered the medical school at Guy's Hospital, having determined to devote himself to ophthalmology, and went to Utrecht for a course of study in that subject. On his return to England he became a clinical assistant at the Royal London Ophthalmic Hospital, and was appointed a prosector at the Royal College of Surgeons of England. He settled at Cardiff in partnership with John Tatham Thompson, the senior ophthalmic surgeon to the infirmary and was appointed ophthalmic surgeon to the Aberdare and the Merthyr General Hospitals and the Hamadryad Seamen's Hospital. On the unexpected death of Henry Collen Ensor he was elected ophthalmic surgeon to the Cardiff Royal Infirmary, a post he held until 1932. He died on 6 October 1936, having married on 15 July 1914 Lilian, youngest daughter of Waring Daily Marshall Lysley, barrister-at-law, who survived him with a son. Cresswell was a good teacher and held a high position as an ophthalmic surgeon. He was lecturer on ophthalmology in the Welsh National School of Medicine, and president of the section of ophthalmology at the Cardiff meeting of the British Medical Association in 1928. Apart from his professional work, in which he made a special study of eye troubles in miners, his interest lay in freemasonry. He was a past grand deacon of England, and held high office in most of the allied degrees.
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First Title value, for Searching Drake-Brockman, Edward Forster (1843 - 1919)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2011-10-06
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Occupation Ophthalmic surgeon
Details The son of Lieut-Colonel H J Brockman. He was educated at St George's Hospital, where he was a contemporary of Pickering Pick (qv), John Cavafy, and T T Whipham. He also studied at the Royal Westminster Ophthalmic Hospital, and was Prosector at the Royal College of Surgeons in 1865. He passed first into and first out of Netley, and joined the Indian Medical Service in 1866 with a special recommendation to the Government of India. He was stationed for his period of service at Madras, where he made a reputation as an Ophthalmologist. For many years he was Superintendent of the Eye Infirmary, Madras; Fellow of the University of Madras; and Professor of Physiology and of Diseases of the Eye at the Madras Medical College. In 1882-1883 he appears to have changed his name to Drake-Brockman. The dates of his appointments in the Indian Medical Service are: Assistant Surgeon, October 1st, 1866; Surgeon, July 1st, 1873; Surgeon Major, October 1st, 1878; Brigade Surgeon, April 21st, 1890. He retired from the service with the rank of Lieutenant-Colonel on April 4th, 1894, having received a special tribute of appreciation of his work from the Madras Government. He then practised at 14 Welbeck Street, London, was a Member of the Medical Board, India Office, from August, 1897, to June, 1900, and a Representative on the Council of the British Medical Association, on the Central Council, and on the Parliamentary Bills Committee. He was compelled to retire from all work by severe illness early in 1916, and he died at Hatch End on May 1st, 1919. He was survived by a widow, three sons (of whom one was a medical man) and a married daughter. His brother was Ralph Thomas Brockman, of Sandgate, whose grandson, R St Leger Brockman, FRCS, practised at Sheffield. Publications:- Drake-Brockman contributed extensively to the literature of his subject, mostly in the *Ophthalmic Review*. His publications include:- "Report of 22 Cases of Cataract Operated on by the Modified Linear Extraction." -*Madras Med. Jour.*, xl. This describes an operation devised by himself. "Chronic Tuberculosis Complicated with Dengue." - *Ibid.*, vii.
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First Title value, for Searching Flemming, Percy (1863 - 1941)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2013-06-19
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Occupation Ophthalmic surgeon
Details Born 30 January 1863 in London, the eighth of the nine children of Horatio Henry Flemming, owner and manager of a saddlery and harness business, and Julia Steggal, his wife. He was educated at University College School, London, passing at sixteen to University College Medical School, where he was university scholar in medicine in 1887 and took honours in midwifery, surgery, materia medica, and anatomy at the MB examination in the same year, and won the gold medal at the MD examination in 1888. He was demonstrator of anatomy in 1886, and later house physician at University College Hospital and demonstrator of anatomy to Professor Sir George D Thane, at University College. As a young man he coached students privately, and being interested in the medical education of women he earned a reprimand for taking women students into the anatomical museum at University College. After taking the Fellowship in 1889 Flemming decided to specialize in ophthalmology. He served as clinical assistant to Sir John Tweedy at the Royal London Ophthalmic Hospital, Moorfields, having as a colleague Sir John H Parsons, and from 1900 to 1919 was an additional assistant surgeon there, elected on the expansion of the staff. He failed at his first candidature for the assistant surgeoncy under Sir John Tweedy at University College Hospital, but was elected a year later on the resignation of Marcus Gunn in 1897. He was elected surgeon in 1904, and resigned as consulting surgeon in 1923, when a eulogy with a good portrait was published in the *UCH Magazine*. He continued his private practice at 70 Harley Street for five years, but believing that the lack of day-to-day hospital experience unfitted him for treating his own patients adequately he retired to St John's Wood in 1928. In 1939 he moved to The Firs, Upper Basildon, near Pangbourne, Reading. While living there he was elected a member of the Reading Pathological Society in 1939. Flemming married on 29 December 1892 Emily Elizabeth Haden, MD, a former student of the Royal Free Hospital and subsequently consulting physician to the Elizabeth Garrett Anderson Hospital, formerly the New Hospital for Women, on whose staff Flemming himself served as ophthalmic surgeon. Mrs Flemming died at Upper Basildon on 12 August 1940 and a memorial service for her was held at Trinity Church, Marylebone Road, on 21 August (*Lancet*, 1940, 2, 218). Flemming was a first-rate teacher and was the last professor of ophthalmic medicine and surgery at University College before the chair was absorbed by the University of London; he received the title of emeritus on retirement. He served on several official and other committees including the Committee for the Prevention of Blindness and the Departmental Committee on the Partially Blind. With Marcus Gunn, Flemming helped to found the training school for ophthalmic nurses at Moorfields. He published a number of papers in the *Transactions of the Ophthalmological Society*, and was particularly interested in the ocular signs of general disease, such as thrombosis of the cavernous sinus. He was always an explorer and student of old London, and published a history of Harley Street. After retirement he worked seriously at London archaeology, was elected a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries of London in 1931, and made a study of monastic infirmaries, particularly that of Westminster, for the London Museum at Lancaster House. Flemming died at Upper Basildon on 19 December 1941, aged 78. He was survived by three sons and one daughter. One of his sons, Cecil Wood Flemming, is an FRCS. Publication: *Harley Street from early times to the present day*. London, 1939.
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First Title value, for Searching Mackenzie, William (1791 - 1868)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2012-07-11
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Occupation General surgeon Ophthalmic surgeon
Details Born in Queen Street, Glasgow, on April 29th, 1791, the son of James Mackenzie, a muslin manufacturer (d1800). He was educated in the Glasgow Grammar School and University, and began to study divinity with the intention of becoming a minister of the Church of Scotland. In 1810 he turned to medicine, attended at the Royal Infirmary, where in 1813 he acted as resident clerk to Dr Richard Miller, obtained the Licence of the Faculty of Physicians and Surgeons of Glasgow in 1815, and spent nearly the whole of the next three years on the Continent under Roux and Orfila in Paris and Beer in Vienna. He came to London in 1818, attended John Abernethy's lectures at St Bartholomew's Hospital, laying himself out to practise in Newman Street, W. Unsuccessful in his application for a demonstratorship, and disappointed in his hope of practice, he returned to Glasgow in 1819. He took the additional qualification of Fellow of the Faculty of Physicians and Surgeons, began general practice, and, though always with a leaning towards ophthalmology, lectured on anatomy, surgery, materia medica, and medical jurisprudence in Anderson's College - the extra-academical school of medicine in Glasgow. In 1824, in conjunction with Dr G C Monteath, he founded the Eye Infirmary, and in 1828 was appointed Waltonian Lecturer in the University of Glasgow "On the Structure, Functions and Diseases of the Eye". In the same year the first volume of the *Glasgow Medical Journal* appeared, with his name as editor on the title-page. He was well qualified for the position, because he wrote well and fluently, with an extensive knowledge of English, French, and German medical literature. It cannot now be told if he was merely editor, or whether the journal was not in reality his own private venture. In 1838 he was appointed Surgeon-Oculist in Scotland to Queen Victoria. He died at Glasgow of angina pectoris on July 30th, 1868, leaving a widow and one son. Mackenzie was one of the surgeons who raised ophthalmic surgery to the high position it now occupies amongst the special branches of medical science. His *Practical Treatise on the Diseases of the Eye* (1830) remained the standard book on its subject until the introduction of the ophthalmoscope in 1851 caused a radical change in the diagnosis and treatment of intra-ocular disease. The book was translated into German in 1832, into French in an unauthorized edition in 1844, and an authorized edition in 1856, whilst a supplement corrected by the author was issued by Messrs Warlomont & Testelin at Brussels in 1866. Four editions appeared in England, the last one being dated 1854. An oil-painting by Sir Daniel MacNee, PRSA, hangs in the Eye Infirmary in Glasgow. It has been engraved by Messrs Maclure & Macdonald, of Glasgow. There is also an oil-painting in the reading-room of the Faculty of Physicians and Surgeons of Glasgow; it is a replica of a painting by Alexander Keith which was in the possession of Mrs Mackenzie. A marble bust by George Ewing is also in the possession of the family. A replica in freestone adorns the gable on the west front of the new Eye Infirmary in Berkeley Street, Glasgow. A lithograph portrait appears in *Memoirs and Portraits of One Hundred Glasgow Men who have Died during the Last Thirty Years* (Glasgow, 1886). Mackenzie's medical library is incorporated with that of the Faculty of Physicians and Surgeons at Glasgow, and his collection of preparations of the eye is preserved in the medical school of St Mungo's College.
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First Title value, for Searching Nottingham, John (1810 - 1895)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2012-09-05
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Occupation ENT surgeon General surgeon Ophthalmic surgeon
Details Was a Yorkshireman, and was apprenticed to the father of C G Wheelhouse (qv). He received his professional training at Guy's Hospital, and in Paris under Dupuytren and Velpeau, where he became a member of the Medical Society formed of English students studying in Paris. He was appointed about the year 1837 House Surgeon to the Liverpool Infirmary (now the Royal Infirmary), and was noted for his eagerness in pursuing his clinical and pathological studies. He and a contemporary made post-mortem examinations together early in the morning, and throughout life Nottingham did much work at that time of day. He began general practice in the centre of Liverpool about the year 1840, but excluded midwifery cases from his routine. He soon acquired a good surgical practice, and in a few years settled at Everton in succession to Wainwright. This was then a charming and opulent suburb, and here John Nottingham continued till his retirement in the late seventies of the nineteenth century. He practised at 20 Roscommon Street, which became a slum during his time. Together with the late J Penn Harris and others he founded the St Anne's Dispensary, which rapidly became popular, and is now one of the Liverpool East Dispensaries. Here he made a reputation as specialist in eye and ear diseases. In 1850 or thereabouts Nottingham was appointed Surgeon to the Southern Hospital, where he was known as cautious, ingenious, and skilful in operations. During his tenure of office the hospital was rebuilt on a new site (1872) as the Royal Southern Hospital. After his retirement he suffered from double cataract, and remained in seclusion and blindness at his country seat at Whitchurch, Salop, till successfully operated upon in 1880 and 1881. He then again enjoyed good eyesight till 1887, when, just before Christmas, exposure on a cold night brought on inflammation and the globe of one eye had to be extirpated. The question of sight affected him in an extreme degree, for he had an immense library, comprising medical, surgical, and other literature, dictionaries and encyclopaedias, in most of the European languages, arranged on the walls of four spacious rooms, where also he had in many cabinets an extensive museum of surgical instruments. He was a great student, an omnivorous reader, and when not reading hard himself he employed a polyglot reader who lived in his house and arranged and managed his books. He was an accomplished linguist, and had a most retentive memory. A mind thus well stocked from many literary and scientific sources, great conversational power, and a quiet affable manner rendered him a most charming companion. He was a Fellow of the Royal Astronomical Society and of the Royal Medical Society of Berlin. Nottingham visited much among his well-chosen circle of friends, including Sir Joshua Walmsley, ex-Mayor of Liverpool, with whom he travelled in Spain and frequently shot in England. Latterly the old scholar never appeared abroad without a veil, and he died of mere old age on May 7th, 1895. He married Sarah Worthington, of Whitchurch, who survived him. Publications: *Report on the Restoration of Sight, by the Formation of an Artificial Pupil, in a Patient of St Anne's Dispensary*, l6mo, Liverpool, 1850. *Surgical Report on Bilateral Lithotomy, with General Remarks on Operations for Stone*, 8vo, London, 1850. *Practical Observations on Conical Cornea, and on the Short Sight and other Defects of Vision connected with it*, 8vo, London, 1854. *Diseases of the Ear. Illustrated by Clinical Observations*, 8vo, plate, London, 1857.
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First Title value, for Searching Robinson, William (1859 - 1940)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2013-10-23
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Occupation Ophthalmic surgeon
Details Born 23 December 1859 at Croft House, Stanhope in Weardale, Durham, the son of Richardson Robinson, the local builder, and his wife, who was of Scotch descent and Huguenot extraction. Educated at the Barrington Village School and at the Newcastle-upon-Tyne Modern School, he entered the University of Durham at the age of sixteen with the University scholarship, after examination in mathematics, Greek, Latin, and English. Here he won the Tulloch scholarship in 1879, and the Gibb, Charlton, and Dickinson scholarships in 1881. He graduated MD in 1884, with the gold medal for his thesis on goitre. As a student at the University of Durham College of Medicine in Newcastle he acted successively as prosector, demonstrator of anatomy and curator of the museum. On 1 August 1881 he entered into partnership at Stanhope in Weardale with Charles J Arnison, LSA, MRCS, and JP. The village was chiefly occupied by men working in the neighbouring lead mines, tuberculosis was frequent, and in 1888 Robinson was instrumental in establishing for their relief a Friendly Societies' Convalescent Home at Grange-over-Sands. He practised at Stanhope until January 1894, when he moved to Sunderland on joining Edwin Allan Maling, MRCS 1861, LSA, to fill the vacancy caused by the unexpected death of John Whitehouse, FRCS. In November 1894 he was elected physician to the Sunderland Royal Infirmary, as the surgeon had been appointed for life and there was no prospect of an immediate vacancy. He held the office of physician until 1905, when he resigned on his election as surgeon to the charity. From 1895 until 1919, when he became consulting surgeon, he was attached to the Sunderland Eye Infirmary and saw it grow from a small hospital, founded in 1836, into the Sir John Priestman Durham County and Sunderland Eye Infirmary. During the war Robinson received a commission, dated 1 May 1917, as major, RAMC, and was appointed surgical specialist to the Sunderland War Hospital and to the Ashburton Red Cross Hospital. He was at one time president of the Northumberland and Durham Medical Society, and president of the North of England branch of the British Medical Association. He married on 2 April 1884 Eleanor, eldest daughter of Valentine Rippon, JP, of Rogerley Hall, Frosterley, and by her had three sons and. a daughter. Mrs Robinson's sister married John Waldy, FRCS. All three sons, G S, W V, and V P Robinson, graduated in medicine at Oxford, and his daughter married Dr John Grey, who succeeded to the Arnison and Robinson practice at Stanhope. William Robinson died at Stanhope on 9 October 1940. He left £500 to the Newcastle School of Medicine. Robinson was a typical north countryman: alert, well read, and widely travelled. He used his abilities to the best advantage of himself and of the medical profession in the locality where he practised. Somewhat above middle height, of a pleasant expression and genial manners, he soon obtained the chief practice in Sunderland. Publications: Bottle blowers' cataract. *Brit med J* 1903, 1, 191. Bottle finishers' cataract. *Ibid* 1907, 2, 381. Removal of the eyeball; a quick and easy method. *Ibid* 1911, 2, 1249. Tom semilunar cartilages. *Ibid* 1914, 1, 133. Glass workers' cataract. *Ophthalmoscope*, 1915, 13, 538. *Our brains and how we got them*. Newcastle-on-Tyne, 1925. *Story of the Sunderland Royal Infirmary*. 1934. *Centenary history of the Sunderland Eye Infirmary*. 1936. *Sidelights on the life of a Wearside surgeon, 1859-1938*. Northumberland Press Ltd, 1939, with portrait of the author, an excellent likeness.
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First Title value, for Searching Doyne, Robert Walter (1857 - 1916)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2011-10-06
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Occupation Ophthalmic surgeon
Details 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 George's Hospital. He was for a short time in practice at Bristol, where he was Clinical Assistant at the Eye Hospital. He was also at one time Clinical Assistant at the Royal Albert Hospital and Eye Infirmary, Devonport, and Surgeon to the Hambrook Hospital, near Bristol. He was a Surgeon in the Royal Navy from 1833-1885, and left the service in the latter year, when he married and settled in Oxford. From the outset of his life in Oxford he made a special study of ophthalmology. Beginning in a very small way, with an Eye Dispensary in a builder's yard, he worked on steadily, encouraged by the loyal support of many good friends, among whom were Sir Henry Acland, Dr Liddell of Christ Church, Bishop Paget, Dr Talbot, the Warden of Keble, and others. From these small beginnings grew the Oxford Eye Hospital, to which Doyne was Senior Surgeon till 1912, when he resigned after more than twenty-five years' continuous service, and became Consulting Surgeon. An excellent marble bust of him with an inscription commemorating his services was placed by his friends and admirers within the walls of the institution. A 'Doyne Memorial Lecture' is delivered at the Ophthalmological Society. Doyne held a number of other posts. He kept a London address at 30 Cavendish Square, and was at one time Senior Surgeon to the Royal Eye Hospital, Southwark. At Oxford he was Consulting Ophthalmic Surgeon to the Radcliffe Infirmary, first Reader in Ophthalmology to the University - a post which he held for eleven years (1902-1913) - and Ophthalmic Surgeon to St John's Hospital, Cowley, to Bourton-on-the-Water Cottage Hospital, and Hon Surgeon to Moreton-in-the-Marsh Cottage Hospital. It was due to his energies that there was started in Oxford for the first time a congress of ophthalmologists. He was also a designer of instruments for stereoscopy, tonometry, and retinoscopy. He died at his residence in Woodstock Road, Oxford, on August 30th, 1916, leaving a widow and two sons, of whom one - Philip Geoffrey Doyne, FRCS, - was then serving in Mesopotamia as a Captain RAMC(T), and had recently been Ophthalmic House Surgeon at St Thomas's Hospital. Publications: *Notes on the more Common Diseases of the Eye*, 16mo, test plate, London, 1890. "Conjunctivitis." - *Lancet*, 1910 i, 1674. "Visual Sensation, Perception, Appreciation and Judgment." - *Ophthalmoscope*, 1910, viii, 474. "Retinitis Pigmentosa." - *Ibid.*, 623. "Value and Misuse of Spectacles in Treatment of Headache, Migraine and other Functional Troubles of the Eyes." - *Brit. Med. Jour.*, 1910, ii, 361. "Description of hitherto Undescribed Forms of Iritis, Family Choroiditis and Con junctivitis." - *Trans. Ophthalmol. Soc.*, 1910, xxx, 93, 190, 274.
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First Title value, for Searching Arnold, Ernest Charles (1860 - 1938)

2024-05-02T00:29:09Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2013-03-27
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Occupation Ophthalmic surgeon
Details Born at South Norwood, 25 March 1860, seventh child and fifth son of the Rev Charles Maddock Arnold, minor canon of Westminster and vicar of St Mark's, South Norwood. His mother was Jane, daughter of John Haywood, MD, of Chippenham, Wilts. Like two of his brothers he went to Westminster School, which he entered on 22 September 1870 and left in August 1872. He then went to Whitgift School, Croydon, but returned to Westminster at Easter 1873 and left in December 1875. From 1876 to 1878 he was in the training ship *Worcester* at Greenhithe and made a voyage to China in the *Serapis* in 1878-79. Entering St George's Hospital in 1879 with the William Brown exhibition of £100 for two years, he won the first year's proficiency prize and the Johnson prize in anatomy; acted as demonstrator of anatomy; obtained the third year's prize and the Treasurer's prize. He also acted as house surgeon during the year 1883-84, and was prosector at the Royal College of Surgeons of England. He then took a postgraduate course at Berlin and Vienna, and on his return to England began to practise at Swindon and was appointed the first surgeon to the Victoria Hospital, Swindon. He remained there from 1888 to 1890 and then moved to Forest Hill, where he remained until 1915, and was attached to the South Eastern Hospital for Children at Sydenham. By this time he was devoting himself to ophthalmic work and in 1904 received the first appointment as refractionist at the Royal Eye Hospital and at three of the London County Council's children's clinics. On 7 July 1916 he was gazetted temporary honorary captain, RAMC and was appointed ophthalmic specialist, serving at Dartford, Woolwich, and Aldershot until 1920. During the year 1918 he lectured on venereal diseases for the National Society and at the end of the war he was appointed ophthalmic surgeon to the Ministry of Pensions. From 1920 to 1933 he was out-patient officer and refractionist at Moorfields, the Royal Westminster Ophthalmic Hospital, the Royal Eye Hospital, Southwark, Queen Mary's Hospital, and the Miller Hospital; Greenwich. He was also ophthalmic surgeon for approved societies' ophthalmic benefit, West Ham school clinic, and ophthalmic surgeon to the Welwyn Garden City school clinic and to the Welwyn Garden City Hospital. He was one of the earliest ophthalmic surgeons to specialize as a refractionist. He married on 28 August 1888, Annette Frederikke Wedel, only daughter of Baron Christian August Wedel-Jarlsberg of Trondhjem, Norway. She survived him with five daughters; their only son was killed in a flying accident in 1917. He died at Forest Hill on 10 February 1938.
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First Title value, for Searching Morton, Andrew Stanford (1848 - 1927)

2024-05-02T00:29:09Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2012-08-22
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Occupation Ophthalmic surgeon
Details Studied at Edinburgh, at University College Hospital, London, and in Paris. At the Royal Ophthalmic Hospital, Moorfields, he was first House Surgeon in 1876 under Bowman and George Critchett, having as his colleague Marcus Gunn, then for sixteen years Clinical Assistant, when he was appointed Assistant Surgeon on the resignation of George Lawson (qv) in 1886 and full Surgeon in 1891, resigning in 1909. Meanwhile he had become Surgeon to the Royal South London Ophthalmic Hospital, Southwark, and later Ophthalmic Surgeon to the Great Northern Hospital. Morton gained a permanent place in the history of ophthalmology by the production of his ophthalmoscope, based on an invention of John Couper (qv). It consisted of a set of lenses capable of being moved in front of the sight-hole by a geared wheel for the estimation of refraction before the days of retinoscopy. Adapted to an electric installation, its success continued, owing largely to the excellence of its British manufacture. He had remarkably sound judgement based on clinical experience and was a very dexterous operator, yet never seemed to realize the advantages of modern aseptic methods. He operated with much success on conical corneae, excising a small elliptical portion, and he described his methods at the Swansea Meeting of the British Medical Association (*Brit Med Jour*, 1903, ii, 717). Whilst he was working as a clinical assistant retinoscopy for the correction of errors of refraction came into use, and Morton wrote a small book on *Refraction of the Eye* which immediately became popular. The classes in which he was accustomed to demonstrate on pigs' eyes the chief ophthalmic operations were always popular. He was an excellent draughtsman, and his drawings of the fundus of the eye were reproduced in the *Transactions* of the Ophthalmological Society; the originals are preserved in Moorfields. He received the Order of Chevalier of the Crown of Italy for his services as Surgeon to the Italian Hospital. Lieut-Colonel A E J Lister, Professor of Ophthalmology at King George's Medical College, Lucknow, described a cataract operation by Morton in the *British Medical Journal* (1927, ii, 117). Morton practised at 133 Harley Street. He retired in 1920 and went to live among his relatives at Clifton, where he died on April 11th, 1927. Publications: Morton's numerous publications appeared in the Royal London Ophthalmic Hospital *Reports* and in the *Transactions* of the Ophthalmological Society. *An Improved Student's Ophthalmoscope*, 8vo, London, 1884. *Refraction of the Eye: Its Diagnosis and the Correction of its Errors, with a Chapter on Keratoscopy*, 8vo, London, 1881; 7th ed, 8vo, 1906, with a chapter on the use of prisms.
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First Title value, for Searching Norman, Henry Burford (1819 - 1900)

2024-05-02T00:29:09Z

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Publication Date 2012-08-29 2012-09-05
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Occupation Ophthalmic surgeon
Details Born at Langport on April 11th, 1819, the son of William Norman, a medical man descended from an ancient Somersetshire family - the Normans of Fiveheads. He received a liberal education and his early professional training was with his father. He entered University College as a medical student in 1837, for, though Guy's had been originally chosen for him, he met a student of University College on his way to London, who so effectually dilated on the advantages of his own school that he was persuaded to follow in the footsteps of his friend. During his successful career at University College he numbered among his fellow-students and friends John Eric Erichsen, Henry Thompson, John Marshall, and Spencer Wells. He was appointed House Surgeon to Liston in 1846. He then worked at the eye as a specialty, and was appointed Surgeon to the North London Eye Hospital and to the Marylebone General Dispensary. He practised at 3 Duchess Street, Portland Place, and was President of the Harveian Society in 1850. Hard work told so seriously on his health, that he was compelled to leave London. He settled in practice at Portland Lodge, Southsea, in 1858, in succession to Edward J Scott (qv), and soon gained a leading position in Hampshire. In 1861 he was elected on the surgical staff of the Royal Portsmouth Hospital, and distinguished himself in this post for several years (1861-1866). He was one of the principal founders of the Portsmouth and South Hants Eye and Ear Infirmary, and was Consulting Surgeon to this Institution for a long period. Before leaving London he had also been Consulting Surgeon to the North Pancras Provident Dispensary and St Marylebone Charity Schools. Norman was an able surgeon, and from time to time made many valuable contributions on surgical topics to the medical journals. Throughout his long career he enjoyed the entire confidence of his professional friends, who at Portsmouth, on the occasion of his retirement in 1889, entertained him at a dinner and presented him with a valuable silver service. He was a staunch Liberal and a broad churchman. He keenly supported the British Medical Association, acted on the Provisional Committee in connection with the formation of the Southern Branch in 1874, and was President in 1888. After his retirement he resided at the Manor House, Drayton, Taunton, and died at Chesham, Bucks, on June 11th, 1900. He married twice, and left behind a widow and six children. Two of his sons continued the medical tradition of his family. His photograph is in the Fellows' Album. Publications: "Pathology and Treatment of the Diseases of the Excreting Lachrymal Apparatus." - *Lond Med Gaz*, 1848, ns vii, 25. "Caries of the Hip and Excision of the Head of the Femur." - *Lancet*, 1848, ii, 37. "Vascular Tumours of the Urethra." - *Lond and Edin Monthly Jour Med Sci*, 1848-9, ix, 795. "Analogous Growth of Other Parts." - *Lond Jour Med*, 1852, iv, 146.
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First Title value, for Searching Nesfield, Vincent Blumhardt (1879 - 1972)

2024-05-02T00:29:09Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2014-09-23
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Occupation General surgeon Ophthalmic surgeon
Details Vincent Nesfield was born in India on 12 October 1879, the son of John Collinson Nesfield, Director of Education in India, and Ellen Blumhardt, a missionary who had been through the siege of Lucknow during the Mutiny. He entered St Mary's Hospital Medical School in 1897 and completed a successful career as a student by gaining the Meadows Prize in obstetrics and gynaecology and qualifying with the Conjoint Diploma in 1901. He was a good swimmer, and his ability and self-confidence gained him the nick-name of "Strut". His special interest in chemistry resulted in the invention and patenting of a tablet which placed in water liberated nascent chlorine, and so sterilized any contaminated water. In 1902 he joined the Indian Medical Service, but was seconded in 1903 to house appointments at St Mary's which enabled him to pass the final Fellowship in 1905. He finished these appointments in time to join Francis Younghusband's historic mission to Tibet, where his newly invented tablets stopped an epidemic of cholera. This success led to his appointment as Chemical Examiner to the Government of the United Provinces, but he was soon transferred to the regular service as a civil surgeon. Here he built up a high reputation as a general surgeon, but he also took a special interest in eye surgery and published several papers on the treatment of cataract. In 1914 he was sent to Mesopotamia as a Major in charge of the water laboratories, but became so disgusted with the medical maladministration that he felt impelled to condemn it publicly. He was therefore recalled to India and his pay was stopped for a prolonged period. Ultimately he retired from the IMS, and in 1921 returned to London where he became ophthalmic surgeon to the Queen's Hospital for Children in addition to private practice in general as well as eye surgery. His interest in chemical therapy never waned, and the publication in the lay press of an undisclosed formula for the treatment of many diverse conditions from diabetes to cancer was reported to the General Medical Council and his name was erased from the Medical Register in 1932. But he had a large popular following and continued to practise surgery in his own nursing home equipped with a private laboratory in which he did his own bacteriology, and pursued his chemical researches. After 19 years his Fellowship was restored. He was a clever, kind-hearted and generous man, and when over 80 years of age officiated at the launching of a life-boat named "Vincent Nesfield" by one of his patients who had raised the money to build the boat. His wife Grace died just two weeks before his own death on 24 January 1972. They had four children, of whom one son became a doctor.
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First Title value, for Searching Evans, John Jameson (1871 - 1941)

2024-05-02T00:29:09Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2013-05-29
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Occupation Ophthalmic surgeon
Details Born on 7 March 1871 at Scythlin, Pencader, Carmarthenshire, third child and only son of Benjamin Evans, yeoman farmer, and his wife, *née* Phillips. He was educated at St David's College School, Lampeter, at Queen Elizabeth's Grammar School, Carmarthen, and at Edinburgh University, where he graduated with honours in 1892. After serving as house surgeon to the Carmarthenshire Infirmary he became resident surgical officer at the Birmingham and Midland Eye Hospital; later he was appointed ophthalmic surgeon to the hospital, retiring in 1934 as consulting surgeon. He was also for many years consulting surgeon to the Birmingham General Dispensary, to the Royal Institution for the Blind at Edgbaston, to the Hallam Hospital at West Bromwich, and to the Bromsgrove Hospital. He was for twenty-five years lecturer in ophthalmology at Birmingham University, and Middlemore lecturer in 1899, 1907, 1911 and 1926. During the war of 1914-18 he served as ophthalmic surgeon at the 1st and 2nd Birmingham War Hospitals. Evans was secretary of the section of ophthalmology at the British Medical Association's Birmingham meeting in 1911, and vice-president of the section at the London centenary meeting in 1932. He was a vice- president of the Ophthalmological Society of the United Kingdom, and had been president of the Midland Ophthalmological Society and of the Midland Medical Society. He was a foundation member of the Oxford Ophthalmological Congress and served on its council for nineteen years. He practised at 41 Newhall Street, Birmingham, living at 79 Farquhar Road, Edgbaston. Evans married on 3 September 1902 Leta C Edwards, daughter of T C Edwards, principal of University College, Aberystwyth. She survived him with two sons: Thomas Charles Jameson Evans, MRCS, and Lewis Philip Jameson Evans, FRCS. He died on 13 August 1941 at Froneithyn, Aberdovey, where Mrs Evans died on 20 April 1943. Evans was much interested in pathology, and was an outstanding ophthalmoscopist. He was a popular, cheerful man, fond of outdoor games. Publications:- Eye affections in connection with blood and vascular diseases (Middlemore lecture, 1899). *Bgham med Rev*. 1900, 47, 78. Rhinology in relation to eye diseases. *Ibid*. 1901, 49, 156. The eye symptoms of traumatic hysteria. *Ibid*. 1904, 50, 535. Prophylactic measures in ophthalmology. (Middlemore lecture, 1907.) *Ibid*. 1907, 62, 287. Visual efficiency of injured workmen. *Ibid*. 1910, 68, 127. Some manifestations of pituitary growths. *Brit med J*. 1911, 2, 1461. Toxic diseases of the eye: (Middlemore lecture, 1911.) *Bgham med Rev*. 1912, 72, 17. Phototraumatism. *Ibid*. 1913, 74, 205. Recent advances in ophthalmology. (Middlemore lecture, 1926.) *Ibid*. 1927, ns. 2, 45. Peripheral reflexes in disease. *Lancet*, 1933, 2, 1474.
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First Title value, for Searching Worth, Claud Alley (1869 - 1936)

2024-05-02T00:29:09Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2013-12-18
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Occupation Ophthalmic surgeon
Details Born on 16 February 1869 at The Priory, Holbeach, Lincolnshire, the eldest son and first child of Thomas Mordaunt Worth and Frances Charlotte Alley, his wife. He was educated at Bedford School and at St Bartholomew's Hospital. From 1893 to 1897 his address was at Sutton Bridge, but his time was spent in visiting Paris and Madrid and as surgeon to the SS *Britannia*. By this time he had determined to devote himself to ophthalmic surgery and after acting as clinical assistant at the Royal London Ophthalmic Hospital, Moorfields, he was appointed house surgeon and later ophthalmic surgeon to the Loughborough General Hospital. He then came to London and was appointed ophthalmic surgeon to the West Ham and East London Hospital. In 1905 he was elected surgeon to the Moorfields Hospital, an office he resigned in 1921 when he was made consulting surgeon. He continued to practise in London until 1929, when failing health obliged him to retire, and he lived for the rest of his life at Bar, Mawnansmith, Halford-Passage, Falmouth. He died there on 24 June 1936, survived by his widow and one son. He married on 22 November 1906 Janet, eldest daughter of Captain J Ritchie of Forfarshire. Worth did much to advance the treatment of strabismus in children. Starting on the assumption that the chief cause of concomitant squint in children is failure to fuse the two retinal images he invented "an amblyoscope" and a "four light test", by which he carried out the orthoptic treatment of the defect. By patience and demonstration he made good his theory, and orthoptic clinics are now in existence in most parts of the country. Worth, like his colleagues Malcolm Macdonald McHardy and Charles Devereux Marshall, was a keen yachtsman. He was a pioneer of the sport of yacht cruising, and made long cruises in a succession of small sailing yachts. He was president of The Little Ship Club, and from 1919 he was vice-commodore of the Royal Cruising Club. He was a man of outstanding ability, using the instruments and technique which he had himself invented with results which it was difficult to equal. Modest and retiring, he made friends of his patients and was especially beloved by his child patients. Publications: *A manual of diseases of the eye*, with C H May. London, 1906; 7th edition, 1934. *Squint; its causes, pathology and treatment*. London, 1903; 6th edition, 1929. The orthoptic treatment of convergent squint in young children. *Trans Ophthal Soc UK* 1901, 21, 245. Hereditary influence in myopia. *Ibid*. 1906, 26, 141. *Yacht cruising*. London, 1910; 2nd edition, 1921; regarded by yachtsmen as a classic. *Yacht navigation and voyaging*. London, 1927. These two books have made four of his boats, the four Terns, known all over the world.
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First Title value, for Searching Marshall, James Cole (1876 - 1952)

2024-05-02T00:29:09Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2014-03-21
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Occupation Gynaecologist Ophthalmic surgeon
Details Born on 3 March 1876 at Blandford, Dorset, the third child and eldest son of James Marshall, who was in business there, and Emily Cole his wife, he was educated at Dean Close School, Cheltenham, and St Bartholomew's Hospital, where he won a certificate of honour in anatomy in 1896. Marshall was at first interested in gynaecology and held resident posts at Queen Charlotte's, the Chelsea Hospital for Women, and the Samaritan Hospital, and in charge of the gynaecological wards at the West London Hospital. He also worked at Great Ormond Street and the Golden Square Throat Hospital. He took the MD in 1904 and, his interest turning to ophthalmology, became clinical assistant at the Royal Eye Hospital in 1905. He was senior clinical assistant at the Central London Ophthalmic Hospital, and in 1907 chief clinical assistant at the Royal London Ophthalmic Hospital, Moorfields. He was also ophthalmic surgeon in charge of the LCC Department at the Victoria Hospital for Children, Chelsea. He was appointed ophthalmic surgeon to the Royal Waterloo Hospital in 1912, and was afterwards ophthalmic surgeon to the LCC Hospital at Lambeth and surgeon to the Western Ophthalmic Hospital, where he ultimately became consulting surgeon. He was honorary oculist to the Royal Academy of Music and to the Royal London Society for teaching the Blind. He was commissioned as Captain, RAMC, on 7 May 1918, and served in 1919 as an ophthalmic specialist with the Army of Occupation on the Rhine. Marshall was one of the first in England to practise the modern operative treatment of retinal detachment. He devised charts for plotting the retinal tears observed in the fundus oculi. His work in this branch of ophthalmology not only won him a large practice, but attracted surgeons to learn his method, in which he founded a British school. He was efficient, deliberate, and careful, of sound judgment, and a skilful operator. He proved his administrative ability as chairman of the medical committee at the Western Ophthalmic Hospital. He gave the Middlemore lecture at Birmingham in 1935, and was a Hunterian professor at the College in 1938. Marshall married in 1905 Margaret Compton, who survived him with three daughters. He was a man of balanced and attractive personality, fond of music and painting, and of gardening and watching birds. He practised at 126 Harley Street, and built himself a country house, Compton Cottage, Sarratt Lane, Rickmansworth to which he retired. He died there suddenly on 24 December 1952 aged 76. Publications: Unusual case of cataract in a child. *Proc Roy Soc Med* 1913, 6, Ophthal. P 105. Electrolytic method of treating detachment of the retina. *Ibid* 1935, 29, 53-58. *Detachment of the retina; operative technique in treatment*. Oxford 1936. Surgical treatment of detachment of retina. Hunterian Lecture, RCS. *Lancet* 1938, 1, 1033-1037.
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First Title value, for Searching James, Robert Rutson (1881 - 1959)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2014-03-03
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Occupation Ophthalmic surgeon
Details Born on 6 October 1881 the eleventh child of the Rev Alfred James, Rector of Burwarton, Salop, and his wife Lucy Woodward and grandson of William James who was MP for Carlisle for nearly thirty years and served as High Sheriff for Cumberland, James was educated at Winchester College and St George's Hospital. He took the Conjoint qualification in February 1906 and the FRCS in May, but had to wait for his twenty-fifth birthday in October to be admitted a Fellow. He held resident posts at St George's and at Moorfields, where he became chief clinical assistant to William Lang, and at the Royal Westminster Ophthalmic Hospital; he was deeply influenced by Sir John Parsons. He became ophthalmic registrar at St George's in 1909 and assistant ophthalmic surgeon after a few months, a post he held for seventeen years, becoming ophthalmic surgeon only in 1926 and retiring in 1931. He was ophthalmic surgeon to the West Ham, now Queen Mary's, Hospital 1911-18. At St George's Hospital Medical School he was Dean 1918-22 and Treasurer 1925-27. He retired from private practice in 1935 and settled at Woodbridge, Suffolk in 1939, having previously lived at Ealing with consulting rooms first in Lower Berkeley Street and later at 46 Wimpole Street. Rutson James was secretary of the Ophthalmological Society of the United Kingdom 1918-21, later served on its Council, and received the uncommon distinction of honorary membership in 1936; he edited the Society's *Transactions* 1939-45; he was sub-editor of the *British Journal of Ophthalmology* 1924-29 and then editor for twenty years. James was by temperament a scholar and antiquary. He transcribed and annotated the registers of admissions to St George's Hospital Medical School 1759-1918 and the registers of the Barber-Surgeons Company 1540-1745. These and other scholarly transcripts he deposited in the College Library with a gift of £1000, and presented his outstanding collection of book-plates of medical men. He made many contributions to his own and other journals, on clinical and historical subjects, and published three historical books: *The School of Anatomy adjoining St George's Hospital 1830-1863* (1928), *Studies in the History of Ophthalmology in England prior to 1800* (1933), and *Medical Practitioners in the Diocese of London 1529-1735* (1935). James married in 1910 Margaret Julia Newson, who died on 4 March 1959; he died at Woodbridge on 28 September 1959 a week before his 78th birthday, and was survived by his only daughter. James was extremely modest and reserved, but did much good work and many kindly acts almost in secret; he was beloved by his friends.
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First Title value, for Searching Greeves, Reginald Affleck (1878 - 1966)

2024-05-02T00:29:09Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2014-08-05
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Occupation Curator General practitioner Ophthalmic surgeon Pathologist
Details Born at Springtown, Co Down, on 23 August 1878, youngest of the eleven children of Thomas M. Greeves whose family, at first Quakers and later Plymouth Brethren, had been settled in Northern Ireland since the mid-seventeenth century. Affleck Greeves was educated at Queen's University, Belfast, where he won an exhibition, and at University College Hospital and Guy's, graduating MB London in 1903 and BS with honours in 1906, when he also took the Conjoint Diploma in the summer and the Fellowship in December. For the next two years he was in general practice in the Transvaal, South Africa, where he married, in 1908, Sarah, daughter of Leonard Acutt of Natal. Returning to London he was appointed surgical tutor and registrar at Guy's, but decided to specialise in ophthalmology. After serving as pathologist and curator of the museum at the Royal London Ophthalmic Hospital (Moorfields), he was appointed assistant ophthalmic surgeon to the Middlesex Hospital in 1914 and to Moorfields in 1915. He became a consultant surgeon to both these hospitals, retiring from Moorfields at the sixty-year age limit in 1938, but from the Middlesex only in 1946. He had also been on the staff at Paddington Green Children's Hospital and at St Saviour's Hospital, had lectured on ophthalmology at Oxford, and was a Conjoint Board examiner for the DOMS. Though somewhat nervous and reserved, Greeves was a brilliant diagnostician, achieved excellent results as a surgeon, and proved a first-class teacher, particularly in clinical work with graduate students. He became an authority on lesions of the fundus, whose opinion was sought and valued by colleagues and former students long after his retirement. He published influential papers on ocular pathology and many case histories, particularly in the *Transactions of the Ophthalmological Society*, of which he was a member for fifty-five years, becoming President for 1941-42. He was Montgomery Lecturer at the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland in 1935. Greeves carried on a large private practice at 23 Wimpole Street long after giving up his hospital work, finally retiring in 1960 when he was eighty-two. His country home was at Crapstone, near Yelverton, in Devonshire. His wife had died in 1954, and he died on 4 October 1966 aged eighty-eight, survived by his daughter and two sons, the elder of whom was also an ophthalmic surgeon. Though brought up in a narrowly puritanical home, Greeves was a man of wide cultivation, a traveller and linguist, a pianist and trained musician, with a keen appreciation of painting and drawing. His students and patients became his lifelong friends.
Resource Identifier RCS: E005760
Collection Plarr's Lives of the Fellows
Format Obituary
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