Search Results for Medical Obituaries - Narrowed by: Ophthalmologist

First Title value, for Searching Cameron, Alistair Evan (1928 - 2015)

2024-05-07T00:47:29Z

by Sarah Gillam
Publication Date 2016-01-21 2018-11-28
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URL for Files https://livesonline.rcseng.ac.uk/client/en_GB/search/asset/381215381215
Occupation Ophthalmologist
Details Alistair Evan Cameron was an ophthalmologist. He was born on 28 December 1928 and gained his FRCS in 1966.
Resource Identifier RCS: E009032
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First Title value, for Searching Freedman, Arnold ( - 2017)

2024-05-07T00:47:29Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2018-05-18
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Occupation Ophthalmologist
Details Arnold Freedman was a consultant ophthalmologist in Oxford. 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: E009442
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First Title value, for Searching Lobb, Dorothy Meryl (1934 - 2021)

2024-05-07T00:47:29Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2023-12-19
Asset Path Root/Lives of the Fellows/E010000-E010999/E010500-E010599
Occupation Ophthalmologist
Details Dorothy Meryl Lobb was a consultant ophthalmologist for Salisbury District Health Authority.
Resource Identifier RCS: E010580
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First Title value, for Searching Buckley, Roger John (1945-2022)

2024-05-07T00:47:29Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2023-12-13
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Occupation Ophthalmologist
Details Roger John Buckley was a consultant ophthalmologist at Moorfields Hospital, London and director of the contact lens and prosthetics department.
Resource Identifier RCS: E010224
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First Title value, for Searching Quinlan, Michael Patrick (1943 - 1999)

2024-05-07T00:47:29Z

by Tina Craig
Publication Date 2018-11-19 2021-06-16
Asset Path Root/Lives of the Fellows/E009000-E009999/E009400-E009499
Occupation Ophthalmologist
Details Michael Patrick Quinlan was born on 17 March 1943 in Southport, Lancashire and studied medicine at the University of Liverpool, graduating in 1967. In London he was a senior registrar at the Middlesex Hospital, associate lecturer at the Institute of Ophthalmology and resident surgical officer at Moorfields Eye Hospital. After passing the fellowship of the college in 1977, he was appointed a consultant ophthalmologist to the Hereford AHA and Powys Health Authority. He was a member of the British Ophthalmological Society. On 4 April 1999 he died in Hereford, aged 56.
Resource Identifier RCS: E009483
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First Title value, for Searching Mackie, Ian Alexander (1927 - 2012)

2024-05-07T00:47:29Z

by Sarah Gillam
Publication Date 2012-12-21 2015-02-16
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Occupation Ophthalmologist
Details Ian Alexander Mackie was an associate specialist in the external eye diseases clinic at Moorfields Eye Hospital, London, and at St George's Hospital. He studied medicine at Aberdeen, qualifying in 1954, and held house posts in the city, at Woodend General Hospital and the Royal Infirmary. He gained his diploma in ophthalmology in 1958. He was a member and ex-president of the Medical Contact Lens Association. He was the author of *Medical contact lens practice: a systematic approach* (Oxford, Butterworth-Heinemann, 1993). He died on 8 September 2012.
Resource Identifier RCS: E003323
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First Title value, for Searching Sethi, Baldev Prakash ( - 2022)

2024-05-07T00:47:29Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2022-06-07
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Occupation Ophthalmologist
Details Baldev Prakash Sethi was head of the ophthalmology department at Cumberland Infirmary, Carlisle. 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: E010136
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First Title value, for Searching Dalgleish, Roy (1929 - 2014)

2024-05-07T00:47:29Z

by Kathryn Dalgleish
Publication Date 2015-09-14 2015-12-14
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URL for Files https://livesonline.rcseng.ac.uk/client/en_GB/search/asset/380239380239
Occupation Ophthalmologist
Details Roy Dalgleish was a consultant surgeon at Manchester Royal Eye Hospital. He was born in Johannesburg, South Africa, in 1929 and studied medicine at the University of Witswatersrand, qualifying MB BCh in 1952. After junior posts in Johannesburg, he went to the UK for further postgraduate studies and clinical and research work. As well as holding his consultant post, he was a senior lecturer in ophthalmology at the University of Manchester. He published several papers outlining original research work in his specialty. Following his retirement, he maintained his ties with South Africa and, with his wife, spent six months of each year there at their coastal home. This pattern continued for over 20 years. His hobbies included breeding pedigree cattle in north Wales. Roy Dalgleish died from acute myeloid leukaemia on 13 December 2014. He was survived by Vivienne, his wife of 52 years, their four children and their grandchildren.
Resource Identifier RCS: E008056
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First Title value, for Searching Toor, Karamjit Singh (1943 - 2007)

2024-05-07T00:47:29Z

by Sarah Gillam
Publication Date 2012-01-18 2014-06-06
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URL for Files https://livesonline.rcseng.ac.uk/client/en_GB/search/asset/374055374055
Occupation Ophthalmologist
Details Karamjit Singh Toor was an ophthalmologist at Clayton Hospital, Wakefield. Born in 1943, he studied medicine at Panjab University, Chandigarh, India, qualifying in 1966. In 1968 he went to the UK, where he worked in several different locations, before settling in Wakefield in 1978. He worked as a consultant at Clayton Hospital, and also ran clinics in Pontefract. He was married to Satinderjit Kaur Toor. They had six children. Karamjit Singh Toor died in Bradford Royal Infirmary on 20 November 2007 from pancreatitis, at the age of 64, just months before his retirement. He was survived by his wife and children.
Resource Identifier RCS: E001872
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First Title value, for Searching Sellers, Jeffrey Irvin (1931- 2018)

2024-05-07T00:47:29Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2020-04-14
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Occupation Ophthalmologist
Details Jeffrey Sellers was an ophthalmologist in York. 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: E009747
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First Title value, for Searching Lim, Huck Boon (1932 - 2022)

2024-05-07T00:47:29Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2022-07-28
Asset Path Root/Lives of the Fellows/E010000-E010999/E010100-E010199
Occupation Ophthalmologist
Details Huck Boon Lim was a consultant ophthalmologist in Penang, Malaysia. 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: E010143
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First Title value, for Searching du Toit, Matthys Michiel Slabber (1932 - 2023)

2024-05-07T00:47:29Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2023-12-13
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Occupation Ophthalmologist
Details Matthys Michiel Slabber du Toit was an ophthalmologist on Vancouver Island, Canada.
Resource Identifier RCS: E010573
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First Title value, for Searching Levy, Walter Jack (1927 - 2012)

2024-05-07T00:47:29Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2021-02-10
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Occupation Ophthalmologist
Details Walter Levy was an ophthalmologist in New Mexico, USA. 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: E009929
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First Title value, for Searching Morgan, Laurence Hugh (1954 - 2022)

2024-05-07T00:47:29Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2022-12-09
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Occupation Ophthalmologist
Details Laurence Hugh Morgan was an ophthalmologist in Stockport. 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: E010189
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First Title value, for Searching Handscombe, Marion Christine (1929 - 2020)

2024-05-07T00:47:29Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2021-03-22
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Occupation Ophthalmologist
Details Marion Handscombe was a consultant ophthalmologist in Coventry. 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: E009940
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First Title value, for Searching Hahn, Humphrey John Anthony ( - 2013)

2024-05-07T00:47:29Z

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.
Resource Identifier RCS: E009320
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First Title value, for Searching Blach, Rudolph Karl ( - 2013)

2024-05-07T00:47:29Z

by Sarah Gillam
Publication Date 2014-01-10 2016-01-15
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URL for Files https://livesonline.rcseng.ac.uk/client/en_GB/search/asset/377050377050
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.
Resource Identifier RCS: E004867
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First Title value, for Searching Kanski, Jacek Jerzy (1939 - 2019)

2024-05-07T00:47:29Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2020-08-12
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Occupation Ophthalmologist
Details Jacek, known as 'Jack' Kanski was a consultant ophthalmologist at the King Edward VII Hospital, Windsor. 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: E009785
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First Title value, for Searching Hart, Daniel Roberts Lloyd (1920 - 2019)

2024-05-07T00:47:29Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2020-08-12
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Occupation Ophthalmologist
Details Daniel Hart was ophthalmologist in Brisbane, Queensland. 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: E009780
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First Title value, for Searching Foulds, Wallace Stewart (1924 - 2020)

2024-05-07T00:47:29Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2021-03-22
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Occupation Ophthalmologist
Details Wallace Foulds was a professor of ophthalmology at the Tennent Institute, Glasgow and the founding president of the Royal College of Ophthalmologists. This is a draft obituary. If you have any information about this surgeon or are interested in writing this obituary, please email lives@rcseng.ac.uk
Resource Identifier RCS: E009942
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First Title value, for Searching Singh, Dhanwant (1926 - 2013)

2024-05-07T00:47:29Z

by Sarah Gillam
Publication Date 2016-07-27 2020-01-17
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URL for Files https://livesonline.rcseng.ac.uk/client/en_GB/search/asset/381384381384
Occupation Ophthalmologist
Details Dhanwant Singh Grewal was a distinguished ophthalmologist in Punjab, India. He was born in Barnala, in the Punjab, on 3 November 1926. His father, Raghbir Singh, was medical officer to the royal family in Patiala, Punjab; his mother was Nihal Kaur. His younger brother became an ENT surgeon. He was educated in Baranala and Patiala, and studied medicine in Patna, qualifying in 1948. In 1952, he passed the diploma in ophthalmology in the Punjab. In the mid 1950s, he went to London, where, in 1955, he gained his FRCS, winning the Hallet prize. He returned to India and became a leading ophthalmologist, as professor, head of department and principal of the Government Medical College, Patiala. He performed the first corneal transplant operation in northern India. He was also president of the Blind Relief Society in Patiala, Punjab and organised hundreds of free eye camps. In 1981, he was awarded the Padma Shri from the government of India, but returned the award three years later in protest against the Indian Army operation at the Golden Temple, Amritsar. Outside medicine he was interested in hunting, swimming and photography. In 1953, he married Pushpa, an anaesthetist, professor and head of department. They had one son, Pushapwant Singh, who also became a doctor. Predeceased by his wife in 2001, Dhanwant Singh Grewal died after a prolonged illness in July 2013. He was 86.
Resource Identifier RCS: E009201
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First Title value, for Searching Martin, Brian (1934 - 2022)

2024-05-07T00:47:29Z

by Peter Martin
Publication Date 2022-05-17 2022-08-01
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Occupation Ophthalmologist
Details Brian Martin was a consultant ophthalmologist at Leeds General Infirmary from 1967 to 1994. He was born in Aberystwyth on 13 October 1934, the son of William Martin, an optician, and Alice Martin née Withers. He attended school locally and then studied medicine at Caius College, Cambridge and at Westminster Hospital, London, where he met his future wife, Greta Jessop. He held house officer posts at the Westminster and Whittington hospitals and then completed his basic surgical training at the London Hospital. He then studied ophthalmology at Moorfields prior to being appointed to his consultant post at Leeds. Together with his colleague Brian Harcourt, he set about building an eye department of high repute and he specialised in vitreoretinal surgery. The two Brians were joined in 1981 by Bruce Noble and from then on the reputation of the department grew ever stronger, both for its high standards of clinical care and training, with juniors from all over the Commonwealth benefitting from the growing expertise in Leeds. He was active in the formation of the Royal College of Ophthalmologists, of which he became a vice president. Reflecting his Welsh upbringing, he was passionate about music and a great supporter of Opera North in Leeds. He enjoyed his garden, black labradors and was a much-loved husband, father and grandfather. He died on 22 April 2022 at the age of 87.
Resource Identifier RCS: E010123
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First Title value, for Searching Cher, Ivan (1927 - 2018)

2024-05-07T00:47:29Z

by Sarah Gillam
Publication Date 2020-02-19
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Occupation Ophthalmologist
Details Ivan Cher was a consultant ophthalmic surgeon at the University of New South Wales’ Teaching Hospital, Sydney. He was born in Wellington, New Zealand on 22 November 1927, the son of Paul Cher and Minnie Cher née Spiro. He attended Wellington College, where in 1945 he gained the Lance George Memorial medal and a national scholarship to the University of New Zealand. He qualified in 1951 with the Colquhoun Memorial and Marjorie McCallum medals From 1952 to 1954 he was a resident medical officer and eye registrar at Wellington Hospital. He then went to the UK, where he was a resident medical officer in ophthalmology at St Thomas’ Hospital, London. From 1957 to 1958 he was chief resident at the County Hospital, Cleveland, Ohio, USA. He then returned to the UK, where he was a registrar at Wolverhampton Eye Infirmary until 1959. He arrived in Australia in the same year. He was a clinical assistant at the Royal Prince Alfred Hospital, Sydney from 1960 to 1961 and then the founding ophthalmic surgeon at the University of New South Wales’ Teaching Hospital. In June 1990 the University of Sydney awarded him an honorary fellowship for his role in founding and continuing to promote the projects of the joint committee for tertiary Jewish studies, which provided funds for the department of Hebrew, Biblical and Jewish studies and other departments at the university. In 1955 he married Ursula Herzberg. They had three children, Lawrence, Leonie and Nathan. Ivan Cher died on 21 August 2018 in Melbourne, Victoria. He was 90.
Resource Identifier RCS: E009706
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First Title value, for Searching Evans, Edward Milwyn Lewis (1922 - 2021)

2024-05-07T00:47:29Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2023-10-11
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Occupation Ophthalmologist
Details Edward Milwyn Lewis Evans was an ophthalmologist whose last address was in Malaga, Spain. 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: E010473
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First Title value, for Searching Gregory, Irene Dorothy Rosalie (1922 - 2003)

2024-05-07T00:47:29Z

by Sarah Gillam
Publication Date 2011-12-15 2015-04-24
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URL for Files https://livesonline.rcseng.ac.uk/client/en_GB/search/asset/373943373943
Occupation Ophthalmologist
Details Irene Gregory was a consultant ophthalmologist at Queen Mary's Hospital, Sidcup. She was born on 8 October 1922 and studied medicine at Bristol University, qualifying MB ChB in 1944. She was a house surgeon at Bristol Royal Infirmary and Bristol Eye Hospital, and went on to a senior registrar post at Guy's Hospital, London. She gained her diploma in ophthalmic medicine and surgery (DOMS) in 1946 and her FRCS in 1953. She became a part-time consultant ophthalmologist in Sidcup and to the Inner London Education Authority. She was a member of the Christian Medical Fellowship. Irene Gregory died on 8 December 2003. She was 81.
Resource Identifier RCS: E001760
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First Title value, for Searching Baird, Robert Hamilton (1915 - 2006)

2024-05-07T00:47:29Z

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/372752372752
Occupation Ophthalmologist
Details Robert Hamilton Baird was an ophthalmologist in Belfast. He was born in Belfast on 19 September 1915. His father, William Baird, was a district inspector with the Royal Irish Constabulary and his mother was Mary McAdam. He was educated in Belfast, at the Methodist College, from 1929 to 1934, and then went on to study medicine at Queen’s University in the city, qualifying in 1939. He served in the Royal Army Medical Corps from 1939 to 1946, attaining the rank of lieutenant colonel and was mentioned in despatches in May 1945. After leaving the Army, he trained as an ophthalmologist, as a resident surgical officer in Birmingham and Midland Eye Hospital. He was appointed consultant ophthalmic surgeon to the Royal Victoria Hospital, Belfast, and North Down Hospital Group. He was a clinical lecturer and an examiner to Queen’s University, Belfast. In 1962 he married a Miss Drayson and they had two sons. He was interested in electronics and enjoyed playing golf. He died on 19 April 2006.
Resource Identifier RCS: E000569
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First Title value, for Searching Cogan, John Farnon ( - 2001)

2024-05-07T00:47:29Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2015-10-22
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URL for Files https://livesonline.rcseng.ac.uk/client/en_GB/search/asset/380711380711
Occupation Ophthalmic surgeon Ophthalmologist
Details John Cogan did his medical training in Manchester and then specialised in ophthalmology, doing his training in the United Liverpool Hospitals and the North Staffordshire Royal Infirmary, Stoke on Trent. He was a consultant ophthalmic surgeon at Chester Royal Infirmary and the Wrexham Hospital Group, and a member of the North of England Ophthalmic and Midland Ophthalmic Societies. He retired in 1987 to live in Devizes. He died on 24 August 2001.
Resource Identifier RCS: E008528
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First Title value, for Searching Elphick, George Denis ( - 1981)

2024-05-07T00:47:29Z

First Title value, for Searching Walker, William Martin (1919 - 2005)

2024-05-07T00:47:29Z

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/372793372793
Occupation Ophthalmologist
Details William Martin Walker was a consultant ophthalmologist in Birmingham. He was born on 31 October 1919. He qualified from St Andrews University in 1943, completed his house jobs in Dundee and then served as a captain in the RAMC in Italy from 1945 to 1947. Before he was demobilised he gained his first experience in ophthalmology, being doctor in charge of the ophthalmic department of 92 British General Hospital. After the war, he completed his ophthalmic training in Dundee and Birmingham. In 1950 he was appointed consultant ophthalmic surgeon to the Birmingham and Midland Eye Hospital and to Queen Elizabeth General and Children’s Hospital, Birmingham. He developed the first specialist glaucoma service in the West Midlands and also developed a specialised service for paediatric ophthalmology at the Birmingham Children’s Hospital. He was recognised as an enthusiastic teacher. Outside medicine, he was a keen golfer, played bridge and tended his rose garden. He married Gladys, who predeceased him in 2001. He died on 16 July 2005 from oesophageal cancer, and leaves four children and five grandchildren.
Resource Identifier RCS: E000610
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First Title value, for Searching Ward, David Michael (1932 - 2012)

2024-05-07T00:47:29Z

by Sarah Gillam
Publication Date 2012-07-12 2014-07-18
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URL for Files https://livesonline.rcseng.ac.uk/client/en_GB/search/asset/374833374833
Occupation Ophthalmologist
Details David Michael Ward, known as 'Mike', was warden of St John of Jerusalem Eye Hospital and, before that, a consultant ophthalmologist at Torbay Hospital, Torquay. He was born in Mansfield, Nottinghamshire, and studied medicine at Birmingham, qualifying MB ChB in 1955. He carried out his National Service in Cyprus and Aqaba, and then briefly became a GP. Deciding to become an ophthalmologist, he was a senior registrar in Sheffield Royal Infirmary and at Bristol Eye Hospital. He then spent a year in Kingston, Jamaica. He returned to the UK and was appointed as a consultant at Torbay Hospital, where he remained for 25 years. From 1990 to 1995, he was chief surgeon and warden of St John of Jerusalem Eye Hospital, a period which included the first Gulf War. As part of his role, he raised large amounts of money for the hospital, and lectured extensively abroad. Mike Ward died from cancer of the prostate on 1 January 2012 and was survived by his wife Sonia, whom he married in 1963, and their two children.
Resource Identifier RCS: E002650
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First Title value, for Searching Brumley, Stuart Purves (1935 - 2012)

2024-05-07T00:47:29Z

by Sarah Gillam
Publication Date 2015-09-14 2018-05-24
Unknown
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URL for Files https://livesonline.rcseng.ac.uk/client/en_GB/search/asset/380219380219
Occupation Ophthalmologist
Details Stuart Brumley was an ophthalmologist in Toorak, Victoria, Australia. He was born in Melbourne on 9 November 1935. His father, Louis Purves Brumley, was an engineer; his mother was Marjorie Caroline Kirton, the daughter of a member of the state parliament in Victoria. He had a sister, Rosemary, and two brothers, Ian and Graeme. He was educated at Camberwell Grammar School in Melbourne and Scotch College (from 1946 to 1953). He went on to study medicine at the University of Melbourne, qualifying in 1961. He was an intern at the Royal Melbourne Hospital and then went to the UK, where he was a senior house officer and registrar at the Royal Eye Hospital in London, and subsequently a registrar at the Croydon Eye Unit. He gained his diploma in ophthalmology in 1967 and his FRCS in 1972. He was influenced by Sir Thomas Travers in Melbourne and Dermot Pierse in London. He returned to Australia, where he settled first in Doncaster and then Toorak, Victoria. His special interests were general ophthalmology, cataracts and refractive surgery. He enjoyed music, theatre and travelling. In 1968 he married Wendy Thorn, a psychotherapist he met while studying in London. They had a son, Stuart. Stuart Purves Brumley died on 15 April 2012 aged 78.
Resource Identifier RCS: E008036
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First Title value, for Searching Chatha, Iqbal Singh (1932 - 1991)

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First Title value, for Searching Adhikary, Haripada (1941 - 2019)

2024-05-07T00:47:29Z

by Sunila Jain
Publication Date 2020-02-19 2021-06-22
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Occupation Ophthalmologist
Details Haripada Adhikary was an ophthalmologist at the Royal Preston Hospital. He was born in 1941 in pre-partition India in the small village of Rampal in the district of Khulna, the son of Upendra Nath Adhikary and Kalidasi Adhikary. He initially worked as a mathematics teacher, but later studied medicine in Calcutta at the Nil Ratan Sircar Medical College, qualifying in 1967. He trained as an ophthalmologist in India and gained his diploma in ophthalmic medicine and surgery. He then went to the UK, where from 1971 to 1976 he was a senior house officer and then registrar at the Royal Preston Hospital. He was subsequently a registrar and then senior registrar at St Paul’s Eye Hospital in Liverpool and an honorary lecturer at Liverpool University. In July 1981 he was appointed as a consultant ophthalmologist in Preston. At Preston, he worked tirelessly to develop a modern ophthalmic department. He was an early adapter of excimer laser surgery from its beginning in the early 1990s and published several papers on the subject. He also trained juniors and was an honorary senior lecturer and visiting fellow at the University of Central Lancashire. Many benefited greatly from his teaching, enthusiasm and strong work ethic. Outside work he had numerous interests, including gardening, travelling, singing and writing poetry and songs in Bengali; he was a lyricist of songs for Kolkata and All India Radio. He also studied Hinduism and wrote extensively on the subject. Family and the wider community were extremely important to him. In 2004, he was awarded an MBE for his outstanding social, cultural and charity work in Bengal and the UK. Haripada Adhikary died on 4 December 2019 after a short illness. He was survived by his wife, Manju Adhikary, a daughter, Rina Adhikary, a son, Ratul Adhikary (all of whom are doctors) and their spouses, and will be missed by colleagues and the wider community.
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First Title value, for Searching Roberts, David St Clair (1922 - 2015)

2024-05-07T00:47:29Z

by Sarah Gillam
Publication Date 2015-04-17 2017-12-21
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Occupation Ophthalmologist
Details David St Clair Roberts was a consultant ophthalmologist at Sussex Eye Hospital, Brighton. He was born on 28 February 1922 in Worcester, the only child of Bernard Hamilton St Clair Roberts, an ophthalmic surgeon, and Jane Elizabeth Roberts née Williams. He was educated at Marlborough College and then went on to Magdalen College, Oxford, qualifying in 1945. Prior to his consultant appointment he was a house physician at the Radcliffe Infirmary, Oxford, and then a clinical tutor in ophthalmology in Oxford and first assistant at Oxford Eye Hospital. During his training, he was influenced by the physician Alec Cooke at the Radcliffe Infirmary and by his father. He also served as a captain in the Royal Army Medical Corps. In 1949, he married Elizabeth ('Betsy') Radovitch, the daughter of the Yugoslav military attaché in London. They had a daughter (Jane), a son (John) and five grandchildren (Georgina, Ian, Alasdair, Rosanna and Amelia). Predeceased by his wife and daughter, Roberts died on 11 March 2015, aged 93.
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First Title value, for Searching Vythilingham, Kandiah (1910 - 1967)

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First Title value, for Searching McKelvey, John Alan William (1932 - 2014)

2024-05-07T00:47:29Z

by Sarah Gillam
Publication Date 2014-10-17 2016-12-22
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Occupation General practitioner Ophthalmologist
Details John Alan William McKelvey was a consultant ophthalmologist for the Cornwall Hospitals Trust. He was born in 1932 into a farming family in Northern Ireland. He studied medicine at Queen's University, Belfast, qualifying in 1955. He held junior hospital posts at Belfast City Hospital, and in 1957 moved to Derby, where he became a general practitioner at the Station Road practice. After nine years, he decided to retrain as an ophthalmologist, and held training posts in Sheffield and Manchester, before becoming a registrar and then a senior registrar at Manchester Royal Eye Hospital. In 1973 he was appointed as a consultant ophthalmologist to the Cornwall Hospitals Group. He became head of the eye department, first at City Hospital, Truro, and then at Falmouth Hospital. He retired in 1999. He was chairman of the Cornwall Clinical Society and the South West Ophthalmological Society. John Alan William McKelvey died on 17 August 2014. He was survived by his widow, Ruth, their two sons, daughter and six grandchildren.
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First Title value, for Searching Ooi, Vincent Eu Sen (1929 - 2012)

2024-05-07T00:47:29Z

by Sarah Gillam
Publication Date 2016-07-27 2019-06-20
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Occupation Ophthalmologist FRCS 1966
Details Eu Sen Vincent Ooi was head of the eye department at the faculty of medicine, University of Malaya. He was born in Malaya on 1 February 1929. He studied medicine at the University of Malaya, where he was a college exhibitioner. He qualified in 1957. He was a senior house officer in ophthalmology at Coventry and Warwickshire Hospital, a registrar in ophthalmology at St Paul’s Eye Hospital, Liverpool and then a clinical assistant at Moorfields Eye Hospital, London. He gained the diploma in ophthalmology in 1962. He returned to Malaysia, where he was head of the eye department at the University of Malaya. He was also a consultant eye surgeon at the Assunta and Chinese Hill Maternity hospitals, Kuala Lumpur. He became a fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland in 1965, of England in 1966, of the American College of Surgeons in 1968 and the Royal Australasian College of Surgeons in 1969. Ooi died on 10 October 2012. He was 83.
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First Title value, for Searching Cragg, Charles Edward Allen (1920 - 2005)

2024-05-07T00:47:29Z

by Sarah Gillam
Publication Date 2020-10-19
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Occupation Ophthalmologist
Details Charles Edward Allen Cragg, known as ‘Ted’, was an ophthalmologist in Peterborough, Ontario, Canada. He was born in Hampstead, London, on 30 July 1920, the son of two Canadians, Cecil Claude Cragg, a doctor, and his wife Florence Everilda (‘Hilda’) Cragg née Mitford. The family returned to Canada and Cragg attended Peterborough Collegiate and Vocational School, Ontario. He played rugby and basketball and, in 1937, he was proclaimed the ‘best all-round boy’ in the school’s yearbook. He attended Queen’s University, Kingston, Ontario, qualifying in 1943. He also passed the licentiate in medicine and surgery in 1947, awarded by the Nova Scotia Provincial Medical Board. He went to the UK for further training and spent four years at Moorfields, Wolverhampton, Birmingham and Oxford Eye hospitals. He subsequently returned to his home town of Peterborough, where he established a busy practice. He was also involved with the Canadian Institute for the Blind and the Canadian Ophthalmological Society. Cragg died on 1 March 2005 at the age of 84 after a long battle with Parkinson’s disease. He was survived by his wife Florence (née Trebilcock), children Paul and Elizabeth, six grandchildren and nine great-grandchildren. His family established the Parkinson Society Ted Cragg award at Trent University, Ontario, in recognition of his contribution to the community.
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First Title value, for Searching Cruickshanks, Bryan (1935 - 2016)

2024-05-07T00:47:29Z

by Giles Cruickshanks
Publication Date 2017-03-16 2020-01-06
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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 Hill, David William (1926 - 2008)

2024-05-07T00:47:29Z

by Enid Taylor
Publication Date 2011-08-26
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Occupation Ophthalmologist
Details David William Hill was research professor in ophthalmology at the Royal College of Surgeons and a consultant ophthalmologist at Moorfields Hospital, London. He was born on 5 May 1926 in Croydon, Surrey, the son of a bank manager and a housewife. He attended Whitgift School, Croydon, before becoming a medical student at St Bartholomew's Hospital, qualifying in 1948. After house jobs at St Bartholomew's, he began training in ophthalmology at Brighton Eye Hospital. He did his National Service in the RAMC, serving in Austria and Trieste, and was the sole ophthalmic trained doctor in this area. He was then appointed as an ophthalmic surgeon to Edgware General Hospital and to a research post at Hammersmith Hospital. He subsequently became research professor in ophthalmology in our College in 1967, his research covering retinal circulation and diabetic retinopathy. At the same time he was appointed as a consultant ophthalmic surgeon to Moorfields Eye Hospital, where he continued his clinical work with a special interest in cataract surgery. He examined for the Royal College of Surgeons and also worked with the Royal National Institute for the Blind. He married Jean Adams, who was a part-time general practitioner and taught and examined in first aid. They had three children, one daughter qualifying as a doctor. There are eight grandchildren. After retirement in 1991 he was able to devote more time to the church as a lay reader and sacristan. He was keen on mountain walking, climbed the Matterhorn twice, and also found time to pursue his other interests of carpentry, bird watching and classical music. Sadly in April 2006 he suffered a stroke and died on 5 February 2008. He was survived by his wife Jean, their children and grandchildren.
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First Title value, for Searching Bougher, Gordon James (1931 - 2016)

2024-05-07T00:47:29Z

by Tina Craig
Publication Date 2016-07-29 2019-09-06
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Occupation Ophthalmologist
Details Gordon James Bougher was a consultant ophthalmologist in Perth, Western Australia. Born on 17 March 1931 in Perth he was the son of Arthur Edward Bougher, a garage proprietor, and his wife Anna Flora née Schwatz who was a home economist. After attending Highgate Primary School and Perth Modern School he spent a year at the University of Western Australia before transferring to Queen’s College, Melbourne University where he studied from 1950 to 1954. Travelling to the UK he worked at the Manchester Royal Eye Hospital with Ogilvie Maxwell Duthie and then at Moorfields where he was mentored by the ophthalmologists Alexander Galbraith Cross, Arthur George Leigh and Redmond John Hamilton Smith. In 1960 he passed the fellowship of the College and returned to Perth to take up the post of consultant ophthalmologist at the Royal Perth Hospital in 1961. Later he held a similar appointment at the Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital. He was a member of the qualifications and education committee of the Royal Australian College of Ophthalmologists and president of their Western Australia branch. As a reserve in the RAAF he served as a consultant ophthalmologist with the rank of wing commander. A board member of the Blind Association of Western Australia he held the post of its president. A keen squash player when young, he enjoyed wilderness travel and backpacking trips, tennis, golf and wine appreciation. Since he embarked on semi retirement in 1992 he developed an interest in horticulture and began cultivating native Western Australian wildflowers. On 11 December 1954 he married Marie Arnold and they had four children. Two took up medicine; their daughter Suzanne became a GP and Richard was an anaesthetist. Linda married a Mr Gower and was a primary teacher and Anthony worked as an environmental scientist. He died on 4 February 2016 aged 84.
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First Title value, for Searching Walsh, Michael Anthony (1939 - 2005)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2006-12-19
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Occupation Ophthalmologist
Details Michael Walsh qualified in Perth in 1964 and after junior posts was RMO at the Sir Charles Gairdner and the Princess Margaret hospitals, where he specialised in ophthalmology. He went to England as a registrar at the Royal Victoria Hospital, Newcastle on Tyne, followed by posts in Leeds and Bradford. He returned to Perth as visiting medical officer at the Royal Hospital in 1972 and by 1987 had become director of the ophthalmic department at the Sir Charles Gardner Hospital, and had set up the Claremont Eye Clinic. He died in April 2005 leaving a widow, Ann.
Resource Identifier RCS: E000307
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First Title value, for Searching Crock, Gerard William (1929 - 2007)

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by Sarah Gillam
Publication Date 2014-06-13 2016-07-08
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Occupation Ophthalmologist
Details Gerard William Crock was professor of ophthalmology at the University of Melbourne, Australia. He was born in Perth in 1929 and was educated with his twin brother Henry (known as Harry) at St Louis Jesuit School in Perth. Both brothers went on to study dentistry at the University of Western Australia, but after two years decided to transfer to the medical course at Melbourne University, where they became resident students at Newman College. (Harry Crock went on to become a distinguished orthopaedic surgeon.) After qualifying in 1953, Gerard Crock studied ophthalmology at Moorfields Hospital in London and at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore. In 1963 he was appointed as the inaugural University of Melbourne Ringland Anderson professor of ophthalmology, named after Joseph Ringland Anderson, a leading ophthalmologist at the Alfred Hospital. This was the first chair of ophthalmology in Australia and the second in the British Commonwealth. At the same time, Crock became the director of the retina unit at the Royal Victorian Eye and Ear Hospital. He pioneered ophthalmic microsurgery in Australia and developed new techniques for vitreoretinal surgery and corneal grafting. With Jean-Marie Parel, a young Swiss scientist and biomedical engineer, Crock developed several surgical instruments, including the Schultz-Crock binocular indirect ophthalmoscope, the first to be mounted on a spectacle frame. A later enhanced model incorporated Galilean telescopes to invert the image and make retinal surgery easier. He also helped establish the Kooyong low vision clinic in the HM Lightfoot Centre of the Association for the Blind, which opened in 1973, and was one of the first clinics in the world to cater for the needs of people with residual vision. Gerard Crock was appointed an Officer of the Order of Australia in 1985 in recognition of his services to medicine, and in 1990 he was made a Knight of the Order of St John for his work for the St John Eye Hospital in Jerusalem. Gerard William Crock died on 23 December 2007. He was 78 and had been suffering from cancer.
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First Title value, for Searching Gilkes, Michael John (1923 - 2014)

2024-05-07T00:47:29Z

by Sarah Gillam
Publication Date 2015-09-14 2018-06-06
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URL for Files https://livesonline.rcseng.ac.uk/client/en_GB/search/asset/380241380241
Occupation Ophthalmologist
Details Michael John Gilkes was a consultant ophthalmologist at the Sussex Eye Hospital, Brighton. He was born in Montreal, Canada, on 31 August 1923, the only child of Hester Dene Aram Parker, a musician, pianist and singer. She later married Martin Heming Gilkes, an author and teacher, who had lost a leg in the First World War and was awarded a Military Cross. Gilkes was educated at Hallfield School, Birmingham, Bedales and St Edward's School, Oxford. He went on to study medicine at St Thomas's Hospital Medical School, qualifying with the conjoint examination in 1946. He then spent two years as a ship's surgeon and station medical officer to South Georgia Island and the Antarctic Whaling Fleet. On his return to the UK, he was a house surgeon at the Dreadnought Seamen's Hospital and subsequently trained as an eye surgeon at Moorfields Eye Hospital in London. Under Sir Stewart Duke-Elder and the Medical Research Council, he worked on trachoma, spending time at the St John Eye Hospital in Jerusalem. He also worked with Sir Harold Ridley at St Thomas', who at that time was pioneering intraocular lenses for use in cataract surgery. In 1957 Gilkes was appointed as a consultant ophthalmologist at the Sussex Eye Hospital in Brighton and worked there for 30 years. He was an examiner for the Royal College of Ophthalmologists and was a visiting consultant and examiner in Iraq, Saudi Arabia and Pakistan. He was on the council of the British Medical Association and sat on the General Optical Council. Outside medicine, he enjoyed model making and yachting. He was a member of the Royal Cruising Club, the Royal Ocean Racing Club and the Cruising Association. He was married twice. In 1947, he married Cynthia Pemberton. His second wife was Audrey, his theatre sister for many years. He had a son and two daughters. Michael John Gilkes died on 22 December 2014. He was 91.
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First Title value, for Searching Levy, Ivor Saul (1941 - 2005)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2006-06-21 2012-03-14
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URL for Files https://livesonline.rcseng.ac.uk/client/en_GB/search/asset/372434372434
Occupation Ophthalmologist
Details Ivor Levy was a consultant ophthalmologist at the Royal London Hospital, Whitechapel. He was born in Manchester on 29 June 1941 and educated in Manchester, at Pembroke College, Oxford, and at the London Hospital. After junior appointments, he held a research fellowship at the Bascom Palmer Eye Institute in Miami, USA, which led to his special interest in neuro-ophthalmology. He was appointed to the Royal London Hospital in 1973. He had a particular interest in collecting books, especially those of Sir Frederick Treves. In 2000 he developed a tremor, which was found to be caused by a communicating hydrocephalus, for which he underwent shunt surgery. He died at Addenbrooke's Hospital, Cambridge, on 21 March 2005.
Resource Identifier RCS: E000247
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First Title value, for Searching Woodhouse, Derrick Fergus (1927 - 2007)

2024-05-07T00:47:29Z

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/372826372826
Occupation Ophthalmologist
Details Derrick Fergus Woodhouse was an ophthalmologist, first in the West Midlands area and then in New South Wales, Australia. He was born on 29 May 1927 in Sutton, Surrey, the third child of Sydney Carver Woodhouse, a venereologist at St Thomas’ Hospital, and Erica née Ferguson, a mathematician. His schooling was at Caterham Preparatory School and Kelly College, Tavistock, from which he went to New College, Oxford. He did his clinical training at St Thomas’ Hospital and then he held house officer appointments in ophthalmology, medicine and surgery at St Thomas’, Exeter and Plymouth, before entering the RAF with a short service commission. He served as squadron leader at Cosford and Ely. His ophthalmic training was at the Birmingham and Midland Eye Hospital as senior house officer and registrar, at the Bristol Eye Infirmary as senior registrar, before being appointed as a consultant ophthalmologist to the West Midlands Regional Health Authority (Wolverhampton and Stafford hospitals) in 1963. He gave credit for his training to Harold Ridley at St Thomas’ and Phillip Jameson Evans at Birmingham Eye Infirmary. He then worked for a short period as locum ophthalmologist in Brisbane for two months and subsequently as VMO refractionist to Sydney Eye Hospital (from 1990 to 1992). From 1990 to 1997 he was staff ophthalmologist, Liverpool Hospital, New South Wales, and head of the eye department. His publications were many, his main interests being glaucoma, paediatric and neonatal ophthalmology, and computer applications to ophthalmology and optics. He was active in national committees. He was a fellow of the Royal Society of Medicine, treasurer and president of the Midland Ophthalmological Society, council member of the Ophthalmological Society of the United Kingdom, treasurer and chairman of the Ophthalmic Nursing Board of the United Kingdom and Ireland, and a member of the British Computer Society from 1964. He travelled and lectured all over the world. In 1957, he married Jocelyn Laira Perry, an occupational therapist, at the Friends Meeting House, Sutton, Surrey. They had three children – Karen, a material scientist, Iain, who works in publications distribution, and Gillian, a biotechnologist researching biosensors. He died peacefully in Sydney on 1 December 2007, leaving his wife and three children.
Resource Identifier RCS: E000643
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First Title value, for Searching Jones, Barrie Russell (1921 - 2009)

2024-05-07T00:47:29Z

by Enid Taylor
Publication Date 2010-10-13
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URL for Files https://livesonline.rcseng.ac.uk/client/en_GB/search/asset/373216373216
Occupation Ophthalmologist
Details Barrie Russell Jones was professor of clinical ophthalmology at the University of London. He was born at Silverstream, near Wellington, New Zealand, on 4 January 1921. He obtained a degree in natural sciences from Victoria University, Wellington, before studying medicine at the University of Otago, Dunedin, qualifying in 1947. His early clinical training was in Wellington, but in 1950 he returned to Dunedin as a registrar in ophthalmology, where he trained under Rowland Wilson, who had done important research on trachoma. He went to London in 1951 to study for a PhD, at that time planning to return to Dunedin, but he was appointed to a training post at Moorfields Eye Hospital and then to a research post at the Institute of Ophthalmology. He was professor of clinical ophthalmology in the University of London from 1963 to 1980 based at the Institute, with the clinical component at Moorfields. At Moorfields he made fundamental changes to clinical practice, insisting that all trainees use the operating microscope and encouraging sub-specialisation. His own interests were in the micro-surgery of the lacrimal system and surgery to the eyelids often deformed by trachoma. His aim was always to make a major contribution to the eradication of preventable blindness throughout the world and in 1981 the International Centre for Eye Health was opened with Barrie Jones as the first director. The Centre is now based at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, with training centres in Africa, India and America. He retired in 1986. He gave many prestigious lectures and received many honours, including the CBE, the Gonin medal, the King Feisal International prize in medicine and the global achievement award from the International Agency for the Prevention of Blindness. He was immensely respected by all. He was supported by his wife, Pauline, who accompanied him on many field trips when he was studying eye diseases resulting from infection, particularly those caused by chlamydia. In 2002 they finally returned to New Zealand. Barrie Jones died from pneumonia on 19 August 2009 and was survived by his wife Pauline, a daughter, Jenny, and three sons, Graham, Andrew and Peter.
Resource Identifier RCS: E001033
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First Title value, for Searching Crick, Ronald Pitts (1917 - 2009)

2024-05-07T00:47:29Z

by Sarah Gillam
Publication Date 2011-11-07 2015-02-20
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URL for Files https://livesonline.rcseng.ac.uk/client/en_GB/search/asset/373706373706
Occupation Ophthalmologist
Details Ronald Pitts Crick was a senior ophthalmic surgeon at King's College Hospital, London, and a pioneer in the use of the operating microscope in eye surgery in the UK. He was born in Toronto, Canada, on 5 February 1917. His father, Owen John Pitts Crick, was an engineer and inventor; his mother was Margaret Crick née Daw. He was educated at Minehead Modern School in Somerset and then Latymer Upper School in London. He went on to study medicine at King's College Medical School on an open science scholarship and qualified MRCS LRCP in 1939. He joined the Merchant Navy in 1939, and from 1940 to 1946 was a surgeon lieutenant with the Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve, mainly serving on the aircraft carrier HMS *Illustrious*. Following his demobilisation, Crick began his ophthalmic training back at King's College Hospital, becoming a consultant surgeon in 1950 at King's, the Belgrave Hospital for Children and the Royal Eye Hospital. In the 1950s he worked with Clifford Hoyle at King's and the Brompton Hospital on sarcoidosis, which can affect the eye, and wrote joint research papers on this topic. Also in the 1950s, he worked with Keeler instruments to develop the operating microscope for use in eye surgery. The prototype was shown in 1958 in Oxford and, two years later, a model was developed for trainee surgeons at the Royal Eye Hospital, London. His research also focused on glaucoma. He founded the Glaucoma Association in 1974, which later became the International Glaucoma Association, which aims to increase professional and public understanding of the disease and to fund research. With Roger Trimble he co-wrote *A textbook of clinical ophthalmology* (London, Hodder and Stoughton, 1986). He was awarded a medal of achievement by the American Society of Contemporary Ophthalmology, and in 2008 was given an honorary fellowship by the Royal College of Ophthalmologists. In 1941 he married Jocelyn Mary Grenfell Robin, a physiotherapist. They had four sons and one daughter. Their eldest son, Martin, is also a fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons. Ronald Pitts Crick died on 10 June 2009, at the age of 92. He was survived by his wife and children.
Resource Identifier RCS: E001523
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First Title value, for Searching Bateman, Patricia Jane (1943 - 2008)

2024-05-07T00:47:29Z

by John Blandy
Publication Date 2009-10-21
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URL for Files https://livesonline.rcseng.ac.uk/client/en_GB/search/asset/372897372897
Occupation Ophthalmologist
Details Pat Bateman was a consultant ophthalmologist in Cambridgeshire. She was born in Bristol on 11 May 1943, the daughter of Sam Roylance, headmaster of Cottam Grammar School in Bristol, and Emily Grace, a consultant paediatrician. She received her medical education at St Bartholomew’s and, after qualifying, completed junior posts at Bart’s and at Redhill General Hospital, before specialising in ophthalmology. From 1980 to 1998 she was a locum consultant ophthalmic surgeon at Doddington and, from 1992 to 2003, an associate specialist at Hinchingbrooke Hospital, Huntingdon. A modest person with great talents, she lived for serving others, and family, friends and patients were never disappointed. Her incisive mind and endless patience made her a good medical ophthalmologist: her calligraphic hand and clear notes were legendary. Her courage and sense of humour were valued, though she was never afraid to give her moral view when necessary. Her early surgical work ran into conflict with her wish to be a present and supportive mother, and the winners were the many consultants who knew they had a conscientious colleague who would always stay to the end of the clinic and complete what was in front of her. Pat was on her local parish council for 11 years and during her time as chairman made great improvements to the village, turning its clay pit into a nature reserve, where a commemorative stone has now been placed. Pat was a churchwarden at Little Shelford for a time, but in her latter days found her spiritual home and comfort at the Unitarian Memorial Church, Cambridge. She obtained an MSc in medical anthropology before she retired, which was the spring board into her archaeological, anthropological and biographical interests in retirement. She was also a proficient watercolour artist with an excellent sense of colour. She married Anthony Malcolm Bateman, a general practitioner at Great Shelford. Pat was adored by her family: her daughter Wigs works in international public health in Sydney, Australia, where she is married to Zac, an academic psychologist. Pat’s son, David, is a design engineer in London. Her courage in the last weeks of her life was inspiring, after her stage four glioma had been diagnosed. She died on 7 July 2008.
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First Title value, for Searching Reed, Howard Newns (1914 - 2010)

2024-05-07T00:47:29Z

by Sarah Gillam
Publication Date 2014-06-13 2016-09-23
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Occupation Ophthalmologist
Details Howard Reed was an ophthalmologist in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada. He was born in London on 28 April 1914, the son of Morris William Reed, a chartered secretary, and Emmeline Louise Reed. He attended West Ham Secondary School and first qualified as an optometrist. He then decided to become a doctor and was accepted at the London Hospital Medical School, where he paid his way by working as an optometrist in the evenings and weekends. As a student at the start of the Second World War he helped handle casualties from the bombing raids on London. He qualified in 1941. During the latter years of the war he served with the Colonial Medical Service in Tanzania. Following his demobilisation he returned to the UK and trained in ophthalmology in Oxford, gaining his diploma in ophthalmology in 1947. He passed his FRCS in 1950 and began to practice in south London. In 1953 he was appointed to the Winnipeg Clinic, to establish an eye department. The position came with an assistant professorship at the University of Manitoba and hospital beds in the General Hospital. He remained in this post until his retirement. For some time he was head of the ophthalmology department at the Children's Hospital. He also founded the eye department at the Misericordia Hospital and established the first eye bank in Manitoba for corneal grafts. He spent several months every year working in developing countries. In 1960 he wrote *The essentials of perimetry* (London, Oxford University Press). With his wife Margaret he co-founded *The Canadian Journal of Ophthalmology*. Outside medicine, he enjoyed reading and learning, and was always intellectually curious. He was an accomplished pianist and organist in his youth. During the early years of the war he met Margaret and they married in July 1941. After her death in 1975 he married Carolyn. Howard Reed died on 15 November 2010, aged 96. Predeceased by both Margaret and Carolyn, he was survived by his children, Martin, Colin and Alison, and by his step children, Sharon, Mike, Ed and Randy. He had 19 grandchildren and five great grandchildren.
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First Title value, for Searching Elkington, Andrew Robert (1935 - 2014)

2024-05-07T00:47:29Z

by Sarah Gillam
Publication Date 2014-10-17 2016-11-28
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URL for Files https://livesonline.rcseng.ac.uk/client/en_GB/search/asset/378318378318
Occupation Ophthalmologist
Details Andrew Elkington was a consultant ophthalmologist in Southampton and one of the founders of the Royal College of Ophthalmologists. He was born on 12 December 1935 in Newport, Shropshire, into a medical family; his ancestors had been doctors since the eighteenth century. His father, George Ernest Elkington, was a general practitioner. His mother, Kathleen Mary Elkington née Budgen, was the daughter of a minister of the Church of England. He studied at Repton School and then read medicine at Clare College, Cambridge, and St Thomas's Hospital Medical School. After qualifying in 1960, he held junior posts at St Thomas' Hospital, briefly worked in general practice in Hawkhurst, Kent, and was then a senior house officer in the department of obstetrics at Southmead Hospital, Shoreham-by-Sea. In 1964 he went to Canada, where he was a medical officer for the International Grenfell Association, which provided medical services to fishermen in Labrador and Newfoundland. In Canada he met Peter Watson, an ophthalmologist, and was inspired to train in this specialty. He returned to the UK in August 1965, briefly became a locum registrar in the department of orthopaedics, Royal South Hants Hospital, and then trained in ophthalmology in Southampton and at Westminster and Moorfields. In 1974 he was appointed as a consultant at Southampton Eye Hospital and as a senior lecturer (and subsequently professor) in ophthalmology at Southampton University. At the Royal College of Surgeons he was a member of the Court of Examiners from 1984 to 1989 and a member of the Council from 1994 to 1995. When the College of Ophthalmologists was created in 1988, Elkington was the founding secretary. He later became president. He contributed to more than 70 publications and co-wrote *The ABC of eyes* (British Medical Association, 1988), a leading work on treating eye conditions used in general practice, *Clinical optics* (Oxford, Blackwell Scientific, 1984), a book for optometrists, and *Ophthalmology for nurses* (London, Croom Helm, 1986). In retirement he was chairman of the British Council for the Prevention of Blindness, a lay member of the Criminal Injuries Compensation Board and president of the ophthalmic section of the Royal Society of Medicine. He was appointed a CBE in 1996. He died on 11 September 2014, aged 78, and was survived by his wife Patricia (née Wright) and by their four sons, two of whom are consultants.
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First Title value, for Searching Ahmad, Munawar (1938 - 1971)

2024-05-07T00:47:29Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2014-07-14
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Occupation Ophthalmologist
Details Munawar Ahmad was educated at Punjab University and graduated MB BS in 1961 from King Edward Medical College, Lahore. After house appointments at the Mayo Hospital he took his primary FRCS in Lahore, and went to the USA in 1962 as an intern. Three years later he came to Britain and started his career in ophthalmology with a house appointment in Swansea. After taking the DO London in 1966, he was ophthalmic registrar in Cardiff Royal Infirmary till in 1968 he took the FRCS. The following year he left Britain to take up an appointment as consultant ophthalmologist to the Military Hospital, Riyadh where he also edited the English section of King Edward Medical College's magazine *Kemcol*, and was an all-round sportsman. He died in a road accident on 7 February 1971 aged 33. His wife and other members of his family were killed in a road accident shortly after his death. He is survived by his daughter who was seriously injured in the accident.
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First Title value, for Searching Bailliart, Paul (1877 - 1969)

2024-05-07T00:47:29Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2014-07-14
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Occupation Military surgeon Ophthalmologist
Details Paul Bailliart attended school at Besançon and entered the military medical school at Lyon, and acted as an army surgeon from 1902 to 1907 when he went to Paris and initially worked with Morax. His contributions to ophthalmology were widespread; and he produced three books of great merit: the *Traité d'ophtalmologie* (1939) with Magitot, the *Manuel d'ophtalmologie* (1950), and *Les affections de la rétine* (1933). In 1950 he was presented with the Honorary Fellowship of the Royal College of Surgeons while attending the International Congress for Ophthalmologists. His chief interest lay in the retina and his technique of ophthalmodynamometry brought him fame throughout the specialty. He and his wife were well-known for their delightful garden parties, where you met the ophthalmic world as you ate and drank under the trees. If you were invited to one of these parties you had entered the highest ophthalmic circle. He had a long, full and happy life with his devoted wife who predeceased him. He died in 1969.
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First Title value, for Searching Mapstone, Roy (1934 - 1986)

2024-05-07T00:47:29Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2015-06-15
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Occupation Ophthalmologist
Details Roy Mapstone was born in Wedmore, Somerset, on 15 May 1934, the son of an agricultural worker, and after early education at Wedmore Primary School and Sexey's Grammar School, Bruton, entered Bristol University, graduating in 1959. After house appointments he undertook National Service in Germany, Nigeria and St Kilda and during this time developed an interest in ophthalmology. He subsequently moved to Liverpool as registrar in ophthalmology, later becoming lecturer in ophthalmology at Liverpool University. His interests leant towards academic work and research, especially in connection with anterior segment physiology, glaucoma and anterior uveitis. He acquired his MD degree by thesis and was appointed consultant ophthalmologist to St Paul's Eye Hospital in Liverpool for the final fifteen years of his life. He was a great bibliophile and his interest in foreign languages was such that he taught himself several. He died in 1986 after a myocardial infarction and was survived by his wife, daughter and son (who is a qualified doctor).
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First Title value, for Searching Hempel, Arne Christophe Andreas (1931 - 2016)

2024-05-07T00:47:29Z

by Timothy ffytche
Publication Date 2017-04-21 2017-07-12
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Occupation Ophthalmologist
Details Arne Christophe Andreas Hempel worked for many years as an ophthalmologist in clinics at the Westminster Hospital and Moorfields Eye Hospital, London. Born in Oslo on 6 May 1931, he was one of five children. He spent much of his early life in Dublin, where his father, Eduard Hempel, a career diplomat, was the German ambassador to the neutral Ireland from 1937 to 1945 - a post that must have required considerable delicacy during the war years. Andy, as he was known, was schooled in Ireland and qualified MB BCh BAO from Trinity College, Dublin in 1955, where he won several undergraduate prizes. He chose ophthalmology as a specialty and obtained his diploma of ophthalmology in 1958. His research interest led to him gaining an MD in 1963 with a thesis entitled 'The role of the major constituents of normal blood plasma in the maintenance of the intraocular pressure in man' together with a publication on the subject in *Experimental Eye Research* in 1964 ('The relationship of the major constituents of blood plasma to the intraocular pressure during phasic variations and ammonium chloride administration' *Exp Eye Res*. 1964 Mar;3:85-97). Later in 1963 he was awarded an MA from Trinity. Throughout his working life, he battled bravely with a severe physical disability which limited his mobility and made surgery for him very difficult to undertake. Nevertheless, he took and passed the FRCS in 1969 which, although he did not operate, gave him considerable standing as an out-patient officer in the various ophthalmic clinics where he worked until his retirement. Andy died on 9 December 2016 at the age of 85. Always a private individual with a keen interest in music, particularly the piano, he is remembered as a competent ophthalmologist, charming and helpful, with a wry sense of humour.
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First Title value, for Searching Payne, Ian William (1923 - 2013)

2024-05-07T00:47:29Z

by Sarah Gillam
Publication Date 2014-01-22 2016-02-12
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URL for Files https://livesonline.rcseng.ac.uk/client/en_GB/search/asset/377076377076
Occupation Ophthalmologist
Details Ian William Payne was a consultant ophthalmologist at the Royal Eye Infirmary in Plymouth. He was born in Bedford on 15 June 1923, the only child of Benjamin William Payne, an engineer who had served with the Royal Engineers during the First World War, and Ann Payne née Simpson. During his early childhood the family lived in Buxton, but later moved to Hazel Grove near Manchester. He was educated at Buxton College and Manchester Grammar School. He then studied medicine at Victoria University in Manchester, qualifying MB ChB in 1946. He was a house surgeon at the Royal Eye Hospital in Manchester, before serving as a captain in the RAMC for two years, as a graded ophthalmologist. In 1949 he became a demonstrator in anatomy in Manchester and in the same year gained his diploma in ophthalmic medicine and surgery. In 1950 he went to London, where he was a house surgeon, registrar and then senior registrar at the Royal Eye Hospital. In 1955 he became a consultant ophthalmologist at the Royal Eye Infirmary in Plymouth, where he remained until he retired in 1987. He was also president of the Plymouth Medical Society and a civilian consultant to the Navy. During his early years in Plymouth he had no junior staff and he was on-call one week in three. Eventually a fourth consultant was appointed, as well as some house surgeons. He became interested in the education of his junior medical staff, gave regular classes, particularly on optics, and wrote a small handbook for them on the efficient manipulation of surgical instruments. Payne was a keen musician. He played in the school orchestra at Manchester Grammar School and was in the university orchestra while he was at medical school. While in London he played the clavichord. Once based in the West Country, he joined the Plymouth Symphony Orchestra. Initially a flautist, he took up the oboe family in the 1950s and in the 1960s taught himself the horn. He later learnt the viola and the bassoon. For many years he attended the Dartington International Summer School. As well as music, he was fascinated by making things and interested in carpentry, cabinet making, metal working and repairing clocks. He was also enjoyed ancient history and archaeology, and reading detective fiction. In his younger days he was a keen sportsman and particularly enjoyed fencing. He captained the university team at Manchester and was later a member of the Devon county foils team. He also played tennis, table tennis, croquet and billiards, and followed snooker on television. He also had a deep faith and regularly attended church. Ian William Payne died on 6 December 2013. He was 90. He was survived by his widow, whose maiden name was Woodward, whom he married in 1949, their two daughters and a granddaughter.
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First Title value, for Searching Taylor, Robert (1815 - 1883)

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First Title value, for Searching Bowen, David Ivor (1937 - 2007)

2024-05-07T00:47:29Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2008-06-26
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Occupation Ophthalmologist
Details David Ivor Bowen was a consultant ophthalmologist in Harrogate, Yorkshire. He was born on 7 March 1937 and studied at Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge. He went on to St Thomas’ Hospital for his clinical training. After junior posts, he travelled around the world as a ship’s doctor, before deciding to specialise in ophthalmology. He was a senior registrar on the Cardiff/Swansea rotation, before becoming a lecturer at St Paul’s Eye Hospital in Liverpool. In 1972 he was appointed as a consultant in Harrogate. He was secretary and president of the North of England Ophthalmological Society and president of the Harrogate Medical Society. He was a keen distance runner and enjoyed golf, fell-walking, classical music and poetry. His second wife, Clare, died soon after he retired in 2001. He died from cancer on 5 February 2007. Enid Taylor
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First Title value, for Searching Smiley, William Kennedy (1913 - 1996)

2024-05-07T00:47:29Z

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.
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First Title value, for Searching Law, Frank William (1898 - 1987)

2024-05-07T00:47:29Z

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.
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First Title value, for Searching Cappin, John Michael (1938 - 2016)

2024-05-07T00:47:29Z

by Marion Cappin
Publication Date 2016-07-29 2017-03-30
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URL for Files https://livesonline.rcseng.ac.uk/client/en_GB/search/asset/381401381401
Occupation Ophthalmologist
Details John Cappin was a consultant ophthalmologist at Leicester Royal Infirmary from 1975 to 1999. He was born in London in 1938 to Louis and Yetta Cappin; his father was a clothing manufacturer in the East End of London and Cumbernauld, Scotland. John was the eldest of three brothers. He attended Mercers' School in London, where he was awarded an exhibition to Pembroke College, Cambridge, in 1958 to study medicine and, during his third year, added anthropology and archaeology. In 1961 he moved to the London Hospital to complete his medical training, working in two house jobs in the medical and surgical units. In 1965 he was appointed as a demonstrator in pathology at Sheffield University and, while carrying out research there, decided to become an ophthalmologist. He started his ophthalmology training at University College Hospital, London, and from there moved to Moorfields Eye Hospital. At Moorfields he became interested in glaucoma and paediatric neurology. He produced papers for *Eye (London)*, *Archives of Ophthalmology*, *Proceedings of the Royal Society of Medicine*, the *British Journal of Ophthalmology* and *Transactions of the Ophthalmological Society of the United Kingdom*. He was also on the editorial board of *Ophthalmic Literature*. In 1975, after being offered jobs in Australia, he decided to stay in England and moved to Leicester to take up a post as a consultant ophthalmologist. Over the years, he particularly enjoyed squint surgery on young children. He operated on children from an orphanage in Romania, helping to fund raise to bring these young people to Leicester and making several journeys to that country. John was a very talented pianist who carried on learning the piano into his late sixties under the watchful eye of a concert pianist who regarded him as of a professional standard. He gave many concerts for charity, as well as running a choir for a few years and encouraged his son to play his clarinet with him at concerts. John was a mason and wrote papers about the history and rituals of the organisation. He started a study group, which is carrying on in his memory. He enjoyed astronomy and belonged to the Astronomy Society at Leicester Space Centre. He was a prolific reader of history, English literature, science fiction, cosmology, quantum mechanics, physics and French literature. He loved classical music, ballet and opera. As his children got older, he bought an apartment in Spain and this gave him and his family a happy place to visit, making new friends, relaxing and taking the family out on his small boat to water ski (although he could not ski himself). In 1967 John married a former London Hospital nurse, Marion. They had three children and five grandchildren: Simon became a general practitioner; Melissa is a neuro-physiotherapist; Matthew, the youngest son, broke away from medical matters and works in human resources. John became ill with myeloma in 2006. He stayed very positive about his illness. When he was diagnosed with this condition, he actually commented that in his early years of training he had been interested in this disease. Having gone through numerous cycles of chemotherapy courses and two back operations, he passed away in a hospice in Mansfield on 21 June 2016.
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First Title value, for Searching Tulloh, Clifford George (1926 - 1997)

2024-05-07T00:47:29Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2015-12-07
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Occupation Ophthalmologist
Details 'Grant' Tulloh was a consultant ophthalmologist at Bristol Eye and Frenchay Hospitals. He was born on 31 October 1926 in Newcastle. His father, Frank Henry Tulloh, was in banking; his mother was Elsie Minnie née Earle. His paternal uncle was an ophthalmic surgeon and two of his brothers became doctors. After qualifying from Durham University, he trained at Moorfields under T K Lyle and J R Hudson, where he published many papers on glaucoma and retinal detachment, writing no fewer than three separate theses on these topics. He was appointed as a consultant ophthalmic surgeon in Bristol in 1963. He was a keen swimmer and played water polo for his university, and was a skillful pianist. Parkinson's disease forced him into early retirement. He married in 1957 Phoebe Powell, great-niece of Lord Baden-Powell. They had one daughter, Elizabeth, and one son, Robert, who became a consultant paediatric cardiologist. There are five grandchildren. He died on 18 December 1997.
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First Title value, for Searching Wirgman, Charles Wynn (1875 - 1953)

2024-05-07T00:47:29Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2014-06-23
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URL for Files https://livesonline.rcseng.ac.uk/client/en_GB/search/asset/377686377686
Occupation Ophthalmologist
Details Born on 22 July 1875 the only child of Ernest Wirgman and Mary Williams his wife, he was educated at Harrow and University College Hospital, where he served as ophthalmic house surgeon. He was clinical assistant at the Royal London Ophthalmic Hospital, Moorfields, and practised throughout his career as an ophthalmologist in the City, at 121 and later at 110 Cannon Street EC. He was medical officer to Barclays, Coutts, and other banks, and to the London Assurance and other insurance houses. During the war of 1914-18 he was ophthalmologist to the 17th General Hospital, and retired with the rank of Major RAMC. He was awarded the Territorial Decoration. Wirgman married in 1920 Beryl Annie Mavert Stiven, who survived him with two sons and a daughter. He died on 6 June 1953 at White Hall, Hemingford Abbots, Huntingdon, aged 77. Publication One thousand consecutive eye cases in life assurance. *Trans Assist Med Soc* 1939.
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First Title value, for Searching Morgan, Oswald Gayer (1889 - 1981)

2024-05-07T00:47:29Z

by Sir Barry Jackson
Publication Date 2015-02-10 2018-05-24
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URL for Files https://livesonline.rcseng.ac.uk/client/en_GB/search/asset/378950378950
Occupation Ophthalmologist
Details Oswald Gayer Morgan was born in Seaford, Sussex, on 5 July 1889, the eldest son of William Pringle Morgan and Ethel, née Eastwood. He was educated at Epsom College, Clare College, Cambridge, and Guy's Hospital Medical School, qualifying with the Conjoint Diploma in 1913. A year later he went to France as surgeon in charge of the Duchess of Sutherland's Private Hospital with the rank of Captain in the RAMC. He was taken prisoner in 1918 and showed his courage by escaping from prison at risk to himself. On demobilization he returned to Cambridge taking the BCh in 1919 and the MCh in 1920 together with the FRCS. He trained in ophthalmology at Moorfields Eye Hospital, being influenced by Sir Herbert Parsons, Malcolm Hepburn, and Affleck Greeves. He was then appointed consultant ophthalmologist to Guy's Hospital where he remained for the rest of his career. Apart from his large consulting practice and his teaching he was much in demand as a chairman of committees for he had great flair in the management of people. He was Chairman of the Ophthalmic Group Committee of the British Medical Association for twenty-four years, was Vice-Chairman of the National Ophthalmic Treatment Board Association for almost thirty years and Chairman of its Appointments Sub-Committee. He was also a member of the General Optical Council, a Vice President of the British Medical Association and a Past President of the Ophthalmological Society of the United Kingdom. In 1958 he was distinguished by being the Doyne Memorial Lecturer at the Oxford Ophthalmological Congress. Known to his friends as Gayer, he became the doyen of the ophthalmic profession in the United Kingdom after the death of Sir Steward Duke-Elder. Possessed with a melodious voice, a handsome presence and genial good humour he had lasting friendships with colleagues all over Great Britain. In private life he had many non-medical interests including butterfly collecting, gardening and a deep knowledge of music. He married Jessie Macdonald who died in 1938, but he was survived by his two daughters. He died on 11 August 1981, aged 92.
Resource Identifier RCS: E006767
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First Title value, for Searching Werb, Abraham (1919 - 2015)

2024-05-07T00:47:29Z

by Jeanette Werb and family
Publication Date 2015-06-12 2016-03-09
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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 Averill, Thomas Leslie Francis (1928 - 1994)

2024-05-07T00:47:29Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2015-09-02
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Occupation Ophthalmologist
Details Born on 18 March 1928 in Christchurch, Averill was educated at Christ's College, Christchurch, at Canterbury University College and then at the Otago Medical School. He spent two years as house surgeon to Palmerston North Hospital and then came to Britain to study ophthalmology at Moorfields, obtaining the DO in 1959 and his Fellowship in Ophthalmology in 1966. In 1967 he was appointed visiting ophthalmologist to Christchurch Hospital, having brought back from Britain a wealth of experience in new techniques for treating retinal detachment, and remained an expert in this field, being one of the first to use the laser for these operations. His leisure interests were in skiing, sailing, photography and amateur radio. He married Sheila Catlin in 1961, but she died in 1989. He was survived by three sons and a daughter. He died on 30 December 1994, aged 66 years.
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First Title value, for Searching Egerton, Charles Chandler (1798 - 1885)

2024-05-07T00:47:29Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2011-11-16
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Occupation General surgeon Ophthalmologist
Details Born at his father's Vicarage of Thorncombe in Dorsetshire in April, 1798. He was educated at the United Borough Hospitals and was appointed in 1823 Assistant Surgeon in the service of the HEIC on the Bengal establishment. He was detailed for ophthalmic work, especially to take charge of the Indo-European lads at the lower orphan school who had contracted disease of the eyes. He dealt successfully with an epidemic of this nature, and during his stay in India held the first position as an oculist at the Eye Hospital, which was established under his immediate care, and afterwards at the Medical College Hospital. He was the first Surgeon at the Calcutta Medical College Hospital, and was appointed Professor of Surgery and Clinical Surgery. It was mainly due to his influence that the College was established to teach the natives anatomy by actual dissection. He left India early in 1847, and, retiring from practice, lived at Kendal Lodge, Epping, where he died in May, 1885.
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First Title value, for Searching Hewkley, Frank (1860 - 1942)

2024-05-07T00:47:29Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2013-07-10
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Occupation Ophthalmologist
Details Born at Dalston, London, on 13 September 1860, the fourth son and sixth surviving child of George Hewkley, a member of the Stock Exchange, and Mary Dore his wife. He was educated at the City of London School and took his medical training at the London Hospital, Durham University, and Brussels. Hewkley specialized as an ophthalmologist, serving as clinical assistant at the Royal London Ophthalmic Hospital (Moorfields). He was subsequently ophthalmic surgeon to the Westminster General Dispensary, and from 1907 to the St Pancras Dispensary, where he ultimately became consulting ophthalmic surgeon. He had a considerable private practice, in later years as a consultant in the City, and lived at 72 Wickham Road, Brockley, SE. He was a member of the Ophthalmological Society and a vice-president of the League of Mercy from its inception and was awarded the Order of the League in 1920. In the war of 1914-18 he served as civil surgeon with the West Kent Yeomanry. In 1889, Hewkley married Dorothy Brewis. Their only son, Francis Paget Hewkley, MM, was killed in action at Zonnebeke in Flanders on 26 September 1917. Mrs Hewkley died in 1933, and he then retired to live with his only daughter, Mabel, Mrs Pocock, at Birmingham Vicarage, Melton Constable, Norfolk, where he died on 3 March 1942, aged 81. Hewkley came of an artistic family and was a keen amateur painter.
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First Title value, for Searching Taylor, Charles (1905 - 1973)

2024-05-07T00:47:29Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2014-10-20
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Occupation General practitioner Ophthalmologist
Details Charles Taylor was born at Motherwell, Lanarkshire on 13 June 1905, and was educated at Glasgow University where he graduated MB ChB in 1928. He went into general practice in Coventry, and, developing a special interest in ophthalmology, obtained the DOMS in 1934 and worked as a clinical assistant at the Coventry and Warwick Hospital. In 1939 he joined the army and served throughout as an ophthalmologist, much of the time in the Western Desert. Returning to Coventry after the war he abandoned general practice and concentrated on ophthalmology. He therefore came to London, worked for and took the Primary examination in 1949 and passed the FRCS in ophthalmology, having obtained the necessary training at the Royal Eye Hospital and St Thomas's. In taking this somewhat courageous course of action, at the age of 40 and after 10 years in general practice and 5 years in the army, he was greatly encouraged and assisted by his wife Dorothy. Ultimately in 1950 he was appointed consultant in ophthalmology to the Shrewsbury and Robert Jones and Agnes Hunt Hospital Groups, where his skill and his stimulating personality were greatly valued, and he worked there till he retired in 1970. He was fond of sailing and climbing, and it was unfortunate that ill health interfered with his full enjoyment of his short retirement, for he died on 30 May 1973 at the age of 66.
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First Title value, for Searching Spiro, Isidore (1898 - 1978)

2024-05-07T00:47:29Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2015-03-19
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Occupation Ophthalmologist
Details Isidore Spiro served in two world wars. In the first world war he served as an ordinary infantryman in France. He was prevented from sitting the Final FRCS examination in 1939 because he had been called up, and when he eventually obtained leave from the British Expeditionary Force in order to sit he arrived too late because he was involved in the Dunkirk beaches evacuation. As a Major in the RAMC he was ophthalmologist at the Gibraltar Military Hospital. After being invalided out of the army in 1943 he joined the Admiralty Ferry Crew Association, and after the war he played a part in the repatriation of displaced persons by Luxemburg. He studied medicine at Liverpool University and University College Hospital, London, and immediately after qualifying began training as an eye surgeon first at Wolverhampton Eye Hospital and then as an assistant to Sir John Parsons at University College Hospital. After the war he became consultant ophthalmologist to Queen Mary's Hospital for the East End, Hillingdon Hospital and the Lister Hospital, Hitchin. He was active in establishing regional eye units in the North East Metropolitan Region, being secretary to the ophthalmic advisory committee in that region as well as being chairman of the corresponding committee in the North West Metropolitan Region. He was held in high esteem as a first class surgeon. He died on 7 January 1978 aged 79, survived by his wife.
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First Title value, for Searching Taylor, Joseph (1928 - 1997)

2024-05-07T00:47:29Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2015-12-07
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Occupation General surgeon Gynaecologist Missionary Ophthalmologist
Details Joseph Taylor was a former medical missionary in Tanzania. He was born in Czechoslovakia in 1928. In 1938 his parents brought him and his twin brother to England as the Nazis marched into Czechoslovakia. He studied medicine at St Bartholomew's. After qualifying, he made ophthalmology his career, and went to Tanzania with the Bible Churchmen's Missionary Society in 1953. He spent the first 18 years in various hospital appointments and in 1971 moved to Kilimanjaro Christian Medical Centre, where he was medical superintendent and senior ophthalmologist. He worked closely with the Tanzanian government and the Tanzania Christian Medical Association to develop a national medical programme. In addition to his work in ophthalmology, he did postgraduate work in gynaecology to learn how to repair vesicovaginal fistulae and other types of incontinence following obstructed labour. In 1979, he was the first medical consultant for the Christian Blind Mission, applying the lessons learned in Tanzania to the development of rural health services in other African countries, teaching, writing and lecturing extensively on all these matters. He was awarded the OBE in 1980 for this work. His work on low cost spectacles and eye drops is now part of the literature of the World Health Organization. He died on 21 November 1997 in Halton Hospital, Runcorn, survived by his wife, Joan, children and grandchildren.
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First Title value, for Searching O'Riordan, Michael David (1929 - 2013)

2024-05-07T00:47:29Z

by Sarah Gillam
Publication Date 2013-06-12 2015-06-12
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Occupation Ophthalmologist
Details Michael O'Riordan was a consultant ophthalmologist at the Croydon Eye Unit, Mayday Hospital. He was born in Markham, Gwent, on 14 August 1929, the son of Michel Joseph O'Riordan, a general practitioner, and Milwen Mary Lima O'Riordan née Jones, a teacher. He came from a medical background - his father, uncle, aunt and seven first cousins were all doctors. His brother, Jeremy L H O'Riordan, became a physician at Middlesex Hospital. He was educated at Newport High School for Boys and then studied medicine at King's College, London, and Westminster Hospital Medical School, where he gained an entrance scholarship. He qualified in 1952. He was a house physician at the Westminster Hospital and then (from 1953 to 1955) carried out his National Service as a medical officer with the First Royal Tank Regiment in the Suez Canal region. From September 1955 to March 1956 he was a casualty officer at the Royal Gwent Hospital, Newport, and then became an emergency officer at the Radcliffe Infirmary in Oxford. From 1956 to 1958 he was a senior house officer and subsequently a registrar at the Oxford Eye Hospital. From 1959 to 1965 he was a registrar in ophthalmology at Westminster Hospital and then a senior registrar in ophthalmology at the Royal Free Hospital and National Hospital for Nervous Diseases. Between 1965 and 1980 he was a chief clinical assistant at Moorfields Hospital and (from 1975 to 1980) deputy director of the Wolfson Medical Research Council unit at Atkinson Morley Hospital. He was also a visiting consultant ophthalmologist at Carbonear General and Notre Dame Memorial hospitals in Newfoundland, Canada. From 1980 to 1994 he was a consultant ophthalmologist at the Croydon Eye Unit, Mayday Hospital. He was a member of the ophthalmic group committee of the British Medical Association and president, secretary and treasurer of the Medical Contact Lens Association. He was a member of the council of the National Ophthalmic Treatment Board and of the Southern Ophthalmological Society. He wrote on eye problems in neurological rehabilitation units and in general practice, and on the fitting of corneal contact lenses. Outside medicine he enjoyed travel, walking, bridge and 'good food and drink'. In February 1962 he married Ann Colter, a theatre sister at Westminster Hospital. They had three children - Jane, Hugh and Aileen. Michael David O'Riordan died on 14 March 2013. He was 83.
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First Title value, for Searching Havers-Strong, John Richard (1934 - 2017)

2024-05-07T00:47:29Z

by Timothy ffytche
Publication Date 2017-07-12 2017-11-22
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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.
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First Title value, for Searching Arnott, Eric John (1929 - 2011)

2024-05-07T00:47:29Z

by Enid Taylor
Publication Date 2012-02-02 2012-11-15
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Occupation Ophthalmologist
Details Eric John Arnott was an ophthalmologist and a pioneer of modern cataract surgery. He was born on 12 June 1929 in Sunningdale. His father, Sir Robert John Arnott, was chairman of Arnott Trust, Dublin, and director of *The Irish Times*. His mother was Emita Emelia James. He attended St Peter's Court Preparatory School and Harrow. His medical education was at Trinity College, Dublin, where he gained honours in obstetrics and the surgical prize in 1953. After house jobs, his first ophthalmic appointment was at the Royal Adelaide Hospital and Royal Victoria Eye and Ear Hospital, followed by postgraduate training at Moorfields Eye Hospital and University College Hospital, London. Here he worked under Sir Stewart Duke-Elder, Henry Stallard and Sir Harold Ridley, and subsequently became a senior lecturer to the Institute of Ophthalmology, London. He was appointed as a consultant ophthalmic surgeon to the Royal Eye, Charing Cross and Royal Masonic hospitals, and was consultant emeritus to Cromwell Hospital. He was an innovative surgeon and was especially known for pioneering changes in cataract surgery. In 1966 he was one of the first surgeons to follow Dermot Pearce's use of the surgical microscope, and in 1971 was the first surgeon outside the United States to perform phacoemulsification, a technique he taught and championed against stiff opposition throughout the 1970s and 1980s. In 1974 he designed the Little-Arnott lens to be positioned behind the iris after removing the cataract and in 1978 designed and patented the first one piece polymethyl methacrylate (PMMA) intraocular lens. He was the first person to describe the use of a poly-HEMA foldable implant (in 1981), inserted into the eye through a small incision. In 1988 he was the first surgeon in Europe to insert a bifocal lens. But his work was not limited to cataract surgery - in 1967 he used the first silicone implant for retinal detachment surgery, and in 1968 developed a modified operation for glaucoma surgery. He bought one of the first excimer lasers and in 1992 was the first person in the UK to perform LASIK laser refractive surgery. In 1982 he reduced his NHS work and to concentrate on establishing Arnott Eye Associates, the UK's first independent multidisciplinary ophthalmic centre, and international teaching and charitable work, especially the promotion of modern cataract surgery in India and Africa. He was one of the first surgeons to perform phaco-surgery and lens implantation in India, and in 1991 received a special award from the Asian branch of the Royal National Institute for the Blind for 'outstanding support' to blind Asians in London and India. He was made an honorary professor at Indore University. With his wife and son, he raised funds to equip a mobile operating theatre to perform eye surgery in remote Indian villages, and in 2007, with G Chandra, he established the charity 'Balrampur Hospital Foundation UK'. He wrote over 40 published scientific articles and books and contributed specialist chapters to other medical books. He was a member of many international societies - president of the European Society for Phaco and Laser Surgery, secretary of the Ophthalmic Society of the UK, president of the Chelsea Clinical Society, president of the International Association of Ocular Surgeons, president of the Asian Blind Association, fellow of the American Academy of Ophthalmology and a founder member of the American Society of Cataract and Refractive Surgery, from whom in 2007 he received the honoured guest award for services to ophthalmology. On 19 November 1960 he married a ballerina, Veronica Mary Langué von der Seedeck. They had three children, Stephen John, Tatiana Amelia and Robert Lauriston John. He was a very fit man and his hobbies reflected this - gardening, tennis, cycling and swimming - swimming a mile every morning and once from Alcatraz Island to the shore of California. He retired aged 70 and bought a retirement cottage in Cornwall, where he wrote his memoirs *A new beginning in sight* (London, Royal Society of Medicine Press, c2007). Predeceased by his wife, he died aged 82 on 1 December 2011.
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First Title value, for Searching Vail, Derrick Tilton (1898 - 1973)

2024-05-07T00:47:29Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2014-10-20
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Occupation Ophthalmologist
Details Derrick Tilton Vail was born in Cincinnati on 15 May 1898, and did his medical course at Harvard University, graduating MD in 1923. He then spent a year as ophthalmic intern at the Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary and in 1926 he became instructor in ophthalmology at the University of Cincinnati College of Medicine. He was promoted Professor in 1937, served with the Army in the second world war and became chief consultant in ophthalmology to the Surgeon General. After the war, in 1945, he went to Northwestern University, Chicago as Professor and Chairman of the Department of Ophthalmology, and remained there till his retirement in 1966. Vail held office in several of the American specialist societies in ophthalmology, and was awarded a number of medals for his outstanding contributions to his subject. He was awarded the Honorary Fellowship of the Royal College of Surgeons in 1958. He was editor of the *American journal of ophthalmology* from 1940 till 1965, and was the editor of the fourth edition of Gifford's *Textbook of ocular therapeutics*, 1947. Vail was on a visit to England when he died in London suddenly from a heart attack on 19 April 1973.
Resource Identifier RCS: E006155
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First Title value, for Searching Dobree, John Hatherley (1914 - 1999)

2024-05-07T00:47:29Z

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 Trimble, Roger Blakely (1946 - 1992)

2024-05-07T00:47:29Z

First Title value, for Searching Cook, John Holford (1943 - 2006)

2024-05-07T00:47:29Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2009-06-23
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Occupation Anaesthetist Ophthalmologist
Details John Holford Cook began his career as an ophthalmologist, but later re-trained as an anaesthetist. Born on 16 May 1943, in the middle of the Second World War, he did not meet his father until he was three years old. He studied medicine at the Royal Free Hospital, London, and, following qualification, trained as an ophthalmologist. He later switched to anaesthesia, and ultimately became director of the intensive care unit at Eastbourne. There ‘Cookie’, as he was always known, was an enthusiastic teacher and trainer. He was clinical tutor for his hospital and a college tutor for the Royal College of Anaesthetists. He had many interests outside medicine. He had long been an enthusiastic radio ‘ham’ and built his own equipment and branched out into designing circuits for the radio control of the model boats that were built by his step-father. He mastered machine code for his computers and, when his children took up music, he decided to learn the trombone, which he played in the British Legion Band and the Eastbourne Concert Orchestra, using his computer to make new arrangements for his band. He developed adenocarcinoma of the lung and died on 27 December 2006, leaving his wife Lesley, four children and a grandson.
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First Title value, for Searching Challis, Margaret Thornton (1934 - 2005)

2024-05-07T00:47:29Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2007-05-10
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Occupation Ophthalmologist
Details Margaret Challis was a consultant ophthalmologist at Whipps Cross Hospital. Her parents were both doctors – her father, John Humphrey Thornton Challis, was a consultant anaesthetist at the London Hospital and her mother, Margaret Llewelyn Jones, a general practitioner in Woodford, Essex. Margaret was born in Woodford on 18 October 1934 and educated at Roedean School, Brighton, and Queen Mary College, London University. Her medical training was at the London Hospital, the third generation of her family to be trained there. After house jobs at the London she began her ophthalmology training at Moorfields Eye Hospital and then went on to St John’s Hospital, Jerusalem. She was then appointed as consultant surgeon at Whipps Cross Hospital, where she remained for the rest of her working life. She married an accountant, Mr Walters, in 1971 but had no children. Her interests were wide – as a student she played tennis for London University, but her main activity and love was horse riding and she eventually became chairman of her local club. She gardened all her life. Margaret died on 27 April 2005 of carcinomatosis after a long illness.
Resource Identifier RCS: E000342
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First Title value, for Searching Barras, Thomas Crawford (1921 - 1996)

2024-05-07T00:47:29Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2015-09-02
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Occupation Ophthalmologist
Details Thomas Crawford Barras came of a distinguished Glasgow medical family. His father, William Barras, was President of the Scottish Society of Anaesthetists at the time of his death in a motoring accident in 1928, and his grandfather Thomas Crawford also practised as a doctor in Glasgow. Barras was born on 10 February 1921 and educated at Glasgow High School and the University of Glasgow, where he qualified MB ChB in 1944. He trained at first in general surgery, but later moved to study ophthalmology at Glasgow Western Infirmary and the Tennant Institute of Ophthalmology, Glasgow. He worked at the Glasgow Eye Infirmary and the Southampton Eye Hospital and was senior lecturer in the Department of Clinical Ophthalmology, Institute of Ophthalmology, London. He joined the Merchant Navy as a surgeon in 1945 and was a surgeon in the Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve from 1946 to 1950, in which year he transferred to the Royal Naval Medical Service, where he attained the rank of surgeon captain. Barras was a rugby player of distinction, and played for the United Services and Hampshire, of which he was captain; he also had trials for Scotland. He died in June 1996, survived by his wife, Jean Mhairi, née Harper, whom he had married in 1955, and a son, Mr C W Barras, FRCS.
Resource Identifier RCS: E007811
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First Title value, for Searching Harcourt, Richard Brian (1934 - 1987)

2024-05-07T00:47:29Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2015-05-18
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Occupation Ophthalmologist
Details Brian Harcourt was born on 3 March 1934, the son of John Ellison Harcourt, a scientific instrument manufacturer in Liverpool and Bertha Florence Kneen. His grandfather, Richard Eugene Harcourt FRCS (1858-1921), was an ophthalmic surgeon, also in Liverpool. Harcourt was educated at Quarry Bank High School, Liverpool. His clinical training was at St Bartholomew's Hospital where he was Brackenbury Surgical Scholar in 1958. He was house surgeon to H B Stallard at St Bartholomew's and Moorfields Eye Hospital and later was resident surgical officer at Moorfields. He served as an ophthalmic specialist in the RAF, attaining the rank of Squadron-Leader, and he was appointed consultant ophthalmic surgeon to the United Leeds Hospitals and lecturer in ophthalmology in the University of Leeds, in 1968. He became a member of the Council of the Faculty of Ophthalmologists and secretary of the Section of Ophthalmology at the Royal Society of Medicine. He married Margaret Silk in 1958 and they had three sons and a daughter. He was a keen gardener, fell walker and ornithologist. He was survived by his wife, two sons (one a medical student), and a daughter, also an ophthalmologist, when he died on 3 November 1987.
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First Title value, for Searching Cory, Christopher Charles (1932 - 2014)

2024-05-07T00:47:29Z

by Sir Miles Irving
Publication Date 2015-02-16 2016-11-03
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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 Hirtenstein, Arnost (1909 - 1986)

2024-05-07T00:47:29Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2015-05-22
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Occupation Ophthalmologist
Details Arnost Hirtenstein was born in Slovakia in 1909 and qualified MD in Prague in 1934. After military service during which he developed an interest in ophthalmology he entered general practice in a small town in Northern Bohemia but after three years, in 1939, he was arrested by the Gestapo and forced to leave the country. He reached France and on the outbreak of war joined the Czechoslovak forces. On the collapse of France he was evacuated to England and trained in ophthalmology at Oxford and Wolverhampton. In 1943 he joined the RAF as a graded ophthalmologist. After the war he returned to Czechoslovakia to find that his parents and elder brother had died in concentration camps and his youngest brother had been killed while a partisan. He returned to England in 1946 and became senior registrar and chief assistant at Moorfields and consultant to Selly Oak Hospital, where he set up an eye department. Two years later he was appointed to Wolverhampton Eye Infirmary, where he stayed until his retirement in 1974. From 1950 he developed an interest in corneal grafting. He pioneered this procedure in the Midlands and lectured in the United Kingdom and abroad. He had a large series of successful cases and was an excellent teacher and diagnostician. He was a dedicated, enthusiastic and lovable workaholic. His other great interest was the medical services in Israel, which he visited regularly. His hobbies included books, photography and gardening. His younger brother, Joseph Hirtenstein, FRCS, is an orthopaedic surgeon. He died on 4 March 1986 after a long illness, survived by his wife Leonora and their three sons.
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First Title value, for Searching Folca, Paul Joseph (1933 - 2016)

2024-05-07T00:47:29Z

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 Boase, Arthur Joseph (1901 - 1986)

2024-05-07T00:47:29Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2015-04-23 2015-09-08
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Occupation Ophthalmologist
Details Born on 23 June 1901 in New Amsterdam, British Guiana, he was the son of William George Boase, MRCS, LRCP. He was educated at Mount St Mary's, a Jesuit college in Chesterfield, Derbyshire, and St Thomas's Hospital, London, where he was influenced by the late Philip Mitchiner, then resident assistant surgeon. He qualified MRCS, LRCP in 1923, and in 1924 he joined the Colonial Medical Service, serving in Uganda until 1956. He specialised in ophthalmology, combining this with the duties of a general medical officer until 1945, when he was gazetted senior specialist ophthalmologist. In 1929, he was married to Alice Mary, daughter of Sir Charles Griffin, QC. He was President of the East African Association of Surgeons and President of the Uganda branch of the BMA. He retired from Uganda in 1956 and became warden at the Ophthalmic Hospital of the Order of St John, in Jerusalem where he stayed until 1969 when he retired to Uckfield, Sussex. He died on 31 January 1986, in his 85th year. There were five daughters and five sons of his marriage. Two of the children pre-deceased him, two daughters became nurses and one son is a consultant ophthalmologist.
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First Title value, for Searching Sinclair, Charles Gordon (1906 - 1990)

2024-05-07T00:47:29Z

First Title value, for Searching Casey, Thomas Aquinas (1929 - 1993)

2024-05-07T00:47:29Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2015-09-07
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Occupation Ophthalmologist
Details Tom Casey was born on 8 October 1929 in Limerick, the son of Michael Casey, a farmer. He was educated at University College, Dublin, and after specialising in ophthalmology became registrar first at the Westminster Hospital and later at Moorfields. He possessed a happy combination of inspiration, surgical dexterity, administrative flair and capacity for hard work. He greatly extended the range of corneal grafting, first in the technique of deep-freezing of corneas, and later in setting up a bank of tissue-typed corneas to minimise the risk of rejection. This led him to be appointed to the staff at East Grinstead where he directed the corneoplastic unit, and to a consultant post at Hillingdon Hospital. After he had been President of the Ophthalmological Section of the RSM he became Honorary Treasurer of the Society. He organised the International Corneoplastic Congress in London in 1977 which was a resounding success. A popular colleague, Tom Casey enjoyed life fully; he loved music and the theatre and was a splendid raconteur. He married Maria Hickman in 1959; they had a daughter and two sons, both of whom became surgeons, one a consultant ophthalmic surgeon. He wrote many papers and a textbook on corneal grafting. He died on 25 February 1993 of cancer of the lung, at the age of 63.
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First Title value, for Searching Burn, Rollin Arthur (1916 - 2001)

2024-05-07T00:47:29Z

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 Phillips, Charles Malcolm (1918 - 1990)

2024-05-07T00:47:29Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2015-07-02
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Occupation Ophthalmologist
Details Charles Malcolm Phillips, the only son of Sir Charles Phillips, CBE, a company director, and of Sylvia Maud Phillips (née Schunke), was born at Nairobi, Kenya, on 5 July 1918. He was educated at St. Clare Preparatory School in Walmer, Kent, and at Sherborne School where he secured an Open Science Prize to Caius College, Cambridge, before moving onto St Thomas's Hospital and qualifying in 1942. There is no record of his resident appointments though lie may well have been ophthalmic house surgeon at St Thomas's Hospital because lie recorded his indebtedness to Mr Harold Ridley there. In 1943 he joined the Colonial Medical Service, Northern Rhodesia and, after taking the DOMS in 1948, he was appointed ophthalmologist to the Northern Rhodesia and Zambian Governments, from 1949 to 1971. He took the ophthalmic FRCS in 1953 and became a foundation fellow of the newly formed College of Ophthalmologists in 1989. In his early years he was a keen hockey player and represented the University of Cambridge, the County of Norfolk and the South of England. Later, in Africa, his hobbies included flying, cinephotography (in which he won international awards) and crocodile hunting. He married Mary Evelyn Russell in 1961 and they had two daughters and one son. When he died on 17 June 1990 he was survived by his wife and three children.
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First Title value, for Searching Romano, John Henry (1926 - 1995)

2024-05-07T00:47:29Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2015-10-01
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Occupation Ophthalmologist
Details John Romano was born on 24 May 1926 into a Jewish-Italian family in Cairo, where he was educated and subsequently qualified in medicine. His father Albert Romano was a barrister and his mother was Marie Afif. In Cairo he became fluent in English, French, Italian and Arabic, skills that he later used to good effect at international meetings. On 23 March 1950 he married Suzette Castro, a Frenchwoman, in Cairo. Early in his career he decided to specialise in ophthalmology and in 1954 he came to London and spent a year as a clinical assistant at Moorfields Hospital. He then returned to Cairo before emigrating with his family to England in 1959. He was soon appointed consultant in ophthalmology at Hillingdon Hospital, where he developed a special interest in glaucoma. Despite his heavy NHS commitment and busy private practice he maintained a link with Moorfields as an assistant in the glaucoma clinic until 1988, when he was obliged to take early retirement on account of continued ill health after a coronary thrombosis. Outstanding in his professional work, his quiet demeanour and great charm were appreciated as highly as his special knowledge and high practical skills. He had wide cultural interests outside his professional work and was a notable flautist, as well as enjoying golf and cricket. He showed great courage in a long terminal illness. He died on 9 October 1995, survived by his wife Suzy and daughter Manya, an Oxford graduate.
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First Title value, for Searching Kane, Iris (1923 - 1993)

2024-05-07T00:47:29Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2015-09-15
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Occupation Ophthalmologist
Details Iris Kane was born in Bulawayo, Southern Rhodesia, on 22 November 1923, the only daughter of Michael Harry Kirkpatrick Kane, MRCP, and Winifred Alma Roworh, who was also a qualified doctor. She was educated until the age of eleven at the Roedean School, Johannesburg, at which she gained a scholarship to Benenden and attended there until the age of seventeen. Gaining the Mary Sparks Scholarship she attended Newnham College, Cambridge, and from there completed her undergraduate training at King's College Hospital, London, where she was awarded the Legge Prize in surgery. After qualification she worked at King's College Hospital as a house surgeon and Dulwich Hospital as a house physician before becoming senior house officer at the Royal Eye Hospital. In 1954 she returned to King's College Hospital as a senior registrar, where she was greatly influenced by Keith Lyle. In addition to her clinical work she also worked for the Medical Research Council, contributing to the report on Retrolental fibroplasia. In 1955 she married Philip Steer-Watkins, a farmer in Worplesdon and in whose farm she played an active part, particularly with her pigs. Conveniently in 1959 she was appointed consultant ophthalmologist to the Victoria Hospital in Woking. According to her obituarist, David Hughes, who was her anaesthetist for many years, she was an extremely skilled ophthalmologist who painstakingly trained her juniors. There is a hint in her obituary, however, suggesting that at times she might have been a somewhat difficult colleague. In 1985 she suffered a debilitating illness but was eventually able to resume her clinical duties. She retired in 1986 and went to live in Portugal with her husband, but returned to live in Woking after his death. She died on 1 December 1993, survived by her only child, a son, Martin.
Resource Identifier RCS: E008119
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First Title value, for Searching Moss, John (1922 - 1997)

2024-05-07T00:47:29Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2015-11-18
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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 Catchpole, Bernard Newman (1923 - 2018)

2024-05-07T00:47:29Z

by John McIlwraith
Publication Date 2018-05-18 2018-05-24
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Occupation Ophthalmologist
Details Perth's medical services include one of the world's most respected centres for ophthalmology, the treatment of the eye, and one of its mentors was Bernard Catchpole. Included in his skills was a gift for persuasion. He played a key role in the recruitment of Ian Constable, a world authority in his field, and the launching of the Lions Eye Institute. Professor Constable, who still operates at the institute, describes it as one of the leading centres of research in the World (it now has 200 professional staff). He describes Bernard Catchpole as "having a wonderful set of values" which were apparent in both his professional and his family life. Medicine was a late starter in Perth's academic sphere. The first medical school was not opened until 1956, and before then, one had to go to another State to study medicine. There was no chair in ophthalmology in the new medical school. But the profession quickly established itself academically and Professor Catchpole played a leading role in this. Bernard was born in London in 1923 and grew up in northern England. He completed his medical degree at University of Manchester. After service with the Royal Army Medical Corps in the 1940's, he consolidated his surgical career in the 1950's in Manchester, Sheffield and the US and then, in 1960, in Adelaide where he met his wife to be, Philippa. Later they returned to Western Australia, where he was appointed the second Professor of Surgery at the recently opened medical school. In those days, Perth's isolation was even more evident. There was a lack of facilities, funding and little research. This changed after Bernard arrived and the new initiatives he was part of included the Busselton Study, a permanent program which has attracted worldwide attention for the medical data it has amassed. Bernard was a perfectionist, or certainly seemed so to the generations of medical students he taught. He introduced many innovations in his teaching programs, and imbued his enthusiasm for his profession in his students. Among the topics in which he carried out original research were some with titles that hardly quicken the pulse - gut motility, peripheral embolism and intestinal colic. His role in establishing the medical school involved a recruitment campaign that included Ian Constable, then working in a Boston institution. Constable had indicated that he was interested in returning to Australia and this was achieved in the face of some formidable obstacles, mainly associated with the cost of establishing the school's first chair in ophthalmology. The financial obstacles were overcome and Professor Constable arrived in 1975. Bernard Catchpole continued to be a major contributor to the vigorous progress made by the medical school, with the launching of the Lions Eye Institute a major milestone. As head of surgery he presided over the establishment of associate chairs in orthopaedics, vascular surgery, endocrine surgery and urology. After a long and successful career in surgery and teaching, he retired in 1989, though the term may not exactly describe the following years. He continued to teach his special love, anatomy, to undergraduates well into his 80s, in a voluntary capacity. Bernard retained a lively interest in his profession, and indeed, in the world. He contributed a regular quiz to the *Medifacts* journal to help students with their diagnostic skills. In the last week of his life he was discussing dispassionately his ailments with his Silver Chain medical team and offering them regular advice. (He was greatly impressed by their professionalism). While they may not have known the Greek origins of as many medical terms as he might have wished for, the "young ones", as he called them, charmed him and gained his professional respect - no easy task. His family recall that Bernard never lost his thirst for learning. In his professional life he was dedicated to his work and the house would be littered with medical journals. In retirement he had the time to expand his interests, hobbies and pursuits. Reflecting a more eclectic range of interests there were soon new piles of yet to be read magazines - *New Scientist*, *The Economist* and *Solar Energy Australia*. He wrote a children's book, *Charlie Arbon*, about the life of an adventurous carbon atom. Bernard hoped to encourage the joy of reading in a younger generation too, helping with reading classes at the local high school. The moral compass for Bernard's life was his simple and clear faith in God. Brought up a Methodist, he was an active church-goer all of his life. His faith sustained him through the tragedy of the disappearance of his son Andrew, and gave him comfort as he approached his own death. He knew, too, that faith needed to be demonstrated through good works and he helped local refugees and many causes through his philanthropic efforts. Bernard is survived by Philippa, son James, his wife Geraldine, and two grandchildren.
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First Title value, for Searching Milne, Kenneth Panton (1924 - 1984)

2024-05-07T00:47:29Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2015-06-24
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Occupation Military surgeon Ophthalmologist
Details Kenneth Panton Milne was born on 25 January 1924 in Aberdeen the youngest of five sons, four of whom became doctors. He was educated at Robert Gordon's College before entering the Aberdeen Medical School where he qualified in 1946. One year later he joined the Royal Army Medical Corps and decided to take up ophthalmology as a specialty. He served in Japan, Austria, Malaysia and at the St John Hospital in Jerusalem. In 1974 he was appointed adviser in ophthalmology to the Army and Honorary Surgeon to Her Majesty the Queen. He retired with the rank of Brigadier in 1981. He was a keen fisherman at Bourley and on the river Cassley, and also a dedicated gardener producing seemingly endless displays of beautiful flowers and plants in his house and garden. His essential kindness, wide interests and impish humour made him a delightful companion and won him many close and loyal friends. In 1948 he married Kay Nerrie who shared in the happiness of their delightful home and survived him when he died after a protracted illness on 16 March 1984 aged 60 years.
Resource Identifier RCS: E007513
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First Title value, for Searching Speight, Irwin Bruce (1911 - 1998)

2024-05-07T00:47:29Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2015-12-07
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Occupation Ophthalmologist
Details Bruce Speight was a consultant ophthalmologist at Grimsby General Hospital. He was born on 19 February 1911 in Dunedin, New Zealand, where his father Walter was a merchant. His mother was Anna née Borrows. He was educated at Otago Boys' High School and Otago University, qualifying in 1935. After junior posts he came to England via Cape Horn as a ship's doctor to study for the FRCS. He did a number of junior posts and passed the primary. He joined the Territorial Army at this stage and was called up into the RAMC at the outbreak of war, where he served with the Lincolnshire Yeomanry, and then transferred to the Sudan Medical Service, retiring with the rank of Major. During this period he passed the final FRCS. In 1955, Bruce Speight returned to England from the Sudan to train in ophthalmology, and was a senior house officer in the Manchester Royal Eye Hospital, registrar in the eye department at Addenbrooke's, and senior registrar at the Sheffield Royal Infirmary. In 1964, he was appointed consultant ophthalmic surgeon to the Grimsby General Hospital. After he retired he continued to do refraction work. He married Gertrude Patricia (Patsy) née Noall in 1952, she was a nurse whom he had met in the Sudan. They had a daughter, Emma Lucy, who became a consultant dermatologist. Bruce enjoyed golf, continuing to play until he was 86, wine-making, and travel. He died of a stroke on 1 March 1998.
Resource Identifier RCS: E008947
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First Title value, for Searching Tree, Mark (1898 - 1984)

2024-05-07T00:47:29Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2015-08-12
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URL for Files https://livesonline.rcseng.ac.uk/client/en_GB/search/asset/379919379919
Occupation Ophthalmologist
Details Mark Treisman, the son of Wolfe Treisman, an outfitter, and of Esther (née Davis) was born in London on 10 May 1898. His paternal grandparents and several generations of his family were farmers in Lithuania until Jews were forbidden to own land there. He later changed his name to Tree and states that a cousin Herman Treissman, FRCS, was an ophthalmologist who died in 1963, although this is not recorded in *Lives of the Fellows*, Vol 4, p.412. He was educated at the Central Foundation School, Whitechapel, before entering London Hospital Medical College where he won the Sutton Pathology Prize in 1920. He recorded his indebtedness to Frank Juler, AM Levy and RJ McNeill Love. He was house physician at the Brompton Hospital and then clinical assistant to Moorfields and the Central London Ophthalmic Hospital where he won the Archer Prize in 1934. He also served as house surgeon to the Oxford Eye Hospital and as senior surgical registrar at the Birmingham and Midland Eye Hospital before becoming consultant ophthalmologist to the Birmingham Regional Hospital Board. He was also ophthalmologist to the Birmingham schools for the partially sighted, and to the Birmingham Education Committee. In 1939 he married Ann Cowen whose family included many doctors, but there is no record of them having any children. He published important papers on eye defects in partially sighted children, and on familial hyaline dystrophy. Outside his professional work he was interested in art, antiques and gardening. There is no record of his date and place of death but he was listed as deceased in the General Medical Council's list of 2 January 1985.
Resource Identifier RCS: E007736
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First Title value, for Searching Glover, Eric Charles (1917 - 1998)

2024-05-07T00:47:29Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2015-10-30
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Occupation Ophthalmologist
Details 'Buster' Glover was a consultant ophthalmologist in Windsor. He was born in Hampstead, London, on 5 October 1917, the son of James Alison Glover (CBE, MD, FRCP), the senior medical officer to the Board of Education and the Ministry of Health, and Katherine Merriam, the daughter of a plastics manufacturer. His father won the Jenner medal and was the Milroy lecturer in physic. His grandfather, a general practitioner, served for 25 years as an elected member of the GMC. Buster was educated at Oundle and St John's, Cambridge, and did his clinical training at the Middlesex Hospital, where he qualified in 1941. After doing a house surgeon post at Mount Vernon, he joined the RNVR as Surgeon Lieutenant, spending two years at sea, mostly in the South Atlantic. After the war he remained in the Royal Navy reserve, becoming principal medical officer in *HMS President* with the rank of Captain, and Honorary Surgeon to the Queen in 1968. Following demobilisation, he had further training at Moorfields and was appointed to King Edward VII Hospital, Windsor, as a consultant ophthalmologist, where after a long struggle he was able to open a dedicated eye unit in 1973. He served on the council of the Ophthalmological Society and his section of the Royal Society of Medicine. He remained fascinated by the sea and served for many years on the medical committee of the Royal National Lifeboat Institution. In 1943 he married Jane Lochore and had two sons, Richard and Alastair, and a daughter, Charlotte. He died on 26 February 1998.
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First Title value, for Searching Groves, John Stewart (1921 - 1997)

2024-05-07T00:47:29Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2015-11-03
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Occupation Ophthalmologist
Details John Stewart Groves was a consultant ophthalmologist in the Coventry area. He was born in Harrogate on 23 August 1921, the son of Olive and John Arthur Groves. His mother was a teacher and his father a professional soldier. He did his medical training in Leeds, qualifying in 1943, and entered the Army in the RAMC. He spent part of the war in the Far East, repatriating prisoners of war, and at this time decided on a career in ophthalmology. He returned to Leeds for specialist training, and was a consultant ophthalmologist in Coventry and Warwickshire Hospital from 1955 to 1985. He was medical director of the School of Orthoptics in Coventry. He was noted for being a talented and deft anterior segment surgeon, and was keen to pass on his knowledge to junior medical staff. Many of his juniors were from India and Pakistan and, in recognition of his work and expertise, he was awarded an honorary membership of the Ophthalmological Society of Pakistan in 1996. He was a member of the Royal Society of Medicine, the Faculty of Ophthalmology and the Ophthalmological Society of the UK. He had two daughters by his first marriage. One works as a research nurse and the second trained as a nurse, but is now in marketing. He married a second time, to Janet Shortland, who was principal of the School of Orthoptics in Coventry. He was an accomplished ocean-going yachtsman, and he and his wife spent much time sailing to and around the Mediterranean. He died on 23 March 1997 of a ruptured aortic aneurysm.
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First Title value, for Searching Pearce, Roger Malcolm (1943 - 2003)

2024-05-07T00:47:29Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2005-10-19
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Occupation Ophthalmologist
Details Roger Pearce was a consultant ophthalmologist at Watford General Hospital. He was born in Pinner, Middlesex, on 23 December 1943, the son of Leonard John Pearce, the director of a firm of gunsmiths, and Millicent Maud. He was educated at University College School, Hampstead, where he was captain of fives and played rugby for the school. He studied medicine at St Mary’s Hospital, where he was a member of the Christian union and played tennis for the school. In 1966, he spent a year in India with Voluntary Service Overseas. After house posts at the Royal Berkshire Hospital and Queen Elizabeth II Hospital, Welwyn, a period in Nigeria with Save the Children Fund, and some time spent at St Mary’s as a lecturer and a casualty officer, he decided to specialise in ophthalmology. He was a senior house officer in ophthalmology at St Mary’s and trained at Moorfields and the Western Ophthalmic Hospital. In 1981, he was appointed as a consultant at Watford. His special interest was in paediatric ophthalmology. He married Linda Turner in 1976, and they spent their honeymoon in India. They had three daughters, Claire, Victoria and Nicola. He was an active sportsman, until 1982, when a ruptured Achilles tendon led to a pulmonary embolism. He enjoyed walking, trekking and skiing. He had only just retired from the NHS when he and Linda were tragically killed on 31 December 2003 in a minibus crash near Bergville, South Africa, whilst on a safari walking holiday to celebrate his 60th birthday.
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First Title value, for Searching Biswas, Samir Kumar (1929 - 1974)

2024-05-07T00:47:29Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2014-11-14
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Occupation Ophthalmologist
Details Samir Kumar Biswas was born in Khatura, a village in the Nadir district of West Bengal on 1 July 1929 and was educated at the St Xavier's College and the Medical College, Calcutta. He was always a meritorious student and graduated in 1954 and passed DOMS of Calcutta University in 1956. He then went to the United Kingdom where he obtained the FRCS and FRCS Ed in 1962, having obtained the DO London in 1961. He then returned to India where he was attached to the Eye Infirmary, Medical College, Calcutta for several years until he became Associate Professor and head of the department of ophthalmology of the Nilratan Sircar Medical College, Calcutta. Dr Biswas was a brilliant ophthalmologist, a very skilful surgeon, a keen academician and held in high esteem by his patients, students and friends. His complete dedication to the profession, genuine warmth and unassuming character made him loved by all who knew him. He was recognised internationally as an authority on corneal grafting and an operation performed by him was televised by the BBC, showing the high esteem in which he was held. He worked for a time at the Retina Foundation, Boston, and at the Ad de Rothschild, Paris. He was also a Fellow of the American College of Surgeons. B H Dohlman and he developed a new variety of keratoprosthesis. He was an enthusiastic member of the All India Ophthalmological Society. Biswas was a good organiser and established the Atul Ballav Eye Bank and Research Centre in the NRS Medical College, Calcutta. His premature death was an irreparable loss to Indian ophthalmology when he died of coronary thrombosis on 10 October 1974.
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First Title value, for Searching Smith, Vernon Hope (1925 - 2002)

2024-05-07T00:47:29Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2015-12-07
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Occupation Ophthalmologist
Details Vernon Hope Smith was a consultant ophthalmologist at Birmingham and West Midlands Eye Hospital and a senior tutor in ophthalmology at Birmingham University. He was born on 27 April 1925. His father, Vernon, and his uncle, Reginald, were distinguished ENT surgeons in Manchester. He was educated at Rossall School and Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge, and did his clinical training at Manchester, where he qualified in 1950. He began his training in orthopaedic surgery and was senior registrar to Sir John Charnley, but later changed to ophthalmology at the Manchester Royal Eye Hospital, where he was senior registrar to Alexander Stuart Scott. He was appointed as a consultant in Birmingham in 1961. He had wide interests in ophthalmology. In his Middlemore lecture in 1970 on the future of vitreo-retinal surgery he developed the medial wall approach to orbital decompression in dysthyroid eye disease, and was at the forefront of the development of ophthalmic ultrasound. He was a co-author with F E James of *Eyes and education* (London, William Heinemann Medical Books, 1968). He was secretary of the Midland Ophthalmological Society from 1970 to 1978 and President from 1978 to 1980. He was a member of the Oxford Ophthalmological Congress. He was married twice. He had two daughters, Amanda Jane and Lucinda, and two grandchildren, Lara and Alexander. He was interested in history, cars and fine wines, and was a gifted pianist, playing with a jazz trio who were much in demand in his student days. He died on 26 December 2002.
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First Title value, for Searching Hussein, Hussein Ahmed (1904 - 1987)

2024-05-07T00:47:29Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2015-05-26
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Occupation Ophthalmologist
Details Hussein Ahmed Hussein was born in Berber, Sudan, on 14 November 1904, the son of Ahmed Hussein, an army officer. His early education was at Gordon College and he then entered the Kitchener School of Medicine qualifying in 1931, having obtained a surgical prize. After early appointments he came to England for postgraduate study and passed the Diploma in Ophthalmology. After returning to Sudan he became medical director of the eye hospitals in the country working principally at the Eye Hospital, Khartoum. He was lecturer in ophthalmology at the Kitchener School of Medicine and in 1963 was elected to the Fellowship of the Royal College of Surgeons of England. Five years later he was awarded the Doctorate in Science degree by the University of Khartoum. In 1972 he was given the order for distinguished service in medicine from the Sudan Government and in 1978 he received the State Order First Class and the Golden Medal from Khartoum Eye Hospital where a ward in the hospital has been named after him. He married Ihsan Abdel Rahman Ramadan in 1934 and there were four sons and one daughter of the marriage. After retiring from practice he was able to pursue his hobbies of reading and gardening. He died in 1987 and is survived by his wife and four of his children, his sons Fayez, Abdel Hamid and Nuru and his daughter Fayeza. None of his children took up medicine but one grandson, Dr Ahmed Hassan Fahal, MS, is a lecturer in surgery in Khartoum and another, Dr Ibrahim Hassan Fassal is studying further at Wrexham Mellor Hospital, Wales.
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First Title value, for Searching Brown, Charles Alexander (1915 - 2002)

2024-05-07T00:47:29Z

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 Palin, Anthony Gordon (1907 - 1986)

2024-05-07T00:47:29Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2015-07-02
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Occupation Ophthalmologist
Details Anthony Gordon Palin was born in Wallington, Surrey, on 29 July 1907, the son of Frederick Palin, a barrister. He was educated at St Lawrence College, Ramsgate, Oxford University and St Thomas's Hospital, qualifying in 1933. After completing post-graduate training he was appointed consultant ophthalmologist at Bristol Eye Hospital in 1937. He performed the first corneal graft in Bristol in the same year and shortly after the outbreak of war joined the medical service of the Royal Air Force as an ophthalmological specialist with the rank of Squadron Leader, serving in the Middle East and Germany. During this time his wife, Gabrielle Everard, served with Naval Intelligence. Returning to Bristol he played a leading part in making Bristol Eye Hospital one of the leading ophthalmology centres in the country and served on the Council of the Section of Ophthalmology of the Royal Society of Medicine and also on the Council of the Faculty of Ophthalmologists. He also played a leading part in the South West Ophthalmological Society serving as President from 1959 to 1961. Throughout his professional life he maintained close links with the University of Bristol and enthusiastically undertook undergraduate and postgraduate teaching. He was elected FRCS ad eundem in 1970 and retired from his hospital practice in 1972. Apart from his professional life he was a liveryman of the Society of Apothecaries, a keen salmon fisherman and an outstanding marksman, competing regularly at Bisley. He died on 26 January 1986 and is survived by his wife and two sons, Jeremy and Michael.
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First Title value, for Searching King, Edgar Frederick (1899 - 1989)

2024-05-07T00:47:29Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2015-06-05
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Occupation Ophthalmologist
Details Edgar Frederick (John) King was born in Midsomer Norton, near Bristol, on 3 December 1899. His father, Edgar James King was in commerce and his mother was Sarah Denning, nee Bird. He was educated at King Edward's School, Bath, and at Bristol University and Medical School. He served as a Second Lieutenant in the Royal Garrison Artillery in the first world war and after demobilisation continued with medical studies. He qualified in 1924 and did junior hospital appointments at the Bristol and at the Moorfields Hospital, London. He was particularly influenced in this by Thomas Carwardine of Bristol Royal, Cyril Walker of Bristol Eye Hospital and later by Sir William Lister of Moorfields. He was appointed to the staff of Moorfields in 1937 and to the Westminster Hospital in 1938. He joined the RAMC in 1939 and served as an ophthalmologist (Major) throughout the war. He was unmarried and a very private person, always living alone. He was twice secretary of the Ophthalmological Society and, as its librarian and later, vice-president, was a member of its council from 1946 to 1963. Some weeks before his 65th birthday he slipped quietly out of both of his hospital clinics to escape the emotional trauma of disengagement and the ritual farewells; thereafter he withdrew from all professional contacts although avidly reading the journals. He continued to live alone, constantly moving house. In middle life he took up piano lessons, riding and horticulture. In later years he settled for an ascetic life in a little London flat near to the church on which he increasingly came to lean. He died on 16 February 1989.
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First Title value, for Searching Easty, David Leonello (1933 - 2022)

2024-05-07T00:47:29Z

by John Armitage
Publication Date 2022-05-17
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Occupation Ophthalmologist
Details As head of the department of ophthalmology at the University of Bristol David Easty was responsible for developing the UK’s first nationwide eye bank. He was born on 6 August 1933, the son of Arthur Victor Easty, an engineer, and Florence Margaret Easty née Kennedy, a nurse. His great-grandfather, Thomas Bryant, was president of the Royal College of Surgeons of England and surgeon to Queen Victoria and King Edward VII. After attending Canterbury Cathedral Choir School, Easty studied medicine at Manchester University, qualifying in 1959. He joined the Royal Army Medical Corps in 1960 and spent a year as a medical officer with the British Antarctic Survey. During this year, Easty studied a group of 24 volunteers and confirmed a direct correlation between dietary fat intake and serum cholesterol levels, the first time such a relationship had been demonstrated in a small group of individuals. From 1963 to 1965, he was in Johannesburg, as a lecturer in anatomy at the University of the Witwatersrand and a general surgical registrar and an ophthalmic registrar at Baragwanath Hospital. On his return from South Africa, he became a resident at Moorfields Eye Hospital in London. From 1969 to 1972, he was a senior registrar in the virus clinics and corneal clinic at Moorfields as well as a lecturer in the department of clinical ophthalmology, Institute of Ophthalmology, and a recognised teacher at the University of London. In 1972, he became a consultant ophthalmologist at Bristol Eye Hospital and, in 1982, he became the first professor and head of the department of ophthalmology at the University of Bristol, posts that he held until his retirement in 1999. He was a valued clinical colleague and he especially encouraged trainee ophthalmologists to become involved in research, leading to more than 30 MDs and PhDs being successfully completed in his department. Easty also gave basic scientists excellent opportunities to pursue research projects, often in collaboration with other departments in Bristol and elsewhere. In 1986, he established a charity, the National Eye Research Centre, to support eye research initially in Bristol, but projects and studentships were also supported in many other universities over the years. He also set up an MSc in ophthalmology, targeted principally at doctors from developing countries. Easty’s research interests were wide-ranging, but he is perhaps best known for his research into herpetic eye disease and corneal transplant immunology. He had almost 200 papers in peer-reviewed journals, 20 chapters in books and he edited six books. His clinical and research contributions were recognised by the award of both the Nettleship medal for research by the Royal College of Ophthalmologists in 1999 and the Castroviejo medal by the Cornea Society in 2002. In addition, he delivered several prestigious named lectures, notably the Doyne memorial lecture at the Oxford Ophthalmological Congress, the Mooney lecture to the Irish College of Ophthalmologists and the Richardson Cross lecture, all in 1999, and the Bowman lecture to the Royal College of Ophthalmologists in 2000. One of Easty’s major legacies was the support network provided to corneal transplantation through his collaboration with the UK Transplant Service, which led to the launch of the Corneal Transplant Service (CTS) in October 1983 with support from the Iris Fund for the Prevention of Blindness. The CTS provided for the first time a truly national distribution service for corneas, similar to the services provided by the UK Transplant Service for organs. This not only increased the availability of corneas to treat patients with corneal disease but greatly reduced the wastage of tissue. The next step was to initiate an amendment to the Human Tissue Act 1961 to allow non-medics to retrieve eyes from deceased donors. A private member’s bill introduced by John Hannam MP won unanimous parliamentary support and became the Corneal Tissue Act 1986, which meant that the task of eye retrieval no longer fell solely to ophthalmologists, who were often unable to attend donors owing to other more pressing clinical priorities. The final piece of the CTS was the setting up of the Bristol Eye Bank, which for the first time in the UK used organ culture at 34°C for the storage of corneas. This method increased the storage time for corneas from four days by hypothermia (as used by the existing eye banks at East Grinstead and Moorfields) to four weeks. The first organ-cultured corneas were transplanted by Easty in March 1986. However, this was not an eye bank solely for Bristol Eye Hospital: all the corneas stored in Bristol were made available through the UK Transplant Service for surgeons and their patients wherever they were in the UK. The CTS helped transform corneal transplantation from an out-of-hours emergency procedure, dependent in most hospitals on the availability of local donors, to an elective operation that could be planned well in advance. Within two years, almost 1,000 corneas were being distributed throughout the UK by the CTS every year. The service received the support of the Royal College of Ophthalmologists, the Department of Health and corneal transplant surgeons. A sister eye bank was set up at Manchester Royal Eye Hospital, which joined the CTS in 1989. By the time the two CTS eye banks were transferred to NHS Blood and Transplant in 2015, corneas had been provided for 70,000 transplant operations, a truly fitting tribute to David Easty. Easty died from prostate cancer on 11 January 2022 aged 88. He was survived by Božana (née Martinović), a microbiologist and his wife of 40 years, their daughters Marina, Valerie and Julia, and his second partner Nancy Shepherd, a family planning doctor.
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First Title value, for Searching Martin, James Herbert Stephens (1925 - 2014)

2024-05-07T00:47:29Z

by Mark F Ellis
Publication Date 2017-05-17
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Occupation Ophthalmologist
Details Dr Jim Martin died after illness in March this year. He had retired after a lifetime of service being in the field of Ophthalmology since 1954. He was a resident at the Eye and Ear Hospital in 1954 to 55. He travelled to the United Kingdom in 1957 and was on the staff at Moorfields from 1957 to 1961, where he gained his FRCS. He obtained his FRACS in Melbourne, 1963. For many years, Dr Martin spent many hours treating patients and teaching in and out of the clinics to the eye registrars. He served in the Ophthalmology Department as Senior Surgeon, later as Head of Department at St Vincent's Hospital (1962 to 1983) and later at the Repatriation Hospital in Heidelberg (1967 to 1991). Before the Medicare system came in in the 80's, this was all on an honorary basis. Jim was the Honorary Museum Curator for the Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Ophthalmology (RANZCO) from 1996 to 2009. He published numerous articles for the college on famous ophthalmologists and their discoveries, as well as eye instrument documentation. He was responsible for putting the collection "on line" in collaboration with the college librarians. He displayed exhibitions of eye instruments at most of the RANZCO annual conferences. For his work especially as curator, he received the RANZCO Meritorious Service Award in 2009. He had been an examiner for the RACO/RACS College exams for several years. From 1981 to 1988, he travelled to Bangladesh teaching cataract surgery to post graduate students. He spent time working with the Fred Hollows program as well. He has always been involved in his church and community activities. He was invested as a Knight of the Sovereign order of St John of Jerusalem in 2007. Jim was happily married to Helen and nearly reached 90 years of age. He leaves 4 children and 5 grandchildren. He was a brilliant surgeon and teacher and inspired many registrars. He had worked in my practice until retirement in 2004 and one cannot help but see the care, diligence and expertise of this man with his patients and colleagues. His patients thought highly of him and many considered him their friend. Jim received his OAM for services to Ophthalmology in 2013, but humble as he was, he felt that he had not done enough to deserve the award. He was exceptionally particular in making sure "things were correct" and I valued his criticism and advice, since I always was given a truthful opinion. I am sure he would want to vet this article prior to it being published. Unfortunately, he will not be around evermore to do this.
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First Title value, for Searching Hipwell, Geoffrey Carl (1931 - 2009)

2024-05-07T00:47:29Z

by Ian C Francis
Publication Date 2016-05-11
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URL for Files https://livesonline.rcseng.ac.uk/client/en_GB/search/asset/381288381288
Occupation Ophthalmologist
Details In 1969, Geoff Carl Hipwell returned from his postgraduate ophthalmology training in London. He was truly a breath of fresh air in ophthalmology in Sydney in that era, as very few ophthalmic surgeons had a Fellowship from any of the royal surgical colleges at that time. Geoff soon commenced work at Royal North Shore (RNS), and rapidly and inevitably became Senior Surgeon. In all of that, he was a mentor and teacher in a fashion that was almost unique in those days. Geoff was always thoughtful about advances in ophthalmology, especially in relation to Neuro-ophthalmology, Strabismus and Orbital surgery. He was also at the forefront of, and highly skilled in, the huge advances in cataract and glaucoma surgery. Indeed, the current operation for cataract has become the most common operation of any surgical procedure in the world, and is certainly the most successful, notably in terms of safety, quality of life, and outcomes. Geoff taught innumerable Ophthalmologists and Neurologists both the basics of and the advances in Neuro-ophthalmology. In 1976, he gave a series of Saturday morning lectures on Neuro-ophthalmology at RNS. The lectures were attended by large numbers from both specialties. Geoff's mentoring, teaching and generosity extended to great lengths. The author, and a colleague, Mr Tony King FRACS, were invited for a surf, lunch and a tutorial at Geoff's Christmas-holiday cottage at Whale Beach in 1974. Naturally, Geoff's incredibly supportive wife Brenda and his three very young daughters, Debbie, Nikki and Kate, were there. Following the surf and the lunch, he and long-time friend and colleague Medduma Kappagoda gave us a tutorial lasting three hours in Ophthalmic Physiology. Some of the obituaries one reads document amazing deeds over long periods. Geoff is certainly worthy of the documentation of these events and more. However, a more personal approach, achieved by citing the thoughts of a very few of the many he helped, might be equally robust. Professor Jonathan Ell (Neurology, Neuro-ophthalmology and Neuro-otology) - "Geoff instilled in me an intense interest in Ophthalmology while I was a medical student. He was an extraordinarily kind, generous and charming man." Professor Michael Halmagyi (Neurology, Neuro-ophthalmology and Neuro-otology) - "Geoff broke down the barriers between Ophthalmology, Neurology and Neurosurgery which existed in the 1970s." Mr James Smith (Paediatric Ophthalmology) - "Considering Geoff's stature, he was a humble man, and gave a lot to those who may least have been able by themselves to attain it. This was particularly to the doctors he helped and mentored." Dr Stella Alexander (Anaesthetics) - "Geoff would teach us with intensity, but he did it from the perspective of a fellow traveller." Mr Tony King (Ophthalmology) - "From my Junior Resident year, 1972 onwards, Geoff was my friend, mentor and motivator. He was an inspirational teacher." Dr Douglas Pettinger (Ophthalmology) - "Geoff had an amazingly mature approach to patient management. He understood patients well, put them at their ease, and they all liked him. He himself was patient beyond imagining." It can be seen from some of this that Geoff had a remarkable effect on the thinking of the Neurologists and Ophthalmologists at the time, and in the decades to follow. He advocated that the eye and visual system were a distinct but integral part of the body, and that the eye, the body and the brain were all intimately related. He maintained that Ophthalmologists should not be limited by seeing medicine only from the "battlements of the sclera". He was appalled when the Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Ophthalmologists seceded from the Royal Australasian College of Surgeons. Geoff remains a colleague and friend who was liked and loved. He taught selflessly and passionately, and was for many the epitome of the new breed of Ophthalmologist. For those who wish to read more, the Remembering Geoff Hipwell website provides a further glimpse into the life of this remarkable surgeon.
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First Title value, for Searching Nixon, John Moylett Gerrard (1913 - 2005)

2024-05-07T00:47:29Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2007-05-10
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Occupation Ophthalmologist
Details John Nixon was a consultant ophthalmologist in Dorset. He was born in London on 18 October 1913, the son of Joseph Wells Nixon, a grocer, and Ellen Theresa née Moylett, and educated at Cardinal Vaughan School, Holland Park, London, Presentation College Bray in County Wicklow, Blackrock College in Dublin and Clongowes Wood College, County Kildare. His medical training and his house jobs were at Trinity College Dublin, where he qualified in 1937. He held junior posts at Kent and Canterbury Hospital, Croydon General and Oldchurch hospitals. He served throughout the Second World War in the Navy, mainly on convoy work, particularly to north Russia and Malta. Following his demobilisation he trained as an ophthalmologist. Interestingly he was the last house surgeon at the Tite Street branch of Moorfields just before the introduction of the National Health Service. After working as ophthalmic registrar at Maidenhead Hospital he was appointed consultant ophthalmologist at Weymouth and this service included clinics at Dorchester, Bridport and Sherborne. He was considered by his colleagues to be a ‘magnificent medical ophthalmologist’. He married Hilary Anne née Paterson in 1943. Sadly she died of a cerebral tumour. His second wife was Ione Mary née Stoneham. He had six children, three from each marriage, Patrick Michael, Hilary Anne, Peter John, Monica, Paula and Andrew. John Nixon died at the age of 92 on 8 April 2005.
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First Title value, for Searching Dawnay, Archibald Hugh Payan (1870 - 1918)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2011-09-21
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Occupation Ophthalmologist
Details The son of Sir Archibald D Dawnay, of London and Cardiff; was educated at University and King's Colleges, London, and at St Thomas's Hospital, and after qualifying directed his attention to ophthalmology. He acted in the following posts: Ophthalmic House Surgeon, St Thomas's Hospital; Clinical Assistant in the Ophthalmic Department of the London Hospital; Anaesthetist to the Royal Ophthalmic Hospital, Moorfields, and to the Western Ophthalmic Hospital; and Ophthalmic Surgeon to the Hounslow Hospital. At the time of his death he was Ophthalmic Surgeon to the Great Northern Central Hospital and the Western Ophthalmic Hospital; Chief Clinical Assistant, Royal Ophthalmic Hospital; Ophthalmic Surgeon to the London Society for Teaching the Blind; Hon Oculist to the Orphan Working School, Haverstock Hill; and Refraction Assistant in the London County Council School Department. He practised at first in Upper Phillimore Place, Kensington, and afterwards at 126 Harley Street. He died at Ealing on November 8th, 1918, from pneumonia following influenza. Publications: "Case of Anophthalmia." - *Trans. Ophthalmol. Soc.*, 1904, xxiv, 304. "Corneal Opacities in Members of the same Family." - *Ibid.*, 1905, xxv, 62. "Corneal Opacities of Unusual Character." - *Ibid.*, 1910, xxx, 79. "Optic Atrophy after Use of Arylarsonates." - *Ibid.*, 247. "Double Third Nerve Palsy due to Acute Poliomyelitis." - *Proc. Roy. Soc. Med.* (Child. Dis. Sect.), 1911, v, 13.
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First Title value, for Searching Boyd, Thomas Alexander Somerville (1918 - 1993)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2015-09-02
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Occupation Ophthalmologist
Details Thomas Boyd was born in Glasgow on 7 June 1918, the son of Harold Arthur Boyd and his wife Edith, née Somerville. He was educated at Glasgow Academy. His father was chairman and director of the family engineering business, J & T Boyd Ltd., and Thomas went through an engineering apprenticeship from 1935 to 1937. He then took the decision to enter medicine and was accepted at Glasgow University Medical School, qualifying in 1942. After rotating internships in Glasgow and Stirling he joined the RAMC in 1943 as a general duty medical officer. He soon took up a traineeship and subsequently qualified as graded ophthalmologist, serving in military hospitals in Belgium, Germany, Tripolitania, Palestine and Cyprus. On demobilisation he continued his specialist training, taking his FRCS in 1954. He was appointed consultant ophthalmologist in Bangour the following year, but after three years decided to move to Edmonton, Canada, taking his CRCS(C) in 1959, and FRCS(Canada) in 1973. Between 1962 and 1974 he gained over thirty research grants, and his energetic research projects resulted in over forty publications, chiefly in the *Canadian journal of ophthalmology* and the *Transactions of the Canadian Ophthalmic Society*. In 1942 he married Miss K M Struthers and they had two sons, one of whom predeceased him, and two daughters. He died in 1993.
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First Title value, for Searching Ainslie, Derek (1919 - 2006)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2007-11-08 2009-02-26
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Occupation Ophthalmologist
Details Derek Ainslie was an ophthalmologist and a pioneer in the development of vision corrective surgery. He was born in Hereford on 19 September 1919, the third child and second son of Janet (née Rogers) and William Ainslie, a surgeon and a fellow of the Edinburgh College. Derek Ainslie was educated at Hereford Cathedral Preparatory School, Sherborne and Clare College, Cambridge, going on to complete his clinical training at the Middlesex Hospital. He subsequently joined the RAMC and was en route to the Far East when the war ended. He remained in the Army, working in Africa until 1948 and reaching the rank of major. He underwent training in ophthalmology at Birmingham Eye Hospital, the Middlesex Hospital, and as senior resident officer at Moorfields Eye Hospital. Soon after completing his training he was appointed consultant ophthalmologist to the Middlesex and Moorfields Eye hospitals, in 1962. His work in ophthalmology was remarkable: he was a pioneer in corneal refractive surgery, using a microkeratome and surgical cryolathe. He worked closely in parallel with José Barraquer, a Spanish surgeon, in what was then a contentious field of work, but which has developed into the laser refractive surgery of today. Derek wrote extensively on the use of antibiotics in ophthalmology, corneal grafting and refractive keratoplasty. Sadly his work was interrupted in 1975 with the onset of a severe illness compounded by deteriorating vision from glaucoma. He retired prematurely at the age of 55. He examined for the diploma in ophthalmology and was a member of the Court of Examiners for the FRCS in ophthalmology. He was an adviser to the Merchant Navy from 1953 to 1963, and ophthalmic surgeon to Chorleywood College for Girls, a school for the partially sighted and blind. He married Robina Susan Lock in 1960, a medical practitioner. They had one son and two daughters. He had a wide interest in music, was a keen salmon and trout fisherman, and an ardent supporter of Arsenal Football Club. He died on 1 August 2006, and is survived by his third wife, Diana, children and grandchildren.
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First Title value, for Searching Taylor, John Norton (1928 - 2015)

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by Susan Taylor
Publication Date 2016-03-24 2016-08-18
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Occupation Ophthalmologist
Details John Norton Taylor was an Australian ophthalmologist who contributed to improvements in the treatment of oculomotor nerve palsy. He was born in Adelaide, Australia, and was a direct descendant of Eliza Sturt, the sister of Captain Charles Sturt, a prominent Australian explorer in the early 19th century. His family moved to Melbourne in 1938, where he attended Trinity Grammar School as a boarder. He excelled in academic pursuits and sports, and in his final year he became vice captain of both the school's Australian rules football and cricket teams. He was awarded school colours in these sports, as well as in lacrosse and shooting - the latter a surprise to his family on discovering the award amongst his treasured possessions. He was one of few civilians admitted to the school of medicine of the University of Melbourne in 1946, having narrowly missed being eligible for active service during the Second World War. He qualified in 1951. After graduating, he took a role as a senior resident medical officer at the Launceston General Hospital, Tasmania, where he pursued his early interest in obstetrics. He held this position from 1952 to 1953, before moving back to Melbourne as a resident medical officer in 1954. He resolved that obstetrics was not his preferred specialty and, in 1954, he accepted an urgent job offer to become a medical officer with the Australian Embassy in Rome, Italy. Taylor was immediately posted to Greece to medically process potential migrants to Australia. He was also posted to Cyprus and Beirut, Lebanon, to perform similar duties. He then returned to Rome, and with Rome as his base, he was sent for short periods to Naples and Messina in Sicily, again processing migrants for entry into Australia. In 1956, after 12 months based in Rome, he was moved permanently to Trieste, where he again performed the task of providing medical clearance for potential migrants from this area, as well as refugees from across the border. It has been reported that between 1954 and 1961 some 20,000 Triestini (or 10 per cent of the population of Trieste) left their city and over 90 per cent of these took up residence in Australia. During this time, Taylor mastered conversational Italian and quickly made many friends among the locals, none of whom could speak English. While living in Trieste, the Hungarian Revolution broke out in 1956, and while the vast majority of Hungarian escapees fled to Austria, several thousand crossed the border into Yugoslavia, which was then a communist nation under Marshal Tito. Although Australia had no diplomatic relations with Yugoslavia at the time, it was requested to accept escapees as migrants through the British Embassy in Belgrade. Taylor and three other Australian medical representatives were sent into Yugoslavia in response to this request in 1957, to be stationed at Osijek near the Hungarian border in Yugoslavia. After processing refugees for some months, the job was finally complete, and Taylor again returned to Italy in November 1957. At the end of his stint in Rome, Taylor felt it time to further his medical career, and in August 1958 he moved to London to study and specialise in ophthalmology. He was first an outpatient medical officer at Moorfields Eye Hospital and then became a resident medical officer at Bristol Eye Hospital. After 18 months, he returned to Moorfields in London and gained his fellowships of the Royal College of Surgeons of England and of the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh, as well as his diploma in ophthalmology. In 1962 he met and married a young Canadian nurse from Toronto, who happened to be in London at that time. They married in London and returned to Australia in July 1962, where they established a happy family life. Following his return to Australia, Taylor added the fellowships of the Royal Australasian College of Surgeons and the Royal Australasian College of Ophthalmologists to his name. He joined the senior medical staff at the Royal Victorian Eye and Ear Hospital in Melbourne, where he became a senior surgeon in charge of a general eye clinic. He also established a thriving private practice in Melbourne's famed Collins Street. Many of his patients were native Italian speakers, and as well as various eye conditions, or none at all, Taylor pondered whether their predominant reason for attending was a desire to converse in their native tongue. While overseas, Taylor had become interested in ocular motility (or squint) diagnosis and management, and in 1969, with support of the senior medical staff of the Royal Victorian Eye and Ear Hospital, he founded and ran the ocular motility clinic at the hospital, which was the first such clinic in Australia. He was also appointed as director of the orthoptic department. In view of the increasing volume and complexity of knowledge required in modern ophthalmology, he introduced the concept of training orthoptists as medical technicians, and advocated for the study of orthoptics to become a formal university qualification. This was accepted by La Trobe University in Melbourne, which to this day offers this qualification. Over this period of his hospital activity he wrote numerous articles, which were published in medical journals both in Australia and overseas. In particular, one piece that attracted interest from across the world was titled 'Surgical management of oculomotor nerve palsy with lateral rectus transplantation to the medial side of the globe' (*Aust N Z J Ophthalmol*. 1989 Feb;17[1]:27-31). In the early 1970s he started supplying medical eye services to Australia's Royal Flying Doctor Service (RFDS), which was established to transport patients and medical staff across the vast distances of outback Australia. Taylor was based at Broken Hill for one week every year, from which he flew with the RFDS to outback areas in New South Wales and Queensland to examine and treat various eye conditions, particularly those prevalent among Aboriginal populations. In later years, he established other eye clinics in places of need, on King Island in Bass Strait and Pambula in New South Wales. His wife, Cathy, accompanied him on many of these medical adventures, as his nurse assistant in the various clinics he established. In 1999, he retired well before he would have preferred, due to a heart condition. Nevertheless, he continued to enjoy life following his retirement, with frequent visits to Melbourne's Athenaeum Club, where he had been a member for 30 years. He died on 26 May 2015, aged 87, and was survived by his wife of over 50 years, Catherine, their daughter and two sons, and three grandchildren.
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First Title value, for Searching Watson, Peter Gordon (1930 - 2017)

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by Timothy ffytche
Publication Date 2017-04-21 2017-06-20
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Occupation Ophthalmologist
Details In many countries, less than 30 years ago it was possible to become a senior ophthalmologist, even a professor, without ever having passed a postgraduate examination in the specialty. Peter Watson, a consultant ophthalmologist at Addenbrooke's Hospital, Cambridge, and Moorfields in London, changed all that almost single-handedly by recognising the need for comparative international standards in ophthalmic training. As a member of the International Council of Ophthalmology (ICO), he was able to set up the ICO's international assessment test, the only worldwide medical specialty examination, harvesting questions (and answers) from many of his colleagues. This exam has proved popular and effective in enhancing global standards in ophthalmology and has already been taken by over 22,000 candidates. Peter Gordon Watson was born on 30 April 1930 in Newport, Monmouth, where his father, Ralph, a doctor and his mother, Renée née Smith, a nurse (and artist), jointly ran a free mobile medical clinic during the Depression. He was awarded an exhibition scholarship to the Leys School, Cambridge and, after National Service as a subaltern in the Royal Horse Artillery, an experience which neither he nor his commanding officer found particularly agreeable, he read natural sciences at Queens' College, Cambridge, and then moved to University College Hospital, where he qualified in 1956. After a variety of junior posts, he joined the training rotation at the City Road branch of Moorfields Eye Hospital in 1960 and obviously made his mark, rising to be a senior lecturer in the very prestigious professorial unit run by Barrie Jones and then, in 1965, becoming a consultant ophthalmologist to Addenbrooke's Hospital, Cambridge. With the encouragement of Barrie Jones, who was an important influence in his career, he established the scleritis clinic at Moorfields and was appointed to its consultant staff in 1970. These two appointments were the basis for a lifetime of clinical excellence, teaching and research. His interests were wide ranging and included glaucoma, scleritis and inflammatory eye disease, corneal graft rejection, trachoma, amblyopia, biochemistry and metabolism, and even Galileo's eye problems. But it is for his work on scleritis and inflammatory eye disease that Peter is mainly known. His book *The sclera and systemic disorders* (Philadelphia, London, W B Saunders, 1976) is into its third edition and continues to be widely regarded as the authority on the subject. Glaucoma was another early major interest. Before 1970, variations of full thickness filtration surgery were the mainstay of the surgical treatment of the disease. Recognising their unreliable results and frequent complications, he collaborated with John Cairns at Addenbrooke's to develop the operation of trabeculectomy and, largely thanks to Peter's research, publications and teaching, it became the standard procedure for glaucoma and continues to be so today. His clinical work and research produced numerous publications; seven books, 18 chapters, 168 papers (of which he was first author of 89). Nor did retirement from the NHS slow him down - just the opposite as it allowed him to travel extensively, teaching and meeting with colleagues around the world, and in 1995 he took on the post of Böerhaave professor at the University of Leiden and spent the next six years commuting to and from the Netherlands. Perhaps inspired by his parents' activities during the 1930's, Peter devoted much energy and enthusiasm during his career to overseas charitable work, which enabled him to pursue a variety of research initiatives. These included projects in Labrador and Newfoundland, India, Egypt and Pakistan and, in 1992, he became the deputy hospitaller for the Order of St John of Jerusalem. But despite his research interests and the commitments of a consultant appointment in a busy teaching hospital, he found time to be involved in the wider interests of UK ophthalmology, serving on the council of the Ophthalmological Society of the United Kingdom until it was disbanded in 1987 and as one of the founders of the College of Ophthalmologists. He was on its council from its inception until 1995 and became a senior vice president, and chaired the scientific committee and the staffing and facilities committee. He was awarded an honorary fellowship of the college in 1995. He served on the council of the Oxford Ophthalmological Congress, becoming the master from 1983 to 1984, and was editor of *Eye* from 1986 to 1993. Always a competitor and reflecting his 'light blue' allegiance, Peter felt that just as Oxford had its own ophthalmological congress it seemed only right that Cambridge should hold something similar - an anomaly that he addressed by founding the Cambridge Ophthalmological Symposium in 1970. For many years, he was the organiser and editorial secretary of this annual meeting, which soon became one of the most important events in the ophthalmic calendar. Peter was a great supporter of international ophthalmology and served on the council of the International Council of Ophthalmology from 1992 to 2009, becoming the president of the Academia Ophthalmologica Internationalis, the most senior academic organisation in ophthalmology. Not surprisingly, his authority and achievements brought him international acclaim and awards, amongst them the Doyne medal lecture (in 1982), the Duke-Elder international gold medal of the International Council of Ophthalmology (in 2002) and the Jules François international research gold medal (in 2014). Always an enterprising and inquisitive individual, despite a very busy peripatetic academic life giving numerous lectures (during which he rarely kept to the script), Peter found time to sail, to paint and to play tennis, as well as having many other interests, which he would share with all around him, both family and colleagues. His often diffident manner concealed a strong will and he was a good teacher, with a positive influence on the careers of a generation of young eye doctors who were trained by him. He was one of the founders of the Moorfields Alumni Association (now the Moorfields Association), serving as its honorary president from 2005 to 2009, and in 2015 he was presented with its lifetime achievement award in recognition of his contribution to ophthalmology and his name was added to the honours board, the logo for which he had designed and painted himself. His death on 31 January 2017 at the age of 86 from prostate cancer robbed the ophthalmic world of one of the giants in the specialty, both on a national and international stage, who made significant contributions in several different areas of interest and left a legacy that will be passed on. He was survived by his wife Ann, a teacher whom he married in 1955, and his three sons, one of whom became a doctor, and two daughters, together with numerous grandchildren.
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First Title value, for Searching Ward, Basil Arthur (1916 - 1968)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2014-10-24
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Occupation General surgeon Ophthalmologist
Details Basil Arthur Ward was born on 26 October 1916, and was educated at Cranleigh School and St Thomas's Hospital where he qualified in 1942 with the degrees of London University, obtaining honours and distinction in surgery. He was appointed house surgeon prior to being commissioned as a Lieutenant in the RAMC. In due course he was posted as regimental medical officer to the Green Howards taking part in the landings at Anzio. Later he became a parachute surgeon and took part in the fighting in Greece. Demobilized with the rank of Captain he returned for postgraduate study and was admitted to the Fellowship in 1948. Deciding to leave general surgery in favour of ophthalmology he was appointed house surgeon and, later, senior resident at Moorfields Hospital. He then returned to St Thomas's working in the ophthalmological department and during this period was an active and important worker of Professor Norman Ashton's team, engaged in investigating the activity of retrolental fibroplasia. He made significant contributions to the successful outcome of this research and the subject formed the basis of his thesis for the degree of MS in 1954. About this period symptoms of cardiac trouble began to develop but in spite of this he spent a period as Government Ophthalmologist in Fiji where he wrote an exhaustive and important report on the ophthalmological problems of the islands. He then worked at centres in Australia and England before being appointed consultant ophthalmic surgeon to the University of the West Indies at Mona, Jamaica. During this time he had to return to England for cardiac valvular surgery and he succumbed finally to subacute bacterial endocarditis. In spite of his disabilities he lived a full and active life, skin diving being one of his favourite relaxations. He died in hospital on 8 December 1968 aged 52.
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First Title value, for Searching Lowe, Ronald Francis (1913 - 1998)

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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 Keast-Butler, John (1937 - 2005)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2007-05-10
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Occupation Ophthalmologist
Details John Keast-Butler was a consultant ophthalmologist at Addenbrooke’s Hospital in Cambridge. He was born in London on 26 September 1937. His father, Joseph Alfred Keast-Butler, was a salesman and his mother, Mary Loise Brierley, was a secretary. He was educated at University College School and went up to Trinity College, Cambridge, to read medicine, going on to University College Hospital for his clinical studies. After National Service in the RAMC he specialised in ophthalmology, at first as a registrar at Addenbrooke’s Hospital, Cambridge, then as a senior resident officer at Moorfields Eye Hospital, City Road, and finally as a senior registrar at St Thomas’s Hospital and the National Hospital for Nervous Diseases. In 1977 he was appointed as a consultant ophthalmic surgeon to Addenbrooke’s NHS Trust, Cambridge University Teaching Hospitals Trust and Saffron Walden Community Hospital. In addition he was associate lecturer (medicine) at the University of Cambridge, director of studies (clinical medicine) at Trinity College, Cambridge, and attachment director in ophthalmology, University of Cambridge School of Medicine. He was a fellow of the Royal Society of Medicine, chairman of the BMA ophthalmic group committee for some years and honorary secretary of the Cambridge Medical Graduates’ Club. His colleagues rightly described him as a big man in stature and in personality. He was a skilled craftsman and enjoyed carpentry, photography and gardening. He married Brigid Hardy, a nurse, in 1967 and they had three children – one daughter (a civil servant) and two sons (a trainee ophthalmic surgeon and a business analyst). He died on 19 March 2005 while travelling with his wife in Goa. He had a major fall that proceeded a fatal pulmonary embolism.
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First Title value, for Searching Black, George William (1903 - 1987)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2015-04-24
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Occupation Ophthalmologist
Details George William Black was born in Boston, Lincolnshire on 21 January 1903 and was educated at Boston Grammar School and at the Middlesex Hospital, qualifying in 1926. During his early years in London he became very conscious of the divisions in English life, joining the Fabian Society and becoming a lifelong socialist. He was strongly influenced by George Bernard Shaw and moved in many literary and political circles, also frequenting theatres and art galleries. After qualifying he pursued a career in ophthalmology and initially built up a private practice in London before joining the consultant staff at Leeds in 1933. He was a pioneer in corneal grafting and also in the repair of retinal detachment. He was a founder member of the British Faculty of Ophthalmologists and served as its representative on the Council of the Royal College of Surgeons. Throughout his life in Leeds George built up a small collection of works of art. Among his friends he counted Jacob Epstein whom he had met during the war. With his family in the United States and fearful that they might not see him again, he sat for the sculptor in his operating gown. Although he retired from his hospital appointment in Leeds at the age of 65 he continued as a locum consultant in Wakefield for a further five years as well as doing clinics in Wakefield prison and acting as a council member for the Royal National Institute for the Blind. He continued in private practice until shortly before his death on 16 September 1987. In 1935 he married Stella Harding of New York who died in 1971. The following year he married Marlene Bailey who survives him, as do his two daughters and two sons, Sebastian, Caroline, Margarita and Edward.
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First Title value, for Searching Zorab, Edward Crew (1909 - 1994)

2024-05-07T00:47:29Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2015-10-09
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Occupation Ophthalmologist
Details Edward Zorab was born in Southampton on 28 October 1909, the second of six sons of Arthur Zorab, an ophthalmic surgeon, and Olive Parsons, the daughter of F J Parsons, the printer and publisher. He was educated at Cheltenham College, and then at Guy's Hospital Medical School where his father and four brothers also trained as doctors. He qualified in 1933 and subsequently trained in ophthalmology at Moorfields Eye Hospital under Affleck Greeves, Maurice Wilting and Charles Goulden. Later he took over his father's ophthalmic practice in Southampton, and after the outbreak of war he served in the RAMC in North Africa, Italy and Greece, rising to the rank of lieutenant-colonel. In 1945 he married his theatre sister, Janet Baillie, in Athens, and the following year returned to Southampton. With the inception of the NHS in 1948 he was appointed consultant ophthalmologist to Southampton Eye and the Royal South Hants Hospitals. He was elected FRCS in 1967 and served as President of the Faculty of Ophthalmologists (1971-74) and President of the Section of Ophthalmology of the Royal Society of Medicine (1973-75). He became known to a wider public when he removed a fishhook from the eye of the American ambassador, Lewis Douglas. During the war he acquired valuable experience in trauma surgery and plastic surgical reconstruction, and he was a fine technician with a special interest in corneal transplantation. He retired in 1975, but continued his private practice for a few years and enjoyed his interests of gardening and sailing. As a young man he had also played tennis for Hampshire. He died peacefully at home aged 84 on 26 April 1994, survived by Janet, their three sons, Richard, Charles and David, and two daughters, Susan and Sarah.
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First Title value, for Searching Fenton, Peter John (1935 - 2011)

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by David L Boase
Publication Date 2012-02-03 2013-02-14
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Occupation Ophthalmologist
Details Peter Fenton, known to his colleagues as 'PF', was a consultant ophthalmologist in Portsmouth. He was born in Cranleigh, Surrey, the son of Edward Norman Fenton, a wing commander in the RAF, and Joan Wilfrida Fenton née Brown. He was educated at Radley, and then went on to read medicine at St Thomas's Hospital Medical School, entering as a pre-clinical student. On qualifying, in 1959, he was appointed as a house surgeon to the eye department at St Thomas', under the supervision of Harold Ridley and John Winstanley. This early exposure convinced him that ophthalmology was to be his career. With Harold Ridley's support, PF was appointed to Moorfields Eye Hospital, which at that time was considered the gold standard for training in ophthalmology. While there he was greatly influenced by Lorimer Fison, the consultant in charge of the retinal detachment unit. On completion of his residency training, PF was appointed as a senior registrar. This was a joint post between Moorfields and St Thomas'. He became Lorimer Fison's chief assistant on the retinal detachment unit. By this time he was an accomplished retinal detachment surgeon whose expertise was widely acknowledged by his peers. At St Thomas' he was once again with Harold Ridley and John Winstanley, and the emphasis was on general ophthalmology with teaching responsibilities. Both Harold Ridley and Lorimer Fison urged PF to stay in London. A teaching hospital post with a Harley Street practice beckoned, but he felt the call of the country. In 1971 he was appointed to the eye department at Queen Alexandra Hospital, Portsmouth. This was an ideal post for PF; a four-consultant unit with training responsibilities, it provided the professional challenges of a major district general hospital, while at the same time being close to London. A big plus was that he and his family were able to live in the country yet close to the hospital. He had the perfect daily commute to work. A dextrous surgeon and shrewd clinician, PF practiced medicine to a very high ethical standard. His knowledge and experience were greatly valued by his colleagues and of course by innumerable patients who benefited from his skill and dedication to their care. His career spanned a period of enormous technological advancement in ophthalmic practice. He rose to the challenge and kept abreast with these developments. More importantly, he encouraged and facilitated change, allowing his junior colleagues free reign to modernise the eye services in Portsmouth. PF was an excellent trainer. His style of hands-off supervision allowed the trainees to grow in confidence and experience, with the knowledge that he would be there when required. Inexperienced senior house officers soon became competent surgeons under his tutelage. He used his out-patient clinics to teach the trainees, as well as visiting optometrists and medical students. Surprisingly for someone with a surgeon's temperament, PF developed an interest in psychosomatic eye diseases. He established a special clinic with a visiting consultant psychiatrist, Alexis Brook, who had a background in psychoanalysis and was funded by the Inman Trust. W S Inman had been a consultant ophthalmologist in Portsmouth many years before and had made his name in the field of psychosomatic eye diseases. PF enjoyed the cut and thrust of medical politics, serving as president of the Portsmouth division of the BMA from 1982 to 1983. He was also very active in hospital politics. His time as chairman of the medical executive committee coincided with the introduction of the Thatcher health reforms, which brought the purchaser-provider divide, fund holding and the drive for trust status by hospitals. This was time of huge change and tension. PF skilfully steered Portsmouth hospitals through these choppy waters. He retired in 1995. Country pursuits provided an antidote to the stresses of consultant practice. PF was a keen gardener, specialising in vegetables and sweet peas. He also kept bees. A stalwart supporter of the local hunt, he was rewarded for his pains by a blowout fracture of his orbit when coshed by a hunt saboteur. The Worshipful Company of Armourers and Brasiers played a very important part in his life. He became a freeman in 1958 and served as master from 1997 to 1998. He relished the traditions, pomp and ceremony provided by the livery companies. Above all PF will be remembered for his kindness, generosity and good humour. He was survived by his wife Amanda (née Simonds), whom he married in 1963, his son, Nicholas, and daughter, Vanessa. PF died after a short illness on 9 December 2011, aged 76.
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First Title value, for Searching Bignell, John Lawrence (1917 - 2005)

2024-05-07T00:47:29Z

by Peter Hardy Smith
Publication Date 2015-06-12 2015-08-19
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Occupation Ophthalmologist
Details Dr John Lawrence Bignell, a leading ophthalmologist in Melbourne for many years, died on Monday 31 October 2005 after a long illness. John was born in Melbourne on 24 May 1917, the second son of Colonel and Mrs F Bignell; his father was also a doctor and served in France in the First World War. John's mother was a well-known teacher of piano with a degree in music, a fact which doubtless explains John's great interest in music and his dexterity on the violin which he loved to play until recent years when a stroke forced him to relinquish this pleasure. He won an RSL scholarship to Melbourne Grammar and subsequently to the University of Melbourne, graduating at the beginning of the Second World War and shortly thereafter enlisting in the Royal Australian Navy in which he served until he was demobilised in 1946. In 1946 he met Dorothy who at the time was a fifth-year medical student at the University of Sydney. As Dorothy wished to finish her medical course their meetings consisted of frequent flights between Sydney and Melbourne by one or the other depending on the state of their finances, and they finally married in 1948. John and Dorothy travelled to London where John was appointed a house surgeon at Moorfields Eye Hospital, the leading eye hospital in the Commonwealth. Whilst there he came under the influence of Mr (later Sir) Harold Ridley, the first surgeon in the world to successfully implant an artificial lens into the eye after the removal of cataract. On his return to Melbourne he was appointed to the Honorary Staff of the Royal Victorian Eye and Ear Hospital and the Royal Melbourne Hospital, and became one of the first in Australia to use this new technology, which at the time was looked upon by the majority of ophthalmologists as experimental at best and reprehensible at worst. As we all know, it is now only in the rarest of cases that cataract extraction is not followed by intra-ocular lens implantation, and John's pioneering work has been amply vindicated. He was also among the first in Australia to perform a significant number of corneal grafting procedures, pioneered in Melbourne by Sir Thomas Travers who was Senior Honorary Ophthalmologist at the Royal Melbourne Hospital at the time, and whom John succeeded on Sir Thomas's retirement. John held this post until 1967 when he was succeeded by Dr J E K (Dick) Galbraith. As well as introducing new procedures at the Royal Melbourne, John also led several teams overseas to Thailand and India to perform surgery and to help train local ophthalmologists. These ventures were among the first Australian initiatives to reach out to our northern neighbours to provide medical assistance, and their importance was recognised by the Department of Foreign Affairs and Community Aid Abroad, who provided much of the funding. Unfortunately the war in Vietnam supervened and the "Mobile Eye Clinics International" only functioned for a relatively short time, but provided a wealth of experience to those young ophthalmologists, Australian, New Zealand and Asian who were fortunate to take part. After leaving the Royal Melbourne, John continued in private practice in Collins Street for a number of years; latterly he worked in association with Dr Christopher Buckley before finally retiring completely from practice. However he then embarked upon several years of study at the University of Melbourne, graduating as a Bachelor of Arts with a major in Geography. This achievement gave him immense satisfaction but came as no surprise to those who knew his eclectic tastes. Throughout his life John had multiple interests outside medicine. He took up flying in 1973 and acquired his private pilot's licence, enabling him and Dorothy to make trips together throughout Australia. Sailing was another passion; many overseas guests as well as friends and colleagues will remember braving Port Phillip Bay in his H.28 "Wanderer". John was a gregarious individual, and was a member of many clubs and societies. One of his special loves was the Wallaby Club, an organisation of like-minded individuals devoted to exploring the highways and byways of Melbourne and its environs. Unfortunately these activities were much curtailed in his latter years by illness, but his mind was sharp to the end, which came peacefully after a long battle with cancer. John Bignell lived life to the full. We honour his memory and extend our sympathy to Dorothy, Fiona, Rosemary, David and their families.
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First Title value, for Searching Hayreh, Sohan Singh (1927 - 2022)

2024-05-07T00:47:29Z

by John C Lee
Publication Date 2022-12-09
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Occupation Ophthalmologist
Details Sohan S Hayreh, professor of ophthalmology at the University of Iowa, was best known for his work on the vascular circulation of the visual system and vascular diseases of the eye and optic nerve. He made profound contributions to the understanding of vascular eye diseases and received many honours. Sohan Hayreh was born on 6 November 1927 in Littran, a small farming village in Punjab, India. With the encouragement of his parents, Surjit Singh, who was in the Army, and Balwant Kaur Hayreh née Kandola, a housewife, he completed elementary and high school and was admitted to King Edward Medical College in Lahore, India in 1946. Due to the Partition of India, he was forced to move to Punjab Medical College in Amristar, where he earned his MB BS in 1951 and his masters degree in 1959. As he began his surgical residency in January 1952, the financial stability of the people of India was uncertain as a result of Partition. He left his residency and served as a medical officer in the Indian Army Medical Corps. In 1955, Hayreh left his Army position and obtained a faculty position in the anatomy department of the new Government Medical College in Patiala, India. He did extensive research on the anatomy of the vasculature of the eye, optic nerve and orbit. This research was published in the *British Journal of Ophthalmology*. He wished to continue research on the pathogenesis of optic disc oedema in elevated intracranial pressure, however, funds were not available for continued research in India at that time. Hayreh applied for and was awarded the prestigious three-year Beit Memorial Research Fellowship for Medical Research in 1961. He moved to London and worked with Sir Stewart Duke-Elder at the Institute of Ophthalmology at the University of London until 1964. The research was the basis for his PhD from the University of London, awarded in 1965. In order to continue in British ophthalmology academia, Hayreh spent one year as a senior house officer at Birmingham and Midland Eye Hospital. He returned to the Institute of Ophthalmology and Moorfields Eye Hospital in London as a lecturer in clinical ophthalmology and research in 1965. In London, Hayreh extensively used the new technique of fluorescein fundus angiography in clinical and experimental research with the *in vivo* blood supply of the optic disc and glaucoma. In 1969, Hayreh passed the examinations for the fellowships of the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh and the Royal College of Surgeons of England. That year he moved to the University of Edinburgh as a senior lecturer in ophthalmology and a consultant ophthalmologist to the Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh. At the university, he built his own research facility with a research grant from the Medical Research Council. In 1972, Hayreh sent a letter to Frederick C Blodi, head of the department of ophthalmology at the University of Iowa, to learn more about ophthalmology in America. He had met Blodi at European and British meetings. Blodi replied with an offer for Hayreh to join the department and in January 1973, Hayreh and his family moved to Iowa City. During his tenure in Iowa, Hayreh concentrated on ocular vascular disorders and optic nerve disorders (including glaucoma) in clinical practice and research. He also maintained interest in scleritis, episcleritis, uveitis and cataract. With research grants from the National Institutes of Health for clinical and experimental research, he was able to set up an ocular vascular experimental laboratory and an ocular vascular clinic for research and clinical projects. After prior work and friendship with Edward S Perkins at the Institute of Ophthalmology in London, Hayreh strongly recommended him to Blodi. In 1979, Perkins was invited to join the faculty as a professor. In recognition for his research, Hayreh was awarded the degree of doctor of science by the University of London in 1987. His research, ‘Ocular circulation in health and disease: optic nerve disorders’, was judged as a high standard and awarded Hayreh an authoritative place in ophthalmology. Hayreh assumed emeritus professor status at the University of Iowa in 1999. He died on 29 September 2022 in Maine at the age of 94 from complications of covid-19. He was survived by his wife, Shelagh, two sons, Davindar and Ravindar, and three grandchildren. Sohan S Hayreh continues to be recognized as a world authority on ocular and optic nerve circulation, vascular disorders of the eye, giant cell arteritis and other topics.
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First Title value, for Searching O'Sullivan, Joseph John (1927 - 2015)

2024-05-07T00:47:29Z

by Roger Greenhalgh
Publication Date 2015-09-21 2016-11-03
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URL for Files https://livesonline.rcseng.ac.uk/client/en_GB/search/asset/380361380361
Occupation Ophthalmologist
Details Joseph John ('Joe') O'Sullivan was an ophthalmologist in Victoria, Australia. He was born in Sydney on 28 July 1927 and was educated at St Patrick's College, Strathfield, Sydney. He served in the Army between 1946 and 1948, repatriating some prisoners, and then went on to the University of Sydney to study medicine. Joe was very much a bachelor in his early life and a very affable gentleman, who spent a lot of time in England and made many friends. He loved cricket, but it was not always easy to understand exactly which fielding position he was talking about when he used his full range of Australian terms. In addition, he was keen on Australian football and very travelled. He was a good tennis player. Joe worked for the Australian government and was posted to Italy. At the University of Vienna, he achieved a diploma of ophthalmology in 1962, and then took another diploma in diploma of ophthalmology in London in 1966. He became a fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons in 1970. Joe accepted an invitation to serve the Order of St John of Jerusalem. This came from Sir Stewart Duke-Elder, who at the time was hospitaller at the St John's Hospital in Jerusalem, then in Jordan. Sir Stuart interviewed suitably qualified eye doctors who served a number of years. With his widespread experience in ophthalmology in many lands, Joe was very appreciated at this hospital for two years, from 1963 to 1965. He was admitted as a serving brother of the Order of St John of Jerusalem in 1966. During his time in Jerusalem, Jordan, he was to understand the Arab mentality of the time and the hospital would attract about 1,000 patients per day. Joe would be one of three qualified eye surgeons seeing patients coming as outpatients into three columns, with Joe at one of them, and each doctor would take a third of the patients that arrived in the courtyard that day. When the courtyard was closed, the door was shut and further patients would arrive and sit and wait until the hospital opened early in the morning the following day. Every tenth patient would need hospital admission for eye surgery, including cornea transplants from measles blindness, cataracts, squints and many pterygiums. The surgeons would operate huge lists and great relief was achieved, many patients walking in almost blind and leaving seeing much better. Sundays remained a day of rest and there was a strong Roman Catholic influence and also in the French hospital next door, which managed more general conditions. The hospitaller of the time at the hospital in Jerusalem was Arthur Boase, who was himself an excellent surgeon and served the hospital very well. During his time at the hospital, Joe met Clare Buxton, who was the assistant matron, having been a highly-trained theatre sister. Joe was a man of few words and telephoned his future best man to say: 'I am coming to London soon. I am going to marry Clare. You are going to be best man.' And so it was. Joe was extremely nervous on his wedding day. He clutched his missal because he knew that it was a no turning back moment as a very sincere, practising Catholic. As Clare was exactly similar and knew the ophthalmic world so well, they were a perfect fit and had wonderful children, Helen and Joe junior. Before long Joe and Clare settled happily in Heidelberg, Melbourne, Australia. This is a wonderful part of Melbourne and he loved Melbourne, but was very critical of aspects of it and referred to the river Yarra as the 'upside down river' because Joe said there was more mud on the top than there was on the bottom! Joe had a practice in Bendigo and travelled twice a week from Melbourne. Joe was fussy about the church in which he worshipped. This was very important to him. He liked the traditional approach and, if there was any suggestion of progressiveness, Joe would motor to the other side of Melbourne or to the very last church which regarded and maintained every tradition. He had a wide range of friends and was a technically very capable surgeon. A great family man who set a wonderful example, once he had a friend they would remain so for life. Joe O'Sullivan died in Melbourne on 12 July 2015. He was 87.
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First Title value, for Searching Lloyd, John Peregrine Francis (1907 - 1985)

2024-05-07T00:47:29Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2015-06-08
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Occupation Ophthalmologist
Details John Peregrine Francis Lloyd was born in Birmingham on 24 August 1907, the son of John Lloyd, managing director of Albright and Wilson, and Florence, née Armstrong. He was educated at West House School, Edgbaston, and Trent College, Derbyshire, before entering the University of Birmingham for medical studies. He qualified in 1930 and after early hospital appointments passed the FRCS four years later. He continued postgraduate studies in ophthalmology at Moorfields Hospital under Miss I C Mann, later moving to her department in Oxford when she became Professor. During the war years he served in the Royal Army Medical Corps as an ophthalmic specialist with the rank of Major, returning to Oxford as consultant ophthalmologist to the United Oxford Hospitals in 1945. He served on the Council of the Ophthalmological Section of the Royal Society of Medicine from 1949 to 1950 and on the Council of the Faculty of Ophthalmologists from 1965 to 1971. He also served on the Council of the Oxford Ophthalmological Congress from 1950 to 1972 and was deputy Master in 1968-69. His particular interest was in the treatment of glaucoma and he contributed articles on this subject to the *Transactions of the Ophthalmological Society of the United Kingdom*, the *British journal of ophthalmology* and the *British encyclopaedia of medical practice*. He married Joy Wilson in 1932 and they had two sons and one daughter. In early years his hobbies were motor cycle trials, speedway racing, flying, golf and gardening but later in life he took up riding and sea fishing. He died on 19 December 1985 aged 78.
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First Title value, for Searching Fenton, Frederick George (1904 - 1982)

2024-05-07T00:47:29Z

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 Gurd, Dudley Plunket (1910 - 1987)

2024-05-07T00:47:29Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2015-05-18
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Occupation Ophthalmologist
Details Dudley Plunket Gurd was born in Belfast on 18 June 1910 the elder son of Frederick Gurd, a pharmaceutical chemist, and Annie Jane (née Glenn), and was educated at Belfast Royal Academy and Queen's University, Belfast, qualifying in 1932. After early house appointments in Belfast, Liverpool and London he joined the Royal Navy as Surgeon-Lieutenant in 1934. Five years later he was promoted to Lieutenant-Commander and during the war years he passed both the DOMS and the MD with high commendation. In 1943 he was awarded the Gilbert Blane Medal for services to Naval medicine. In 1945 he was posted to Hong Kong and promoted to Surgeon-Commander. During the three years' service in that station he passed the FRACS and was honorary lecturer and examiner in ophthalmology to the University of Hong Kong. In 1949 he was made Chevalier de l'Ordre Nationale de Vietnam. From 1952 to 1966 he was senior consultant and adviser in ophthalmology to the Royal Navy and was promoted to Captain in 1958. He served as warden to the Ophthalmic Hospital of St John Jerusalem from 1952 to 1955, was awarded the Gold Cross of the Order of the Holy Sepulchre in 1955, and passed the MCh in 1959 and the FRCS in 1964 when he was also appointed honorary surgeon to Her Majesty the Queen. He served at the Royal Naval Hospital at Bighi, Malta with the rank of Rear-Admiral. He was awarded the CB in 1968 and retired from the Royal Navy the following year having received an honorary DSc from Queen's University, Belfast. Throughout his professional life his main interests were trachoma and lime burns of the eye. His outside interests were all kinds of sport and athletics as well as the study of languages. He married Therese Delenda of Salonika in 1939 and they had one son and one daughter. He died in Italy on 9 August 1987 after a motor accident.
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First Title value, for Searching Wright, Peter (1932 - 2003)

2024-05-07T00:47:29Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2005-10-26
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Occupation Ophthalmologist
Details Peter Wright was a consultant ophthalmologist at Moorfields Hospital and a former President of the Royal College of Ophthalmologists. He was born in London on 7 September 1932, the son of William Victor Wright and Ada Amelie (née Craze). He was educated at St Clement Danes, and then went on to study medicine at King’s, London. After house jobs at King’s and Guy’s Maudsley neurosurgical unit, he joined the RAF for his National Service and became an ophthalmic specialist. He returned to Guy’s as a lecturer in anatomy and physiology, and then went to Moorfields to train in ophthalmology. He was appointed as a senior registrar at King’s and made a consultant in 1964. In 1973, he was appointed to Moorfields as a consultant, and in 1978 became full-time there. In 1980, he was appointed clinical sub-dean at the Institute of Ophthalmology. At Moorfields he was responsible for the external disease service, dealing with infection and inflammation in the anterior part of the eye. His research included collaborative studies on skin and eye diseases, and ocular immunity. These led to the identification of the Practolol oculocutaneous reaction, work that gave him an ongoing interest in adverse drug reactions. He was invited to lecture all over the world, and was a visiting professor at universities in India and Brazil. In 1991, he became the second President of the College of Ophthalmologists, and it was under his presidency that the College was granted a royal licence. He was the last President of the Ophthalmological Society of the United Kingdom, President of the ophthalmic section of the Royal Society of Medicine, ophthalmic adviser to the chief medical officer and consultant adviser to the Royal Society of Musicians of Great Britain. He received many honorary awards. In 1960, he married Elaine Catherine Donoghue, a consultant psychiatrist, by whom he had two daughters, Fiona and Candice, and one son Andrew, who sadly died in the Lockerbie air disaster. There are two granddaughters. His marriage was dissolved in 1992 and in the following year Peter retired from Moorfields and moved with his partner John Morris to Bovey Tracey, where he had time to renovate his Devon house and enjoy his major interest, classical music. He was an excellent pianist, superb cook, and fine host. He was a keen gardener and a founder member of the Nerine and Amaryllid Society of the Royal Horticultural Society. He died on 26 May 2003 from the complications of myeloid leukaemia.
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First Title value, for Searching Perkins, Edward Sylvester (1919 - 2015)

2024-05-07T00:47:29Z

by H Stanley Thompson
Publication Date 2021-09-28
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Occupation Ophthalmologist
Details Edward ‘Terry’ S Perkins was a renowned British-American ophthalmologist and researcher in the United Kingdom, Kenya and the United States of America who made many contributions in ophthalmology. He was born on 15 October 1919, in London to Edward Walter Perkins and Gertrude Fanny Perkins née Price. His father was a First World War veteran and a civil servant. His mother was a housewife. An only child, he was raised in the Norbury district of southwest London and was educated at local schools and then at Latymer Upper School in Hammersmith. When Perkins was 17 years old, his mother suggested he pursue the study of medicine. He enrolled in St Bartholomew’s Hospital Medical College in London. While there, Perkins was influenced by the lectures of Hamilton Hartridge, a visual physiologist and fellow of the Royal Society. Perkins’ medical studies at Barts were impacted by the turbulence of Second World War. In 1940, during the Battle of Britain, he and his classmates served as first aid providers during air raids. In 1942, Perkins qualified with the conjoint examination. He then began a post at Hill End Hospital in St Albans, Hertfordshire. During this three-month period, Perkins decided to concentrate on ophthalmology. While at Hill End Hospital, he worked with the well-known eye surgeons Rupert S Scott, Seymour Philps and H B Stallard. Perkins was called to active duty in 1942 and attained the rank of captain in the Royal Army Medical Corps. He was deployed to Kenya to provide medical care to soldiers, Kenyans and Italian prisoners of war. In Nairobi, Perkins met the eye clinic director, W O G Taylor, an ophthalmic geneticist. When Taylor became ill, Perkins assumed responsibility for clinic operations until 1945. Following his demobilisation in 1946, Perkins completed his ophthalmic training at Barts. He was appointed to the Institute of Ophthalmology in London, where he continued his professional achievements as a research associate, junior lecturer and reader in ophthalmology (1954) over the next 30 years. As Perkins performed his clinical work at the Institute, his interest in ophthalmic research began as a research assistant in the glaucoma clinic. His interest expanded to eye physiology and intraocular pressure. In 1957, Perkins obtained his PhD from the University of London with a thesis on the role of the fifth cranial nerve and intraocular pressure. He continued his research under the guidance of Sir Stewart Duke-Elder. Perkins collaborated with Duke-Elder to author *System of ophthalmology: diseases of the uveal tract (vol. IX)* (London, Henry Kimpton, 1966). In 1961, Perkins was named the first professor of experimental ophthalmology at the Institute of Ophthalmology. That same year, he published *Uveitis and toxoplasmosis, etc.* (London, J & A Churchill, 1961). He spent a sabbatical year doing research at Wilmer Eye Institute in Baltimore, Maryland, USA. Upon his return to London in 1962, Perkins expanded his research. He designed and built a handheld applanation tonometer. This device enabled eye pressure measurements for patients unable to be checked at a slit lamp microscope. In 1975, Perkins received a Design Council award from the Duke of Edinburgh. Perkins served a major role starting the Association for Eye Research (AER), modelled after the Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology in the USA, and served as the first chairman. The AER has since been renamed the European Association for Vision and Eye Research. He became an early member of the International Glaucoma Symposium, now the Glaucoma Research Society. Perkins created several inventions. He built a ruby laser to create iridotomies for the treatment of angle-closure glaucoma. With Robert A Weale, Perkins designed an artificial eye to teach retinoscopy. He also developed a technique for transferring patient information to magnetic tape for computer analysis (to create early electronic health records). After working with Perkins at the Institute of Ophthalmology in London, Sohan Hayreh strongly recommended him to Frederick C Blodi, head of the department of ophthalmology at the University of Iowa in Iowa City. In 1979, Perkins was invited to join the faculty as a professor. He developed many clinical projects and research studies, including developing uveitis and low vision clinics. Perkins retired from the University of Iowa in 1986. During his retirement years, Perkins was very active. He enjoyed playing golf, travelling and birdwatching. He studied music, art, architecture and native American anthropology. Perkins played the violin, published a book about the structure and function of the violin (*The violin: 400 years of perfection*) and built several violins. Perkins and his wife Anne (née Rammell), whom he married in 1952, raised two sons and two daughters – Richard, Stephen, Juliet and Helena. Three of the children settled in Wisconsin and one son remained in England. Several years after his retirement, Perkins and his wife moved to Wisconsin to be near their children. Perkins died in Watertown, Wisconsin, USA on 9 September 2015, at the age of 95. Edward S ‘Terry’ Perkins was dedicated to the field of ophthalmology. Throughout his professional career, he trained many residents and fellows, treated many patients, performed research and constructed medical equipment. Due to his characteristic modesty, many of Perkins' achievements have not received the recognition that they so well deserved.
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First Title value, for Searching Tay, Waren (1843 - 1927)

2024-05-07T00:47:29Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2012-11-28
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Occupation Dermatologist General surgeon Ophthalmologist
Details Educated at the London Hospital, where he was appointed Assistant Surgeon and Ophthalmologist in 1869, Surgeon in 1876, and Consulting Surgeon in 1902. He practised for many years at 4 Finsbury Square, one of the fine old Georgian houses now replaced by blocks of offices. He was perhaps the last of the men in consulting practice in London who were first general surgeons, but with their general work combined the practice of ophthalmology. Tay was one of them; Jonathan Hutchinson was another. Tay and Hutchinson were close colleagues and collaborators both in clinical observation and in literary work. To this day 'Tay's choroiditis' is the term used for the fine yellowish spots which appear in the macular region of the fundus of the eye as one of the signs of senile degeneration; and the discovery of this characteristic lesion was but one of his observations. Tay was elected Assistant Surgeon to the Moorfields Eye Hospital in 1877, having served for some time previously as Clinical Assistant to Jonathan Hutchinson (qv). He became Surgeon on the resignation of Sir William Bowman (qv) in 1882 and resigned his appointment in 1904, when he was succeeded by Sir William T Lister. Besides being a distinguished authority on the eye, Waren Tay was well known as a skin specialist and he was also skilled in the diseases of children. At the time of his death he was Consulting Surgeon to the Moorfields Eye Hospital, to the Hospital for Diseases of the Skin, Blackfriars, and to the Queen's Hospital for Children, Hackney Road. He retired from the staff of the London Hospital in 1902, and lived alone till his death at 61 Oakfield Road, West Croydon. He was unmarried, and died at Croydon on May 15th, 1927. The reputation of Waren Tay was somewhat overshadowed by his two great colleagues, Dr Hughlings Jackson and Sir Jonathan Hutchinson, for he was singularly modest and self-effacing. It was Tay's habit to consider every possibility when studying a case. He was incapable, therefore, of dogmatic teaching or of arriving rapidly at a conclusion. Publications: Translation of Hebra and Kaposi's *On Diseases of the Skin: the Exanthemata*, vols iii-v, 8vo, London (New Sydenham Society), 1866-80. "Statistical Reports on Year's Mortality" (with JONATHAN HUTCHINSON), *Lond Hosp Rep*, 1866-8, iii-iv. "Remarks on Case of Tetanus treated with Hydrate of Chloral." - *Brit Med Jour*, 1870, i, 329. "Case of Acute Tuberculosis following on Disease of the Hip." - *Ibid*, 1871, i, 222. "Changes in the Region of the Yellow Spot in Each Eye of an Infant." - *Trans Ophthalmol Soc*, 1880-1, i, 55; 1884, iv, 158; 1892, xii, 125. "Two Cases of Optic Neuritis without Impairment of Vision, after Injury to the Head." - *Ibid*, 1881-2, ii, 66.
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First Title value, for Searching Neely, John Conrad (1901 - 1989)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2015-06-25
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Occupation Military surgeon Ophthalmologist
Details John Conrad Neely was born in Bromley, Kent on 29 March 1901, the son of William Neely, a stationer and Clara Rebecca, née Cope. He was educated at Hodder School, Stoneyhurst College and Hertford College, Oxford, before entering Guy's Hospital Medical School for clinical studies. He qualified in 1927 and after joining the Royal Air Force in the following year he gained his wings as a pilot. He pursued his postgraduate studies in ophthalmology and before the outbreak of war passed both the DO and the DOMS. In 1940 he was promoted to Wing-Commander and posted to the Middle East. Two years later while serving in Singapore he was mentioned in dispatches for his careful surgical technique which enabled him to repair traumatic squints in airmen who had been hit by shrapnel. He passed the Oxford DM in 1945 and was appointed consultant in ophthalmology to the Royal Air Force Central Medical Establishment from 1950 to 1959. He was promoted to Air Commodore in 1950 and to Air Vice-Marshal in 1955. He passed the FRCS in 1958 and retired from the Royal Air Force in the following year. He built up the speciality of ophthalmology in the Royal Air Force and achieved high prominence both in the Service and in the Ophthalmology Section of the Royal Society of Medicine where he was a member of Council and later Vice-President. He was appointed Honorary Surgeon to the King in 1951. He married Marjorie Bramley in 1938 and she died from malignant melanoma in 1964. He married Roma McKechnie, widow of Air Commodore McKechnie, GC two years later. In his early years he was an enthusiastic rugby player but after his retirement to Eastbourne became captain of the Royal Eastbourne Golf Club. He was a devout Catholic and in his role as a member of the Society of St Vincent de Paul despite failing health in later years he continued to visit hospital wards in order to meet and encourage patients. He died on 2 June 1989 aged 88.
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First Title value, for Searching Burns, David Malcolm Joseph (1927 - 1994)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2015-09-02
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Occupation Ophthalmologist
Details David Malcolm Joseph Burns was born on 2 November 1927 in Gosforth, Newcastle upon Tyne. His father, David, was Professor of Physiology at Durham University and his mother, Clarice Margaret Dugdale, was a biochemist. He attended Newcastle Grammar School and studied medicine at Trinity College, Cambridge, and Newcastle Medical School. For his National Service he served with the British Commonwealth Overseas Forces with the rank of captain and was mostly in Japan and Korea. He was involved in the treatment of victims of the atomic bomb attack on Hiroshima. He qualified in 1952, becoming house physician at the Royal Victoria Hospital, Newcastle. Specializing in ophthalmology, he trained at Moorfields and the Bristol Eye Hospital and was appointed senior registrar to the Oxford Eye Hospital. He was appointed consultant eye surgeon to St Paul's Hospital and Broadgreen Hospital, Liverpool, as well as lecturer in ophthalmology to Liverpool University. He received the Moorfields Prize in 1961 and became President of the North of England Ophthalmological Society in 1989. On 17 October 1953 he married Mary Frame Stavert, a state registered nurse. They had five children of whom one, Elspeth Mary, died in infancy. The others were Andrew David, an electronics engineer, Jane Clare, a qualified nurse and counselling therapist, James Malcolm, a chemical engineer and Catriona Morag, a textile designer. David Burns was a quiet, self-effacing man who was dedicated to his work. He was especially interested in diabetic retinopathy and was much appreciated as a teacher by his junior staff and affectionately respected by his colleagues and staff at all levels. He retired to Clwyd, North Wales, where he died following a short illness on 8 April 1994, survived by his wife and family.
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First Title value, for Searching Livingston, Sir Philip Clermont (1895 - 1982)

2024-05-07T00:47:29Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2015-01-28
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Occupation Military surgeon Ophthalmologist
Details Philip Clermont Livingston was born in Cowichan Bay, Vancouver Island, British Columbia, Canada, in 1895. His father was managing director of the family shipping firm. He went to school in Vancouver Island and then studied at Jesus College, Cambridge, where he won a rowing blue with the victorious crew in the 1914 Boat Race. He interrupted his studies in 1915 to volunteer as a Surgeon-Probationer in the Royal Navy and saw plenty of action before resuming his training in 1917. He went to the London Hospital and later Moorfields and was assistant to Sir Hugh Rigby, Robert Milne and Sir John Parsons. In 1919 he entered the RAF on a temporary commission and spent 32 years in the service first as a general duties medical officer, next as a surgeon-specialist, then as ophthalmological consultant and finally as Director-General. He initiated much research into aviation medicine, his own work being mainly in vision, particularly in the measurement and development by training of night vision. He gave a Moynihan Lecture and, in 1942 was Montgomery Lecturer in Dublin and Chadwick Lecturer in London. He served on committees of the Royal College of Surgeons of England and the Ophthalmological Society of the United Kingdom. He retired from the RAF in 1951 with the rank of Air Vice-Marshal and returned to British Columbia. There he started a new career as a civilian ophthalmologist and he became a prominent and well-loved member of the local community. He married Lorna Muriel Crispin in 1920 and they had two sons, Clermont, born in 1923 and Michael, born in 1928. Both became doctors and Clermont predeceased his father. Philip published his autobiography *Fringe of the clouds* in 1962 and died, twenty years later, on February 13, 1982.
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First Title value, for Searching Ayoub, John Edward Moussa (1908 - 1999)

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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 Elliott, Sir Randal Forbes (1922 - 2010)

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by Wyn Beasley
Publication Date 2016-03-24 2017-06-09
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Occupation Ophthalmologist
Details Sir Randal Elliott was an eminent New Zealand eye surgeon. He was the youngest member of a distinguished medical family. Born in Wellington, New Zealand, he was the son of Sir James Sands Elliott, a prominent GP-surgeon who edited the *New Zealand Medical Journal* for over 20 years, and Annie Allan Elliott née Forbes. His two older brothers, James Kennedy, an orthopaedic surgeon, and Robert Allan, an otolaryngologist, had worthy military records in the Second World War. He grew up in Wellington, attending St Mark's School, then went as a boarder to Hereworth School in Hawke's Bay and to Wanganui Collegiate School. He did his medical intermediate year at Victoria University in Wellington, completing his course at the University of Otago Medical School in Dunedin. It was there that I first met him, when we were both involved in a student revue (the Capping Concert), presenting a comedy about a meeting of the Big Three at a mythical oasis where he, as Peter Fraser, the New Zealand prime minister, addressed the world leaders on their responsibilities. Now Fraser had been a patient and old friend of his father's, so Randal knew him well enough to provide a convincing likeness - for the whole week of the concert he did this, riding his noisy smoky motorcycle on to the stage to deliver his lines. After his houseman years at Wellington Hospital, and shortly after marrying a nurse, Pauline Young (who bore him a son and six daughters), Randal made what was then the customary pilgrimage to Britain, where he was a resident surgical officer at Moorfields, and then a registrar at University College and the London hospitals. In 1953 he returned to New Zealand as a part-time consultant at Wellington Hospital. He also practised privately as a neighbour of his older brothers on The Terrace in central Wellington. At the same time, he served in the active reserve of the Royal New Zealand Air Force, undertaking tours of duty to the Pacific, Sarawak, Sabah, Malaya, Thailand and Vietnam in the period 1953 to 1977, and retiring with the rank of group captain. He was honorary surgeon to no fewer than three governors-general, and an honorary surgeon to The Queen in 1964. He served terms as chairman of the eye department of Wellington Hospital (from 1965 to 1970), of the combined staff (from 1972 to 1974) and of the eye department of the new clinical school (from 1974 to 1976). But his interests spread much wider than that: he was an adviser in ophthalmology to the New Zealand Ministries of Health, Civil Aviation and Transport. His advice was widely sought, and willingly given. He had a year as president of Wellington Medico-Legal Society, a period as a member of the Traffic Accident Research Foundation and a year as chairman of the Road Safety Trust. He was an examiner for the Royal Australasian College of Surgeons, and a guest lecturer at the universities of Singapore and Kuala Lumpur. In his own special field he served on the executive of Ophthalmological Society of New Zealand (from 1960 to 1965) and was its president in 1973. His contribution to medico-political matters was notable. In the New Zealand branch of the British Medical Association, then undergoing quite severe growing pains and name changes, he was a member of the executive council from 1965, then deputy chairman (through a name change) until 1970 and finally chairman of the council from 1971 to 1973. He then chaired the central ethics committee, while remaining on the executive. Not surprisingly, his service was recognised with an OBE in 1975, followed two years later by elevation to a knighthood in the Order, in the year of his presidency of the - by now - New Zealand Medical Association. Now all these commitments - and there were others as well - might create the impression of a man frantically active in his good works, but Randal's style was unhurried, his speech always concise to the point of being almost brusque. In one field he was totally committed: his father had reached the highest rank in the Order of St John, and Randal gave generously of his time and zeal, as principal medical officer in the New Zealand Priory, subsequently as chancellor and then as hospitaller; while in the Order at large he served (from 1988 to 1989) as warden and senior surgeon at the Hospital of the Order of St John in Jerusalem. Like his father he reached the highest rank - bailiff grand cross. What is more, so much devotion to professional and related matters might suggest a man of the meeting room, but Randal was equally at home in outdoor pursuits. He listed his recreations as yachting, ski-mountaineering, tramping, kayaking and fishing. And when he and his two older brothers sailed in the yacht *Wakarere*, which they jointly owned, the vessel was in a constant state of mutiny. Randal Elliott was, in Doctor Johnson's term, a clubbable man. Always abstemious, he was a highly respected president of the Wellington Club (from 1986 to 1990), the opening of the new clubhouse, by HRH The Duke of Edinburgh, bringing his term to a fitting climax. When, five years later, I was commissioned to write the history of the club, I persuaded Randal to be one of my literary referees. His response to the several chapters of material I sent him was always encouraging and commonly spiced with some anecdote, carefully printed in capital letters and suitable to enliven the events under discussion. Quite severe deafness and the onset of Parkinsonism, robbed his final years of the best of the human contact he had so enjoyed, and Pauline's death was a severe blow to him, but he is remembered with a blend of affection and something approaching awe. He died on 20 July 2010, aged 87.
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First Title value, for Searching Wybar, Kenneth Cullen (1921 - 1992)

2024-05-07T00:47:29Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2015-10-09
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Occupation Ophthalmologist
Details Kenneth Wybar was a man whose extraordinary energy and tireless capacity for work (he was known as the 'Flying Scot'!) soon brought him to the forefront in ophthalmology, but was a little apt to put his colleagues to shame! He was born on 2 March 1921 in Glasgow, where his father was an actuary, and his mother was Jenny, née Cullen. He was educated at the Glasgow Academy, Glasgow University and at the Western Infirmary in that city. After qualifying in 1944 and completing his house jobs he did his National Service in the Royal Navy. He had however already chosen his specialty and in 1948 went to Moorfields Eye Hospital as a resident surgical officer. Having passed the FRCS in 1950 he returned to Glasgow as a senior registrar in ophthalmology but stayed there only two years. Back in London he joined the pathology department of the Institute of Ophthalmology and in 1956 was appointed consultant surgeon to Moorfields and director of the orthoptic clinic. Not content with just one specialist postgraduate hospital he took on two more. He was elected ophthalmic surgeon to the Royal Marsden Hospital in 1959 and to the Hospital for Sick Children, Great Ormond Street, in 1963. This last appointment gave him the opportunity to develop his special interest in the management of squints and congenital cataract. In addition to his busy hospital and private practice he was civil consultant to the Royal Navy, examiner for the Royal College of Surgeons and a prolific author. He co-authored editions of Lyle and Jackson's *Textbook of practical orthoptics*, wrote almost all the volumes on anatomy and on ocular motility in Duke-Elder's *System of ophthalmology* and produced his own *Concise textbook of ophthalmology* in addition to many papers in the journals. He became President of the Section of Ophthalmology at the Royal Society of Medicine, Vice-President of the Ophthalmological Society of the United Kingdom and a founder member of the International Strabismological Association. In 1947 he married Jean Louise Buchanan MD, by whom he had two sons, Michael and David, and two daughters, Hilary and Susan (who became a nurse). They had a delightful house in Aldeburgh, Suffolk, to which he endeavoured to get away at weekends and to which he retired, perfecting his golfing skills on the local course. He retired from his hospitals in 1983 and died on 2 May 1992.
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First Title value, for Searching Leong, Saw Taik (1918 - 2001)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2015-11-13
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Occupation Ophthalmologist
Details Saw Leong was born in Burma on 19 October 1918 in Mudon, where his father, U Saw Ohn Pe, was a landowner and his mother, Daw Tan Ma Chan, a businesswoman. His uncle, Tan Chan Taik, was an ophthalmologist in Rangoon. His sisters, Ma Thwe Ohn Pe and Thein Thein Myint, became GPs in Moulmein and Streatham respectively. He was educated at St Patrick's School, Moulmein, and entered the Rangoon University to study medicine. When the Japanese invaded Burma he joined a column of refugees who trekked out of Burma via Imphal, discarding medical texts from his backpack en route, an experience that taught him, he said, the value of adversity. He completed his medical studies in Lahore and qualified in 1944. He immediately joined the RAMC in India and served in the Burma campaign, reaching the rank of Captain. On demobilisation in 1947, he went by troopship to England to specialise in ophthalmology. While reading for the FRCS, he did junior posts in Chepstow and Maidstone. He became the thirteenth Burmese to gain the FRCS and the first to qualify in ophthalmology. He then became senior registrar at the Royal Eye Hospital under Arnold Sorsby and Ronald Pitts Crick, and at Swansea General Hospital under Roy Thomas and F G Hibbert. In 1957, he emigrated to Canada to do a rotating internship at the Hôtel Dieu Hospital in Kingston, Ontario, and the following year entered a private eye and ENT practice in Lethbridge, Alberta, with staff appointments at St Michaels and the Municipal Hospitals. He married Phyllis Evans, a former sister from King's College Hospital. They had one son, Richard, and one daughter, Rosemarie. Neither of their children went into medicine, but two nephews and a niece did: Wynn Naing is a physician in New York, Steven Myint is a microbiologist, and Fiona Myint FRCS is a vascular surgeon at the Royal Free Hospital. His hobbies included tennis, squash and gardening. In 2001, he received the award of physician of the year from his local physicians. Quite suddenly, he developed a lymphoma of the stomach for which he received chemotherapy, which reactivated hepatitis B, from which he died on 15 October 2001.
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First Title value, for Searching Solomon, James Vose (1817 - 1899)

2024-05-07T00:47:29Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2013-03-14
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Occupation Ophthalmologist
Details The son of a Birmingham physician, served an apprenticeship, then studied at the Birmingham General Hospital and at St Bartholomew's Hospital. He began practice as a general surgeon, was Surgeon to the King's Norton Union near Birmingham, to the General Dispensary, the Birmingham Orthopedic Hospital, and to the Birmingham Police. He directed his attention to ophthalmology, was appointed Surgeon to the Birmingham and Midland Eye Hospital, Professor of Ophthalmology at Queen's College, Birmingham, and from 1862 onwards made a number of contributions on ophthalmology to the medical journals. He was one of the founders of the Birmingham Branch of the British Medical Association, and was President of the Branch in 1869 and 1870. At the Birmingham Meeting in 1882 he was President of the Ophthalmic Section. He was a member of the Ophthalmological Society of the United Kingdom, and of the International Ophthalmological Congress. In 1886-1887 he was President of the Birmingham Medical Institute, and at one time he was Surgeon to the Birmingham Licensed Victuallers' Association. Solomon was distinguished as a lecturer who attracted the attention of his audience; as a debater by his incisive argument and command of language. He described abuses of hospital, club, and parochial practice, whilst advocating rightly directed relief on the sublime model exemplified in the Parable of the Good Samaritan; he urged legislation by which abuses of medical charities might be prosecuted in County Courts for all expenses and fees incurred. To the proposal that every hospital patient should pay something for his relief, he replied that such a plan was impracticable, believing that it would demoralize people well able to pay a private surgeon and would ruin one half of the profession. He was a keen rider to hounds, being marked by his habit on horseback of wearing a long cloak. Beyond the vigorous support of his professional and special duties he took no part in public life. He outlived his contemporaries, except Edwin Chesshire (qv). For some years before his death he failed both in body and mind, being carefully tended by his family, and died at Villa Franca, Handsworth, Birmingham, on September 20th, 1899. He married Miss Collyns, daughter of William Collyns, surgeon, of Kenton, Devonshire. Publications:- *Epiphora, or Watery Eye*, 8vo, London, 1859. *Tension of the Eyeball; Glaucoma, etc,* 8vo, London, 1865. *Progress of Ophthalmology*, 8vo, Birmingham, 1877.
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First Title value, for Searching Duthie, Ogilvie Maxwell (1899 - 1977)

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First Title value, for Searching Romano, John Henry Morad (1926 - 1994)

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First Title value, for Searching Lee, John Patrick (1946 - 2010)

2024-05-07T00:47:29Z

by N Alan Green
Publication Date 2011-12-16 2014-11-25
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Occupation Ophthalmologist
Details John Lee was one of the world's most eminent ophthalmologists. A consultant ophthalmologist at Moorfields Eye Hospital for 25 years, he was also the eighth president of the Royal College of Ophthalmologists. He was particularly known for his use of 'botox' or botulinum toxin in the management of strabismus and blepharospasm (uncontrollable blinking), and started the first clinic in the UK specifically for the use of this toxin in eye disorders. He was born on 25 October 1946 in Kingston upon Thames of immigrant Irish parents, both of whom were teachers. He was the oldest of 11 siblings, and had seven sisters and three brothers. He was educated at St George's College, Weybridge, an independent co-educational Roman Catholic school, where he excelled and gained five A-levels - one of which he studied on his own, as the school did not allow pupils reading science subjects time to study English. Needless to say, he gained excellent grades in this 'extra' subject. In order to buy his school uniform and help the family finances, John Lee worked at a garage in his spare time. At the age of 17, he was accepted by University College, Oxford, for his preclinical studies. Admitting that he never took these studies seriously, he took full advantage of the many other attractions of university life. Enjoying collegiate existence, he rarely missed an undergraduate party, and it was at one of these that he met his future wife, Arabella Rose. They married in 1971 and had two sons. Strangely for someone who admitted he neglected his undergraduate studies, his depth of general knowledge was so good that he represented his college on the TV quiz *University Challenge*. He could also complete *The Times* crossword at an enviable speed, and possessed an encyclopaedic knowledge of film and music. He proceeded to the Westminster Hospital for his clinical training. After qualifying, John considered entering general medicine as a career, but after a brief spell working in infectious diseases, he changed his mind and his choice of specialties - happily for ophthalmology. So began his formal training in ophthalmology, first at the Oxford Eye Hospital, and then back in London at Moorfields, where he trained with Peter Fells. He then obtained a fellowship to study in the USA at the Bascom Palmer Eye Institute of the University of Florida with John Flynn. Founded by Edward W D Norton, a neuro-ophthalmologist, retinal specialist, administrator and teacher, and named after Bascom H Palmer, an ophthalmologist who settled in Miami in the 1920s, the Institute has been consistently ranked as the best eye hospital in the USA. In 1981 he visited Alan Scott at the Smith-Kettlewell Research Institute in San Francisco to study a new treatment for strabismus using botulinum toxin. He returned from California with some bottles of the toxin tucked in his hand baggage, which he then stored in his fridge at home. A friend who was invited round for a drink helped himself to a beer, but was advised not to touch nor drink from the opaque bottles! In 1983 John Lee took up a post as a university lecturer at Moorfields and the Institute of Ophthalmology, and was appointed as a consultant ophthalmologist at Moorfields Eye Hospital two years later, holding appointments at both the High Holborn and City Road branches. At Moorfields, John developed a first-class service for patients with complex strabismus problems, and he inevitably attracted patients from across the UK. In Harley Street he saw also patients from many other countries. He rapidly gained recognition in the ophthalmological world for his technical brilliance and outstanding knowledge. Easily identifiable with his unruly crop of white hair and short beard, John Lee was often referred to as 'the old fellow' by candidates at examinations, although he was much younger than his fellow examiners. This facial feature, together with his rapid speech, made him a natural and popular choice for caricature, particularly in residents' reviews and shows. He wrote over 200 papers and many chapters in books. Having championed the use of botulinum toxin in strabismus, he published 45 papers on this important topic alone. John was a brilliant and inspirational teacher, and combined technical excellence with his unique ability to communicate. In constant demand as an authoritative and entertaining speaker, his 'pearls of wisdom', mixed with many humorous asides, were always delivered at high speed with a hint of an Irish accent. He taught at the American Academy of Ophthalmology for 20 years and organised the Moorfields squint grand rounds for nearly as long. Always approachable, he was keen to encourage young doctors, and there was no trace of snobbery or 'the great man syndrome' about him. He committed himself to improving the training of ophthalmologists in underdeveloped countries, and worked with Project Orbis, the international charity which works to prevent blindness. He taught strabismus surgery in Uttah Pradesh, India, and in Bangladesh, as well as imparting his knowledge to many of the leading surgeons in Europe and North America. In 2009 he was elected president of the Royal College of Ophthalmologists, the first to be elected by fellow members rather than members of council. He was already proving himself to be effective, pragmatic and well-liked. He also served as president of the ophthalmology section of the Royal Society of Medicine and of the International Strabismus Association. Held in high regard by his colleagues in the USA, he was the first European to be elected to the Association for Research in Strabismus. John Lee managed to combine a very busy and successful professional life with a wide range of interests outside medicine, including music, theatre and the arts. He attended concerts with Arabella several times a week and, although classical music was a passion, he was equally at home with rock. He became a fan of the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment, which plays baroque, classical and romantic music, mainly at the Southbank Centre in London. He was interested in a wide variety of literature, from James Joyce's *Ulysses* to science fiction. Proud of his Irish roots, he loved to relax and spend time in the west of Ireland, where he enjoyed fly fishing. John Lee died suddenly on 8 October 2010, aged 63, while attending a conference in the USA at Traverse City, Michigan, leaving his many friends, colleagues and patients in a state of shock. He was survived by his wife, Arabella, and their two sons. A research fellowship, organised by the Medical Research Council and the Royal College of Ophthalmologists, has been established in his honour. The fundraising events included 'John Lee quiz nights'; extremely appropriate in view of John Lee's wide general knowledge and his 'quizzical' approach to many aspects of life.
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First Title value, for Searching Cullen, James Finbarr (1928 - 2020)

2024-05-07T00:47:29Z

by Hector Bryson Chawla
Publication Date 2021-02-10 2021-10-26
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Occupation Ophthalmologist
Details James Finbarr ‘Barry’ Cullen, a consultant ophthalmologist at the Royal Edinburgh Infirmary, was one of the great names in ophthalmology, though he would never have thought that of himself. He was born in Cavan, Ireland, on 13 July 1928, the son of Bernard Thomas ‘Bertie’ Cullen, a GP, and Maura Cullen née Martin, a housewife who had studied at University College Galway. He had an older brother, Brian, who became a monk and eventually abbot of Glenstal Abbey. Barry was educated at Glenstal Abbey School in Limerick, and then studied medicine at University College Dublin, qualifying in 1952. After the obligatory registration year, he moved to the Royal Victoria Eye and Ear Hospital in Dublin as a house surgeon and then on to Moorfields in London as a junior clinical assistant. He later went to Newcastle as a registrar in the department of ophthalmology at the Royal Victoria Infirmary and as a senior house officer in the department of neurosurgery at Newcastle General Hospital. In 1960 he gained his fellowship of the Royal College of Surgeons of England. Then followed a year at the Wilmer Eye Institute at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore with Frank Walsh – a pioneer of neuro-ophthalmology. This not only drew him into the mysteries of the eye-brain nexus, but also gave him an interest that would absorb him for the next 60 years. On his return to the UK, his new skill made him the chosen candidate, despite strong local opposition, for the post of senior lecturer in Edinburgh, working with George Scott. With the new Eye Pavilion due to open in 1969, the timing was perfect for the professor to entrust Barry with planning and selecting the equipment. This he did, but, in his view, there was more to a first-class unit than instruments: the junior doctors were of even greater importance. He wanted them to be trained and not just left to absorb the subject by simply being in the department. The most junior doctors were therefore relieved of commitments in the clinics for six months in their first year. And Friday afternoons were given over to teaching sessions, which are still a sacrosanct end to the hospital week. For the nurses, he realised that by promoting Edinburgh as *the* centre for the ophthalmic nursing diploma, he would attract the best who, once trained, might be persuaded to remain. His concern stretched beyond the health care staff to include anyone who worked in the hospital. Barry bubbled with enthusiasm: most exchanges being punctuated with a chuckle, which would often turn into something more like a cackle. He talked rapidly, the words just tumbling out. His ceaseless thinking was always about how things could be done better and he saw plainly what others did not: that certain ocular disorders were too complicated to be left in general hands. The standard approach to undergraduate teaching from my own experience had been to bombard students with ophthalmo-babble as a simulation of knowledge, then attempt to turn them into specialists in about two weeks. Barry’s technique was to show them there was more to ophthalmology than pretending to see something with the direct ophthalmoscope. The result was a flow of the better graduates into the specialty. The message spread to the Far East, the Middle East, Africa and Europe, and trainees came from all over the world. The hospital they found was, despite the permanent shortage of funds, fully equipped with the latest technology, for Barry was always one step ahead of the game, anticipating the need for the latest instrument long before the lack of it had become the subject of aggrieved discussion elsewhere. As a result, Edinburgh was the first centre in the UK outside London to have an argon laser. Barry’s clinics were, as might be guessed, the most active of all and generally conducted in an atmosphere of anxiety-soothing bonhomie. The action would occupy every spare bit of space. The patient was the centre of attention amidst a cloud of medical students, trainees, opticians and staff in search of a decision, with Barry here, there and everywhere. In his chosen field he was supreme, reserving a tolerant amusement for those who could not come to any intra-cranial conclusion before they had first deployed complicated radiology (and indeed frequently after), when he would then provide them with a diagnosis over the telephone made purely from the history. Despite the pressing demands for his special neuro-ophthalmology expertise, he still found time for other interests, including the correction of drooping eyelids in children, the reconstruction of the cornea and diabetic eye disease. His paper identifying the relationship between temporal arteritis and ischaemic optic neuropathy was a seminal contribution to the prevention of irreversible visual loss, and he made multiple other contributions to the major journals, the last as recent as 2019. He was editor of the journal *Eye News.* He played a vital role as an ambassador furthering the interests of the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh, helping to set up joint examinations with Singapore, Malaysia and Hong Kong. In recognition of his efforts, the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh awarded him its highest honour, their gold medal, in addition to an honorary fellowship. He acquired many other such accolades over his career. When he retired in in 1994, his unique contribution to Edinburgh was recognised at a dinner that filled the great hall of the Royal College of Surgeons. He was subsequently invited to Singapore for two years and stayed for 17. The department of neuro-ophthalmology, which he created from scratch at the Singapore National Eye Centre, has become a celebrated referral unit. The Centre has honoured Barry by creating the Barry Cullen international fellowship to fund and foster sub-specialty training, and in Edinburgh a biannual lecture has been established in his name. Outside medicine, he was seriously competent at the bridge table and on the golf course (he set up the Scottish Ophthalmologists Golfing Society). His death from cardiac ischaemia on 23 September 2020 at the age of 92 was shockingly swift but peaceful and it spared him distress and the infirmities of his advancing years. He was survived by a very close family – Ann (née Black), whom he married in 1954, their children, Paul, Stephen, David, Peter, Sally and 11 grandchildren. Barry Cullen was a titan in our profession, a man deeply principled, beloved and respected by all who knew him. He was far too humble to imagine himself of any great consequence: on that point he was wrong.
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First Title value, for Searching Reid, Andrew McKie (1893 - 1973)

2024-05-07T00:47:29Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2014-10-02
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Occupation Ophthalmologist
Details Andrew McKie Reid was born on 14 April 1893 and educated at Liverpool University. In 1914 he interrupted his undergraduate career to be commissioned in the King's Liverpool Regiment, and was awarded the Military Cross in 1916 when serving on the Somme with the Machine Gun Corps. In 1918 he was wounded and taken prisoner, and after the war returned to Liverpool University where he was made President of the Guild of Undergraduates, and qualified with distinction in 1921. He was also responsible for re-forming the Officers Training Corps which he commanded from 1932-38. He held junior appointments as house physician to the Liverpool Royal Infirmary, house-surgeon at the London Hospital, and clinical assistant at Moorfields, thus starting his specialist career in ophthalmology. He passed the examinations for the DOMS in 1923 and the FRCS in 1925, and then spent a year of postgraduate study in Vienna. In 1926 he returned to Liverpool on appointment as consultant ophthalmologist to St Paul's Eye Hospital which he continued to serve, except for the period of the second world war, till he retired in 1958. He also had teaching duties in the University, and in the School of Tropical Medicine. In 1939 he commanded a General Hospital RAMC with the rank of Lieutenant-Colonel, and took it to campaigns in Norway, North Africa and India. He was awarded the Territorial Decoration in 1942, and never lost his interest in military affairs. He returned to civilian practice in 1946 and dominated the specialty of ophthalmology in Liverpool. He was President of the Liverpool Medical Institution in 1959 and was later elected an honorary member. He preserved a close link with the Royal College of Surgeons by serving on the Court of Examiners from 1950 till 1956. After retiring from his hospital appointment in 1958 he continued in private practice, but had time to spare to develop his interests in politics and music, as a member of the Liverpool City Council from 1961 till 1971, and as Chairman of the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Society. He was a Freemason, an Officer of the Order of St John, and an active supporter of the Anglican Cathedral. Andrew Reid lost his first wife in 1945, and married again in 1966. When he died suddenly on 15 February 1973, while dictating letters and looking out at his garden, he was survived by his second wife and a son and daughter of his first marriage.
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First Title value, for Searching Cooper, Bryan Paul Huber James (1931 - 1975)

2024-05-07T00:47:29Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2014-11-20
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Occupation Ophthalmologist
Details Bryan Paul Cooper was born in Leicester on 26 December 1931. His family emigrated to Australia four years later and settled in Croydon, New South Wales, where his father worked as a carpenter and joiner. Cooper was educated at the Christian Brothers, Lewisham, Sydney, from which he won an exhibition and state bursary to the University of Sydney in 1949. Here he graduated MB ChB in 1955. After a year as resident medical officer at St Vincent's Hospital he returned to England and held resident ophthalmic posts in Sunderland, at the Birmingham and Midland Eye Hospital and at Moorfields. He obtained the Diploma in Ophthalmology in July 1958 and passed the FRCS examination in 1962. He returned to Australia and practised at Blacktown, Sydney, obtaining the FRACS in 1963. He began to concentrate on neuro-ophthalmology and was a prime mover in the formation of the Australian College of Ophthalmologists, where he was a member of the executive committee and chairman of its New South Wales branch. He was consultant neuro-ophthalmologist to the Prince Henry and Prince of Wales Hospitals, Sydney, and despite the long journey from Blacktown he regularly attended his clinics and was always available for consultation if an emergency arose. His opinion was always based on meticulous examination of the patient and a deep knowledge of the neurological as well as the ophthalmological literature. In 1960 he married Mary Kevans, a nursing sister at St Vincent's Hospital, by whom he had five sons and two daughters. He diagnosed his own fatal illness having recognised its symptoms from the many patients he had treated in the past and faced it with great courage. He died on 8 November 1975.
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First Title value, for Searching Griffiths, Jonathan David (1938 - 2010)

2024-05-07T00:47:29Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2011-01-06
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Occupation Ophthalmologist
Details Jonathan David Griffiths was an ophthalmologist at the Bath Eye Hospital. He was born on 6 March 1938 in a colliery house in Tonyrefail, Glamorgan, Wales. His father, William Marsden Griffiths, was a mining engineer and colliery manager, as had been his grandfather and great-grandfather before him. His mother, Bessie née Richards, was the daughter of a mining engineer who had worked with Cecil Rhodes in South Africa, and later became a JP in Llantrisant. Jon was educated at Llandaff Cathedral School, where he was a chorister and made cat's whisker radios and small steam engines. He went on to Tonyrefail Grammar School, intending to follow his father into mining, but his older brother had studied medicine at the Welsh National School of Medicine in Cardiff and Jon decided he would follow in his footsteps. He failed his first year, having spent too much time rowing and playing the classical guitar, ukulele and banjo, but he re-enrolled. He went on to met his future wife, Lorraine Deane, whom he married in 1964 and who later became his clinical assistant. His first house job was with the professorial medical unit in Cardiff Royal Infirmary and entailed covering for the eye ward, which enthralled him. After various senior house officer jobs in the accident and emergency department and in orthopaedics, he passed the primary and started work at the Royal Eye Hospital in Lambeth, a relatively small hospital which provided him with much experience. There he remained as a registrar and a senior registrar and, after passing the FRCS, worked at the Royal Free Hospital, doing research into the retinal circulation. In 1972, he was appointed as a consultant in ophthalmology to the Bath Eye Hospital which, though small, had one of the few laser machines in the country and enabled him to continue his research. Within a few years the Bath Eye Hospital was incorporated into the Royal United Hospital, Bath, and his work load was much increased. He established fortnightly clinics at outlying hospitals in Frome, Devizes and Warminster. He still had to develop and print his own retinal photographs. He developed a special interest in diabetic retinopathy and retinal detachment, and was an early exponent of phakoemulsification for cataract. Gradually his department enlarged, with more junior staff and better funding. Seat belt legislation reduced the numbers of night calls due to severe facial and eye injuries. A gentle, modest man, he did not enjoy large social gatherings, but enjoyed white water canoeing, sailing his Topper dinghy, walking and camping. He read widely and continued his interest in music and his family of four children - Alan (a GP in France), Anne, Helen and Julia (a GP in Dorchester). In November 1998 he had a myocardial infarction. Despite a triple bypass and an implanted defibrillator, he never worked again. He died on 27 April 2010 in Bath.
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First Title value, for Searching Savin, Lewis Herbert (1901 - 1983)

2024-05-07T00:47:29Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2015-07-21
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Occupation Ophthalmologist
Details Lewis Herbert Savin was born in London on 26 March 1901. His parents were missionaries who had fled from China at the time of the Boxer rebellion a few months before his birth. Shortly after, his father and mother returned to the hospital that his father had founded at Chao Tung in Yunnan. He used to watch his father at work and early resolved on a medical career. This background would seem to have had an influence on his way of thinking which, though original and decisive, was often expressed obliquely and always with a diffidence and self-effacement which could be misunderstood by those who did not know him well. He returned to England at the age of twelve to be educated at Christ's Hospital. He won a Warneford Scholarship to King's College Hospital Medical School in 1918 and qualified with the Conjoint Diploma in 1923. His first appointment was as house surgeon at the Royal Eye Hospital. The next five years were spent in general medicine and surgery during which time he gained his FRCS, MRCP and the degrees MD and MS; for the latter he was awarded the University Medal in ophthalmology. His first consultant appointments were at the Metropolitan and Whipps Cross Hospitals; later he was appointed to King's College, Maudsley Hospital and the Royal Eye Hospital. He spent the war years at Horton Emergency Hospital where he pioneered research into eye injuries from non-ferrous alloys, the basis of his Hunterian Professorship in 1943. He was a prodigious worker tackling long operating lists, publishing papers, speaking at meetings and teaching students, and those at King's showed their appreciation by twice inviting him to become President of their Listerian Society. In 1953 he was appointed a Fellow of King's College, London. The Savin Ophthalmic Library at King's is named in his honour. He was elected President of the Faculty of Ophthalmology in 1957, Vice-President of the Ophthalmic Society of the United Kingdom 1957 and Vice-President of the Ophthalmic Section of the Royal Society of Medicine. He was examiner for the DOMS and DO and MS in the University of London. In 1931 he married Mary Helen Griffith and they had two sons, one of whom, John, is a consultant dermatologist, and a daughter. He retired to his farm in Sussex where he introduced many unorthodox solutions to farming problems he encountered. He died on 11 July 1983 shortly after his wife, but his death was hastened by his being set upon by a gang of hooligans late one night whilst on his way home. They left him lying in the road semi-conscious and he suffered a series of heart attacks that led to his death.
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First Title value, for Searching Choyce, David Peter (1919 - 2001)

2024-05-07T00:47:29Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2015-10-22
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Occupation Ophthalmic surgeon Ophthalmologist
Details Peter Choyce was a leading ophthalmic surgeon who championed and developed artificial lens implants. He was born on 1 March 1919 in London. His father, Charles Coley Choyce, was professor of surgery at University College Hospital, and a member of Council at the time of his death in 1937. His mother was Gwendolen Alice née Dobbing. David was educated at Stowe, where he won an entrance scholarship. He went on to University College London to read medicine, where he won prizes in biology and physics, and a gold medal for pharmacology. During this time he was much influenced by Max Rosenheim. After junior posts at University College Hospital and Hammersmith, where he was influenced by G Grey Turner, he served in the RNVR from 1943 to 1946, as a medical officer on troop transports, travelling all over the world. On demobilisation he specialised in ophthalmology, training at Moorfields under Sir Harold Ridley and H B Stallard. He became a strong proponent of Ridley's pioneer work on artificial lenses after cataract removal, urged him not to give up in the face of opposition, and founded the Intra-Ocular Implant Club. He was appointed ophthalmic senior registrar at UCH in 1951, but found his way to promotion in London repeatedly blocked, so he became a consultant at Southend General Hospital in 1954, where he found that he had escaped from the ultra-conservative milieu of London. He was invited to be consultant to the Henry Ford Hospital in Detroit, was President of the British Intra-Ocular Implant Society, and, in 1977, was made an honorary member of the American Implant Society. The Choyce medal lecture was founded in his honour, and he gave the inaugural lecture himself in 1981. He published extensively on intra-ocular implants, and introduced many innovations of his own, which he did not patent. He was also an authority on tropical ophthalmology, notably leprosy and onchocerciasis, and was a consultant at the Hospital for Tropical Diseases. He was a Hunterian Professor in 1961. He was a very keen golfer, playing to a handicap of one, and becoming president of the British Ophthalmologists Golf Society. He disapproved of, but saw as inevitable, the formation of the College of Ophthalmologists. He married in 1949 Diana Graham, by whom he had three sons. The eldest became a general practitioner and the youngest, Matthew, was a Fellow who disappeared without trace in 1997 whilst a senior registrar in accident and emergency medicine in Newcastle - a major family tragedy. Peter retired from the NHS in 1988, but continued to operate until he was 80. He died on 8 August 2001.
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First Title value, for Searching Williamson, George Edward (1851 - 1900)

2024-05-07T00:47:29Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2013-02-13
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Occupation Ophthalmologist
Details Born at North Shields, and received his professional training at the London Hospital and Moorfields. He held the posts of House Surgeon and House Physician at the London Hospital, and formed friendships with some distinguished members of the visiting staff. In 1876 he was elected Senior House Surgeon to the Newcastle Infirmary, and discharged his duties with great ability and conscientiousness. He became Assistant to Professor George Y Heath, then at the height of his fame as an ophthalmologist, and eventually started in practice on his own account in 1879. He began as an eye specialist and was shortly afterwards appointed Joint Lecturer on Physiology in the University of Durham College of Medicine. This appointment he held until the death of his friend and colleague, Professor W Christopher Arnison, when he joined Professor Frederick Page in the Chair of Surgery. In 1880 he was appointed Assistant Surgeon at the Newcastle Infirmary, and an outdoor ophthalmic department was then first created and placed under his care. Here much admirable work was done for numerous patients, and a high order of instruction was imparted to students. In 1888 Williamson succeeded Luke Armstrong as full Surgeon. As a Lecturer in the College of Medicine and at the Infirmary he was clear and terse, and could rebuke an offending student with biting sarcasm as compared with gentler ways. He was a good all-round surgeon. As an operator he was extremely careful as to details. In ophthalmic surgery he showed to the greatest advantage, for he was deft and neat-handed. He was a man of very even temper and great self-restraint, which gave the impression that he lacked enthusiasm; but under his equable manner lurked extreme tenacity of purpose which enabled him to accomplish much. He shone in debate, never cloaked his meaning, was often severe and prone to contradict, yet fair, reasonable, and persuasive. For more than twelve years Williamson was Hon Secretary and Treasurer to the North of England Branch of the British Medical Association, and he represented the Branch on the General Council. In 1893 he acted as Hon Secretary to the Branch at the Newcastle Meeting, which he rendered successful, and at the same time he presided over the Section of Ophthalmology and delivered an interesting address. He was, in fact, an excellent and useful Branch Secretary, and did much for the Association and for its members in the North of England. He was a member of the Ophthalmological Society and President of the Northumberland and Durham Medical Society. He was also Examiner in Physiology at the University of Durham. He died unexpectedly of pneumonia on the morning of June 6th, 1900, at his residence, 8 Eldon Square, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, survived by a widow and five young sons. He was buried close to the grave of his friend, Professor Arnison, in St Andrew's Cemetery, Newcastle.
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First Title value, for Searching Meyer, Eric Theodore (1918 - 1987)

2024-05-07T00:47:29Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2015-06-15
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Occupation Ophthalmologist
Details Eric Meyer was born in London on 2 July 1918 the son of Reinhard Carl Johannes Meyer, an ophthalmic surgeon and Fellow of the College, who moved to South Africa in 1920, and his wife, Phyllis, née Bagshaw. He was at King Edward's School in Johannesburg before entering the University of Witwatersrand where he qualified in 1941. One year later he joined the South African Medical Corps and served with No 3 Squadron of the South African Air Force in the Middle East and Italy. He became senior medical officer of No 8 Wing with the rank of Major. In 1948 he continued his training at Moorfield's Hospital in London and passed the FRCS examination in ophthalmology in 1951 before returning to South Africa to become part-time consultant surgeon at Johannesburg General, South Rand and the Transvaal Memorial Children's Hospitals. His father was at that time head of the department of ophthalmology in the University of Witwatersrand in Johannesburg and in 1978 Eric Meyer achieved the same appointment. He was a founder of the College of Medicine, secretary to the faculty of ophthalmology, examiner in ophthalmology for the College and secretary of the South African Ophthalmological Society before his election as President in 1981. He received a merit award from the Medical Association of South Africa, the Sam and Dora Cohen Medal and the Jubilee Medal of the Ophthalmic Foundation. He wrote articles on the visual problems of high speed flying, the use of the ophthalmoscope and on orbital tumours. He also published papers on the profile of the facial skeleton in negro bushmen and European skulls and pottery found on Mount Essexvale in Southern Rhodesia. This interest was probably the result of the influence of Raymond Dart, the noted anthropologist, who was Professor of Anatomy when Meyer was at medical school. He was an active member of the Anglican Church of St Aidan in Yeoville, a Lay Minister and one time organist at that church. He also served the Priory of South Africa in the Order of St John, and became a Knight of Grace in 1973 and Hospitalier of the Order in 1979. He made so many contributions to ophthalmology, teaching and to the community that it is no wonder that many of his colleagues wrote in admiration of his achievements to them personally and others in the profession. On 17 July 1965 he married Elizabeth Gillian Lister (Gill), daughter of Sir Spencer Lister, Director of the South African Institute for Medical Research. He was a keen tennis player and shared his wife's special interest in Lipizzaner horses and other equestrian activities. He also swam with great enthusiasm and enjoyed bird watching and stamp collecting as well as music and archaeology. He died peacefully in his sleep on 28 August 1987 aged 69 years.
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First Title value, for Searching Goldsmith, Sir Allen John Bridson (1909 - 1976)

2024-05-07T00:47:29Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2014-12-08
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Occupation Ophthalmologist
Details Allen John Bridson Goldsmith was born on 27 November 1909, the son of an Edinburgh MD. He was educated at King William's College, Isle of Man, and the Middlesex Hospital. He qualified with the Conjoint Diploma in 1931 and took the MB BS with distinction in medicine and pathology. He held posts at the Middlesex Hospital and was appointed senior Broderip Scholar and awarded the Lyell Gold Medal. In 1933 he passed the FRCS examination, but as he was under twenty-five he had to wait a year before receiving the diploma. In 1935 he was appointed house surgeon at Moorfields Eye Hospital. Two years later he became surgeon and pathologist to the Central London Eye Hospital, holding the appointment until 1948 when he became surgeon at Moorfields. He also served the Middlesex as ophthalmic surgeon. Other hospitals at which he was ophthalmologist were Paddington Green Children's Hospital, the Royal National Orthopaedic Hospital, and the King Edward VII Hospital for Officers. He was lecturer in ophthalmology at London University and examiner in ophthalmology to the Royal Colleges. A joint editor of *Recent advances in ophthalmology*, he also published papers in specialist and medical journals. He was honorary secretary and member of the Council of the Ophthalmic Section of the Royal Society of Medicine; honorary secretary, member of Council and Vice-President of the Ophthalmological Society of the United Kingdom; Vice-President of the Medical Defence Union; and a member of the editorial committee of the *British journal of ophthalmology*. From 1952 to 1965 he was Surgeon Oculist to the Royal Household and then became Surgeon Oculist to the Queen, retiring from the appointment in 1974. He was created CVO in 1962 and KCVO in 1970. In 1936 he married Rosemary Porter, whose father also was an Edinburgh MD and they had one son and two daughters. He died on 13 December 1976.
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First Title value, for Searching Herbert, Herbert (1865 - 1942)

2024-05-07T00:47:29Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2013-07-03
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Occupation Ophthalmologist
Details Born at Tranmere, Cheshire, on 25 February 1865, the eldest son and second of the four children of Richard Sherwood, barrister and deemster of the Isle of Man, who assumed the name of Herbert in 1876. He was educated at Liverpool and at the Leeds Medical School, and took the English Conjoint qualification in 1886. He was commissioned as surgeon in the Indian Medical Service, on the Bombay list, on 31 March 1887. He saw active service in East Africa and Somaliland in 1890 with the Zaila field force in the Husain Zariba affair. In 1891 he took the Fellowship, and was promoted major IMS on 31 March 1899, and lieutenant-colonel on 31 March 1907, retiring on 20 October 1907. Herbert specialized as an ophthalmologist, being from 1897 ophthalmic surgeon to the Jamsetji Jijibhai Hospital, Bombay, and a Fellow of Bombay University, and professor of ophthalmic surgery at Grant Medical College. On his return to England in 1908 he was appointed surgeon to the Midland Eye Infirmary at Nottingham, and was subsequently consulting surgeon. During the war he rejoined the IMS, serving from October 1914 to 1 April 1919 in hospital ships, at the Indian Hospital at Brockenhurst, and in India. He then settled at 6 Southview Drive, West Worthing, Sussex, becoming consulting ophthalmic surgeon to the Worthing Hospital and consulting pathologist to the Sussex Eye Hospital, Brighton. He was a vice-president of the Ophthalmological Society of the United Kingdom. Herbert made his mark as an acute and original observer, and as an operator and inventor of operative techniques. He described "Herbert's pits" in the cornea of trachomatous patients, and his second, "trap-door" method of sclerotomy in glaucoma met with wide approval. His publication on superficial punctate keratitis was one of the earliest, and he was the first to record the presence of eosinophil cells in vernal catarrh. Herbert married in 1899, and was survived by two daughters and two sons, one of whom, Major Gerald Herbert, RAMC, FRCS 1931, was surgeon to St Cross Hospital, Rugby. He died on 19 March 1942, aged 77. Publications:- Changes produced in the conjunctiva by chronic inflammation. *Trans Ophthal Soc UK* 1899, 19, 17. Colloid degeneration of conjunctiva. *Ibid* 1902, 22, 261. A distinctive conjunctival papule. *Ibid* 1912, 32, 199. *The practical details of cataract extraction*. London, 1902; 2nd edition, 1903. *Cataract extraction*. London, 1908. Superficial punctate keratitis in Bombay. *Brit med J* 1901 2, 1165. Superficial punctate keratitis associated with an encapsuled bacillus. *Ophthal Rev* 1901, 20, 339. The micro-organism of Indian superficial punctate keratitis. *Brit J Ophthal* 1931, 15, 633. The sinuous lid border, a sign of trachoma. *Trans Ophthal Soc UK* 1907, 27, 38. Lower corneal plaques. *Ibid* 1908, 28, 251. Corneal pitting. *Brit J Ophthal* 1935, 19, 261 and 600. Subconjunctival fistula formation in the treatment of primary chronic glaucoma. *Trans Ophthal Soc UK* 1903, 23, 324. The filtering cicatrix in the treatment of glaucoma. *Ophthalmoscope*, 1907, 5, 292. Small flap incision for glaucoma. *Trans Ophthal Soc UK* 1910, 30, 199. Interim report on the small flap sclerotomy. *Ibid* 1911, 31, 202. The ideal glaucoma incision. *Proc Roy Soc Med* 1913-14, 7, ophthalmology, p 127. The future glaucoma operation. *Trans Ophthal Soc UK* 1919, 39, 218. An improved iris prolapse operation for glaucoma. *Brit J Ophthal* 1920, 4, 216. Small flap sclerectomy (rectangular flap sclerotomy). *Ibid* 1920, 4, 550 and 1922, 6, 65. Some late glaucoma results. *Ibid* 1921, 5, 417. A justification of the wide iris prolapse for glaucoma. *Trans Ophthal Soc UK* 1921, 41, 239. *The operative treatment of glaucoma*. London, 1923. A new glaucoma theory. *Trans Ophthal Soc UK* 1925, 45, 333. An iris inclusion operation for glaucoma. *Ibid* 1926, 46, 326. The future of iris inclusion in glaucoma. *Brit J Ophthal* 1930, 14, 433. Iris inclusion for chronic glaucoma. *Ibid* 1934, 18, 142.
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First Title value, for Searching Holthouse, Carsten (1810 - 1901)

2024-05-07T00:47:29Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2012-04-18
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Occupation Anatomist General surgeon Ophthalmologist
Details Born at Edmonton on October 14th, 1810. He was the eldest son of Carsten Holthouse, and at the age of 14 was apprenticed to Le Gay Brewerton, at Bawtry, Yorkshire. He was released from his articles before the customary period had elapsed, and studied at St Bartholomew's Hospital. He was Dresser to (Sir) William Lawrence, and Clinical Clerk to Dr Latham. After qualifying he studied in Paris, and then started practice in 1836 at his father's house in Keppel Street. He assisted in the Out-patient Department of St Bartholomew's and was attracted to eye and ear affections. But in 1843, being appointed Lecturer on Anatomy and Physiology at the Aldersgate School of Medicine in succession to Frederick Skey (qv), who had been appointed Lecturer on Anatomy at St Bartholomew's, he subordinated surgery to anatomy for some years. In 1849 began his connection with Westminster Hospital: the Medical School had come to a crisis, and in June, 1849, a new staff of lecturers was collected - Drs Radcliffe and Basham, Messrs Charles Brooke and Holthouse, the last as Lecturer on Anatomy. Owing to the inadequacy of the museum, particularly in anatomical preparations, the Royal College of Surgeons suspended its recognition of the school until Holthouse had, with great energy, reorganized the museum. The difficulty of the school centred on the claims of the senior staff of the hospital to the pupilage fees, irrespective of the increased need for expenditure. The medical student was held as primarily a pupil of one or other member of the senior physicians and surgeons. After five years Holthouse refused to continue to lecture without payment, the scanty fraction of the pupils' fees having been exhausted by the expenses. The result was that Holthouse was appointed Assistant Surgeon to Westminster Hospital on March 12th, 1853, and Surgeon on January 17th, 1857. At the same time he was allowed to put the school on a surer footing, the physicians resigning much of their primary claim to the pupilage fees, the surgeons holding on for another thirty years to what they called their rights. For some months during the Crimean War Holthouse served on the staff of the Civil Hospital at Smyrna, among his colleagues being Sir Spencer Wells and J Whitaker Hulke (qv). On his return he settled at 2 Storey's Gate, Westminster, and remained there for many years. He developed a practice in ophthalmology, and in 1857 took part in founding the Surrey Ophthalmic and Eye Dispensary, which afterwards became the Royal Eye Hospital, Southwark. He paid special attention to squint, was conservative as regards the tenotomy so much in vogue, aiming to improve by use the vision in the deviating eye; the systematic use of spectacles for the common convergent squint had not become general. Thus as a surgeon Holthouse ranged too widely; at the same time he had great confidence in his own powers of diagnosis and treatment, which gave less than sufficient heed to the knowledge of others. These characteristics were naturally a serious bar to success. In 1875, at the age of 65, he became Consulting Surgeon to Westminster Hospital, and then took up a fresh practice - that of the treatment of habitual drunkards in a home - which resulted in anxiety and financial loss, but perhaps served experimentally to forward development on that question. Holthouse enjoyed vigorous health until about two years before his death. He underwent an operation for cataract, upon which followed an apoplectic seizure with temporary recovery, then further attacks rendered him helpless for months before his death on July 18th, 1901, within three months of completing his ninety-first year. He had been the Senior Fellow of the College after the death of Sir Rutherford Alcock, Chairman of Westminster Hospital, in 1897, and was the last but one of the 300 original Fellows, Spencer Smith (qv) dying a few months later on November 29th, 1901.
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First Title value, for Searching Hollows, Frederick Cossom (1929 - 1993)

2024-05-07T00:47:29Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2015-09-09
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Occupation Ophthalmologist
Details Fred Hollows was born in Dunedin, New Zealand, on 9 April 1929, the son of an engine driver. After schooling in Palmerston North he entered the Church of Christ College of Otago University, intending to devote his life to the ministry. He changed his mind however and studied medicine, qualifying MB in 1956. After resident posts in Auckland, Tauranga and Wellington he began to specialize in ophthalmology and came to England to study at Moorfields. He gained the DO in 1961 and the FRCS in 1964. Whilst in England he was recruited by Professor Archie Cochrane in Cardiff to undertake a glaucoma survey, an experience which was to inspire his later humanitarian work. Moving to Australia, in 1965 he was appointed associate, later full, professor of ophthalmology in the University of New South Wales with chairmanship of the department of ophthalmology at the Prince of Wales Hospital, Randwick. Within three years he had started his crusade to improve the health care of the Aboriginals, with the cure of trachoma as the first objective. With the help of volunteers he established Australia's first Aboriginal Health Centre at Radfern, Sydney. A national campaign for eye health aroused both great enthusiasm and serious political hostility, a combination which accorded with Hollows' compassion for the deprived and his open contempt for politicians. Having first joined the Communist party in 1950, he came to describe himself as an 'anarcho-syndicalist'. Broadening the scope of his crusade he went to Eritrea during its war with Ethiopia and performed eye operations under the most primitive conditions. His mission was to spawn the Fred Hollows Foundation, which carried on his humanitarian work setting up local factories for the production of artificial lenses for the treatment of cataract in Nepal, Eritrea and Vietnam. His private life was no less turbulent than his public one, and he gave little attention to his own financial affairs. In 1958 he married Mary Skiller, but this marriage was dissolved after he had had a son by another partner. In 1980 he married Gabrielle O'Sullivan, by whom he had five children, and adopted another. He was a voracious reader who could quote John Donne as readily as Kipling. An intense competitor, he enjoyed a diversity of sports ranging from mountaineering and cycling to chess and billiards. On trips to the outback he developed skills as a carpenter, bulldozer driver and bore sinker and, indeed, encouraged those he trained to adopt the same tradesman-like approach to, and pride in, their medical work. His 1992 bestselling book, *Fred Hollows* (co-authored by Peter Corris), revealed much about his nature - his compassion and humanitarianism and his pronounced aversion to insensitive authoritarianism. His work for the Aboriginals received wide recognition; in 1985 he declined to accept the Order of Australia as a protest against official neglect of his protegés, but in 1990 he was named Australian of the Year and thereafter accepted the Companionate of the Order of Australia. He received many other honours including, posthumously, the Albert Schweitzer Award for Excellence. He maintained the momentum of his crusade despite his renal carcinoma, becoming involved in the AIDS controversy in which he accused gays of politicizing the disease. He died on 10 February 1993, survived by his second wife and by seven children.
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First Title value, for Searching Ryan, Michael Hugh Mulvihille (1912 - 2006)

2024-05-07T00:47:29Z

by Justin O'Day
Publication Date 2013-07-24 2015-06-03
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Occupation Ophthalmologist
Details Michael Hugh Melville (Hugh) Ryan AM spent 65 years as an ophthalmologist, retiring only eight months before he died. His life was led with great intellectual integrity, a thirst for knowledge and a compassion for people. He graduated Dux of the Medical Course at Melbourne University in 1937 and was a Resident at St Vincent's Hospital Melbourne. He went to England to train as an ophthalmologist, arriving by boat three weeks before the outbreak of the Second World War. His initial eye training was two years at the Royal Westminster Eye Hospital and thereafter he enlisted in the RAAF in 1940. Hugh served as an ophthalmologist in New Guinea at Milne Bay and at Medang. After the war he remained as a consultant ophthalmologist with the RAAF as a Group Captain. Further ophthalmic training was undertaken at Moorfields Eye Hospital in London where Hugh was the first Australian to graduate after the war, having undertaken the FRCS by examination. There was no subspecialty training at that time. However, Hugh did learn and brought back to Australia the modern lacrimal drainage operation, that is, the dacryocystorhinostomy. On returning to Australia in 1948, he was appointed as Assistant Ophthalmic Surgeon at St Vincent's Hospital. Kevin O'Day was in charge of the Unit and, when he retired, Hugh became the Senior Surgeon from 1960 to 1973. At St Vincent's Hospital, he was the first ophthalmologist to undertake a corneal graft. There were two outpatient and one operating sessions per week that were always very busy. He loved being involved in teaching and always had students in the clinics. He initiated the first Neuro-Ophthalmology Meeting in Melbourne in association with John Billings, a neurologist and Keith Henderson, the neurosurgeon. Hugh managed to fit in time during his lunch to do the ocular pathology at the Royal Victorian Eye and Ear Hospital for seven years from 1948 to 1955. He always had an interest in pathology having won the exhibition in the subject as a fourth year medical student. Hugh was also appointed to the Royal Women's Hospital from 1948 to 1972. From that interest, he developed a large paediatric, practice particularly in glaucoma and strabismus surgery. At the hospital he examined all the premature babies and noted a relatively high incidence of retrolental fibroplasia. Two registrars, Dr Kate Campbell and Hugh noted that the incidence of retrolental fibroplasia was much lower at the Queen Victoria Hospital than at the Royal Women's Hospital with the premature infants. They then sat down and documented all the characteristics of the babies and their treatments in the two hospitals. It became obvious that the only difference was that the Royal Women's Hospital gave the premature babies much more oxygen than the Queen Victoria Hospital. The link between retrolental fibroplasia and oxygen was then initially announced by Kate Campbell and later written up by Hugh Ryan. That was a dramatic discovery for which he has not been fully recognised. He was President of the Ophthalmological Society of Australia from 1965 to 1966 and this was the forerunner of the present College. Hugh was intimately involved in the creation of the Ophthalmic Research Institute of Australia and was its Chairman from 1968 to 1972. For many years he was examiner for both the Diploma of Ophthalmology and the Royal Australasian College of Surgeons Eye Examination. For many years, at least half the work Hugh undertook was on a voluntary basis. The public hospital service was not paid and he, together with his cousin Edward, saw most of the Catholic nuns and priests without charge until the introduction of Medicare in 1972. One interesting task that was given to Hugh by the Catholic Church was to examine all the records of the medical miracles that occurred at Lourdes. He undertook this work with a general surgeon and, surprisingly, they were unable to document a single case of a cure that would stand up to peer review publication. In discussion Hugh said the commonest eye condition to recover sight was optic atrophy in children, a condition which is particularly difficult to diagnose, since the optic disc is often pale in young children and visual maturation may be delayed. He was made a Knight of the Catholic Church in 1965 KCSG for his services to the Church. This was a rare honour, as there is only one other doctor, John Billings, who made popular the Rhythm method of contraception and has been the recipient of this honour. Hugh was my mentor as he was to many aspiring ophthalmologists in Victoria. He led a very full life, marrying Beryl in 1946 and they had three daughters, and one son who tragically died in childhood. Hugh was very proud of his three daughters and they, with their families gave him much happiness. After Beryl's death, his family together with Betty Barrett, his companion, were his great support. His interests included golf, tennis, skiing, bee keeping and beach holidays at Flinders. He did not miss a Boxing Day Cricket Test Match at the MCG in 50 years. He was a painter all his life and in later years spent one day a week with the Victorian Artists' Society in life painting classes. In the Queen's Birthday Honours in 2005, Hugh was appointed as an AM (Member of the Order of Australia) for service to medicine, particularly in the field of ophthalmology as a practitioner and researcher. In the last five years of his ophthalmic practice, he had joined our group and was loved by all the staff and still had a devoted following of patients. His infectious optimism and high-pitched laughter will be sadly missed by us all.
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First Title value, for Searching Pickard, Ransom (1867 - 1953)

2024-05-07T00:47:29Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2014-04-07
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Occupation General surgeon Ophthalmologist
Details Born in London on 18 May 1867, the fourth child and second son of Zachariah Pickard and his wife née Ransom; his father was head of a family firm of cabinet makers. He was educated at the Cowper Street School and St Bartholomew's Hospital, took first-class honours in forensic medicine and honours in obstetrics at the London MB in 1889, and was awarded the gold medal; he also took first-class honours in surgery at the BS in 1891. He served as ophthalmic house surgeon at St Bartholomew's and clinical assistant at Moorfields, took the Fellowship in 1892, and settled at Exeter in 1893. After a few years in general practice, he began to specialise as a consultant ophthalmologist and became surgeon to the West of England Eye Infirmary, where he was ultimately consulting surgeon. He had the distinction of being the first former member of the medical staff to be elected President of the Infirmary, an office he filled for several years until 1947. Pickard was for many years the leading ophthalmologist in the south-west; he was particularly interested in the treatment of glaucoma and in cases of low tension with disc cup enlargement. He remained a general surgeon and liked aural operations. He was one of the first to undertake ophthalmic trephining, and went to Vienna to study the slit-lamp when it was new. He regularly estimated and drew the size and depth of the cup of each patient, and made a study of cavernous atrophy. He was active in the Devon and Exeter Medico-Chirurgical Society, joining in discussion of medical and surgical questions. He was secretary of the Section of Ophthalmology when the British Medical Association met at Exeter in 1907, was a Vice-President of the same Section at Portsmouth in 1923, and was a member of the Association's ophthalmic committee. He was President of the Section of Ophthalmology at the Royal Society of Medicine 1934-36. He retired from his hospital appointments in 1932, but retained a large private practice for many years. In the first world war Pickard served in France with the 1st Wessex Field Ambulance, which he had raised, in the rank of Colonel AMS; subsequently he was Assistant Director of Medical Services with the 48th Division in Italy and was awarded the Croce di Guerra. He was five times mentioned in dispatches and was created CMG in 1916. He worked in Germany after the armistice of November 1918, and was made CB in 1919. Pickard was a prominent citizen of Exeter - Sheriff in 1906-07 and Mayor in 1926-27. He was a Vice-President of the University College of the South-West and of the Exeter Drama League, and President of the Devonshire Association and the Devonshire Archaeological Exploration Society; he published a monograph on *The population and epidemics of Exeter* in 1947. He was chairman of the local medical war committee during the second world war, 1939-45. In early years he had been a keen mountaineer, and belonged to the British and the Swiss Alpine Clubs; later he explored Devonshire and particularly Dartmoor in long Saturday walks, usually accompanied by his wife; he seldom wore an overcoat or waterproof, and never owned a motor-car. He was a life-long non-smoker and teetotaller, and a regular attendant at the Methodist Church on Sunday mornings and evenings, but did not thrust his austere views on others. Pickard married in 1912 Mabel Lucy daughter of E A Childe, who survived him but without children. He died at Rustholme, Streatham Drive, Exeter on 9 February 1953 aged 85. He had practised formerly at 31 East Southernhay. Publications: Method of recording disc alterations and a study of the growths of normal and abnormal disc cups. *Brit J Ophthal* 1923, 7, 81. Cavernous optic atrophy and its relation to glaucoma. *Ibid* 1925, 9, 385. A study of the central and peripheral light and dark adaptations with varying backgrounds. *Ibid* 1935, 19, 481. Clinical course of cavernous atrophy, and its relation to normal enlargements of optic disc cup. *Trans Ophthal Soc UK* 1935, 55, 599. *The population and epidemics of Exeter in pre-census times*. Exeter, privately printed 1947.
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First Title value, for Searching Balme, Harold (1878 - 1953)

2024-05-07T00:47:29Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2014-01-15
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Occupation General surgeon Ophthalmologist
Details Born in London, 28 May 1878, third child and second son of Paul Balme, surveyor, and his wife née Kirkness, he was educated at Cooper's Grammar School and King's College, London, where he was Worsley scholar 1898, and won the Warneford, Leathes, and Todd prizes in medicine and the Berry Prize in divinity and later became an Associate. He took his clinical training at St Bartholomew's Hospital, but interrupted it to serve with the Imperial Yeomanry field hospital in the South African war (1900-01), and won the medal and clasps. After qualifying in 1903 he served as house surgeon to Alfred Carless at King's College Hospital, and as clinical assistant at the Royal Eye Hospital, Southwark, and took the Fellowship at the end of 1905. He had been resident medical officer to the London Medical Mission, and now entered the medical missionary field in China. He worked at first at the Memorial Mission Hospital at Tai Yuan Fu in Shansi, and soon proved himself a good surgeon, a competent ophthalmologist and an excellent teacher equally fluent in English and Chinese. He realised that the teaching given to Chinese medical students must be of the highest standard. He was appointed professor of surgery at Cheeloo Shantung Christian University and superintendent of the University Hospital at Tsi Nan Fu, the capital of Shantung province, in 1913. He was subsequently Dean of the Medical Faculty, and became President of the University in 1921. He organised the first Council on Medical Education in China and acted for a time as its chairman, and was elected President of the Council on Higher Education. He recorded his work in his interesting book China and modern medicine, 1921. The Cheeloo University's degrees were recognised by McGill University, Montreal. Balme organised a translating department to produce Chinese versions of new scientific texts. His enterprise was firmly supported by Drs Samuel Cochrane and Roger Green of the China Medical Board. He retired in 1927 and went into general practice at Dormansland, Surrey, taking the Durham MD in 1928 after 20 years as a teacher and administrator in the east. On the outbreak of war in 1939 he was appointed medical superintendent of Haymeads Hospital, Bishops Stortford, and out of an old and ill-equipped infirmary created an efficient hospital of 800 beds. He was created OBE in 1942, and gave similar useful service as medical superintendent of the Pinderfields Hospital, Wakefield. He became, through this war-work, keenly interested in the wider aspects of rehabilitation. Before the war, while a member of council of the Royal College of Nursing, he had published a book criticising nursing education and proposing reform. His book on *Relief of pain*, 1936, reached a second edition in 1939. The British Council commissioned a pamphlet on rehabilitation in 1944, and he was appointed medical officer in charge of rehabilitation under the Ministry of Health till 1951. He also served as director of welfare services to the British Red Cross Society, which elected him an honorary life member. His last years were devoted to international welfare work as a consultant on rehabilitation to the United Nations from 1950 and to the World Health Organisation, the World Veterans Federation, and the UN International Children's Emergency Fund. He was a member of the UN working-party on Rehabilitation, which co-ordinated the activities of the special agencies. This work entailed constant travelling in Europe, North Africa, and the United States. He carried it out with his customary energy but it took toll of his health, for he had suffered a long illness before the war, which left some disability. During 1952 he was at work in Austria in the spring and in Sweden, Finland, and Denmark in the autumn, among other arduous commitments. He was responsible for drafting a *Report on a co-ordinated international programme for the rehabilitation of the handicapped* presented to the UN Social Commission in 1952. Balme's cheerful, confident nature was inspired by humanitarian goodwill based on profound Christian faith. He was an invigorating teacher and colleague. His zeal, impatient of bureaucratic restrictions, was modified by personal charm and tact. He married in 1910 Hilda Elizabeth, daughter of Thomas William Carr of Carlisle, who survived him with two sons and two married daughters. One son, David Mowbray Balme, DSO, DFC was principal of the University College of the Gold Coast. Balme died after a major operation at 64 Copers Cope Road, Beckenham, Kent, on 13 February 1953, aged 74. Publications: *China and modern medicine, a study in medical missionary development*. London, United Council for Missionary Education, 1921. 224 pages. *The relief of pain, a handbook of modern analgesia*. London, Churchill 1936, 408 pages; 2nd edition 1939, 399 pages. *A criticism of nursing education, with suggestions for constructive reform*. Oxford University Press, 1937. 73 pages. *The unfit made fit*. British Council, "British advances" series. London, 1944. Disability and disablement, the medical aspect. *Lancet* 1946, 1, 620 and 717. A model rehabilitation and training centre, at Tobelbad, near Graz, Austria. *Brit med J* 1952, 2, 1092.
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First Title value, for Searching Sellors, Patrick John Holmes (1934 - 2010)

2024-05-07T00:47:29Z

by N Alan Green
Publication Date 2011-11-14 2014-11-07
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Occupation Ophthalmologist
Details Sir Patrick Holmes Sellors was one of the most prominent ophthalmologists in the United Kingdom during the latter part of the 20th century. Appointed to the consultant staff of St George's Hospital, London, at the early age of 31, the majority of his NHS sessions he enjoyed at the Croydon eye unit, Mayday Hospital. He became Surgeon-Oculist to the Royal Household in 1974 and in 1980 Surgeon-Oculist to Her Majesty The Queen. For his efforts in restoring the late Queen Mother's failing eyesight, he was made Lieutenant of the Victorian Order in the 1990 New Year honours, and was advanced Knight Commander of the Royal Victorian Order, an honour in the Queen's personal gift, on retiring in 1999. Born in London into a medical family on 11 February 1934, Sir Patrick's grandfather, Thomas Blanchard Sellors, was a general practitioner, first in Wandsworth, London, before moving to Southend with his wife, Anne Oliver Sellors (née McSparron). Sir Patrick's father, Sir Thomas Holmes Sellors (always known as 'Uncle Tom'), was a well-known and highly-regarded surgeon in the cardiothoracic field: he became president of the Royal College of Surgeons of England. Working at Harefield and the Middlesex hospitals, with medical colleagues Sir Thomas built up high profile cardiac units. Tragedy struck early in his father's first marriage to Brenda (née Lyell), whom he married in 1928: she died of appendicitis. In 1932 he married Dorothy Elizabeth Chesshire, a medical secretary, by whom he had two children, Sir Patrick and his younger sister, Susan. When both children were in their late teens, their mother developed a stroke due to hypertension and died in 1953, at a time when their father was in a very demanding period of his life. In 1955 Sir Thomas married for a third time, to his secretary, Marie Hobson. Sir Patrick's early schooling was at the Downs School, Malvern in Worcestershire. He progressed to Rugby School, where he had a good academic record without winning prizes. He did gain a prestigious state scholarship to follow his father's footsteps into medicine. Like Sir Thomas, he went to Oriel College, Oxford University. Enjoying sport in his very early years, a serious illness, possibly poliomyelitis, affected the muscles of his lower leg and feet, and reduced his participation in competitive games, except for golf, which he took up in his teens at Rugby. As did his father before him, Sir Patrick secured a university entrance scholarship to the Middlesex Hospital, qualifying in 1958, having gained a prize in medicine in 1957. After house appointments, he received his ophthalmic training at the High Holborn branch of Moorfields. Initially his interests lay in retinal surgery, but later he was very much a general ophthalmologist. He held a few part-time consultant appointments at the Royal Marsden Hospital and the majority at Croydon eye unit of the Mayday Hospital, where he became the senior surgeon. He had a flourishing private practice and obtained appointments at both King Edward VII's Hospital for Officers and St Luke's Hospital for the Clergy. Throughout his professional life Sir Patrick was active in the promotion of UK ophthalmology. He was honorary secretary to the Ophthalmological Society of the United Kingdom, founded in 1890 by Sir William Bowman. It held annual scientific meetings to further ophthalmic practice. The Society merged with the Faculty of Ophthalmologists and became the College of Ophthalmologists in 1988. It gained a royal licence five years later. Having been a council member of the Faculty, Sir Patrick later became a council member of the College, serving the South West Thames region, then vice-president and chairman of examiners of the Royal College of Ophthalmologists. Always interested in training and maintaining high standards, one colleague noted that candidates would often misread his benign almost avuncular demeanour as chairman of the examinations committee, 'often finding out that they had seriously misjudged the situation….' He was a great supporter of the ophthalmological section of the Royal Society of Medicine and became its president, as he did of the Southern Ophthalmological Society. He was a member of the General Optical Council until 1997. He had the distinction of being deputy master of the Oxford Congress, one of the longest running gatherings of ophthalmic surgeons. Sir Patrick was a popular and inspirational teacher who co-authored, with Roger Coakes, the highly-regarded textbook *An outline of ophthalmology* (Bristol, Wright) written for undergraduates and trainees. First published in 1985, it went into two editions. A former trainee made this tribute to his former teacher: "It was an enormous pleasure to work under the guidance of Sir Patrick and many have been the times since then that I have recounted the highlights of those ophthalmological experiences to my friends and colleagues. His waspish wit was always tempered by, and enthused with, kindness, and the combination was utterly delightful and amusing." Although he contributed chapters to two books and produced a small number of papers, he never published a great deal, but as one of the trustees of the Lady Allerton Fund he was instrumental in funding the first clinical trial of the diode laser and supported the early work in the UK of optical coherence tomography. One of his great strengths and skills was in the oft-neglected field of medico-legal work. He was a popular member of the Medical Defence Union (MDU), whose council he joined in 1977. A colleague, Tim ffytche, said: 'many is the time that his private consulting room would be filled with bulky tomes concerning professional misdemeanours for him to give an opinion on and help resolve. He represented ophthalmic interests in and out of court and his lectures to colleagues on the legal pitfalls that lay in wait for the unwary will be long remembered…'. After retiring from the MDU in 2003, Sir Patrick was made an honorary fellow. In August 1946 Sir Patrick married Gillian Gratton Swallow, a nurse at Middlesex Hospital. They had three children of their happy marriage: Jonathan, a lawyer, Jane, a consultant anaesthetist, and Richard, who works in sales promotion and advertising. Sir Patrick and Gill retired to West Runton, Norfolk, to spend more time together. They were still able to travel to London for theatre, concerts and various functions, and were able to visit family in Australia. Sir Patrick had more time to read and pursue in particular his interest in history and his considerable talent in painting. He was able to tend their garden and enjoyed playing golf on many of Norfolk's windy golf courses. His beloved dog enjoyed the walks they were able to take together. Sir Patrick John Holmes Sellors died in St Thomas' Hospital at the age of 76 on 30 September 2010. He had travelled to London for a celebratory lunch of the Medical Defence Union and was taken ill as he was surrounded by fellow doctors. Although treatment was very prompt, and initially seemed successful for an aortic dissection, he died some five days later in the intensive care unit, after a major stroke. He was survived by his wife of 49 years, and his three children and five grandchildren (Polly, Jack, Amelia, Oscar and Louis). He is remembered by his friends, colleagues and patients for his courtesy, wisdom and as a staunch and amiable friend with a strong character, who did not always suffer fools gladly, but yet was an amusing raconteur.
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First Title value, for Searching Anderson, John Douglas Chalmers (1924 - 2006)

2024-05-07T00:47:29Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2006-10-26
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Occupation Ophthalmologist
Details John Douglas Chalmers Anderson, known as ‘Jock’, was an ophthalmologist who spent much of his career working in Afghanistan. He was born in Redbourne, Lincolnshire, on 21 August 1924, the second of three sons of William Larmour Anderson, a general practitioner, and Eileen Pearl née Chambers. He was educated at Bedford School, where he won the Tanner prize in science, and then went to Peterhouse, Cambridge, on a state bursary. After a year his studies were interrupted by the war and he joined the Marconi Wireless Telegraph Company, where he was a technical assistant, working on magnetrons. During the war he also served in the Home Guard and found time to obtain a BSc and a certificate of proficiency in radiophysics from London University. He returned to Cambridge in 1947 to complete his preclinical studies, and then went on to Middlesex Hospital, where he won the Mrs Charles Davis prize in surgery. After qualifying he completed house jobs at Bedford General Hospital and, after a year as a trainee assistant in general practice, returned as a demonstrator in anatomy at Cambridge. He was then an orthopaedic registrar at Bedford General Hospital. Influenced by his deeply held Christian beliefs, he accepted an invitation to work as a general surgeon at the Church Mission Society in Quetta, Pakistan. He was later an ophthalmic registrar at the Christian Medical College in Ludhiana, Punjab, India. In 1959 he returned to the UK, as an ophthalmic registrar at Northampton General Hospital and completed a course in London for the diploma in ophthalmology. He also raised funds for Afghanistan, returning there in 1961 to set up a moveable ‘caravan hospital’, taking general medical, surgical and ophthalmic services to remote desert communities. He returned to the UK as a clinical assistant in ophthalmology at Southampton Eye Hospital to study for the final FRCS. In 1967, having gained his FRCS, he was appointed consultant ophthalmologist with the National Organisation for Ophthalmic Rehabilitation in Kabul, establishing a 100 bed eye hospital and teaching centre there, from which subsidiary outpost treatment camps were organised. His centre survived the invasion by the Russians and the enmity of the Taliban, with only occasional interruptions. In 1973 he was appointed associate director (West Asia) of the Bible and Medical Missionary Fellowship, which involved two tours of three months every year in west Asia, taking him to Kunri, on the edge of the Sind Desert. In 1978 he returned to Southampton as a lecturer in ophthalmology, where he remained until 1980, when he returned to Kabul. Civil unrest meant he had to return to the UK earlier than expected. By now a world expert on trachoma, he joined the newly formed department of preventive ophthalmology at Moorfields and was appointed OBE in 1981. He carried out studies on the prevention of blindness in Zanzibar and the Sudan, and in 1984 was made an honorary consultant at Moorfields. He retired in 1988 after developing a tumour of the spinal cord. After several operations he became paraplegic. He married Gwendoline Freda Smith (‘Gwendy’), a Middlesex Hospital nurse, on 25 July 1953. They had two daughters (Ruth and Jean) and a son (Christopher). He died on 16 June 2006.
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First Title value, for Searching Lister, Alfred Ernest John (1877 - 1943)

2024-05-07T00:47:29Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2013-08-28
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Occupation Ophthalmologist
Details Born 22 May 1877 at Dursley, Gloucestershire, the fourth son and youngest of the six children of William Lister, engineer, and his wife, née Fraser. He was educated at Dean Close School, Cheltenham, and at St Bartholomew's Hospital, where he was Brackenbury scholar in surgery in 1901 and dressed for Sir Henry Butlin. He also served as prosector at the Royal College of Surgeons. At the Army Medical School, Netley, he won the Parks medal in hygiene and the Maclean prize in clinical medicine and surgery in 1902, and passed top into the Indian Medical Service, being gazetted lieutenant on 29 January 1902. He saw active service in the East African campaign of 1900-04, including the action at Jidballi in Somali-land, where he was attached to the 27th Punjabis. He rescued a wounded officer under fire in this action and saved his arm from amputation; this officer lived to become a general. Lister was awarded the medal with clasp at the end of the campaign, but had contracted fever which left him with impaired health for the rest of his life. From 1909 to 1913 he served on the staff of the Commander-in-chief in India, Sir G O'Moore Creagh VC (see *DNB*), was promoted captain on 29 January 1905 and major on 29 July 1913, and again saw active service in the war of 1914-18. During his leaves, being an excellent linguist, he studied in continental clinics, at Paris and at Zurich and under E Fuchs at Vienna. He had specialized as an ophthalmologist and worked under Henry Smith, CIE (see Crawford's *Roll of the IMS*, Bengal list, No 2295) at Jullundur and Amritsar. Lister was appointed the first professor of ophthalmology at the King George Medical College at Lucknow, having been previously professor of physiology there, and was ophthalmic surgeon to the King George Hospital. He was promoted lieutenant- colonel on 29 July 1921, and appointed an Honorary Surgeon to the Viceroy, but retired owing to ill-health in 19 March 1922. Returning to England he was appointed assistant surgeon to the Western Ophthalmic Hospital, London, but in 1923 he settled at 86 Pembroke Road, Clifton, where he practised as a consultant ophthalmologist, and became consulting surgeon to the Bristol Eye Dispensary. From 1922 to 1930 he contributed the survey of eye literature to the Medical Annual each year. He was a member of the Ophthalmological Society of the United Kingdom and of the Oxford Ophthalmological Congress. Lister married in 1909 Hester I K Hallowes, who survived him with a daughter. He had long suffered from ill-health and retired in 1933. He died at The Mount, Inchbrook, Stroud, Gloucestershire on 21 December 1943. As a student he had been a boxer and "put the weight" for the Hospital. Publications: Extraction of cataract in the capsule. *Arch Ophthal NY* 1909, 38, 571. After-effects of escape of the vitreous. *Ibid* 1910, 39, 1. After-effects of escape of the vitreous in intracapsular extraction of cataract; appendix to Henry Smith's *Treatment of cataract*, 1910. Sclero-corneal trephining.* Ind med Gaz* 1919, 54, 294. The weight of the cataractous lens. *Ibid* 1920, 55, 84. Eye. *Medical Annual*, 1922-30.
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First Title value, for Searching Miller, Sir Stephen James Hamilton (1915 - 1996)

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Publication Date 2015-09-21
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Occupation Ophthalmologist
Details Sir Stephen Miller was born on 19 July 1915 in Arbroath, Tayside, the eldest son of Stephen Charles Miller, an engineer, and Isobel, née Hamilton. He was educated at Arbroath High School and Aberdeen University, where he qualified MB ChB in 1937. His interest in ophthalmic surgery followed a period as ophthalmic house surgeon at Hull Royal Infirmary and subsequent war service in Malta with the RNVR, and later a post as ophthalmic surgeon to the Royal Navy Auxiliary Hospital at Kilmalcolm. After the war he was appointed consultant ophthalmologist at Hull, but resigned after only six weeks because of the shortage of modern equipment and returned to a junior post in London. He gained his Fellowship in 1948 and was appointed consultant at St George's Hospital in 1952. Later he obtained appointments at Moorfields Eye Hospital and the National Hospital for Nervous Diseases, where he soon established his reputation as the pre-eminent ophthalmologist and a world expert in the management of glaucoma. In 1974 he was appointed Surgeon Oculist to the Queen. He left the Health Service in 1980, dismayed by the proliferation of bureaucracy, and concentrated on the administration of two charities. He became Hospitaller to the St John Ophthalmic Hospital, Jerusalem, in succession to Sir Stewart Duke-Elder and Air Commodore Keith Lyle. He was instrumental in collecting £7,000,000 from all over the world to ensure the survival of the hospital. In the sixties he had been consulted by T F C Frost, a patient with an irritable eye and a potential glaucoma. As a result of this, Frost established a fund for research into neuro-ophthalmology and glaucoma. Subsequently this became a charitable trust that has supported institutes and individuals who further research into blindness. Money from this trust was used to provide a Chair in Aberdeen and, on Frost's death, his widow established the Chair of Ophthalmology at St Thomas's Hospital. In 1979 he was appointed KCVO. Miller was able to write with originality and lucidity. He served for 34 years on the editorial board of the *British Journal of Ophthalmology*. He published four textbooks including *Modern trends in ophthalmology* in 1973 and the 16th to 18th editions of *Parsons' Diseases of the eye*. A man of great integrity and honesty, with a couteous and gentle manner, he was popular with colleagues and patients alike. Having grown up near St Andrews he had a lifelong interest in golf, and enjoyed competing with his colleagues at Woking. He was also a keen fisherman, a pianist of considerable ability, and a collector of watercolours. He died on 12 April 1996, survived by his wife Heather, née Motion, whom he had married in 1949, and their three sons.
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First Title value, for Searching Collins, Edward Treacher (1862 - 1932)

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First Title value, for Searching Smith, Joseph Priestley (1845 - 1933)

2024-05-07T00:47:29Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2013-11-07
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Occupation Ophthalmologist
Details Born at Edgbaston, Birmingham on 29 October 1845, the son of Brooke Smith. His father belonged to an old Unitarian family and the son was named after Joseph Priestley, the preacher and discoverer of oxygen, who was driven to the United States when the Birmingham mob burnt his house. Brooke Smith was an active member of the Birmingham Town Council and formed a friendship with Joseph Chamberlain, which was maintained throughout life by his son. Priestley Smith was apprenticed at the age of seventeen to a mechanical engineer, and the four years' training thus gained influenced his life's work in ophthalmology. He was educated at Sydenham College and entered Queen's Hospital in 1867, where he acted as dresser to Sampson Gamgee. Whilst still a student he volunteered for service during the Franco-German war in 1870. He was appointed dresser to a Red Cross Field Hospital at Bingen, and was afterwards placed in charge of the tent hospital at Am Thürmchen, where he remained until the end of the war. He then returned to England and became a student for a short time at the London Hospital and acted as clinical assistant at Moorfields. As soon as he had received the diploma of MRCS he was appointed house surgeon to the Birmingham and Midland Eye Hospital, where he stayed for two years, and in 1874 was elected ophthalmic surgeon to Queen's Hospital, Birmingham, a post he held until his retirement from practice in 1916. In 1895 he became lecturer in ophthalmology to the Faculty of Medicine in Birmingham, and in 1900 he succeeded J Vose Solomon in the higher post of professor. In 1916 he retired and was complimented by the University of Birmingham with the honorary degree of LLD and the title of emeritus professor of ophthalmology. He married a daughter of James Russell, MD, physician to the Birmingham General Hospital, who died before him. Priestley Smith died at 52 Frederick Road, Edgbaston, on 30 April 1933, full of years and greatly esteemed. Priestley Smith was known throughout the world for his studies in glaucoma. He was an accomplished operator, the inventor of a perimeter and a tonometer; honest, no self-seeker, and modest to a degree. He excelled in mechanical aptitude, in an appreciation of mechanical principles, and in a determination not to theorize until he had founded his theories upon observed facts. He was an accomplished artist in watercolours, illustrated his lectures with drawings on the blackboard, was an excellent speaker, a good linguist, and a skilled musician. At the Royal College of Surgeons in 1878 he won the Jacksonian prize with an essay on *Glaucoma, its causes, symptoms, pathology, and treatment*. In 1889 he delivered an Erasmus Wilson lecture on *The pathology of glaucoma*. In 1881 he founded the *Ophthalmic Review*, of which he was co-editor until the 28th volume in 1909. Many honours fell to him as of right. In 1888 he was called upon to open the discussion on glaucoma at Heidelberg; in 1890 he shared with W A Brailey the Middlemore prize given by the British Medical Association; and in 1892 he was president of the ophthalmological section at the annual meeting of the BMA. In 1898 he was Bowman lecturer and chose *Converging strabismus as the subject*. In 1901 he was elected honorary Fellow of the Royal and Imperial Society of Physicians of Vienna, a rare distinction. In 1904 he was presented with the Nettleship gold medal on the occasion of its first award. In 1905 he was president of the Ophthalmological Society, and in 1914-16 he acted as president of the ophthalmological section of the Royal Society of Medicine. In 1927 he received the Lucien Howe medal from the American Ophthalmological Society; it had been given previously to Professors Kohler, Fuchs, and Edward Jackson. Finally in 1932 he was given the Gullstrand gold medal of the Swedish Medical Society. A three-quarter length portrait by Harold Speed was painted in 1928. It is an excellent likeness, and hangs in the board room of the Queen's Hospital, Birmingham. Publications: *Glaucoma, its causes, symptoms, pathology, and treatment*, Jacksonian prize essay. London, 1879. *On the pathology and treatment of glaucoma*, Erasmus Wilson lecture. London, 1891. Growth of the crystalline lens. *Trans Ophthal Soc UK* 1883, 3, 79. Primary glaucoma in relation to age. *Ibid* 1886, 6, 294. Aetiology and educative treatment of convergent strabismus, Bowman lecture. *Brit med J* 1898, 2, 1. Treatment of strabismus in young children. *Int Ophthal Congr* 9, Utrecht 1899, *Trans*, p 11. The blood pressure in the eye, etc. *Brit J Ophthal* 1917, 1, 4 and 657. On tonometric values. *Ibid* 1919, 3, 293.
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First Title value, for Searching Ridley, Sir Nicholas Harold Lloyd (1906 - 2001)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2015-12-04
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Occupation Ophthalmologist
Details Harold Ridley pioneered the use of Perspex lenses in the treatment of cataract. He was born on 10 July 1906 in Kibworth, Leicestershire. His father, Nicholas Charles Ridley FRCS, was a former Naval surgeon who became an ophthalmic surgeon at Leicester Royal Infirmary. His mother, Margaret Parker - heiress of a family which had made its fortune by the invention of the safety pin - had been a friend of Florence Nightingale, on whose knee Harold remembered sitting as a small boy. He was educated at Charterhouse and Pembroke College, Cambridge, from which he went on to St Thomas's for his clinical training. After junior posts with Cyril Nitch and Philip Mitchiner, he specialised in ophthalmology and trained at Moorfields under A C Hudson, P G Doyne and Affleck Greeves. He was appointed to the consultant staff of Moorfields in 1938. Joining the RAMC at the outbreak of war, he was posted to Ghana, where he seized the opportunity to make a study of onchocerciasis, on which his monograph was a major contribution. During the war he had the opportunity of treating injured airmen and noticed that slivers of Perspex from the cockpit canopy embedded in the eye were light and inert, and were rarely rejected as foreign bodies. One day a student, who had never previously seen a cataract removed, remarked that it was a pity that the lens could not be replaced with a clear one. Working at first in great secrecy with John Pike, an optical scientist from Rayner Lenses, and using the same Perspex used in the Hawker Hurricane fighters, Harold performed the world's first intra-ocular lens transplant on a 45-year-old woman on 29 November 1949. When the secret broke, Harold Ridley was subjected to almost universal condemnation by his peers, who regarded the procedure as reckless, but events were to prove him right. He continued to work at Moorfields and, after retirement in 1971, continued to serve the World Health Organisation and the Royal Commonwealth Society for the Blind. He was a popular teacher, though a speech impediment sometimes made his lectures hard to follow, and so he always took the trouble to have notes made and handed out. He took immense trouble to help and encourage students, especially those who were enthusiastic, had enquiring minds and could share his impish sense of humour. A dining club of his former trainees met annually in his memory, and a Ridley Foundation was set up to help young ophthalmologists. A recipient of innumerable honorary degrees, he was Vice-President of the Ophthalmological Society of the United Kingdom, and was elected to the Royal Society in 1986. He was awarded the Galen medal of the Worshipful Society of Apothecaries in 1986, the Lord Crook gold medal of the Spectacle Makers' Company in 1987, the Gullstrand medal of the Swedish Medical Society in 1992 and the Gonin medal of the International Council of Ophthalmology in 1994. He was knighted in 2000. He underwent his own cataract operation twice. He married Elisabeth Jane Wetherill in 1941, and had two sons and a daughter, none of whom went into medicine. He was a keen fly-fisherman. He died on 25 May 2001.
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First Title value, for Searching Wellesley-Cole, Robert Benjamin Ageh (1907 - 1995)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2015-10-08
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Occupation General practitioner General surgeon Ophthalmologist
Details Robert Wellesley-Cole was born in Kossoh, Freetown, Sierra Leone on 11 March 1907, the eldest son of Wilfred Sidney Ageh, a civil engineer and superintendent of Freetown waterworks, and Elizabeth, née Okafor-Smart, a West African of Krio race. His Nigerian great-grandfather had settled in Freetown to escape slave traders, and had adopted the family name of Wellesley out of admiration for the Duke of Wellington. He was educated at the Sierra Leone Grammar School in Freetown, where he excelled academically and won a place to study mathematics at Fourah Bay College. After becoming assistant lecturer in mathematics, he took an external BA degree (with honours in philosophy) in 1928 at London University. In the same year he came to England to study medicine at Newcastle-upon-Tyne Medical School, where he won numerous prizes and graduated with first class honours from Durham University in 1934. After qualifying he held junior appointments at the Royal Victoria Infirmary in Newcastle-upon-Tyne, where he was one of the last group of students taught by Professor Grey Turner before the latter went to the Postgraduate Medical School at Hammersmith. He volunteered for military service in the second world war but was not enlisted. In 1944 he became the first black African to gain the Fellowship of the College, but would have had to overcome considerable racial prejudice to follow a surgical career in England at that time. Instead he decided to work in general practice in Newcastle and served on several Colonial Office advisory committees, dealing with medical education and social services in West Africa. He was also committed to the welfare of colonial peoples in Britain, and worked for the promotion of African culture. With the founding of the NHS in 1948 he gave up general practice in order to pursue a full-time career in surgery, and passed his examinations in ophthalmology in 1950. In 1961 he was appointed senior surgical specialist in Western Nigeria, and in 1971 consultant surgeon and director of clinical studies in Sierra Leone. His first marriage in 1932 to Anna Brodie, his Scottish former landlady, was dissolved, and in 1950 he moved to Nottingham and married a second time to Amy Hotobah-During, a nurse from Sierra Leone whose father was a barrister, and by whom he had four children. Robert Wellesley-Cole was a man of great culture and academic and literary ability. In 1959 he wrote a book about his childhood, *Kossoh Town Boy*, and his autobiography, *An Innocent Abroad*, was published in 1988. He founded a literary club in Freetown, and he was an accomplished pianist and organist. He was invited to become a Justice of the Peace in 1961, the first time this invitation had been extended to a black African in Britain, but ironically he was refused a British passport until 1982. He died on 31 October 1995, aged 88. He was survived by his wife, two sons and two daughters, one of whom, Patrice Suzanne, read law at Oxford.
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First Title value, for Searching Paton, Leslie Johnson (1872 - 1943)

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Publication Date 2013-10-02
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Occupation Neurologist Ophthalmologist
Details Born at Edinburgh on 22 August 1872 the second son of James Paton, a Fellow of the Linnean Society and from 1876 curator of the Glasgow Art Galleries and Museum, and of Mary Kesson, his wife. He was educated at the Glasgow High School and University and at Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge, where he was a scholar. He took first-class honours in the Natural Sciences Tripos, part 1, 1893, and taught botany and physiology at Cambridge before beginning his clinical training at St Mary's Hospital, London in 1897, where he was Shuttleworth scholar. He served as house surgeon to Edmund Owen at St Mary's, 1901, and as demonstrator of anatomy in the Hospital's medical school. He also taught physiology under Sir Thomas M Taylor at Wren's coaching school in Powis Square, Bayswater. He had been particularly interested in botany and worked for a time in Sachs' laboratory at Bonn; but he decided to make his career as an ophthalmologist, and after serving as clinical assistant to Marcus Gunn at Moorfields he was appointed assistant ophthalmic surgeon to St Mary's in 1902, the year in which he took the Fellowship, H E Juler being his senior. In 1907 he became ophthalmologist to the National Hospital in Queen Square, where he gained his special experience in neurological ophthalmology in the last years of Hughlings Jackson's work there. From this double specialization he achieved at the same time, 1929-30, the presidency of the Ophthalmological Society of the United Kingdom and the presidency of the section of neurology at the Royal Society of Medicine, before which he made his presidential address on the classification of optic atrophies. He was also chairman of the Council of British Ophthalmologists. He was secretary in 1909 and president in 1934 of the section of ophthalmology at the British Medical Association's annual meetings. In his earlier years he made several important researches, working with Gordon Holmes on papilloedema and intracranial tumours; and he discovered the syndrome of optic atrophy in one eye with papilloedema in the other, afterwards known as the Foster-Kennedy syndrome (see *Archives of Ophthalmology*, 1942, 28, 704, for admission of Paton's priority). He had also discovered the causative organism of angular conjunctivitis, the Bacillus duplex or Haemophilus diplococcus, but hesitating with Scotch caution to publish prematurely he was anticipated by Victor Morax and Theodor Axenfeld, after whom the organism is usually called the Morax-Axenfeld bacillus. The statement that Paton anticipated Morax and Axenfeld is based on the obituary notices, but as Morax and Axenfeld published their discovery in *Annales d'Oculistique*, 1892, 108, 393, eight years before Paton qualified, his priority is doubtful. Paton exerted a wide influence through the *British Journal of Ophthalmology* of which he was chairman for many years, and also helped in the interbellum decades to resuscitate the International Congress of Ophthalmology, whose successful meetings at Amsterdam 1929, Madrid 1933, and Cairo 1937 owed much to his energy. Although of world-wide reputation he was ever ready to help young workers and took an active interest in current research. He was an excellent and popular teacher, with a soupçon of dogmatism. He retired from St Mary's in 1929 and was elected consulting ophthalmic surgeon and a vice-president of the Hospital. He was elected consulting ophthalmic surgeon to the National Hospital in 1937, in which year he gave the Mackenzie memorial lecture at Glasgow on optic neuritis. He was also ophthalmic surgeon to the Royal Caledonian Asylum, to the Royal Scottish Hospital, and to the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art. He was an honorary member of the French, Japanese, Hungarian, and Spanish-American ophthalmological societies, the Scottish Ophthalmic Club, and the Royal Medical Society of Budapest, and an honorary Fellow of the American Medical Association, the Association for Research in Ophthalmology, and the International Ophthalmic Council. He had a very large private practice, which he carried on at 29 Harley Street till near the end of his life. In later years he suffered from deafness. Paton married in 1906 Mary, daughter of R R Kirkwood of Glasgow, who survived him with two daughters. He died in London after a long illness on 15 May 1943, aged 71. Leslie Paton was a patriotic Scotsman, with a Scottish accent and many of the best racial characteristics. He was a kind-hearted man with a keen sense of humour, cheerful, encouraging, wise, friendly, and of great knowledge. He was a firm believer in the recuperative value of holidays and regularly took six weeks away from all work each summer. He was a keen fisherman and very fond of golf, which he played chiefly at Elie in Fife and at Virginia Water. There he built himself a house, Scotch Corner, on the Wentworth estate, where he annually entertained the competitors for the Paton cup, which he had presented to St Mary's Hospital Medical School. He was tall and of imposing presence. Publications: Intravitreous haemorrhages, with W E Paramore. *Lancet*, 1905, 2, 1248. Optic neuritis in cerebral tumours. *Trans Ophth Soc UK* 1905, 25, 129-162, and 1908, 28, 112-144. Some abnormalities of ocular movements, with J H Jackson. *Lancet*, 1909, 1, 900. A clinical study of optic neuritis in its relationship to intracranial tumours. *Brain*, 1909, 32, 65-91. The localising value of unequal papilloedema. *Brit med J* 1910, 1, 664. The pathology of papilloedema, with G Holmes. *Brain*, 1911, 33, 389-432. Classification of the optic atrophies. President's address, section of neurology, RSM, 9 October 1930. *Proc Roy Soc Med* 1930-31, 24, 25-33. Optic neuritis, retrobulbar and papillary. Mackenzie memorial lecture, 29 October 1937. *Glasg med J* 1937, 128, 245-260.
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First Title value, for Searching Ferguson, Richard Henry Lindo (1923 - 2014)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2014-08-15 2015-03-20
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Occupation Ophthalmologist
Details Lindo Ferguson died peacefully on 19 January 2014 at the age of 90 years. Lindo was born in an historic home on his parents' dairy farm at Waimate North. He was educated by a governess until the family moved to Dunedin during the 1929 depression when he was aged 7. He attended John McGlashan School in Dunedin, Christ's College in Christchurch, and the Otago Medical School. He graduated MB ChB in 1947 and won the Ardagh Memorial Prize for Clinical Medicine. Lindo's ophthalmology training was at the famed Moorfields Eye Hospital in London. He returned to New Zealand in 1952, set up a private practice in Auckland, and was subsequently appointed as a part-time visiting ophthalmologist to Auckland Hospital. In ophthalmology, Lindo was the initiator and organiser of the first part one examination course for the FRACS in ophthalmology in Auckland and was convenor for the ophthalmology training scheme for New Zealand. He was President of the Ophthalmological Society of New Zealand in 1980. He was Chairman of the Auckland committee of the Royal Australasian College of Surgeons from 1978 to 1980 and was a member of the Board of Examiners of the Royal Australasian College of Surgeons from 1972 to 1982. Lindo, with Professor John Parr of Dunedin, led negotiations with the Royal Australian College of Ophthalmologists in the 1980s to allow trainees in New Zealand to take the examinations of the Australian College after the Royal Australasian College of Surgeons had ceased examining in ophthalmology. This was a milestone towards full specialist training in ophthalmology in New Zealand and Dr Ferguson and Professor Parr were both awarded honorary fellowship of the Royal Australian College of Ophthalmologists in 1982. Their efforts led ultimately to a full merging of the Ophthalmological Society of New Zealand with the Royal Australian College of Ophthalmologists to form the Royal Australian & New Zealand College of Ophthalmologists. Of interest, Lindo's grandfather, Sir Lindo Ferguson, was New Zealand's first fully trained ophthalmologist, who arrived in Dunedin in 1883. In 1909 he was appointed Professor of Ophthalmology, more because of his personal attributes than the importance of ophthalmology at that time. Subsequently he was appointed Dean of the Otago Medical School, and to this day is New Zealand's longest-serving medical Dean, 23 years, from 1914 to 1937. Lindo's involvement in public affairs started in 1952 when his love of heritage was elevated to activism by the recent demolition of Partington's Mill, in Symonds Street, Auckland, which had been a very prominent city landmark since 1850. Its demolition, Lindo said, was merely to provide two car parks for Seabrook Fowlds Motors. Lindo put pamphlets into letterboxes, and was elected to the Auckland City Council on a platform of heritage protection. This launched his massive involvement in civic affairs. In local government Lindo was on the Auckland City Council from 1968 to 1977 and Deputy Mayor of Auckland from 1971 to 1977. He was Deputy Chairman of the Auckland Regional Authority from 1980 to 1983 and 1985 to 1986, and Deputy Chairman of the Auckland Regional Council from 1988 to 1992. In these posts he took the initiative in the acquisition and restoration of Ewelme Cottage, Kinder House, and Highwic, and in the rescue of the old Customs House. In community affairs Lindo was President of the Auckland Institute and Museum Council and was made an honorary life member and Companion of the Auckland Institute and Museum Council in 2002. He was Chairman of the Auckland Regional Committee for the Order of St John and was made Knight of St John in 1994. He was Chairman of the Youthlink Family Trust, Deputy Chairman of the New Zealand Retirement Life Care Residencies Trust, member of the MacKelvie Trust Board, member of the New Zealand Police Centennial Trust, and member of the Board of Management of the Auckland Art Gallery. He was made an honorary life member of the New Zealand Historic Places Trust, and an honorary member of the Rotary Club (Auckland). He was co-Chairman of the Orakei Marae Development Council, which was responsible for the development of the marae. He was President of The Northern Club and also a Trustee of the Club, and was a Director of R & W Hellaby Limited and of Ports of Auckland. One of his greatest loves was his long-standing membership of the Cornwall Park Trust Board, and his Chairmanship of the Logan Campbell Residuary Estate for 16 years. The Lindo Ferguson Education Centre in Cornwall Park perpetuates his contributions. Lindo became a member of the University of Auckland Council in 1977 and was Chancellor of the University of Auckland from 1981 to 1987. He was a promoter of tertiary education for Maori. In 1970 Lindo and his wife, Laetitia, purchased a 28-hectare property on the shores of Mangonui Harbour in Northland. The property included an historic house built by a whaler, Captain Butler, in 1847. Lindo and Laetitia thoroughly restored the house and furnished it in its period, and it was joint winner in the domestic building section of the Historic Places Trust/Placemakers-sponsored building restoration competition in 1985. Also on the property are an historic cemetery, and a Maori Pa, which the Fergusons maintain in conjunction with Northland Maori. Lindo built up an extensive museum of whaling. Their beautiful property with its Pa, cemetery, historic house, whaling museum, and extensive gardens, has been much visited, especially by Northland school groups on educational trips. Laetitia, his widow, has also done significant community work, which has included the Orakei Marae, the St Stephens and Queen Victoria Schools Trust Board, the Prisoners Aid home visiting team, and Vice-President of New Zealand Riding for the Disabled. Lindo was a natural, thoughtful leader, who became chairman of most organisations to which he belonged. He was a generous, able, and unassuming man, who made wide-ranging contributions to our nation. Lindo was awarded the Queen's Silver Jubilee Medal in 1975, an honorary Doctor of Laws from The University of Auckland in 1986, and the CBE in 1987. That Lindo was never knighted remains beyond belief to all those who knew him. He and his grandfather Sir Lindo Ferguson were two great New Zealanders. Lindo is survived by his wife Laetitia, son William and daughter Jan, and grandchildren Daniel, Miles, Anna, and Harrye. Bruce Hadden
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First Title value, for Searching Hutchinson, Sir Jonathan (1828 - 1913)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2006-05-04 2012-03-22
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Occupation Dermatologist Ophthalmologist Pathologist Venereologist
Details Born on July 23rd, 1828, the second son of Jonathan Hutchinson and Elizabeth Massey, both members of the Society of Friends, at Selby, Yorkshire. Hutchinson continued throughout life to exhibit some of the external characteristics of a Quaker. After an education at Selby, he was early apprenticed to Caleb Williams (q.v.), Lecturer on Materia Medica and Therapeutics in the York School of Medicine, and he attended the York Hospital. At this very small York School of Medicine he received individual instruction from Dr. Thomas Laycock - later Professor of Medicine in Edinburgh - which made a life-long impression, on the importance of heredity, and of physiognomy in diagnosis. He passed on to St. Bartholomew's Hospital, where Sir James Page's influence was dominant; he studied under him, including the subject of syphilis, and qualified M.R.C.S. in 1850. He then pursued the post-graduate study of which he became afterwards such a strong advocate. He acted as Assistant Physician at the City of London Hospital for Diseases of the Chest; Surgeon to the Metropolitan Free Hospital; Surgeon to the Royal Ophthalmic Hospital, Moorfields (1862-1878), where he had Edward Nettleship (q.v.) as Assistant; Surgeon to the Blackfriars Hospital for Diseases of the Skin; and Assistant Surgeon to the Lock Hospital for a while from 1862. He continued Surgeon to the Moorfields and Blackfriars Hospitals for many years. He was appointed Assistant Surgeon to the London Hospital in 1860; and after passing the F.R.C.S. examination in 1862 became Surgeon until 1883, then Consulting Surgeon. From 1862 he lectured on the principles and practice of surgery, from 1863 on medical ophthalmology, and in that year gained the Guy's Hospital Astley Cooper Prize for his essay "On Injuries of the Head". After 1883 he gave an annual course of lectures as Emeritus Professor of Surgery. A Triennial Prize for an essay was instituted to commemorate his services and teaching. He was an active member of various London medical societies and served as the President of five of the most important. At the meeting called to wind up the old Sydenham Society he proposed a continuation as the New Sydenham Society, of which he was Secretary from 1859-1907. The translations from the chief writings of Continental authorities constitute an extraordinarily well-selected collection. The publications especially due to him in the New Sydenham Society were the *Atlas of Skin Diseases* and *The Atlas of Drug Eruptions.* At the Royal College of Surgeons he was Hunterian Professor of Surgery and Pathology, 1879-1883; Member of Council, 1879-1895; Member of the Court of Examiners, 1880-1887; Bradshaw Lecturer, 1888; President, 1889 (returning to the previous custom of holding office for one year, broken by the four years' tenure of his predecessor, W. S. Savory); Hunterian Orator, 1891; Trustee of the Hunterian Collection, 1897. He sat on the Royal Commission on Small-pox and Fever Hospitals, 1881, and that on Vaccination, 1890-1896; his demonstration of vaccino-syphilis as a possible consequent of arm-to-arm vaccination put a stop to that method of vaccinating. As Hunterian Professor he gave six lectures on "Neuropathogenesis, chiefly with reference to Diseases of the Eye, Skin, Joints, etc.", four lectures "On Some of the Surgical Aspects of Gout and Rheumatism", and two lectures "On the Etiology of True Leprosy". His Bradshaw Lecture dealt with "Museums in reference to Medical Education and the Advance of Knowledge". Jonathan Hutchinson, as a clinical diagnostician by naked-eye observations, was one of the great medical geniuses of his time, and there is no one superior in the history of medicine, whether in the diagnosis of cases in surgery, ophthalmology, dermatology, or syphilology. This was conjoined with a peculiar strain of philosophy. He was a colleague of another extraordinary genius in neurology and philosophy - Hughlings Jackson - and the interest of the two met over the ophthalmic side of neurology, and the general use of the ophthalmoscope as an instrument of diagnosis. His remarkable talent was exhibited in the discovery of syndromes; his audience supposed he was exhibiting a rare case, but after listening to him they discovered that they were able to recognize such cases, and his syndromes have now become commonplaces in the text-books. Examples are his 'triad' in inherited syphilis - deformity and notching of the teeth, labyrinthine deafness, and interstitial keratitis; defects in children's teeth, associated with infantile convulsion and lamellar cataract; the peculiar physiognomy in ophthalmoplegia and tabes dorsalis; the inequality of the pupils in cerebral compression; gout and haemorrhages; tobacco amblyopia; and idiosyncrasies of many kinds. He had, too, a remarkable fund of illustration and simple comparison - the 'apple-jelly' appearance of some forms of lupus; the imitative characteristics of the superficial appearances of syphilis. He had a slow and precise delivery, with eyes turned to the ground. An endless series of cases were stored in his memory, recalled by the initial of the patient's name and the outstanding feature presented. His broad-minded philosophy made him hold, as to his rare cases, that they afforded clues to the pathology of the class, links between some one already recognized group and another. His crowded audiences listened intently as he passed, by some ingenious connection, from one subject to another - a custom defended by him on the plea that, for the attention of his audience, a 'mixed diet' was needed. At the hospital one lecture had as title, "On Fairy Rings and Allied Phenomena". From fairy rings in fields, he passed on to ringworms and herpes, phenomena he held to be allied. One lecture at Haslemere commenced with the earth's crust, passed to elephants, and ended on John Wesley; another, on whales, tailed off to Wordsworth's poetry, and then to social questions relating to tuberculosis and leprosy. No one of his colleagues equalled him in a 'spotting diagnosis', for he was nearly always right, very exceptionally wrong. A young surgeon who had married and was beginning surgery broke out into a rash all over, which rapidly became nodular. Several who saw him murmured, "Syphilis, however acquired", until 'Jonathan' at once said, "General sarcomatosis", and this was confirmed in a few weeks. In another case, however, he diagnosed syphilis, in spite of the patient's protests that he had not undergone exposure, and in a couple of days small-pox was evident. His genius in diagnosis and his philosophy were remarkably combined in all he wrote and said on syphilis. At the discussions on the pathology of syphilis at the London Pathological Society in 1876 (*Pathol. Soc. Trans.*, 1876, xxvii, 341) he held that the condition was due to a specific and living microbe, contagious and transmissible only so long as the microbe retained its vitality. "Someone will see it one day, for it is beyond doubt that it must be there" (p. 446). With this should be compared Moxon's sarcasms whilst avoiding question of causation (pp. 403-410), the gibe by Gull - "Well, I think syphilis is a flesh and blood disease" (p. 415). He taught the treatment of early syphilis by long persistence in the administration of metallic mercury by the mouth, very finely divided as 'grey powder', the course being interrupted at increasing intervals, for two to three years, but always short of salivation. He made but little use of arsenic, for he was impressed by it as a cause of cancer. In 1855 he began to observe cases of leprosy from the East End in the London Hospital, and thus called attention to a number of instances wandering about and mixing with the general populace in many cities of the world. He took up the view that in Norway and elsewhere lepers persisted owing to the custom of eating stale fish. Until he stirred up inquiry the subject leprosy was in a state of stagnation. After the discovery of the bacillus he made further observations in South Africa and India, in which he grafted to his first theory the transference of the bacillus by contact and contamination of food - but it continued until the end of his life a non-proven thesis. In 1868 he suggested that a museum illustrating the progress of medicine and surgery during the past year should be instituted at the Annual Meetings of the British Medical Association; this came into force. His houses at Nos. 14 and 4 in Finsbury Circus and in Cavendish Square, one after the other, became filled by a vast collection of specimens, coloured drawings, and charts used by him for his clinical lectures and demonstrations, until he collected them in the clinical museum attached to his son's house, 1 Park Crescent, Regent's Park. For years he was making provision for post-graduate instruction, and in 1899 he instituted a Medical Graduates' College and Policlinic at 22 Chenies Street, of which he was at once the life, the soul and the financier. He made exhibitions for short periods of illustrations he had collected on various subjects, and, through his persuasion, lectures and demonstrations were given by a great number of members of staff of hospitals, and by special practitioners. The history of Hutchinson's Policlinic will form an important chapter when systematic post-graduate instruction becomes definitely established in London; it came to an end after his death and the outbreak of the War. All that is of special and permanent value has been collected and preserved in the Museum of the College of Surgeons, including MSS., such as his research on the arthritic diathesis. The abundance of his collections was so great that duplicates of illustrative material were dispersed and in part taken over to the United States. There was yet another remarkable endeavour. At his country house at Haslemere, Surrey, he set up an educational museum and library, a miniature of the Natural History Museum in London, and a library providing an outline of history, for the benefit of the population of the locality. The museum displayed rocks, fossils, plants, flowers, preserved as well as freshly gathered, birds' eggs, an aviary and vivarium exhibiting natural objects of the neighbourhood, including the common viper. The library contained charts of figures tabulating events from antiquity to the present day. King Edward VII knew of him as the surgeon who had a hospital for animals on his farm. Lectures and addresses were given - including Sunday afternoon addresses - on the potato, tuberculosis, poetry, the inner life, and new birth. This 'home university' published a monthly journal, which includes features of a school book, encyclopaedia, and a journal of science and literature. After his death the executors handed it over, pruned of its diffuseness, to Haslemere. Hutchinson also started a somewhat similar museum at his birthplace, Selby, but that did not excite so much local interest. The object of the museum was to establish evolution as a motive for right living in place of personal immortality as usually taught. Throughout his life he jealously retained his membership of the Society of Friends, although he accepted 'evolution' as a renaissance of religion. Hutchinson was a good walker, fond of shooting and riding; he swam in a cold-water pool in his grounds until nearly the end of his life. He died at his house, The Library, Inval, Haslemere, on June 23rd, 1913, and was buried at Haslemere. By his orders there was inscribed on his gravestone, "A Man of Hope and Forward Looking Mind". Portraits accompany his obituary notices, and there are several in the College Collection. He figures in the Jamyn Brookes portrait group of the Council, 1884. His wife died in 1886; their family included six sons and four daughters. One son, Jonathan, F.R.C.S., followed his father as Surgeon to the London Hospital; another, Proctor, a laryngologist, died early ; Roger Jackson was in practice at Haselemere; and H. Hutchinson became an architect. PUBLICATIONS: - Hutchinson's publications were very numerous; the chief works are: - *The Archives of Surgery*, 10 vols., 1889-1900. His archives include what Hutchinson deemed of importance from among his previous publications, together with notes and additions. "Syphilis, the Discussion at the London Pathological Society, 1876." - *Trans. Path. Soc.*, 1876, xxvii, 341. *Notes about Syphilis*, 1887; new. ed., 1909. The introduction to the *System of Syphilis*, by D'Arcy Power and J. Keogh Murphy, in 6 vols., 1908, pp. xvii-xxxv. Hutchinson Collection in the Museum of the Royal College of Surgeons. Illustrations, notes and MSS.
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First Title value, for Searching Collins, Sir William Job (1859 - 1946)

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Occupation Ophthalmologist Welfare reformer
Details William Job Collins was a man of powerful intellect and character, who showed early promise of great achievement as a surgeon and ophthalmologist, but turned aside from his medical career to promote liberal reforms in the life and welfare of his fellow citizens, through a long life of service to the university, city, and county of London, and to the country at large, both in Parliament and through a large number of public and private commissions and societies. His fluent voice and pen were always ready to serve the causes which he had at heart. He was born in London on 9 May 1859, the eldest son of William Collins, MD of 1 Albert Terrace, Regent's Park, and Mary, eldest daughter of Edward Treacher; for fuller particulars see the foregoing account of his younger brother, Edward Treacher Collins, FRCS, who achieved distinction as an ophthalmologist. He was educated at University College School, then still in Gower Street, and at St Bartholomew's Hospital, which he entered in 1876 after winning the Jeafferson exhibition for classics and general knowledge. He served the hospital as ophthalmic house surgeon and extern midwifery assistant, and in 1884 was assistant demonstrator of anatomy in the medical college. Collins however came to disbelieve in the value of vaccination and vivisection, and as he always had the courage to speak and write vehemently in support of his beliefs, he spoilt his chances of promotion in his own hospital, where he had been educated in strictest traditions of Harvey and Jenner. He had been a scholar and gold medallist of London University and graduated in science in 1889, the year in which he qualified as MRCS, and took the MB BS in 1881. He made postgraduate studies in ophthalmology at Utrecht and proceeded to the London MD in 1882, the FRCS in 1884, and the MS in 1885. With this equipment Collins seemed destined to rise high and quickly in the profession. He was elected to the staff of the Royal Eye Hospital and the Western Ophthalmic Hospital, and was for many years ophthalmic surgeon to the Temperance Hospital and to the Hampstead and Northwestern Hospital. In 1897 he published a useful treatise on *Cataract*, which reached a second edition in 1906. Already in his early thirties, Collins began to show his interest and aptitude for public affairs. He was a member of the Royal Commission on Vaccination 1889-96, and from 1893 till 1927 he served on the senate of London University, being vice-chancellor 1907-09 and again 1911-12. He was elected a member of the London County Council for St Pancras in 1892, became vice-chairman in 1896, and as chairman in 1897 presented the Council's address to Queen Victoria at her diamond jubilee. He stood unsuccessfully for Parliament as a Liberal candidate for London University in 1895 and again in 1900, when Sir Michael Foster, FRS, was elected; he was returned by a large majority for West St Pancras in 1906. He was temporary chairman of committees in 1910, but went out at the general election that year. He was re-elected for Derby in 1916 and held the seat till the general election of 1918. He had advocated providing a central ambulance service for London while serving in the LCC in 1901. A bill for this end promoted by the Council was thrown out by the Lords in 1906, and a departmental committee of the Home Office was appointed with Collins as one of the three members. This committee reported in 1909 in favour of the service, but while his two colleagues recommended that the Metropolitan Asylums Board should be the ambulance authority, Collins recorded a dissentient view in favour of the LCC. Collins now introduced his Metropolitan Ambulances bill in Parliament, and it became law in 1909; the LCC was however reluctant to operate the Act and the Ambulance Service only came into being in 1914. Collins wrote an account of the service, its beginnings and its great development, in *The Times*, 21 March 1939. Collins served on many other commissions of enquiry: Royal Commission on vivisection 1906-12; select committee on the hop industry 1908; independent chairman of the Cumberland joint district board under the Coal-miners' Minimum Wage Act 1912; the committee on accidents to railway servants 1914-19; chairman of the Sussex agricultural wages committee 1920-39; Treasury committee on university colleges; chairman, civil servants conciliation and arbitration board 1917-18. He was British plenipotentiary to the international opium conferences at The Hague in. 1911, 1913, and 1914 and wrote for the *British Medical Journal* on opium problems. His book on the *Ethics and law of drug and alcohol addiction* was a piece of wise and humane reasoning. He was for thirty years chairman of the Central Council for district nursing for London, and on his retirement in 1944 was elected its first president. He was honorary secretary of the League of Mercy 1899-1928, a trustee of the City parochial charities and a member of the City Churches commission 1919-20. Collins was elected an honorary liveryman of the Turners Company in 1909. He was a Justice of the Peace and a Deputy-Lieutenant for the County of London and was appointed Vice-Lieutenant in 1925. He had been knighted in 1902 and was created KCVO in 1914. During the first world war Collins served in France as a Red Cross commissioner with particular charge of ophthalmic matters. In 1918 he was Doyne memorial lecturer, speaking on "Ophthalmology in the war" at Oxford, and received the Doyne medal. He had published a manual on *Gunshot wounds of the eye* in 1917. His political study, *The aetiology of the European conflagration*, 1915, aroused some interest. He was a member of council of King Edward's Hospital Fund for London, and in 1919 signed a minority report in favour of more generous pensions for hospital officers, having previously, as a private member of parliament, secured similar improvement for asylum officers. He was president of the Medico-legal Society 1901-05, and on three occasions led deputations to different Lord Chancellors advocating the reform of death certification. He was president of the Sanitary Inspectors Association; he had himself taken the certificate of London University in sanitary science in 1887 with a gold medal; and was chairman of the Chadwick trust and the Northwestern Polytechnic. Collins was not content only to carry on the work of earlier liberals, but wrote biographies of his heroes Sir Samuel Romilly (1908) and Sir Edwin Chadwick (1924). He also made serious excursions into philosophy, publishing a study of Spinoza, and in 1905 an essay on physic and metaphysic; he was a protestant with unitarian affiliations. Collins was an active member of the Huguenot Society of London, and as its president 1926-29 gave an address on Ambroise Paré, the great Huguenot surgeon of the sixteenth century. He was one of the three founders of the Anglo-Batavian Society in 1921, and a vice-chairman of it when reconstituted as the Anglo-Netherlands Society. He married in 1898 Jean Stevenson Wilson, elder daughter of John Wilson, MP for Govan, for many years a sister at the Temperance Hospital. Lady Collins threw herself heartily into her husband's interests in the public and charitable affairs of London, and became a leading vice-president of the League of Mercy. Her house at Beachy Head near Eastbourne was a centre of sympathy for every liberal cause. Lady Collins was long a victim of arthritis; she died at 1 Albert Terrace, Regent's Park, on 29 January 1936, and was buried at Hampstead Old Churchyard. There were no children of the marriage. Collins survived for eleven years, dying at Albert Terrace on 12 December 1946, aged 87. A memorial service was held in Crown Court Scottish presbyterian church, Covent Garden, on 30 December 1946. Collins was of medium height, broad-shouldered, with a fine head. His somewhat Olympian manner and rhetorical style of speech hid a warm-hearted friendliness. He represented the best type of independent citizen from the professional class of the later nineteenth century. Principal publications:- *Specificity and evolution*. London, 1884; 2nd edition 1890; 3rd edition 1920; the first edition was dedicated to Herbert Spencer. *Cataract*. London, 1897; 2nd edition 1906. *The man versus the microbe*. Redhill, 1903; 2nd edition 1929. *Physic and metaphysic*. London, 1905. *Sir Samuel Romilly's life and work*. London, 1908. *The ethics and law of drug and alcohol addiction*. London, 1916. *Gunshot wounds of the eye*. Oxford, 1917. Ophthalmology and the war (Doyne memorial lecture). *Trans Ophthal Soc UK* 1918, 38, 292. Sir William Lawrence 1783-1867. *Brit J Ophthal*. 1918, 2, 497. *The life and doctrine of Sir Edwin Chadwick*. London, 1924. Ambroise Paré (Presidential address), *Proceedings of the Huguenot Society of London*, 1929, 13, 549.
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First Title value, for Searching Duke-Elder, Sir William Stewart (1898 - 1978)

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Occupation Ophthalmologist
Details William Stewart Duke-Elder was born on 22 April 1898 at Tealing, near Dundee, the son of a Scottish minister. Before proceeding to St Andrew's University as a foundation scholar in 1915 he had been a brilliant pupil at school and was invariably top of the class. He graduated MA in 1919 with first class honours in natural science and also took the BSc with distinction in physiology. He qualified with the MB ChB in 1923, obtained the FRCS England in 1924 and the MD of St Andrews, in which he gained a Gold Medal, in 1925. Also in 1925 he obtained a PhD from London University. Early in his career at the instigation of Sir John Parsons FRS he devoted time to researching the physiology of the eye at University College London with Professor Starling and in biochemistry with Dr Drummond. He was consecutively Plimmer Research Fellow (1926), Laking Research Scholar (1926-29), Reittinger Professor (1926), BMA Scholar (1927), BMA Middlemore Prizeman (1929) and Research Associate (1933). At an early stage in his career he built up a large private practice and in 1932 he operated on the then Prime Minister, Ramsey Macdonald, for glaucoma which brought his name before the public. He achieved the distinction of being appointed Surgeon Oculist to King Edward VIII and subsequently to King George VI and then Queen Elizabeth II. He was knighted in 1933 and was appointed KCVO in 1946 and GCVO in 1958. Duke-Elder was best known for his many contributions to medical literature, the first and foremost being his *Textbook of ophthalmology* in seven volumes (1932-1954). In recognition of this he was awarded the Fothergillian Prize of the Medical Society of London. Realising that some of this work already needed rewriting and updating, he decided to bring out a much larger work entitled *A system of ophthalmology* in fifteen volumes, the first being published in 1958 and the last in 1976. In these volumes he enlisted the help of his colleagues, but there is no doubt that the inspiration and clarity were his. *Recent advances in ophthalmology* was published in 1927 and *Practice of refraction* in 1928. Early in life he learned to depend upon fewer hours of sleep than most people, and that is part of the explanation of his amazing output of literature. Apart from these major works and a series of articles in many ophthalmic and scientific journals he was for many years editor of the *British journal of ophthalmology* and of *Ophthalmic literature*. The amalgamation of the three main eye hospitals in London (Moorfields, the Royal Westminster and the Central London) and the formation of the Institute of Ophthalmology, was put into action a year before the inauguration of the NHS largely due to his efforts, encouraged and assisted by Sir John Parsons and Ida Mann. As early as 1937 Duke-Elder made plans for an Institute of Ophthalmology, for research done in the British Isles was mainly clinical and there was no centre where properly organised research work was undertaken. This was especially true of ocular pathology and the basic sciences. As Director of Research at the Institute for seventeen years he organised and coordinated the work. He gave much time to arranging research projects and was instrumental in acquiring financial help from charitable organisations. It was largely for this that he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society, a distinction which nowadays is rarely conferred upon members of the medical profession who are primarily involved in clinical work. He was the second ophthalmologist to gain this distinction in the present century. The establishment of a special fellowship examination in ophthalmology at the Royal College of Surgeons of England in 1947 was mainly due to his efforts. Previously anyone who wished to sit for it had to pass the examination in general surgery first. Duke-Elder was one of the pioneers who initiated the Diploma of Ophthalmological Medicine and Surgery (DOMS), later to be changed to the Diploma of Ophthalmology (DO), and was one of the first to be appointed an examiner in these. In 1945, he helped to set up the Faculty of Ophthalmologists at the College. He was its first President, holding office for four years. The purpose of the Faculty was to act as a single authoritative and representative body to represent ophthalmology in matters of public and professional interest and to further the good of the community on ophthalmic matters. In 1950 he chaired the XVI International Congress of Ophthalmology in London. Duke-Elder was a warm-hearted and friendly Scot with a delightfully informal manner. His charming smile and puckish sense of humour put strangers at ease. He also had the ability to listen, and to take a friendly interest in the personal problems of his colleagues. His advice was invariably sound and given with careful thought. His judgement and sense of timing was amazing and always based on a profound knowledge of his subject. He had the capacity and power of cheerfully over-riding difficulties which to some would have seemed insurmountable. He excelled at committee meetings when he would sum up the situation with a wise and simple solution showing foresight and judgement and rendering further discussion unnecessary. His private practice was enormous not only because of his clinical skill and judgement, but also because of his kindness and obvious concern for each patient's welfare. His opinion was sought from all over the world. In the second world war he was consultant ophthalmic surgeon to the Army with the rank of Brigadier. His duties involved visits to overseas hospitals and units in many theatres of the war. He was subsequently civilian consultant in ophthalmology to the RAF and also ophthalmic advisor to the Ministries of Health, Supply and Labour and to the London Transport Board. The many medals he was given included the William MacKenzie Medal (Glasgow) in 1929, the Nettleship Medal (Ophthalmological Society of the UK) 1933, the Howe Medal (USA) 1946, the Research Medal of the American Medical Association 1947, the Donders Medal (Holland) 1947, the Doyne Medal (Oxford) 1948, the Gullstrand Medal (Sweden) 1952, the Medal of Strasbourg University 1962 and of Ghent University 1953, the Gonin Medal (International) 1954, the Lister Medal (Royal College of Surgeons of England) 1956, the Bowman Medal (Ophthalmological Society of the UK) 1957, the Ophthalmiatreion Medal (Athens) 1957, the Proctor Medal (USA) 1961 and the Lang Medal (Royal Society of Medicine of London) 1965. He also received the Bronze Star Medal of the USA and the Star of Jordan (1st Class). He was appointed a Knight Commander of the Phoenix of Greece and a Commander of the Orthodox Crusaders of the Order of the Holy Sepulchre (Jerusalem). In 1944 he was admitted to membership of the Most Venerable Order of St John of Jerusalem and in 1954 was appointed Hospitaller of the Order in succession to Lord Webb-Johnson. His services to the Order were immense. In 1882 under the Ottoman Government a British eye hospital and dispensary had been built in Jerusalem near the Jaffa Gate by the Order of St John for the people in Palestine suffering from eye disease. This hospital, was restored and reopened in 1919, its work grew rapidly and it was busy throughout the second world war. Following the break between the Arabs and Israelis, the resulting Armistice line was such that the hospital was now on the Israeli side of the city of Jerusalem and Arab patients could no longer be treated there. To cater for them (since they always constituted the bulk of patients) a temporary hospital was set up in two houses owned by the Order of St John in the centre of the old city, then in Jordan. As Hospitaller and Chairman of the Hospital Committee Duke-Elder worked hard to get a better hospital, and eventually contributions flowed in. A magnificently equipped new St John Ophthalmic Hospital, situated on the Nablus Road in East Jerusalem was opened in October 1960 by Lord Wakehurst, Lord Prior of the Order, on behalf of the Grand Prior, the Duke of Gloucester. Before the hospital itself was completed he had organised the building of a set of pathological laboratories where early research into the cause of trachoma was carried out. He worked indefatigably as Hospitaller making all the appointments to the medical and nursing staff, keeping the equipment up to date and seeking financial help and visiting the hospital annually, with his wife. It was largely due to his efforts that the hospital flourished. Duke-Elder, who had been promoted to the rank of Knight of the Order of St John, was subsequently promoted Bailiff Grand Cross of the Order and also Councillor of the Hospital Committee. Duke-Elder was a happily married man with a charming wife who greatly helped and supported him throughout his professional life. She had graduated in medicine in 1926 and subsequently worked as clinical assistant in Stewart's out-patient clinic at Moorfields. During the second world war she was in charge of the Zachary Merton Hospital at Banstead to which special cases were referred from the army. An ideal hostess, she never forgot the names of newcomers, nor omitted to cater for their special needs. Few married couples can have done so much for so many of their colleagues, they had no children, and when he died on 27 March 1978, Phyllis survived him.
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