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The history & traditions of the Moorfields Eye Hospital

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Presidents

Date of Appointment. Date of Resignation.

Sir Charles Price, Bart. 1804 1818

Mr. William Mellish 1818 1838

Rt. Hon. Earl Fitzwilliam 1838 1856

Mr. William Cotton, D.C.L., F.R.S. 1857 1867

Sir John Lubbock, F.R.S., M.P. (afterwards Lord Avebury) 1867 1913

His Royal Highness Prince Arthur of Connaught, K.G. 1914

Chairmen of the Committee of Management

Mr. Harry Sedgwick 1804 1818

Mr. Ralph Price 1818 1830

Mr. Stuart Donaldson 1831 1837

Rev. J. Russell, D.D. 1837 1857

Mr. Richard Heathfield 1857 1859

Mr. F. G. Sambrooke 1860 1871

Mr. Philip Cazenove 1871 1879

Mr. Charles Gordon 1879 1897

Mr. H. P. Sturgis 1897 1921

Mr. Theodore W. Luling 1921

Honorary Medical and Surgical Officers

Physicians

John Richard Farre, M.D. 1805 1857

Frederick J. Farre, M.D. 1843 1880

Robert Martin, M.D. 1856 1884

Sir Stephen Mackenzie, M.D. 1884 1905

James Taylor, C.B.E., M.D. 1899 1919

Gordon M. Holmes, C.M.G., C.B.E., M.D. 1914 1927

William J. Adie, M.D. 1927

Surgeons

J. Cunningham Saunders (Founder) 1804 Died 1810

Benjamin Travers, F.R.S. 1810 1817

Sir William Lawrence, Bart., F.R.S. 1814 1826

Frederick Tyrrell 1817 Died 1843

John Scott 1826 1846

Gilbert Mackmurdo, F.R.S. 1830 1856

John Dalrymple, F.R.S. 1832 1849

James Dixon 1843 1868

George Critchett 1843 1877

Sir William Bowman, Bart., F.R.S. 1846 1876

Alfred Poland 1848 1861

H. H. Mackmurdo 1851 1852

John C. Wordsworth 1852 1883

J. F. Streatfield 1856 Died 1886

J. W. Hulke, F.R.S. 1858 1890

George Lawson 1862 1891

Sir Jonathan Hutchinson, F.R.S. 1862 1878

John Couper 1866 1895

J. Soelberg Wells 1867 Died 1880

Waren Tay 1877 1904

James E. Adams 1877 1884

Sir John Tweedy, LL.D. 1878 1900

Robert Lyall 1880 Died 1882

Edward Nettleship, F.R.S. 1882 1898

R. Marcus Gunn 1883 1909

W. Lang 1884 1912

A. Quarry Silcock 1886 Died 1904

J. B. Lawford, LL.D. 1890 1918

A. Stanford Morton 1891 1909

E. Treacher Collins 1895 1922

W. T. Holmes Spicer 1898 1920

Percy Fleming 1900 1919

J. Herbert Fisher 1900 1927

Sir Arnold Lawson, K.B.E. 1900 1914

C. Devereux Marshall 1900 Died on active service, 1918

Sir William T. Lister, K.C.M.G. 1904 1905

1919

Sir John Herbert Parsons, C.B.E., F.R.S. 1905

Claud Worth 1905 1921

W. Ilbert Hancock 1909 Died 1910

George Coats 1909 Died 1915

Malcolm L. Hepburn 1910 1926

A. Cyril Hudson 1913 1928

R. Foster Moore, O.B.E. 1914

R. Affleck Greeves 1915

F. A. Juler 1918

Charles Goulden, O.B.E. 1919

B. T. Lang 1920 Died 1928

M. H. Whiting, O.B.E 1921

P. G. Doyne 1922

Humphrey Neame 1926

Miss Ida C. Mann 1927

W. Stewart Duke-Elder 1928

Rupert S. Scott 1928

Ear, Nose, and Throat Surgeon

G. Seccombe Hett 1923 1929

Medical Officer to the X-Ray Department

Sir James Mackenzie Davidson 1899 1910

Albert Bowie 1910

Dental Surgeons

Arthur E. Relph 1913 1915

R. M. Fickling 1915 1928

Stanley A. Riddett 1928

Medical Officer to the Ultra-Violet Ray Department

W. Stewart Duke-Elder 1927

Secretaries

Mr. Richard Battley 1804 1818

Mr. Matthew Heathfield 1818 1834

Mr. William Bircham 1835 1844

Mr. Robert Francis Dalrymple 1844 1846

Mr. F. A. Curling 1846 1856

Mr. Charles Gordelier 1856 1860

Mr. J. Mogford 1860 1872

Mr. Robert J. Newstead 1872 1897

Mr. Robert J. Bland 1897 1923

Mr. Arthur J. M. Tarrant 1923

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