Optician. Born Cambridge. Aged 17 apprenticed to an optician. Qualified with night-school study and began fitting contact lenses in 1934. Became a world specialist and published an early text book on the subject with F. Dickinson, 1946. Died Bergen.
See also Josef Dallos.
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Keith Clifford Hall
Keith Clifford Hall, FSMC, FAAO, DCLP, 1910 - 1964, pioneer in the fitting of...
Born southern Germany. It appears that Pettenkofer's successes in pioneering hygiene were sheer luck and his recognition on the frieze at the LSHTM is unmerited. But his biography on the picture s...
In 1696 a mineral spring was discovered on the site, and the Kensington Wells developed from it. The first building to be erected at the spring was the Wells spa, which operated until the mid 18th...
All-women unit, affiliated to the TA, formed as the First Aid Nursing Yeomanry and active in both nursing and intelligence work during WW1 and WW2. The original role was to ride horseback (hence "...
Surgeon who founded two hospitals. 1828 established a small dispensary in Greville Street which was the first to provide free treatment even to people not sent by the benefactors of the institution...
