Herbert Lightfoot Eason

Herbert Lightfoot Eason

Sir Herbert Lightfoot Eason CB CMG MS (15 July 1874 – 2 November 1949)[1][2]) was an ophthalmic surgeon and Superintendent at Guy's Hospital, London, President of the General Medical Council, Vice Chancellor from 1935–1937 (and later Principal) of the University of London.[3] He was knighted in 1943.[2]

Early life

He was educated at University College, London and Guy's Hospital, London.

War service

During the First World War he was Lieutenant colonel in the RAMC and Consulting Ophthalmic Surgeon to Forces in the Mediterranean and Egypt from 1915–19.[1]

Personal life

He married first in 1908, Ierne Bingham (d 1917), the eldest daughter of 5th Baron Clanmorris and they had a daughter. He married, second, 1920, Margaret Wallace, of Quidenham, Attleborough, Norfolk and they had two daughters.[1]

See also

References

  1. 1 2 3 "Eason, Sir Herbert Lightfoot", in Who Was Who, A & C Black, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing plc, 1920–2007, Oxford University Press, 2012; online edn.
  2. 1 2 "Sir Herbert Eason". The Glasgow Herald. 3 November 1949. Retrieved 24 August 2012.
  3. Parish, R (1950). "Sir Herbert Lightfoot Eason, C.b., C.m.g". British Journal of Ophthalmology 34 (1): 61. doi:10.1136/bjo.34.1.61-a. PMC 1323563. PMID 18170541.
Academic offices
Preceded by
Louis Napoleon George Filon
Vice-Chancellor of the
University of London

1935–1937
Succeeded by
Sir Robert Howson Pickard
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