Herbert Lightfoot Eason
Sir Herbert Lightfoot Eason CB CMG (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[]
- List of Vice-Chancellors of the University of London
- List of British university chancellors and vice-chancellors
References[]
- ^ a b c "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.
- ^ a b "Sir Herbert Eason". The Glasgow Herald. 3 November 1949. Retrieved 24 August 2012.
- ^ 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.
- 1874 births
- 1949 deaths
- Alumni of the UCL Medical School
- British ophthalmologists
- Vice-Chancellors of the University of London
- Royal Army Medical Corps officers
- Companions of the Order of St Michael and St George
- Companions of the Order of the Bath
- Knights Bachelor
- Chairs of the General Medical Council