Formed as the London Refraction Hospital (or the Institute of Ophthalmic Opticians), became the Institute of Optometry in 1988.
This section lists the memorials where the subject on this page is commemorated:
First refraction hospital in the world
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Institute of Optometry
In the correspondence pages of the 1927 BMJ the man named on the plaque, Fran...
Other Subjects
Dr. Alfred Collett Bartley
Mitcham village doctor. In 1826 he modernised the White House which remained in his family until 1919. A Merton Historical Society Bulletin has "The White House was .... home from about 1820 to .....
Miss J. M. Hoare, MBE
Lady District Officer in the St John Ambulance Brigade, Metropolitan Corps, 1893-1932. Commander (Sister) in the Order of St John.
Person, Emergency Services, Medicine, Politics & Administration
Councillor David Avery
David James Avery was born on 2 December 1933, the third of the five children of Frederick Joseph Avery (1897-1988) and Ethel Maud Avery née Lambert (1901-1984) whose birth was registered in the St...
Harold Ridley
Ophthalmologist. Born Nicholas Harold Lloyd Ridley in Kibworth Harcourt, Leicestershire. Died in Salisbury, Wiltshire. In WW2, he treated Royal Air Force casualties with eye injuries. He noticed t...
George Nissel
Born Transylvania, studied engineering. His sister Dorothy married Dallos and in May 1937 they all came to London. As an enemy alien was not allowed to fight in WW2 but after the war he gained Brit...

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