Optician, known for his successful optics business and his patenting and commercialization of achromatic doublets. The business, founded in 1750, became Dollond & Aitchison in 1927, and was subsumed into Boots 2009-15.
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John Dolland
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The date of death is in the foliage frieze, to the right, outside our photo.
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