Charlotte (Stannus) Doyne
Trinity College Dublin. Philip
entered TCD on 14 October 1836, and graduated B.A. in 1840.
Emily
Sophia Richards on 25 April 1849, in Clone, county Wexford, Ireland
Clergyman. Philip was
Perpetual Curate of Monart, county Wexford (licensed 18 May 1843), and
also curate of Tormohan, Devon, at the time of his death.
Ferns Clergy and parishes by James B.
Leslie (1936):
Perpetual curate of Monart, Co Wexford,
Licensed 18 May 1843
TCD 14 Oct 1836 Aged 18. B.A. 1840. Son of Charles William, clericus.
Priest Dec 18 1842 (Ossary).
23 October 1861, in Torquay, Devon,
England, of apoplexy, aged 43
The Gentleman's magazine (July-December1
1861) vol 211 p690 by Sylvanus Urban (1861)
CLERGY
DECEASED
Oct. 23. At Torquay,
suddenly, of apoplexy, aged 43, the Rev. Philip
Walter Doyne.
Ardamine cemetery, Gorey, county
Wexford, Ireland. The font at Ardamine Church, made of Caen stone, is
given in Philip's memory.
1849: Monart Glebe, Monart, county Wexford (marriage record)
Philip Valentine Doyne
14 February 1859, in Barrow Gurney,
Somerset, England
Philip Walter Doyne
Emily
Sophia (Richards) Doyne
Clare College, Cambridge,
graduating B.A. in 1883 and M.A. in 1890.
Alumni Cantabrigienses by John Venn
(1940-54) transcribed at A
Cambridge Alumni Database
Doyne, Philip
Valentine.
Adm. at CLARE, Apr. 16, 1883. [3rd] s. of P. W. [Philip Walter, of The
Cottage, Wraxall] B. Feb. 14, 1859. Matric. Easter, 1883; B.A. 1886;
M.A. 1890.
Ord. deacon, 1886; priest (Salisbury) 1887; C. of Combe Bisset, Wilts.,
1886-8. C. of Horningsham, 1888-94. V. of Beckley, 1894-1916. V. of
Headington Quarry, Oxford, 1916-23.
Died Sept. 26, 1923.
Brother of Charles G. (1871). (Burke, L.G.
of
Ireland; Crockford; The Times, Sept. 28, 1923.)
Mary Elizabeth Johnson on 10
July 1889 in Rochdale
district, Lancashire, England. Mary was born in 1864, in Durham,
county Durham, the daughter of Rev. W. Johnson. She died on 14 November
1929, in Birmingham
South
district, Warwickshire, aged 65, and is buried at Holy Trinity
Church in Headington Quarry. Her address at the time of her death was 31
Woodstock Road, Balsall Heath, Warwickshire.
1881:
"Clifton
College" Ladies School, Clifton, Gloucestershire
Clergyman
Philip was ordained as deacon in 1886 and priest in Salisbury in 1887. He
was curate of Coombe Bisset, Wiltshire from 1886-8 and curate of
Horningsham, Wiltshire, from 1888-94. Philip was then vicar of Beckley,
Oxfordshire 1894-1916, during which time he officiated at the marriage of
his cousin, Kathleen Louisa Vere
Richards in Little Hinton, Wiltshire in 1897 (Reading Mercury 8 May 1897 p12). Philip was then vicar of
Headington Quarry, Oxford from 1916 until his death in 1923.
26 September 1923, in Headington
district, Oxfordshire, England, aged 64
Holy Trinity Church,
Headington Quarry, Oxfordshire, England. The chancel windows in Holy
Trinity Church, depicting St Andrew (the Parish’s Patron Saint) and St
Philip, were installed in Philip's memory.
1891: Curales House, West Common, Horningsham, Wiltshire
1901: Beckley Vicarage, Beckley, Oxfordshire
1911: Beckley Vicarage, Beckley, Oxfordshire
Philip Geoffrey Doyne
known as Geoff Doyne
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Philip Geoffrey Doyne
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31 October 1886, in Headington
district, Oxfordshire, England
Robert Walter
Doyne
Gertrude Irene Hope (Hollings)
Doyne
Winchester College, then
Trinity College, Oxford and St. Thomas's Hospital. He graduated B.M.,
B.Ch. in 1913 and in the following year obtained the F.R.C.S.
Winchester College register 1836-1906 p594
ed. John Bannerman Wainewright (1907)
DOYNE, PHILIP GEOFFREY (G),
b. 31 Oct., 1886, s. of Robert Walter Doyne, Esq., F.R.C.S., 53, Broad
St., Oxford, and Gertrude Irene Hope, his wife, d. of John Hollings,
Esq. (bro. of Humphry Cathair, below, p. 613).
Trin. Coll. Oxon 1904. Address
as above Evelyn Ida Griffin on 3 August 1915, in Chelsea
district, London, England. Evelyn was born on 25 July 1885, the
daughter of Marten Harcourt Griffin and Isabella Elizabeth Spencer. She
died on 6 May 1981, aged 95.
Ophthalmologist
After holding a number of resident appointments at St. Thomas's, including
that of ophthalmic house-surgeon, Philip joined the R.A.M.C. and served
for two and a half years as an ophthalmic specialist (with the rank of
captain) to the Middle East Force in Bagdad. After the war he returned to
the appointment of ophthalmic registrar at St. Thomas's, and a little
later was elected ophthalmic surgeon to the East London Hospital for
Children. At the Royal London Ophthalmic Hospital he first held the Lang
research scholarship and was then appointed to the staff as assistant
surgeon, becoming in due course full surgeon and senior surgeon. Elected
to the honorary staff of St. Thomas's Hospital on the retirement of Mr. J.
H. Fisher, he was for a time sub-dean of the medical school, and from 1935
to 1946 he was head of the ophthalmic department. Philip took a special
interest in children's eyes and for many years he was also ophthalmic
surgeon to the Hospital for Sick Children, Great Ormond Street.
Philip's publications include Artificially
Induced
Ophthalmia (British Journal of Ophthalmology
1919 pp313-5), Coloured
Vision (Proceedings Royal Society of
Medicine Section of Ophthalmology 1922 p29), Amaurosis in Infants
(Lancet 22 September 1922 pp607-8) Tournay's
Reaction (British Journal of Ophthalmology
1923 pp420-1), Ocular
Torticollis (Proceedings Royal Society of
Medicine Section of Ophthalmology 1929 p42); Syphilitic
Diseases of the Eye (British Journal of
Venereal Diseases 1930 219 p223) and Some
Cases
of Paralytic Squint (British Journal of
Ophthalmology 1937 pp531-4)
Philip was an accomplished fencer. He was twice amateur
foils
champion of Great Britain (in 1912 and 1920), and represented
Britain
at the Olympic Games in Antwerp in 1920 and Paris in 1924. Philip
also rowed at Henley Regattas, representing Trinity College in the Ladies'
Plate and Thames Cup in 1906, and Wyfold Fours in 1907 (Henley races p459)
22 January 1959, at his home at
Assenden, near Henley-on-Thames, Oxfordshire, England, aged 72
British Medical Journal 31 January 1959
pp305-6
Obituary
P. G. DOYNE, B.M., F.R.C.S.
Mr. P. G. Doyne, consulting ophthalmic surgeon
to St. Thomas's Hospital, Moorfields Eye Hospital, and the Hospital for
Sick Children, died at his home at Assenden, near Henley-on-Thames, on
January 22. He was 72 years of age.
Philip Geoffrey Doyne was born on October 31, 1886, the son of
Mr. R. W. Doyne, F.R.C.S., the founder of the Oxford Eye Hospital and of
the Oxford Ophthalmological Congress. Educated at Winchester, Trinity
College, Oxford,
and St. Thomas's Hospital, he graduated B.M., B.Ch. in 1913 and in the
following year obtained the F.R.C.S. After holding a number of resident
appointments at St. Thomas's, including that of ophthalmic
house-surgeon, he joined the R.A.M.C. and served for two and a half
years as an ophthalmic specialist to the Middle East Force in Bagdad.
After the war he returned to the appointment of ophthalmic registrar at
St. Thomas's, and a little later he was elected ophthalmic surgeon to
the East London Hospital for Children. At the Royal London Ophthalmic
Hospital he first held the Lang research scholarship and was then
appointed to the staff as assistant surgeon, becoming in due course full
surgeon and senior surgeon. Elected to the honorary staff of St.
Thomas's Hospital on the retirement of Mr. J. H. Fisher, he was for a
time sub-dean of the medical school, and from 1935 to 1946 he was head
of the ophthalmic department. He took a special interest in children's
eyes and for many years he was also ophthalmic surgeon to the Hospital
for Sick Children, Great Ormond Street.
Mr. Doyne served on the Ophthalmic Group Committee of the B.M.A.
from 1938 to 1945. When the Association held its Annual Meeting at Bath
in 1925 he acted as one of the honorary secretaries of the Section of
Ophthalmology, and at Dublin in 1933 he was a vice-president of the
Section. During the second world war he worked exceedingly hard in the
Emergency Medical Service, living in rooms so as to be within easy reach
of the hospitals to which he was attached. In 1943 he was elected master
of the Oxford Ophthalmological Congress, of which his father had been
the first master. When he retired in 1946 he went to live at
Henley-on-Thames.
Although an ophthalmic surgeon of distinction, with a
well-deserved reputation for the soundness of his judgment, Doyne was of
a very modest disposition and he made few contributions to the
literature of his specialty. It often came as a surprise to his students
to learn that he had been one of the greatest amateur fencers of his
day. He represented Britain in the Olympic Games before the first world
war, and he was twice amateur foils champion of Great Britain.
Mr. Doyne leaves a widow and one daughter. His son-in-law, Emrys
Lloyd, also fenced for Great Britain at the Olympic Games and is a
British amateur foils champion.
Mr. G. G. PENMAN writes: By the death of Geoffrey
Doyne we lose another of that brilliant band of ophthalmologists who
flourished between the wars. He may be said to have been cradled in
Oxford ophthalmology, for his father was Robert Doyne, the great Oxford
ophthalmologist, who founded the Oxford Ophthalmological Congress, which
this year celebrates its fiftieth anniversary. It is sad that his son
did not live to see, and enjoy in good health, this occasion. At his
house at Bix, which he loved so much, Doyne was very close to Oxford. He
was a master of his craft, with a fine pair of hands, a keen diagnostic
sense, and a great store of knowledge. To his patients he was kindness
itself, and his experience at Great Ormond Street showed itself in his
gentleness with children and in his ability to obtain their confidence.
In his teaching his clear and simple demonstrations and logical thought,
with his wide acquaintance with the literature, were of the greatest
value to all, from the undergraduate student to the senior registrar.
As a man and as a colleague, Doyne was the kindest and
friendliest of persons. He was always helpful and cheerful, with a quiet
sense of humour, and never spoke an unkind word. The long and
distressing illness which struck him at about the time of his retirement
from hospital work deprived his friends of many years in which in the
ordinary way they would still have seen much of him and enjoyed his
companionship, which they sorely miss. Doyne was a fencer of
international class, and when he gave up actively competing he continued
to take a great interest in this sport. In this he followed his father,
and his son-in-law continued the family tradition. He also enjoyed his
garden at Bix, and played a steady game of golf on occasion. He loved
his family and his home, and to his wife and daughter all his friends
will tender their sincerest sympathy.
and in British
Medical Journal 14 February 1959 pp446
P. G. DOYNE,
B.M., F.R.C.S.
T. M. T. writes: Many will have read with
sorrow the obituary of Mr. P. G. Doyne in the Journal
of January 31 (p. 305), especially his ex-house-surgeons, who must be
distributed all over the English-speaking world. It is not often that it
can be said of a man that everybody with whom he came in contact went
away with something of his personality imprinted on them. I am sure that
every one of those fortunate persons will join with me in expressing
sympathy with his widow and her daughter in their sad loss and spare a
moment to remember him on his passing.
British
Journal of Opthalmology (1959) p255-6
OBITUARY
PHILIP GEOFFREY
DOYNE
Progressive and harrowing ill health had
taken Geoff Doyne from the company of his friends for a number of years.
But many, especially those who knew him in London and Oxford, will have
been saddened by the news of his death.
Philip Geoffrey Doyne was born in 1886, the elder son of Robert
Doyne, whose name is esteemed in ophthalmological circles all over the
world. He was educated at Winchester, Trinity College, Oxford, and St.
Thomas's Hospital, from which he qualified in 1913 following this by his
F.R.C.S. (Eng.) in 1914. He served with the R.A.M.C. in the 1914-18 war
and spent three years in Mesopotamia, becoming the Army Eye Specialist
in Baghdad. He settled in London after the war and in due time was
appointed ophthalmic surgeon to St. Thomas's Hospital and surgeon to the
Royal London Ophthalmic Hospital (Moorfields). For a number of years he
was ophthalmic surgeon to the Hospital for Sick Children, Great Ormond
Street. He was an examiner for the Diploma in Ophthalmology at Oxford
for some years before the university discontinued the examination.
He was of retiring nature and wrote and spoke little in medical
circles, but was known to his colleagues and patients as a
conscientious, kind, and sound ophthalmologist whose work and opinion
were held in high regard. He became a Vice-President of the O.S.U.K.,
but a major affection was for the Oxford Congress founded fifty years
ago by his father. Of this he was Master in the years immediately after
the 1939-45 war and his delightful company there and advice on the
Congress Council over the years will be remembered by many of his
colleagues in Great Britain and overseas. His modest, gentle charm, his
slightly diffident merry wit, and his hospitality endeared him to all
who knew him.
He was fond of games, he rowed in his College boat, and with his
brother, especially when in later years he lived outside Henley, he kept
a keen interest in rowing all his life. But his major athletic interest
which brought him international fame was in fencing, for he was twice
British Amateur Foils Champion and was in the Olympic team for that
weapon. His fairness, skill, and courage brought honour and many demands
for service as fencer, judge, and adviser. He kept fit enough to fence
regularly till the age of sixty and enjoyed the company of a wide circle
of friends.
To his widow, his quiet but stalwart support, and to his
daughter, his many friends extend their most real sympathy.
1907: 53 Broad St, Oxford, Oxfordshire (Winchester College register 1836-1906 p594)
Philip Denys Doyne
28 October 1891, in Horningsham,
Wiltshire, England
29 November 1891, in St John
the Baptist, Horningsham, Wiltshire, England. Philip Denys Doyne is the
son of Philip Valentine Doyne, a clerk in holy orders residing in
Horningsham, and Mary Elizabeth.
Philip Valentine Doyne
Mary Elizabeth (Johnson) Doyne
Lancing College, Sussex, then
Keble College, Oxford, matriculating in 1910 and obtaining his B.A. in
1913
Philip was a schoolmaster at
Winchester House, Deal, Kent, for a year after graduating. He was about to
start at Ely Theological College, studying to be a clergyman, when the
First World War broke out, and instead he volunteered to serve
immediately. Philip had been in the Officers' Training Corps at Oxford (The O.T.C. and the Great War p140) and
commenced his service in September 1914. He served as a Lieutenant in the
2/4th Battalion of the Oxfordshire & Buckinghamshire Light Infantry,
and was promoted temporary Captain on 11 December 1914. He went to
the front on 3 August 1915, and on being posted to the 1/4th
Battalion relinquished his temporary rank (London Gazette 7 September 1915 p8981)
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Hebuterne Military Cemetery, where
Philip is buried
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Memorial inscription in the porch of
Headington Quarry church, which includes Philip's name
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28 December 1915, in
Hébuterne, Pas-de-Calais, France, aged 24. Just after returning from
leave, Philip was shot when out with a patrol in Hébuterne.
Hébuterne Military Cemetery,
Hébuterne, Pas-de-Calais, France (Grave reference I.D. 9). Philip is
memorialised on the War
memorial
in Holy Trinity churchyard in Headington Quarry, Oxfordshire and on
a memorial
in
Keble College, Oxford.
1901: Beckley Vicarage, Beckley, Oxfordshire
1911: Beckley Vicarage, Beckley, Oxfordshire
Robert Walter Doyne
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Robert Walter Doyne.
This photograph was clearly the source for the striking of the
Doyne memorial medal shown below.
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15 May 1857, in Monart, county
Wexford, Ireland
Philip Walter Doyne
Emily
Sophia (Richards) Doyne
Marlborough College, Wiltshire,
then Keble College, Oxford where he matriculated in 1875, but did not
finish due to illness. He then entered the Bristol Medical School, and
later on St. Georges Hospital, London. He obtained the diploma of
M.R.C.S., and then the diploma of F.R.C.S.Eng.
on
8 December 1892. The honorary degree of M.A. was conferred upon him
by Oxford University in 1903.
Robert attended Marlborough at the same time (and was on the Rifle Corps
XI at the same time) as Arthur Edward Finch, the future husband of his
sister, Charlotte Doyne.
Marlborough College register p233 (1905)
Doyne Robert
Walter, s. of the late Rev. P.W. Doyne, care of Mrs. Doyne,
Monant, Torquay, b. May 15, 1857; l. Easter 1875. B 1
R.W. Doyne, Esq.
53 Broad Street Oxford
R.C. XI. 1873-4; M.R.C.S. Eng. 1880; F.R.C.S Eng. 1892; M.A. Oxf.
Honoris causa 1903; St.
George's Hosp. formerly Surg. R.N.; Consulting Ophth. Surg. Radcliffe
Infirm., Oxf.; Sen. Surg. Oxf. Eye Hosp.; Surg. Royal Eye Hosp. Lond.;
Reader in Ophthalmology Oxf. Univ.; Author: The
more Common Diseases of the Eye
Alumni Oxoniensus 1715-1886 vol 1
p385 (1891)
Doyne,
Robert Walter, 2S. Philip Walter, cler. KEBLE
COLL matric. 18 Oct., 1875, aged 18.
Gertrude Irene Hope Hollings on 7
July 1885 in Hampstead
district, Middlesex, England. Gertrude was born in 1864 in Bradford
district, West Riding of Yorkshire, the youngest daughter of John
Hollings, of The Watchetts, Frimley, Surrey.
1881:
30
Priory Road, London, Middlesex
Ophthalmologist. Robert was,
for a short period, a naval surgeon, joining the service on 21 August 1883
(London
Gazette 25 August 1883 p4227), and posted to the Temeraire
as surgeon on 1 April 1884 in time for its re-commission in Malta. (Royal Navy List 1884 p188). He resigned
his commission upon his marriage in 1885. When Robert settled in Oxford in
1885 there were no facilities in the city for the treatment of ocular
disease; Doyne led a committee that established the Oxford Eye Hospital in
1886 in which Robert worked for over 25 years, resigning the post of
senior surgeon at the hospital in 1912. Mr. Doyne was consulting
ophthalmic surgeon to the Radcliffe Infirmary and surgeon to the Royal Eye
Hospital, London. In 1902 he became the first reader in ophthalmology to
the University of Oxford, a post which he held for eleven years. In 1909
the Oxford Ophthalmological Congress was founded with Doyne as the first
Master, an annual meeting which has since become
one
of the features of British and world ophthalmology.
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Robert Walter Doyne: Posthumous
commemorative medal struck in bronze 1917 (Spink & Sons)
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The respect with which he was held was epitomized by the establishment of
the Doyne Memorial Lecture and Medal two years after his death, still one
of the most prized distinctions of British Ophthalmology.
Robert was an acute and accurate clinical observer and one of the several
conditions he first described was named Doyne's honeycomb choroiditis.
This is the occurrence of colloid bodies (drusen) observed to lie on
Bruch's membrane in certain families who lived in Oxford, England. These
drusen tended to merge together and eventually become confluent,
resembling a honeycomb. Today this condition is known to be a rare
hereditary form of macular degeneration which results in progressive and
irreversible loss of vision, and goes by several names such as macular
drusen, malattia leventinese, dominant radial drusen and Doyne honeycomb
retinal dystrophy.
Mr. Doyne was the author of a book entitled Notes
on the More Common Diseases of the Eye (1896), and of papers on
Treatment of Atrophic Retinae with Retinal Extract (British Medical Journal 25 July 1903 p190)
Conjunctivitis (Lancet, 1910); Visual
Sensation, Perception, Appreciation, and Judgement (Ophthalmoscope,
1910); Retinitis Pignentoss (ibid., 1910); The Value and Misuse of
Spectacles in Treatment of Headache, Migraine, and other Functional
Troubles of the Eyes (British Medical Journal 13 August 1910
pp361-5); Description of Hitherto Undescribed Forms of Iritis,
Family Choroiditis, and Conjunctivitis (Trans.
Ophth. Soc., 1910); and "Eye" in Sport (British Medical Journal 24 December 1910
p1960).
30 August 1916, in Oxford,
Oxfordshire, England
Holy Trinity Church,
Headington Quarry, Oxfordshire, England
British
Medical Journal 16 September 1916 pp409-10
OBITUARY.
R. W. DOYNE, M.A.OXON., F.R.C.S.,
CONSULTING OPHTHALMIC SURGEON,
RADCLIFFE INFIRMARY,
OXFORD.
WITH great regret we announce
the death of Mr. R. W. Doyne, of Woodstock Road, Oxford. He was the son
of the Rev. Philip Walter Doyne, and was born at Monart, co. Wexford, in
1857. He was educated at Marlborough, and matriculated at Keble College
in 1875. Illness prevented his remaining at Oxford, and on leaving he
entered the Bristol Medical School, and later on St. Georges Hospital.
He obtained the diploma of M.R.C.S., and was for a short time in
practice in Bristol. In 1883 he joined the navy, but left it in 1885 on
his marriage, and settled in Oxford. He took the diploma of F.R.C.S.Eng.
in 1892, and the honorary degree of M.A.Oxon. was conferred upon him in
1902.
From the outset of his life in Oxford he made a special study of
ophthalmology. Beginning in a very small way, with an eye dispensary in
a builder's yard, he worked steadily on, encouraged by the loyal support
of many good friends, among whom were Sir Henry Acland, Dr. Liddell, of
Christ Church, Bishop Paget, Dr. Talbot, the Warden of Keble, and
others. Soon the committee rented on a long lease buildings from the
County Hospital, and so the Oxford Eye Hospital grew little by little,
till it became one of the best known and most useful institutions in the
Midland counties. In 1912, after more than twenty-five years' continuous
service, Mr. Doyne resigned, the post of senior surgeon to the Oxford
Eye Hospital, and many of his personal friends and admirers seized the
opportunity of connecting his name permanently with the institution by
placing within its walls an excellent marble bust with an inscription
commemorating his services.
Mr. Doyne was consulting ophthalmic surgeon to the Radcliffe
Infirmary. He was also the first reader in ophthalmology to the
University of Oxford, a post which he held for eleven years. He was
surgeon to the Royal Eye Hospital, London. It was due to his energy that
there was started in Oxford a congress of ophthalmologists, which has
for years met with such unqualified success, and which has
attracted to its discussions some of the most eminent ophthalmologists
from every part of the world. For many years Mr. Doyne was the leading
spirit of these gatherings. He proved himself a most genial and kindly
host, and the success of these meetings depended very largely on the
care, forethought, and power of organization he had expended on the
arrangements for them. Consequently when ill health prevented his
attending the last two gatherings, his work was not forgotten, and
formal expressions of regret and sympathy were forwarded to him from the
members of the congress present.
To his skill as an ophthalmic surgeon many would be glad to
testify. His boundless generosity to patients in needy circumstances was
well known to some of his intimate friends. His death at a comparatively
early age was due very largely to the intensity of energy he threw into
any project he took up, and the scant amount of rest he allowed himself.
It was especially owing to this superabundant energy that he bore down
the opposition he met with from time to time in carrying out the
numerous enterprises connected with his name.
Mr. Doyne was the author of a book entitled The
More Common Diseases of the Eye, and of papers on
Conjunctivitis (Lancet, 1910);
Visual Sensation, Perception, Appreciation, and Judgement (Ophthalmoscope,
1910); Retinitis Pignentoss (ibid., 1910); The Value and Misuse of
Spectacles in Treatment of Headache, Migraine, and other Functional
Troubles of the Eyes (BRITISH MEDICAL JOURNAL,
1910); and Description of Hitherto Undescribed Forms of Iritis, Family
Choroiditis, and Conjunctivitis (Trans.
Ophth. Soc., 1910).
In private life it would be difficult to meet with a more
generous friend than Mr. Doyne. In his periods of relaxation he
delighted to gather his friends round him, and would do everything in
his power to make them enjoy themselves. One of his chief amusements was
fencing, and he was the founder of the Oxford Fencing Club.
Mr. Doyne leaves a widow and two sons, one of whom, a captain
R.A.M.C.(T.), is serving in Mesopotamia.
Sir ANDERSON CRITCHETT writes:- The malady
which overtook our late colleague, Robert Doyne, about three years ago
suddenly dimmed an exceptionally bright intelligence, and closed a most
promising professional career, but before the blow fell time and
opportunity had been afforded him to associate his name with work which
must have permanent record. He initiated and brought to a high level of
success the Oxford Ophthalmological Congress, and, owing to the
deservedly high esteem in which he was held by the authorities, he
secured the establishment of a diploma in ophthalmology in connexion
with the University of Oxford. Had fate permitted, his marked ability
and firm tenacity of purpose might have brought yet further achievement;
but now we mourn the loss of an able colleague and a generous friend.
The Ophthalmic Year Book vol 13 p419
ed. Edward Jackson (1916):
DOYNE, ROBERT WALTER,
born at Monart, County Wexford, Ireland, 1857, died at Oxford, England,
August 30. He was educated at Marlborough, Keble College, Oxford, the
Bristol Medical School and St. George's Hospital, London. He soon
entered the medical services of the navy, but in 1885 settled in Oxford
and devoted himself to ophthalmology. At that time there was neither
ophthalmic surgeon nor clinic in the city. Even at the County Hospital
there was no dark room, no test types, and no special appliances. After
many difficulties and strenuous opposition, Doyne founded the Oxford Eye
Hospital. In 1902 he was appointed the first Reader in Ophthalmology in
the University of Oxford - a post he continued to hold until his health
broke down three years ago. He was also consulting ophthalmic surgeon to
the Radcliffe Infirmary, surgeon to the Royal Eye Hospital, London, and
held besides a number of minor appointments.
His name is associated with several conditions, as, for example,
a congenital variety of cataract known as "Doyne's" or "discoid
cataract"; a peculiar kind of degeneration of the choroid called
"Doyne's" or "family choroiditis"; a form of inflammation of the iris
"guttate" or "Doyne's iritis," and of conjunctivoblepharitis "Doyne's
conjunctivitis." He was the author of "The More Common Diseases of the
Eye" (1896). Doyne presided over the section on Ophthalmology at the
annual meeting of the British Medical Association held at Oxford in
1904. After this summer gatherings of ophthalmologists developed under
his influence into the Oxford Ophthalmological Congress, of which he was
the first "Master" in 1910. For many years he conducted at Oxford
courses in ophthalmology for practitioners, and was mainly instrumental
in inducing the University of Oxford officially to recognize eyework by
instituting a Diploma in Ophthalmology (19100. - Ophthalmoscope,
Vol. 14, p. 563
The Toronto World 12 September 1918 p5
(Toronto, Ontario, Canada)
WILLS
PROBATED
Robert Walton Doyne, who died at his
home, 121 Woodstock road, Oxford, England, Aug., 1916, left an estate
valued at $90,447, and Mrs. Gertrude Irene Hope Doyne, Oxford, England,
widow, who is sole beneficiary and executrix, has applied for ancillary
probate of the will. The Ontario estate consists of 71 shares Brazilian,
valued at $4,410, and 140 Crown Reserve valued at $65. On 15 March 1879, Robert was made a Second Lieutenant in
the 1st Somersetshire Engineer Volunteer Corps (London Gazette 14 March 1879 p2141). Who's Who p506 (1907)
DOYNE
Robert Walter, M.A. Oxon.; F.R.C.S.; Consulting Ophthalmic
Surgeon, Radcliffe Infirmary, since 1900; Reader in Ophthalmology,
University of Oxford, since 1902; Senior Surgeon Oxford Eye Hospital;
Surgeon Royal Eye Hospital, London; Ophthalmic surgeon S. John's
Hospital, Cowley; b. 15 May
1857; 2nd s. of late Rev. P.W.
Doyne; m. Gertrude Irene Hope,
y.d. of late John Hollings. Educ.: Marlborough; Keble College,
Oxford. After qualifying, travelled; then entered navy, which he left on
marriage; founded Oxford Eye Hospital. Publication:
The More Common Diseases of the Eye; Retinal Extract on the Treatment of
Atrophic Retinae; several papers. Recreation:
fencing. Address: 34 Weymouth
Street, W.; 53 Broad Street, Oxford. Club:
Royal Societies.
1871:
Marlborough College, Marlborough, Wiltshire
1881:
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Villa, Fishponds Rd, Stapleton, Gloucestershire
1883: Somerset Villa, Fishponds, Stapleton, Gloucestershire (Kelly's 1883 Directory of Somersetshire)
1895: 64 St Giles, Oxford, Oxfordshire (British Medical Journal 6 July 1895 p55)
1907: 53 Broad St, Oxford, Oxfordshire (Winchester College register 1836-1906 p594)
1916: 121 Woodstock Road, Oxford, Oxfordshire (The Toronto World 12 September 1918 p5)
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