Staff
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John Colvin
October 7, 2013In 1961, charismatic ophthalmologist, Dr John Colvin started giving Saturday morning lectures at the Eye and Ear, and for 35 years he inspired generations of medical students to learn more about ophthalmology. In the same year, a Royal Charter was...
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Jean Littlejohn
October 7, 2013Dr Jean Littlejohn was a pioneer in many ways during an otolaryngology career that spanned two world wars. She was the first woman to be appointed as Honorary Aural Surgeon to the Victorian Eye and Ear Hospital in 1929 and the first doctor to obtain a...
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Gerard Crock
October 4, 2013At the age of 34, Gerard Crock was appointed Australia’s first professor of ophthalmology, when the University of Melbourne established the Department of Ophthalmology at the Royal Victorian Eye and Ear Hospital in 1963. During his tenure, he...
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Bill Gillies
October 4, 2013Dr William (Bill) Gillies first arrived at the Royal Victorian Eye and Ear Hospital in 1952 as a young ophthalmology trainee. Over the next fifty years he was to become a renowned ophthalmologist and researcher, and through his teaching and board...
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Peter Howson 1951-1982
May 31, 2013Peter Howson accepts a cheque from Auxiliaries president Alma Pederson during the Centenary fundraising appeal 1968 Peter Howson was born in London, England in 1919 and was educated at Cambridge University, later serving as a pilot during World War II....
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Ken Howsam 1944-1982
May 27, 2013Born in 1921 in Melbourne, Kenneth Howsam graduated from medicine at the University of Melbourne in 1943. Ken joined the Eye and Ear in 1944 as a resident and after completing a Diploma of Ophthalmology in 1947 was appointed Medical Superintendent for a...
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Teaching generations of specialists
March 1, 2013The Royal Victorian Eye and Ear Hospital has a long and proud history as a teaching hospital; with generations of renown ophthalmology, otolaryngology and allied health professionals undergoing training at the Eye and Ear. The group appearing here are a...
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Lucy Jones, Matron 1908-1939
February 15, 2013Lucy Jones first joined the Eye and Ear as Matron in 1908 and was considered something of a force within the hospital. She consistently pushed for improved conditions for staff, who often worked long hours in difficult circumstance as well as for the...
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Dr Andrew Sexton Gray - Founder 1863-1907
January 7, 2013Dr Andrew Gray Andrew Sexton Gray was born in 1826 in Limerick, Ireland. He completed his medical training in 1846 and became assistant to William Wilde, Oscar Wilde's father, at St Mark’s Ophthalmic Hospital and Dispensary for Diseases of the...