Consultant ophthalmic surgeon Bristol Eye and Southmead Hospitals 1950-80 (b Aberdeen 1915; q Aberdeen 1939; MD, FRCS), d 26 March 2002.
During the second world war Sandy Brown served in Italy and then in India (1945-6) as a specialist in ophthalmology at Calcutta Military Hospital. He was one of the first to use penicillin in ophthalmology. In Bristol, 
he developed a special interest in retrolental fibroplasia and the role of oxygen in its causation. He also became expert in the management of postnatal cataracts in premature infants. He leaves a wife, Vera; six children; and 11 grandchildren.
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