English, Peter Bede (1904 - 1984)

Summary

Peter English was an early pioneer of corneal transplants in Australia, the operation he preformed on a New Guinean soldier in 1945 with James McBride White receiving much publicity. He established an eye bank (1953) and a glaucoma unit (1956) at the Mater Misericordiae Public Hospital, South Brisbane: these were among the earliest such facilities in Australia. English was a long-serving member of the Council of the Ophthalmological Society of Australia, being President 1955 - 1956.

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Chronology

1927

Education - MB BS, University of Sydney

1935

Education - Diploma in Ophthalmic Medicine and Surgery, Moorfields Eye Hospital, London, United Kingdom

1942 - 1946

Career position - Served with the Australian Army Medical Corps, Militia

1945 -

Career position - Fellow, Royal Australasian College of Surgeons

1955 - 1956

Career position - President, Ophthalmological Society of Australia

1984

Award - OBE in recognition of service to ophthalmology and medicine

Published resources

Book Sections

• Wood, Ronald, 'Peter Bede English (1904-1984), ophthalmologist and army medical officer' in Australian dictionary of biography, volume 17: 1981 - 1990 A-K, Diane Langmore, ed. (Melbourne: Melbourne University Press, 2007). http://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/english-peter-bede-12463. Details

Journal Articles

• Coster, Douglas J., 'History of corneal transplantation in Australia', Clinical and Experimental Ophthalmology, 43 (2015), 268-76. Details
• English, Frank P.; and English, Kevin P., 'Obituary: Peter B. English', Australian Journal of Ophthalmology, 12 (3) (1984), 299-300. Details

Resources

• Wikidata, http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q21537102. Details
• 'English, Peter Bede (19040311-19840703)', Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009, https://nla.gov.au/nla.party-1465733. Details