Critchett

Critchett, GEORGE, ophthalmic surgeon, born in London in 1817, became F.R.C.S. in 1844, and was assistant-surgeon and (1861-63) surgeon to the London Hospital. He early devoted his attention to ophthalmology, and was attached to the hospital at Moorfields from 1846; in 1854 he published a course of lectures on Diseases of the Eye, and from 1876 he was ophthalmic surgeon and lecturer at the Middlesex Hospital, where his operations acquired a European fame. He died 1st November 1882.