Old Photograph Tealing Angus Scotland

Old photograph of Tealing, Scottish Gaelic: Tèalainn, a village in Angus, Scotland. Sir William Stewart Duke Elder, was born in Tealing on 22 April 1898. His father was the Tealing Free Church Minister, the Reverend Neil Elder. William became a dominant force in British and world ophthalmology for more than a quarter of a century. In 1932 he operated on the then Prime Minister, Ramsay MacDonald, for glaucoma. He was knighted in 1933 and subsequently earned many more honours, serving as the Surgeon Oculist to King Edward VIII, George VI and Queen Elizabeth II. He died on 27 March 1978. His obituary in the British Medical Journal described him as " a warm hearted and friendly Scot, with his charming smile and puckish sense of humour he would at once put strangers at their ease. "



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