Walter James HOPE-ROBERTSON MB ChB (NZ), FRCS (Edin), FRACS, DOMS (Eng), DLO (Lond)
Born Gisborne 23/3/1900 Died Wellington 11.01.1958 MB ChB (NZ) 1922, FRCS Edin 1926, FRACS 1931, DOMS (Eng) 1927, DLO (Lond) 1928 HS / HP, Cook Hospital Gisborne 1923 HS / HP, Wellington Hospital 1924 Clinical Assistant, Moorfields and the Central London Ophthalmic Hospital, the Wolverhampton Eye Infirmary, and the Birmingham and Midland Counties Hospital Returned to NZ 1928, commencing practice in Wellington Honorary Visiting Ophthalmic Surgeon, Wellington Hospital 1928 - 1940 Visiting Ophthalmic Surgeon, Wellington Hospital 1940 - 1958 Click the image to view detail in a larger version.
Obituary: NZMJ 1958 57:87 / BMJ 1958 1:228, 1:468 / Transactions of the Ophthalmology Society of NZ 1958 X:54	photograph courtesy S P Andrew collection Alexander Turnbull Library Wellington, NZ

Walter James HOPE-ROBERTSON
MB ChB (NZ), FRCS (Edin), FRACS, DOMS (Eng), DLO (Lond)

Born Gisborne 23/3/1900 Died Wellington 11.01.1958

MB ChB (NZ) 1922, FRCS Edin 1926, FRACS 1931, DOMS (Eng) 1927, DLO (Lond) 1928

HS / HP, Cook Hospital Gisborne 1923
HS / HP, Wellington Hospital 1924

Clinical Assistant, Moorfields and the Central London Ophthalmic Hospital, the Wolverhampton Eye Infirmary, and the Birmingham and Midland Counties Hospital

Returned to NZ 1928, commencing practice in Wellington
Honorary Visiting Ophthalmic Surgeon, Wellington Hospital 1928 - 1940
Visiting Ophthalmic Surgeon, Wellington Hospital 1940 - 1958

Click the image to view detail in a larger version.

Obituary: NZMJ 1958 57:87 / BMJ 1958 1:228, 1:468 / Transactions of the Ophthalmology Society of NZ 1958 X:54

photograph courtesy
S P Andrew collection
Alexander Turnbull Library
Wellington, NZ