Roger Armour

Roger Hanif Armour (1934 to 2020) was a British vascular surgeon who is also remembered as the inventor of a lens-free direct ophthalmoscope. He was born on 19 August 1934 in Murree, in what was then Northern India and later became part of Pakistan, took his medical degree at King Edward Medical College in Lahore in 1956, and then settled in Britain, where he gained further surgical and medical qualifications. After training posts in neurological surgery, cardiac and thoracic surgery and ophthalmology he specialised in general and vascular surgery, and studied vascular and micro-vascular surgery in Nashville and Zurich as winner of the Hamilton Bailey Prize in 1973 and 1974. He worked as a consultant surgeon in Birkenhead and Wallasey and then at the Lister Hospital in Stevenage until 1996. After retiring he made his lens-free ophthalmoscope, and he was elected a Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians of London in 2018. He died on 17 September 2020.