We are sad to announce that Professor Peter Watson (1950 and Fellow Commoner) has passed away after a long illness.
Peter Watson came up to Queens' after National Service as a subaltern in the Royal Horse Artillery. He read Natural Sciences and then went on to read Medicine at University College Hospital, qualifying in 1956.
Between 1965 and 1995, Peter worked as a Consultant Ophthalmologist and latterly Head of the Eye Department at Addenbrooke's University Hospital in Cambridge with a specialist interest in glaucoma, external and orbital disease and a Consultant Ophthalmologist at Moorfields Eye Hospital in London in charge of the Scleritis Clinic.
During the course of his career, he published widely and worked around the globe, either working in or as a Visiting Professor, in the USA , Labrador, Iran, Turkey, Jordan, Egypt, Singapore, Shenyang, Tianjin, Hong Kong, India, Pakistan and Australia.
Peter held appointments on several scientific committees including Chairman of the Cambridge Eye Trust, which he founded, and was a Fellow Commoner of Queens’ College.
Funeral details
A funeral service to be held at St Mark's Church, Newnham, on Monday 13th February at 2pm.
Family flowers only, but donations if desired can be made to the Cambridge Eye Trust, which was set up by Peter.
Any cards or messages of condolence can be passed to the family via the Chaplain.
