Ireland Births and Baptisms
Name: Reginald Affleck Greeves
Gender: Male
Birth Date: 23 Aug 1878
Birthplace: Ballymechan, Down, Ireland
Father's Name: Thomas Malcomson Greeves
Mother's Name: Georgina Eliza Jackson Greeves
Registration District: Belfast
Volume Number: 1
Page Number: 420
Index Number: 227
[RFSS Jul 2011]
1901 Census record taken on Sunday, 31 March. Residents of a house 115 in Belmont Road, Belfast (Victoria, Co. Down) | | Surname | Forename | Age | Sex | Relation to head | Religion | | 1 | Greeves | Thomas Malcomson | 65 | Male | Head of Family | Brethren | | 2 | Greeves | Georgina Eliza | 65 | Female | Wife | Brethren | | 3 | Greeves | Fergus MacGregor | 34 | Male | Son | Brethren | | 4 | Greeves | John Theodore | 31 | Male | Son | Brethren | | 5 | Greeves | Ridgway | 28 | Male | Son | Brethren | | 6 | Greeves | Walter Leopold | 25 | Male | Son | Brethren | | 7 | Greeves | Charlotte Isabel | 24 | Female | Daughter | Brethren | | 8 | Greeves | Reginald Affleck | 22 | Male | Son | Brethren | | 9 | Smyth | Malcom Greeves | 27 | Male | Nephew | Christian | | 10 | Stephanie | Marie Octavia | 55 | Female | Servant | Brethren | | 11 | Gore | Emily | 25 | Female | Servant | Church of Ireland | | 12 | Knox | Mary | 28 | Female | Servant | Presbyterian | | 13 | Hearst | Elizabeth | 20 | Female | Servant | Church of Ireland | | 14 | Hearst | Margaret | 23 | Female | Servant | Church of Ireland |
| | Birthplace | Occupation | Literacy | Marital Status | Specified Illnesses | | 1 | Co. Tyrone | Flax Spinner | Read and write | Married | - | | 2 | Belfast | - | Read and write | Married | - | | 3 | Co. Antrim | Flax Spinner | Read and write | Not Married | - | | 4 | Belfast | Flax Spinner | Read and write | Not Married | - | | 5 | Belfast | Linen Merchant | Read and write | Not Married | - | | 6 | Belfast | Linen Merchant | Read and write | Not Married | - | | 7 | Co. Down | - | Read and write | Not Married | - | | 8 | Co. Down | Medical Student | Read and write | Not Married | - | | 9 | England | Electrical Engineer | Read and write | Not Married | - | | 10 | Switzerland | Housekeeper | Read and write | Not Married | - | | 11 | Co. Antrim | Parlour Maid | Read and write | Not Married | - | | 12 | Co. Antrim | Cook | Read and write | Not Married | - | | 13 | Co. Monaghan | House Maid | Read and write | Not Married | - | | 14 | Co. Monaghan | House Maid | Read and write | Not Married | - |
[RFSS Nov 2010]
Ophthalmic Surgeon.
Educated privately, Royal Belfast Academical Institute, Queen's College Belfast, University College London, and Guy's Hospital London.
Bachelor of Arts - Royal University of Ireland 1900,
Bachelor of Medicicne - MB,
Bachelor of Surgery London - BSLond 1903,
Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons of England - FRCSEng (1906).
[RFSS Jan 2011]
| The following is a transcript of an article that was published in the British Medical Journal in 1966 | | OBITUARY | | REGINALD AFFLECK GREEVES, 1878-1966 | | Reginald Affleck Greeves, Emeritus Consultant Ophthalmic Surgeon to the Middlesex Hospital and to Moorfields Eye Hospital, died on October 4, 1966, at the age of 88. Born in Strandtown, Co. Down, the youngest of a family of eleven children, he was educated privately and at Queen's University, Belfast. In 1900 he graduated B.A. with honours, and gained a first class exhibition |  | After a distinguished undergraduate career in medicine at University College Hospital, London and at Guy's Hospital, he qualified as M.B. London (1903). B.S. with honours (1906), M.R.C.S. and L.R.C.P. (1906) and F.R.C.S., England (1906). Greeves was not immediately to specialize in ophthalmology but went to South Africa where he was a country doctor in the Transvaal. Here he met his charming wife and companion, Sarah, with whom he returned to England because of the illness of his father. After acting as Surgical Tutor and Registrar to Guy's Hospital, he decided to specialize in ophthalmology. He was appointed assistant ophthalmic surgeon to the Middlesex Hospital in 1914, later becoming full ophthalmic surgeon to that hospital, from the active staff of which he retired in 1946. He was elected to the surgical staff of Moorfields in 1915, after two years as the curator of the Museum and Pathologist to the hospital, and retired in 1938, to become an active member of its staff again during the war years, when he held outpatient clinics at the hospital and operated regularly at the Tindal House Emergency Hospital in Aylesbury,Greeves was a particularly able clinician, a well-trained pathologist,and a competent surgeon with the good judgment that this demands. His opinion on difficult fundus cases was sought by his former pupils and colleagues until his complete retirement in 1960. He wrote many important papers on the pathological and clinical aspects of ophthalmology, and included in his teaching and his publications many of the nice points of refraction that are so important in ophthalmic practice. In 1941-2 he was president of the Ophthalmological Society of the United Kingdom, of which he had been an unusually active member since 1911, and had contributed richly to its transactions.
Sometimes an apparently morose and unapproachable character, Greeves was, to those who knew him well, a kindly and patient teacher and a loyal friend. During the 1939-1945 war he lived in a delightful country house at Datchworth, in Hertfordshire, to which he invited many friends, and where he and his wife shared a happy home and a keen interest in an and music with their visitors. Sarah, his wife, died in 1954, and this loss overshadowed his later life. He moved back to London, and remained an active participant in ophthalmological | meetings until he retired.
Greeves will be missed by very many pupils and colleagues, much of whose basic knowledge of ophthalmic pathology, surgery, and medicine they owe to his teaching. He is survived by his daughter and two sons, one an ophthalmic surgeon, to whom we extend our sympathy. J. H. |
[RFSS Oct 2011] |
