In remembrance: Roger Pope

Optician is sad to report that dispensing optician Roger Pope, holder of two Royal Warrants, passed away on April 21 in Kent.

Pope’s practice on New Cavendish Street in London opened in 1987 to meet the complex dispensing needs of private ophthalmologists and evolved into a fully serviced luxury practice with a team of optometrists and dispensing opticians.

Pope first received the Royal Warrant by Appointment to HM Queen Elizabeth II in 2006 and by Appointment to HRH Prince Charles in 2014 with his team of colleagues also taking part in the Coronation Festival in 2013.

Longstanding friend, Frank Norville, regarded Pope as the ‘doyen of dispensing opticians’ yet ‘devoid of any airs and graces’.