Obituary - David Robert Munson

Dispensing optician David Robert Munson has died at the age of 53 following a motorbike accident on Sunday July 10.

Munson, known as Robert, began his career in 1973 at Melson and Wingate in Banbury and qualified as a dispensing optician in 1977, moving on to work in advanced optics and contact lenses.

A stint at Robert Stanley Opticians followed and then in 1998 he set up A and R Munson Opticians in Wallingford and Brackley, with his younger brother Andrew, also a contact lens optician.

He was a regular fixture at other opticians in Oxfordshire, including Woodstock Opticians and Specsavers in Witney and Cowley, where he worked for 11 years.