Obituary: J Roger Leech

Roger Leech, senior partner of F Robson & Co, Newcastle upon Tyne died on November 20 at the age of 87.

Leech studied engineering at Cambridge University, graduating in 1951. His uncles, Percy and Douglas Young, already second generation opticians at Robsons in Newcastle, suggested optics as a career. So he studied for his diploma in ophthalmic optics at Northampton Polytechnic (now City University). After qualifying in 1954, he joined his uncles in their practices.

He was an enthusiastic fitter of contact lenses and meetings of the fledgling North East Contact Lens society were held at Robsons because it was one of few practices in the area to have a slit lamp at that time.