Obituary: Michael Jaggs 1937-2015

Anglican priest and contact lens pioneer Michael Jaggs has died at the age of 77.

A tribute sent to Optician said his career in optics began with Leighton’s Opticians in 1954. He qualified as a dispensing optician and ran a branch for the company, before studying optometry at Northampton College four years later.

He met and shared a flat with fellow optometry student Nigel Wingate, who cut out an advert for somebody to train at Curry & Paxton to fit contact lenses. Jaggs applied and was successful, starting work at 22 Wigmore Street on the first week of January 1960, and sat his Association of Dispensing Opticians (ADO) Contact Lens exams in the summer of 1961.