Background
Ashton, Norman Henry was born on September 11, 1913 in London. Son of Henry James and Margaret Ann (Tuck) Ashton.
Ashton, Norman Henry was born on September 11, 1913 in London. Son of Henry James and Margaret Ann (Tuck) Ashton.
West Kensington School, King's College, and Westminster Hospital Medical School, London University.
Assistant Pathologist, Princess Beatrice Hospital 1939. House Surgeon, House Physician, Senior Casualty Officer 1939-1941. Director Pathology, Kent and Canterbury Hospital 1941.
Lieutenant Colonel R.A.M.C. 1946. Pathologist Gordon Hospital 1947. Director, Department, of Pathology, Institute of Ophthalmology 1948-1978.
Reader in Pathology, London University 1953, Professor 1957-1978, Professor Emeritus since 1978. Visiting Professor, Johns Hopkins Hospital 1959. Consultant Pathologist, Moorfields Eye Hospital 1948-1978.
Chairman British Diabetes Association Committee on Blindness in Diabetes 1967-1970. President Ophthalmology ical Society of the United Kingdom 1979-1981. Master, Society of Apothecaries of London 1984-1985.
Freeman of City of London.
Lieutenant colonel Royal Army Medical Corps, 1945-1947, North African Theatre of Operations. Fellow Royal College Pathologists, Royal College Physicians, Royal Society London, Royal College Surgeons, Royal College Ophthalmologists (honorary), Royal Society Medicine London (honorary). Member Worshipful Society Apothecaries, Athenaeum, Garrick Club.