Robert Walter Doyne

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Robert Walter Doyne (1857-1916) was a British ophthalmologist. He studied medicine in Oxford, Bristol and St. George's Hospital in London. In 1886 he founded the Oxford Eye Hospital, and in 1909 became the first president of the Oxford Ophthalmological Congress.

In 1899 Doyne discovered colloid bodies lying on Bruch's membrane that appeared to merge together forming a mosaic pattern that resembled a honeycomb. Afterwards, this disorder was referred to as Doyne's honeycomb choroiditis. Today this condition is known to be a rare hereditary form of macular degeneration which results in progressive and irreversible loss of vision, and goes by several names such as macular drusen, malattia leventinese, dominant radial drusen and Doyne honeycomb retinal dystrophy.

In 1889 Doyne was the first physician to describe angioid streaks, a disorder that affects Bruch's membrane. Two years after his death in 1916, the "Doyne Memorial Lecture" was established, which is a prized distinction in British Ophthalmology.