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Cameron Optometry
5 St Vincent Street
Edinburgh
EH3 6SW

Opening times:
Monday – Friday
9.00am – 5.30pm

Tel: 0131 225 2235

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MURRAY MCGRATH We are saddened to inform you that

MURRAY MCGRATH
We are saddened to inform you that at the end of last year we lost our founding partner, Murray McGrath, who many of you will have been treated by over the years. Cameron Optometry started out as W M McGrath Optometrists, before becoming McGrath and Cameron in the early eighties. Here Donald Cameron, OBE shares some background on Murray, a colourful character who specialised in contact lenses long before they were commonplace.

Born in June 1936, Murray McGrath was educated at Melville College in Edinburgh where he was a keen water polo team player and won the annual Crombie Cup as best swimmer of his final year. He carried on that love of swimming throughout his life as a member of Drumsheugh Baths where, even in his late 70s, he was able to swing on the rings from one end of the baths to the other without so much as a wet foot.

He started work as an ophthalmic optician (what we now call an optometrist) in the long-established practice of his father W M McGrath in Queensferry Street. After a few years he started to see contact lenses as the way of the future for him and he started a part-time practice on the ground floor of the family home at 4 Randolph Cliff. After a number of years that business grew and it became his full-time place of work.

I met Murray when I completed my degree course in 1976. I had to do one year under supervision before being let loose on the public alone and he looked after me for two days a week with the other 3 in the family practice up the road. By that time W M McGrath was retired and Jimmy Duffy and Sandy Bovaird took me under their wing.

Read the tribute in full in our latest blog: cameronoptom.com/murray-mcgrath

The funeral will take place on Wednesday, 27 January at 3pm. If you wish to view the service, you can visit obitus.com.
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5 St Vincent Street
Edinburgh
EH3 6SW

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Tel: 0131 225 2235
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