McGill Library
McLennan Library Building3459 rue McTavish
Montreal, Quebec
H3A 0C9
Person
Byers, W. Gordon M. (William Gordon Matthew), 1872-1957
1872-1957
Dr. William Gordon Matthew Byers was born on December 18, 1872, in Gananoque, Leeds, Ontario. He obtained his M.D. in ophthalmology at McGill University in Montreal, Quebec. In 1901, he published a study from the Royal Victoria Hospital “The Primary Intradural Tumours of the Optic Nerve: (fibromatosis Nervi Optici)” and the article "An Atypical Case of Retinitis Pigmentosa". He died on August 1, 1957, in Montreal, Quebec.