The Honourable Dr. Garth Alfred Taylor, OJ, Ph.D. (29 April 1944 – 19 November 2005) was a Jamaican ophthalmologist, professor, and humanitarian.
[1] Taylor was also the vice-president of ORBIS Canada,[1] a charity devoted to preventing and correcting avoidable cases of blindness in the developing world, and the co-founder of Canadian Surgical Eye Expeditions (CANSEE),[2] another charitable organization devoted to the same purpose.
Working out of a McDonnell Douglas DC-10 airplane converted into a mobile field hospital,[1] he performed more than 1,000 charitable eye operations in more than 60 different countries,[1] during more than 100 separate surgical missions.
[3] Taylor also provided on-site training for local doctors in cornea, cataract and refractive procedures.
[4] Taylor and his wife Beverly had two children: a daughter, Leanne, and a son, Gregory.