Gordon Brown Glass Eye
He is blind in his left eye following an accident whilst playing rugby at school he received a kick to the head and.
Gordon brown glass eye. It shot out and as a result both teams and the match official halted play to try and find the eye on the turf. Before this he had been chancellor of the exchequer since may 1997. He suffered a retinal detachment after an accidental collision during a rugby union match with close.
In one exchange the lions scottish second row gordon brown broon frae troon clobbered his opposite number johan de bruyn so hard his glass eye flew out and landed in the mud. He spent his early career working as a television journalist. Brown took over as the prime minister of the united kingdom after tony blair resigned on 27 june 2007.
In his report james tells us why the politician wrote to him and what he told james. He was left blind in his left eye. Brown is blind in his left eye after a sports injury but he has a replacement eye made of glass.
An operation for a detached retina in his right eye saved him from total blindness. For a boy who loved sport and reading it was a painful blow. Brown has a phd in history from the university of edinburgh.
But when a kick to the head on the rugby pitch left the 16 year old gordon brown blind in his left eye his greatest fear was of. Gordon brown was accepted by the university of edinburgh to study history at the age of only 16. Glass master jenkins invented the glass eye how did gordon brown lose his eye.
Brown underwent experimental surgery at the edinburgh royal infirmary and his right eye was saved by a young eye surgeon hector chawla. In one dicey match brown hit johan de bruyn a big man with a glass eye. It was on the 1974 tour that one of the most famous stories about brown originated.