British ophthalmologist and surgeon, born 1843;Died on May 15, 1927, in Croydon.Warren Tay, from Yorkshire, studied medicine at a London hospital.In 1868, he was appointed assistant surgeon at the blackfriars hospital of dermatology, where he remained until 1907.He also had a job at the north eastern Hospital for Children in hackney road, now Queen's Hospital for Children.In 1869 he became a member of the royal college of surgeons and was appointed assistant surgeon and ophthalmologist at the London hospital.Tay-Sachs disease = an autosomal recessive lysosomal disease characterized by retinal cherry red spots, neuronal degeneration, and usually early death before age 3.