Editing David Tonkin (section)

==Early life==
David Tonkin was born in [[Unley, South Australia]], on 20 July 1929. When he was five, his father, Oliver, died, leaving Tonkin's mother, Bertha, to raise him. Tonkin attended local public schools before gaining a scholarship to [[St Peter's College, Adelaide|St Peter's College]]. Accepted into Medicine at the [[University of Adelaide]], Tonkin worked as a taxi driver while completing his degree and practised as a [[General Practitioner]] before undertaking a postgraduate [[ophthalmology]] course in London. He established a practice in Adelaide and was soon considered one of the city's leading eye surgeons. Tonkin was of [[Cornish people|Cornish]] ancestry.<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=yTKFBXfCI1QC&q=bob+hawke+cornwall&pg=PA234 |title = The Australian People: An Encyclopedia of the Nation, Its People and Their Origins|isbn = 9780521807890|last1 = Jupp|first1 = James|date = October 2001| publisher=Cambridge University Press }}</ref>

Tonkin's dedication to aiding the wider community was manifest through his honorary service as an eye surgeon to Adelaide public hospitals and through the initiation, through the [[Lions Club]], of Australia's first public screening programme for [[glaucoma]]. In 1962 Tonkin became executive director of the Australian Foundation for Prevention of Blindness SA Inc.{{citation needed|date=October 2021}}