Dr Glass died, aged 92, on 3 March 2000. He was born in 1908 in Dublin and read medicine at University College, Dublin, graduating MB, Bch, BAO in 1932. At the university he was an outstanding athlete, particularly at rugby - a game he continued to enjoy subsequently as a member of the senior XV of the Clontarf Rugby Club.

After ‘house jobs’ in Dublin and in hospitals in England and Wales, he began his psychiatric career as an assistant medical officer at Carlow District Mental Hospital, Eire, where he was greatly influenced by the then superintendent, Dr Green, whose progressive methods of psychiatric treatment were well known.

In 1962 Glass was appointed to a World Health Organization Fellowship and travelled in Finland, Holland and Switzerland, and was able to incorporate the best of their psychiatry in his subsequent treatment of patients.

He was appointed medical superintendent at St Davet's Hospital in 1948 and continued his distinguished career there until he retired in 1972. In 1935 he gained the DPM (Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Ireland), and in 1971 he was elected to the Foundation Fellowship of the Royal College of Psychiatrists.

He was predeceased by his wife, the former Murielle Slocock, and is survived by their son, Tim, his wife and their three children.