Tony Bull was an ENT surgeon at the Royal National Throat, Nose and Ear Hospital, London. He was born on 21 December 1934 in Bath, Somerset, the son of Henry Bull, a dentist. He was educated at Monkton Combe School, where he excelled academically and on the sports field, playing tennis for Somerset and hockey for Essex and Wales. He studied medicine at the London Hospital Medical School, qualifying in 1958. He was a house surgeon at the London Hospital, a senior fellow in otology at the University of Memphis Foundation, USA and later worked in Jamaica. He was subsequently appointed as a consultant surgeon to the Royal National Throat, Nose and Ear Hospital and later also at Charing Cross Hospital. He was one of the first surgeons to undertake stapedectomy in the UK and was also known for developing nasal plastic surgery. In 1970, he set up the rhinoplasty course at the Institute of Laryngology and Otology. With Claus Walter, he founded the European Academy of Facial Plastic Surgery, becoming president. He was also president of the International Federation of Facial Plastic Surgical Societies and of the section of otology at the Royal Society of Medicine (from 1993 to 1994). He wrote many papers and chapters in textbooks, and was co-editor, with Eugene Tardy, of the quarterly monograph *Facial Plastic Surgery*. His book *A colour atlas of ENT diagnosis* (London, Wolfe), first published in 1974, was translated into several languages, and is now in a fifth edition. He was a keen boxing fan, a member of the tennis club Queen’s and the MCC (Marylebone Cricket Club). He was also interested in golf. He married Jill Rosemary Beresford Cook in 1958 and they had three children – Amanda, Karen and Antony – and six grandchildren. He died on 19 April 2016 aged 81.