Frank Charles Robson was an ENT surgeon in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada. He was born in London, England on 20 October 1930, the son of Frank Herbert Robson, an insurance broker and member of Lloyd’s, and Helen Ruth Robson née Barr. He attended Monmouth School from 1944 to 1949 and then carried out his National Service in the Royal Air Force. He went on to study medicine at Durham University, qualifying in July 1957. At school and at university he was captain of rowing. He was a house surgeon in the ENT department of the Royal Victoria Infirmary, Newcastle upon Tyne and then a house physician in the department of neurology there. From October 1959 to June 1961, he was demonstrator in anatomy at King’s College, Durham University. He went back to the Royal Victoria Infirmary for his surgical training, as a resident surgical officer, senior house officer and then surgical registrar. From August 1965, he was a senior registrar to the ENT department at Cardiff Royal Infirmary. In September 1966, he was appointed as a consultant in administrative charge of the ENT department, Cumberland and Dumfriesshire. In 1971 he emigrated to Canada, to Winnipeg, where he was head of the section of adult otolaryngology and coordinator of the multidisciplinary head and neck unit, Health Sciences Centre, and head of the section of otolaryngology at Victoria General Hospital. He was also an associate professor at the University of Manitoba. He was chairman of the Hearing Conservation Council of Manitoba, chairman of the ENT section of the Manitoba Medical Association and the Manitoba representative on the council of the Canadian Society of Otolaryngology. In 1957, he married Margaret Amy Thornton, also a medical graduate. They had three children – Penelope Ann, Helen Jane and Frank Gerald – and six grandchildren, David, Jennifer, Alexandra, Jessica, Kathryn and James. Predeceased by his son who died from cancer, Frank Charles Robson died on 24 January 2001 at the age of 70.