John Campbell Stubbings was an ENT surgeon in Melbourne, Australia. He was born in Red Cliffs, Victoria on 28 December 1931, the fourth and youngest child of Claude Henry Stubbings, a horticulturalist, and Catherine Campbell Stubbings née Bothroyd, the daughter of a state schools inspector. He attended Red Cliffs’ state school and then Melbourne Church of England Grammar School, and went on to Melbourne University to study dentistry, gaining his BDSc in 1954. He practised as a dentist for three years before returning to Melbourne University, to the medical school. He qualified in 1962. He was a junior and then a senior medical officer at the Alfred Hospital, Melbourne and then, from 1968, a registrar. He gained his diploma in otorhinolaryngology in 1968 as well as his fellowship of the Royal Australasian College of Surgeons. He became a FRCS in 1970. He was an ENT surgeon at the Alfred Hospital and to the Royal Australian Air Force and Australian Army. Outside medicine he enjoyed golf and yachting. In 1960, he married Agnes Doreen Wilson. They had a son and a daughter. John Campbell Stubbings died in 2007 in Melbourne, Victoria.