Patrick Booth (Pat) was an ENT surgeon at Gwynedd Hospital in Bangor. He was born on 17 March 1932. During the second world war he was evacuated from Hastings to St Albans and then sent with his two brothers, Geoffrey and Anthony, to Allhallows, a boy’s independent school in Rousdon, Devon in 1941. His later memories of his days there included the attractions of the stuffed bird collection, watching out for incendiary bombs from the clocktower, shooting in the rifle range in the walled garden, afternoon tea in the landslip cottage, the awfulness of the school porridge, catching the school train and walking up from the hamlet of Combpyne. After winning his miniature range and full bore shooting colours he represented the school at Bisley for three years from 1947. In 1949 he left Allhallows, having been very successful both academically and on the rugby and hockey fields, and enrolled as a medical student at St Thomas’ Hospital. He qualified MB, BS in 1955 and, on being called up for national service, joined the RAMC as a surgeon. In Germany he served as a consultant ENT surgeon at the British Military Hospital in Munster and he also spent time in Hong Kong and the Tidworth Military Hospital in Wiltshire. Retiring from the army with the rank of Lieutenant Colonel, he moved to North Wales as a consultant ENT surgeon at the Ysbyty Gwynedd in Bangor. He was a member of the British Association of Otolaryngologists and retired in 1994. He had two daughters, Fiona and Jane (now Mrs Pollard) whom he sent to Allhallows in the early 1970’s when the school began admitting girls in the sixth form. They survived him, along with his brothers, when he died on 15 March 2017, two days short of his 85th birthday.