Marcello G Grippaudo was an ENT surgeon at the West Middlesex Hospital, Isleworth. Born in Palermo, Sicily on 4 August 1927, he was the first child of Vincenzo Grippaudo, also an ENT surgeon and his wife Maria née Velardi. After being educated at the Jesuit’s College Gonzaga in Palermo, he attended Palermo University and trained as a resident in general medicine and surgery at the university hospital. He continued his studies in Rome as an assistant at the University of Rome’s Institute of Otolaryngology where he was mentored by G Ferreri and passed the DLO in 1954. Coming to the UK he worked as a registrar at the West Middlesex Hospital with Eliasz Zwiefach and gained the college fellowship in 1972. Later he became a consultant ENT surgeon at the Kingston and West Middlesex Hospitals. He married Jacqueline Puplett an artist and book illustrator in 1958 and they had a daughter and son Vincenzo who qualified in medicine and became a GP. Outside medicine he enjoyed music. He was living in Weybridge, Surrey when he died in December 2005 aged 78.