Richard James Sellick was a consultant ENT surgeon at the Norfolk and Norwich Hospital. He was born on 21 November 1928 in Blackheath, London, the son of Richard Sellick, a medical practitioner, and Vera Sellick née Harvey, the daughter of a bank manager. He attended Dulwich College and then went on to Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge and St Thomas’s Hospital Medical School, qualifying in 1953. Prior to his consultant appointment he was a chief assistant at St Thomas’ Hospital and a registrar at the Royal Marsden Hospital. He also carried out his National Service in the RAF as a squadron leader. He listed William Allin Mill and Sir Geoffrey Bateman as the surgeons who particularly influenced him during his training. In 1964, he began his consultant post at the Norfolk and Norwich Hospital and worked there until his retirement in 1989. He spent much of his career at Norwich developing the audiology services for children and adults. He was a member of ENT UK for 52 years and also served as chair of the specialist advisory committee. In 1959, he married Elisabeth Schofield. They had three children, Jane, Sarah and Edward, and five grandsons. Richard James Sellick died on 15 September 2016 at the age of 87.