James McGillivray Jackson (‘Jimmy’) was an ENT surgeon at West Suffolk Hospital, Bury St Edmunds. He was born on 24 February 1932 in the Lowlands of Scotland, the son of a dentist. He had two brothers and one sister, and went to a boarding school in Scotland. When he was 18 he carried out his National Service, serving in Malaya during the Malayan Emergency. Whilst in Malaya he contracted acute hepatitis and was promptly invalided home. He commenced his medical training in Newcastle and qualified MB BS in 1954. He trained at the Royal Victoria Infirmary, Newcastle, where he was an ENT registrar. He was subsequently a senior registrar at the University Hospital of the West Indies in Jamaica. During his training, he was a clinical fellow at the University of St Louis, where he came into contact with several eminent head and neck surgeons. He obtained his diploma in laryngology and otology in 1960 and his FRCS in 1962. Jimmy was appointed as a consultant ENT surgeon to West Suffolk Hospital, Bury St Edmunds with sessions at Ipswich Hospital in 1967. At the time of his appointment, the West Suffolk Hospital had ENT services provided by a visiting surgeon from Ipswich with clinical assistance from local general practitioners. He worked tirelessly as a single-handed consultant and developed the ENT service, forging close professional relationships with local GP's and public health doctors. He spent a day a week at Ipswich and an Ipswich consultant came to Bury St Edmunds. Apart from the last few years of his consultancy, he was continually on call. In his final years as a consultant Jimmy worked solely in Bury and was joined by a second full-time appointment. He retired in 1991. Jimmy played a full part in the life of West Suffolk Hospital and was chairman of the medical staff committee. Outside of West Suffolk Hospital, he was chairman of the East Anglian ENT Association and an active member of the sections of otology and laryngology at the Royal Society of Medicine and, after retirement, he continued to attend these meetings. He gave a paper at a section of otology meeting. Outside medicine, Jimmy enjoyed the country pursuits of shooting and fly fishing. He was secretary to a local fly fishing club and went to Scotland on fishing trips. He also enjoyed fine food and good company – a local friend said he was liked by everyone. He met his wife Joan in Newcastle and they married in 1951. She died in 2003. They had no children. James McGillivray Jackson died on 23 December 2017. He was 85.