Sydney Scott was born in Shrewsbury on 1 June, 1875. He studied medicine at St Bartholomew's Hospital, and immediately after qualifying with the Conjoint Board Diploma in 1899 joined up as a civil surgeon in the South African Field Force, and was awarded the Queen's Medal with three clasps. When the

Born in Wolverhampton of Irish parents he graduated at University College, Dublin with first-class honours, and specialised in ear nose and throat surgery. He became senior ear nose and throat surgeon to the Hospital of St John and St Elizabeth and to several other hospitals in London. After service

Robert Reginald Stanley Strang was born on 6 March 1905, at Abbey St Bathans, Berwickshire, where his father was the Minister in the Church of Scotland. He was educated at Fettes College, Glasgow University and King's College, London, and as an undergraduate he gained a distinction in surgery, and p

Guy Lawrence Thompson was born in Scarborough on 26 October 1897, the son of a local practitioner. He was educated at Winchester College and served in the Royal Field Artillery in the first world war. On demobilization he went to Trinity College Cambridge and took his BA in 1920, and then went to th

Charles Skinner Hallpike was born in India on 19 July, 1900, the son of F R Hallpike and Helen Skinner. He was educated at St Paul's School, entered Guy's Hospital with a scholarship and obtained the Beany Prize in pathology and qualified in 1926. His interest in the ear started when he was a house

Tony Malkin was born on 4 February 1916 in Cardiff. His father, Edwin Malkin, was a musician and organ-builder. His mother, Winifred Mary Lyddon, was the daughter of a Bristol stockbroker. He was educated at King's College School, Wimbledon, and King's College Medical School and Hospital. After juni

Formerly Harold Bedford George Russell he was born in Australia on 10 October 1886 the second son of F R Russell and educated at Geelong, Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge and St Bartholomew's Hospital where he qualified in 1911 and acted as house surgeon and ear nose and throat house surgeon. Dur

Leonard Kingdom was educated at Cambridge and St Bartholomew's Hospital. After junior jobs he entered the RAMC where he was a graded surgeon. After the war he returned to Cambridge to demonstrate anatomy, and then went back to Bart's to specialise in ENT. He became chief assistant in the ENT departm

James McKenzie received his medical education at Aberdeen University. After National Service in the RAMC he specialised in ENT, training at Manchester Royal Infirmary and Wolverhampton. He became consultant ENT surgeon to Wolverhampton, Dudley and Worcester/Hereford Area Health Authorities. He publi

Abhayakumar Gulabchand Gandhi (known as 'Arun') was a consultant ENT surgeon at St James's and Seacroft University hospitals, Leeds, and an honorary senior lecturer in otorhinolaryngology at the University of Leeds. He qualified MB BS from Bombay in 1959 and then worked in villages in Karnataka and

Gilbert Haywood Howells was born in Newport, Monmouthshire, on 23 August 1897. He was the second son of Henry Haywood Howells, a solicitor. After Newport High School he attended University College, Cardiff, and St Thomas's Hospital. He became surgeon at St George's Hospital, the National Hospital, M

Chapple Gill-Carey was born in 1896 at Hawera, New Zealand, the son of a farmer from Lancashire, his maternal grandfather being a physician at Wanganui. After attending Wanganui Collegiate School, he went to Guy's Hospital in 1913 and passed the Conjoint Diploma in May 1918. He immediately joined th