Born 16 June 1855 at Tillington, Stafford, second son and fourth of the seven children of Edward Marsh (b 1806), yeoman farmer, and Elizabeth Hall, his second wife. He was educated at King Edward's School, Stafford, and King's College Hospital, London. After qualifying in 1877 he served with the Tur

Born 26 November 1888, the elder son of Frank Marsh, FRCS, and Constance Hooper, his wife, who outlived her son. He was educated at Shrewsbury and at Trinity College, Cambridge, where he graduated with second-class honours in the Natural Sciences Tripos in 1910. He then entered St Bartholomew's,

John Ballantyne, a genial, kindly, hard-working man who gave much to British and world otolaryngology, was a consultant otolaryngologist at the Royal Free Hospital, London. He was born during a Zeppelin raid on Nottingham on 26 September 1917. He was a triplet – preceded by his sister, Jeannie, and

Robert Sanderson was a consultant otolaryngologist in Edinburgh and Livingstone. He and his twin brother, Paul, were the first identical twins to pass the FRCS in general surgery together. ‘Rob’ elected to study otolaryngology and trained with Arnold Maran in Edinburgh, before doing a fellowship in

James Stinson Brown was a Canadian surgeon who specialized in treatment of the deaf. He was born on 24 February 1923 in Brandon, Manitoba, the son of Abner John Brown and his wife Lillian "Lilly" Roben Kidd. He graduated in medicine from the University of Manitoba in 1949 and came to England to stud

Born at Peterhead, Scotland on 23 March 1878, eldest child of the Rev John Robinson Cleminson of Hull, and Alice Millican, his wife. He was educated at Kingswood School, Bath, at Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge, at University College Hospital, London, and at the University of Pennsylvania, Phi

Born in 1928 he was educated at Emmanuel College, Cambridge where he took second-class honours in the Natural Sciences Tripos part I, 1948 and at King's College Hospital, qualifying in 1951. He was ear nose and throat house surgeon at King's, registrar at the Royal National Ear Nose and Throat Hospi

Born on 27 February 1911 at Karlsruhe, Herbert Sigmund Kander came from a family with a strong medical tradition. He studied medicine at the Universities of Vienna and Munich, but was obliged by the Nazi tyranny to leave Germany before graduating, and came to England in 1933 at the age of 22. He stu

Born in 1928 of a medical family of five generations, son of John Richard Griffith FRCS and Elsie Maud Griffith MRCS, he was educated at Stowe School, Christ's College, Cambridge, where he won the E G Fearnsides scholarship, and St Bartholomew's Hospital. Soon after qualification in 1952 Griffith wa

Born at Larkhall, Glasgow, he was educated at the University of Glasgow going to the Western Infirmary for the clinical period and, as a postgraduate, to the Royal Infirmary, Edinburgh. After qualifying, he held junior appointments at the Western Infirmary, Glasgow, followed by a post as senior hous

Peter Canty was a consultant otolaryngologist at Manchester Royal Infirmary. He was born in Cork, Eire, on 27 July 1942. His father, Patrick, was a banker with the Allied Irish Bank and his mother May studied commerce. When Peter was 11 years old, the family moved to Schull in West Cork, and this wa

Alan ‘Budgie’ Burge was a consultant ENT surgeon in Hong Kong and Antigua. This is a draft obituary. If you have any information about this surgeon or are interested in writing this obituary, please email lives@rcseng.ac.uk