'Zammy' or 'Zam' as he was known to colleagues and friends was born in Colombia, South America, on 13 January 1887 and came to school in England, to Tonbridge and to Cambridge University. His subsequent medical education was at Guy's Hospital, London, where he qualified in 1912. To his disgust when

John Taylor was the son of a West Riding GP and was educated at Giggleswick School and Leeds University. Entering the ENT speciality immediately with posts at Leeds and Leicester he did National Service as a graded ENT specialist in the Middle East Command and in Kenya (1949-51). Subsequently he mov

Cecil Patrick Malley was surgeon to the Metropolitan Ear, Nose and Throat Hospital, surgeon to the ENT Department of the St Mary's Hospital for Women and Children in Plaistow and consultant in aural surgery at Bushey Heath Hospital. He retired to Malaga and died there on 21 June 1981.

John Barton Booth was a consultant ENT surgeon at St Bartholomew's and the Royal London Hospitals. He was born on 19 November 1937, the son of Percy Leonard Booth and Mildred Amy née Wilson. He was educated at Canford School and at King's College, London, where he became an Associate (a diploma awar

Gerald Joseph Siegler, or ‘Jo’ as he known to colleagues, was an ENT consultant in Liverpool. He was born in London on 3 January 1921, and studied medicine at St Bartholomew’s Hospital. He held junior posts in Huddersfield, Lancaster, Nuneaton and Birkenhead, before completing his National Service w

Ian Hopper was an ENT consultant in Sunderland. He was born in Newcastle upon Tyne on 19 May 1938, the son of John Frederick Hopper, an insurance manager, and Dora née Lambert. He was educated at Dame Allans School, Newcastle upon Tyne, and High Storrs Grammar School, Sheffield, where he played rugb

Born at Bickley, Kent on 3 December 1871, the third son and seventh child of Alexander Forbes Tweedie, JP, solicitor, of Rolvenden, Kent, and Alice Bell, his wife. He was educated at Repton School and at St Bartholomew's Hospital, where he won the junior scholarship in anatomy and physiology in 1896

James Cecil Hogg was born on 25 August 1900 and was educated at Haileybury College where he played rugger for the first XV, and then at Caius College, Cambridge, where in addition to his medical studies he was a member of the Footlights and played tennis for his College. He came to St Bartholomew's

Henry Forster was born in December 1888 and received his early education at Ashaw College, Durham, and St Francis Xavier's College, Liverpool. He studied medicine at Liverpool University and graduated with honours in 1912. Before this he had obtained his MSc degree for his work with Sherrington in t

Allen Dingley, the son and grandson of doctors, was born in London on 28 October 1892. He was educated at Highgate School and then the Leys School, Cambridge, before entering St Bartholomew's Hospital Medical College. He qualified with the Conjoint Diploma in 1917. Shortly after his first resident j

Frank Cunliffe Ormerod was born in Lancashire on 23 August 1894, and was educated at Manchester Grammar School and the University of Manchester where he had a distinguished career, winning the Dreschfeld and Dauntesey Scholarships, and graduated in medicine in 1916. He also passed the final Conjoint

John David was born on 12 July 1912 in Rugby. He was the first son of the Rev Albert Augustus David, DD, who was headmaster of Rugby School and later Bishop of Liverpool, and of Edith Mary Miles whose father had been a civil engineer in Jaipur, India. John was educated at Rugby School and graduated