Philip Stell had an outstanding career as a reconstructive surgeon, dealing with head and neck cancers, and went on to a successful second career in mediaeval history. He was born in Dewsbury, Yorkshire, on 14 August 1934, the son of Frank Law Stell, a tailor’s manager, and Ada née Davies. He was ed

Rex Barton was a former otolaryngologist, head and neck surgeon at the Leicester Royal Infirmary. He was born in Carmarthen, Wales, on 3 May 1944, the eldest son of Lieutenant Colonel Edward Cecil Barton of the Royal Sussex Regiment and Gwendolen Margaret Gladwys née Thomas, who qualified at the Roy

Howard Payne House was a pioneering ear specialist. During his long career he treated thousands of patients, including Howard Hughes, Bob Hope and the former President, Ronald Reagan. A graduate of the University of Southern California's Keck School of Medicine, House perfected the wire loop techni

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

Andrew Morrison was born on 3 December 1925 in Huelva, southern Spain, where his father, William Andrew Morrison, was a mining engineer. His mother was Violet Mary née Common, the daughter of a dentist. The family returned to Scotland and Andrew attended Stirling High School, where he excelled both

A renowned ear surgeon, Stuart Mawson was a consultant otolaryngologist at King’s College Hospital, London. He was born on 4 March 1918 in London. His father, Alec Robert Mawson, was chief officer of the parks’ department of the London County Council. His mother, Ena Grossmith, was an actress and th

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

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

Peter Douglas Jackson was a consultant otolaryngologist for the Lewisham Group of Hospitals, but it would be fair to say that he would rather be remembered as an operatic tenor/baritone. He was born on 9 May 1930 in Maryport in what was then Cumberland, the son of Percy Jackson, a Methodist minister

Born in Western Australia on 11 April 1877, he was a student at St Mary's Hospital, London, where he was afterwards assistant lecturer in anatomy. After holding resident posts at St Mary's and Great Ormond Street Children's Hospital, he was appointed surgical registrar at St Mary's and subsequently

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 on 3 May 1878, son of Alexander Guthrie of Mossley Hill, Liverpool, he gained an exhibition at Sedburgh and, from there, an exhibition at King's College, Cambridge, where he obtained a first class in the Natural Science Tripos in 1899. For his clinical studies he entered the medical school of S