Born 27 July 1875 at the Royal Naval Hospital, Stonehouse, Plymouth, only child of Staff-Surgeon Charles Lyon Ridout, RN, MRCS 1866, and Ada Perley Scott, his wife, daughter of Archibald Scott of Halifax, Nova Scotia. C L Ridout was at that time on the staff at Stonehouse and later served in HMS *To

Bernard Juby was a consultant ENT surgeon at the Ipswich Hospital. He was born in Stowmarket, Suffolk, on 9 April 1925, the only son of L H Juby, a draper, and Ethel née Quinton. He was educated at Culford School. His early wish was to be a farmer, but was encouraged by his mother to read medicine.

Studied at the Bristol Medical School in 1884 and at the Royal Infirmary, where he won the Tibbits Memorial Prize for Practical Surgery, then at St Bartholomew's Hospital. After acting as House Surgeon, House Physician, and Anaesthetist at the Bristol Royal Infirmary, also as Curator of the Museum,

Christopher Savage was a consultant ENT surgeon at the Chelmsford and Essex Hospital, and the Southend General Hospital, where he developed a special interest in microsurgery of the ear. Born in Edgbaston, Birmingham, on 21 November 1915, he was part of the third generation of a family of surgeons.

Howard Michael Parsons was an ENT surgeon in Lewisham and then Croydon. He was born in Paddington, London, on 14 April 1918, during a Zeppelin raid, the third child of John Parsons, a master builder, and his wife Maude Parsons née Percival. He was educated at St Andrews Prep School, Eastbourne and t

Born 13 May 1871 at Carlisle, the second child and second son of Robert Bowman Faulder, landowner, and Ann Jefferson, his wife. He was educated at St Bees School and matriculated from Clare College, Cambridge in 1888, where he held the Grindal exhibition and the senior classical scholarship. He grad

Born in 1876, he graduated MD at Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, and came to London, where he took postgraduate courses at University College, King's College, and St Thomas's Hospitals. He settled in practice at New York as a specialist in diseases of the ear, throat, and nose. From 1922

Born about 1863, he was educated at St Bartholomew's Hospital, where he served as house surgeon, and in Paris. After serving as junior house surgeon at the Wolverhampton and Staffordshire General Hospital and senior resident medical officer at the Great Northern Hospital, London, and teaching anatom

Born at Brisbane, Australia on 6 September 1888, the third child and Second son of John Graham Brown, general manager of the Queensland Government Railways, and Amelia Morris, his wife. The family had come go Australia from Ulster. He was educated at Brisbane Grammar School, where he distinguished h

Born at Totnes, South Devon on 25 December 1856, the second son of John Heath and his wife Rachel Pulling. His father was the proprietor of the "Seven Stars" hotel, an old-established house, situated at the bottom of the town near the Dart. He is described as being a well-known character in Totnes,

Arthur George Wells was a student at University College London, and qualified with the Conjoint Diploma in 1905, and took the MB BS London the following year. He became specially interested in otolaryngology, and held the post of senior assistant in the ENT department at Univesity College Hospital.

Born in Sheffield on 26 June 1885, son of Frank Cobb and Martha Griffiths, his wife. He was educated at Firth Park Grammar School, Sheffield and at Sheffield University, where he graduated with honours and won a gold medal in gynaecology. He was house surgeon and resident surgical officer at the Roy