John Roydon Peacock was the son of Ralph Peacock, an accomplished portrait painter whose work is represented by two paintings in the Tate Gallery and others in various national galleries throughout the world. He studied at Cambridge where he graduated with first class honours in the Natural Science

Kenneth Lennox Wilson, the son of the Rt Rev Cecil Wilford Wilson, Anglican Bishop of Middleton, and of Winifred Marion Wilson (née McCall), was born at Bath, Somerset, on 11 October 1918. He was educated at Sedbergh Preparatory School, Marlborough College and Christ's College, Cambridge, before ent

Born in 1876, the second son of James Connolly, of Putney. He was educated at the Royal Academical Institution and at Queen's College, Belfast, whence he went on to the University of Edinburgh. He received his professional training at the University and Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh, and al

Robin Francis McNab Jones, a much-respected leading ENT surgeon, was a consultant at both St Bartholomew's Hospital and the Royal National Throat, Nose and Ear Hospital, London, where for five years he also served as dean of the Institute of Laryngology and Otology (from 1971 to 1976). He was born

Peter Timmis was appointed consultant ENT surgeon at the Luton and Dunstable Hospital, West Herts Hospital, and Hemel Hempstead and Hitchen Hospital in 1960. He was born on 30 September 1922 to Colin Timmis, a mechanical engineer, and Sarah Ellen Timmis née Pyatt, and was educated at Chesham Prepar

Wadi Yusuf Nassar was an ENT surgeon at Wythenshawe and Withington hospitals, Manchester. He was born in Jifna, a small village near Jerusalem, in the then Palestine, the fourth child and second son of Yousif Nassar, a priest in the Greek Orthodox Church, and Zakia née Samara, the daughter of a farm

Edwin Nicholas Owen (known as 'Tim') was a consultant ENT surgeon for the Shrewsbury Group of Hospitals. He studied medicine at Liverpool University, qualifying in 1938 with the conjoint diploma and the MB BS. Prior to his consultant appointment, he was a registrar in the ENT department, Charing Cr

Peggy Kathleen Lillian Orton was a consultant ENT surgeon at Queen Mary's Hospital for Children, Carshalton, Elizabeth Garrett Anderson Hospital, London, and the South London Hospital for Women and Children. She was born on 8 March 1914 and studied medicine at the Royal Free Hospital Medical School

William Mervyn Owen was a consultant ENT surgeon who worked in Liverpool. He was brought up in Caernarfon, Wales, and studied medicine at St Thomas's Hospital Medical School, qualifying with the conjoint diploma in 1937 and the MB BS in 1938. During the Second World War he served in the RAMC and in

Carol Wengraf was a consultant ENT surgeon at the Greenwich, Lewisham and Woolwich Hospital and later at the University Hospital, Hull. In later life she started fencing and rose to compete and win international competitions in the veterans' class. She was the third of four children born to Frank an

Elder son of David Bridge Lees, MD, Physician to St Mary's Hospital, London, was a scholar of St Paul's School, and was admitted with an exhibition to King's College, Cambridge, where he was also a prizeman, on Oct 2nd, 1900, and graduated BA in 1903 after obtaining a 1st class in Part I of the Natu

The son of a well-known dentist in Boulogne. He became a student at St George's Hospital in 1851, studied at Heidelberg, and after qualifying was appointed one of the Surgeons of the West London Hospital, Hammersmith, on its foundation in 1856. He had only held this post a short time, as well as tha