William Simon Pease was born in London on 15 October 1925. He was the son of Lord Wardington, the first Baron Wardington (1869-1950), who was the chairman of Lloyds Bank and his mother was the Honourable Dorothy Charlotte née Forster, the daughter of Lord Forster. After preparatory school at St Peter’s Court in Broadstairs, Kent, he attended Eton College where he was captain of Oppidans. From 1944 to 1947 he served as a captain in the Grenadier Guards. He read PPE at New College, Oxford, graduating in 1949 and proceeded to study medicine at London University and St Thomas’s Hospital, qualifying MB, BS in 1956. After various house jobs at St Thomas’s, where he was strongly influenced by the ENT surgeon, Sir Geoffrey Bateman, he became a surgical registrar at St Mary’s Hospital, Portsmouth. He passed the fellowship of the college in 1960 and from 1962 to 1964 he returned to St Thomas’s as an ENT registrar and then moved to Great Ormond Street for four years. Appointed consultant ENT surgeon to the Central Middlesex and Northwick Park Hospitals, he also worked at the Ealing, Acton, Willesden and Wembley Park Hospitals for various times until his retirement from the NHS in 1985. He retired from private practice in August, 1990. He was a fellow of the Royal Society of Medicine and the Medical Society of London. As a student he had played golf and squash and represented his college in competitions. He was a keen sailor and a member of the Royal Yacht Squadron. Later he continued to enjoy golf and was an enthusiastic gardener. In 1962 he married the Honourable Jane Elizabeth Ormesby-Gore, the daughter of Lord Harlech, and she predeceased him in 2004. He died on 19 March 2019, aged 93 years.