Norman Lloyd Crabtree was an ENT surgeon in Birmingham. He was born on 2 June 1916 in Birmingham, the only child of Herbert Crabtree, a clergyman and past president of the Unitarian Assembly, and Cissie Mabel née Taylor. He was educated at Alleyn’s School and then, following the advice of Sir Cecil

Kenneth Roddie was an ENT consultant surgeon in Bristol. He was born in Portadown, County Armagh, Northern Ireland, on 30 August 1923, the son of John Richard Wesley, a Methodist minister, and Mary Hill Wilson. The family had a strong medical tradition – over three generations there were 23 doctors,

Born at Clapton, Middlesex, on 30 August 1856, the second child and eldest son of the four boys and four girls born to Charles Alfred Ballance (d 1873), of Taunton, where he had been in business as a government contractor for timber, and his wife Caroline Hendebrouck Pollard. Sir Hamilton Ashley Bal

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 at Barton-upon-Irwell, 19 June 1867, the son of George Hibbert Westmacott, wholesale chemist, and Rosena Berry, his wife. He was educated at the Grammar School, at the University, and at the Royal Infirmary, Manchester. As soon as he had qualified he went to Burma in the capacity of surgeon to

Born at Woolwich on 23 August 1876, only son of George Whale, solicitor, and Matilda Whale, his wife. He was educated at Bradfield, at Jesus College, Cambridge, where he played lawn-tennis for the university club "The Grasshoppers", and at St Bartholomew's Hospital where he served as house physician

Born at Exmouth on 30 April 1891, the second child and only son of Surgeon Major A J Wharry, of the Egyptian Army, and Lillie Adeline Barker, his wife. He was educated at Radley and matriculated from New College, Oxford in 1910, but took no degree in the University. He received his medical education

Born in Australia on 6 December 1879, son of the Hon H C Muecke of Adelaide, he was educated at Prince Alfred College and University, where he won the Davies Thomas scholarship, 1900, and graduated with first-class honours in medicine, 1902. Coming to England in 1903, he studied at the London Hospit

Born at Shepton Mallet, Somerset, on 10 December 1866, the fourth child and second son of Henry William Tilley, who farmed his own land, and Emily Steeds Ford, his wife. He was educated at Queen's College, Taunton, and University College Hospital Medical School, where he obtained an entrance exhibit

Born on 21 November 1904 son of Peter Ashcroft he was educated at Knox College and the University of Otago, New Zealand. He came to the United Kingdom for postgraduate study in 1931, after his home town of Napier in North Island had been devastated by an earthquake. He was appointed otological re

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,