Educated at Clare College, Cambridge, winning first-class honours in the Natural Sciences Tripos part I in 1908, and at St Bartholomew's Hospital, where he was senior house surgeon to the throat and ear department, he practised at 14 Leeds Road, Harrogate, was aural surgeon to the General Hospital,

Charles Skinner Hallpike was born in India on 19 July, 1900, the son of F R Hallpike and Helen Skinner. He was educated at St Paul's School, entered Guy's Hospital with a scholarship and obtained the Beany Prize in pathology and qualified in 1926. His interest in the ear started when he was a house

Gerry Kilcoyne was born on 24 January 1927 in Glasgow to a general practitioner father, Dr Patrick Kilcoyne and his wife Rita, née McNulty. He was educated at Clongowes College Dublin, the National University of Ireland, Wood College and University College, Dublin. He held house appointments at St L

Eric Miles Atkinson was born in London on 28 April 1895 and was educated at Epsom College. He entered St Bartholomew's Hospital in 1912 but his medical studies were interrupted by the outbreak of war in 1914 when he served as a motorcycle despatch rider with the British Expeditionary Force in France

Henry Forster was born in December 1888 and received his early education at Ashaw College, Durham, and St Francis Xavier's College, Liverpool. He studied medicine at Liverpool University and graduated with honours in 1912. Before this he had obtained his MSc degree for his work with Sherrington in t

'Zammy' or 'Zam' as he was known to colleagues and friends was born in Colombia, South America, on 13 January 1887 and came to school in England, to Tonbridge and to Cambridge University. His subsequent medical education was at Guy's Hospital, London, where he qualified in 1912. To his disgust when

Richard Chignell came from a medical family and he was born on 25 April 1911 in Wing, Buckinghamshire, where his father was in general practice. He was at school at Bedford and received his medical training at the London Hospital where he qualified in 1936. Later he embarked on his career in otorhin

Prasanta Kumar Chaudhuri passed his MB BS in Calcutta in 1963. He became a Fellow of the College in 1970 and he was working in the ENT department at Oldham and District General Hospital when he died on 2 June 1984.

Robert (Bobby) Cann was born in Wimbledon in 1901 and educated at Richmond County School. He entered Guy's Hospital as a medical student in 1918, qualifying with the Conjoint Diploma in 1924. Among his house appointments at Guy's the second was that of ophthalmic house surgeon, which included care o

John David was born on 12 July 1912 in Rugby. He was the first son of the Rev Albert Augustus David, DD, who was headmaster of Rugby School and later Bishop of Liverpool, and of Edith Mary Miles whose father had been a civil engineer in Jaipur, India. John was educated at Rugby School and graduated

William Daggett, the only son of a Yorkshire general practitioner, was born at Boroughbridge on 2 October, 1900. From a preparatory school at Marston Moor he went as an exhibitioner to Sedberg School and then to Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge. After securing a first class Natural Science Trip

Warren Leishman Thompson was educated at Christ's College, New Zealand, from 1933 to 1937 where he, like his brother, Bruce, was a distinguished athlete representing the school at both cricket and rugby for some years and being a champion fives player and school prefect. On leaving school he entered