John William Hamilton was an otolaryngologist in Natal, South Africa. Born on 12 June 1933 he passed the fellowship of the college in 1967. He died on 4 November 2016.

Ian Mackee was an ENT surgeon at Sunderland Royal Infirmary. This is a draft obituary. If you have any information about this surgeon or are interested in writing this obituary, please email lives@rcseng.ac.uk

John Noel Gleave Evans was a consultant otolaryngologist at St Thomas’ Hospital and at Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children, London. He was born on 9 December 1934 in Kuala Lumpur, Malaya, where his parents were in the Colonial Service. He was educated at Guildford Grammar Preparatory School in

Michel Portmann was director of surgery at the University of Bordeaux, France and a distinguished otolaryngologist. This is a draft obituary. If you have any information about this surgeon or are interested in writing this obituary, please email lives@rcseng.ac.uk

Susanna Elizabeth Jane Leighton née Hurley was a consultant paediatric otolaryngologist at Great Ormond Street Hospital, London. She was born in Kobe, Japan, on 20 January 1959. She qualified at St Thomas's Hospital, London, where she completed an intercalated BSc in anatomy, and was vice-president

Born in London 1 November 1903, the second child and only son of Alfred George Chamings, chief officer of the public control department, London County Council, and Bertha Wilson, his wife. He was educated at Westminster School (admitted 27 September 1917, non-resident King's Scholar September 1918,

Born 5 October 1883, the son of Major John Colledge of Lauriston House, Cheltenham, he was educated at Cheltenham College, at Caius College, Cambridge, and at St George's Hospital Medical School. After a period as demonstrator of anatomy at King's College in the Strand, he was appointed assistant au

Born 26 November 1888, the elder son of Frank Marsh, FRCS, and Constance Hooper, his wife, who outlived her son. He was educated at Shrewsbury and at Trinity College, Cambridge, where he graduated with second-class honours in the Natural Sciences Tripos in 1910. He then entered St Bartholomew's,

Born on 27 February 1911 at Karlsruhe, Herbert Sigmund Kander came from a family with a strong medical tradition. He studied medicine at the Universities of Vienna and Munich, but was obliged by the Nazi tyranny to leave Germany before graduating, and came to England in 1933 at the age of 22. He stu

Born in 1928 he was educated at Emmanuel College, Cambridge where he took second-class honours in the Natural Sciences Tripos part I, 1948 and at King's College Hospital, qualifying in 1951. He was ear nose and throat house surgeon at King's, registrar at the Royal National Ear Nose and Throat Hospi

John Ballantyne, a genial, kindly, hard-working man who gave much to British and world otolaryngology, was a consultant otolaryngologist at the Royal Free Hospital, London. He was born during a Zeppelin raid on Nottingham on 26 September 1917. He was a triplet – preceded by his sister, Jeannie, and

Robert Sanderson was a consultant otolaryngologist in Edinburgh and Livingstone. He and his twin brother, Paul, were the first identical twins to pass the FRCS in general surgery together. ‘Rob’ elected to study otolaryngology and trained with Arnold Maran in Edinburgh, before doing a fellowship in