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.

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

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

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 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

Peter Canty was a consultant otolaryngologist at Manchester Royal Infirmary. He was born in Cork, Eire, on 27 July 1942. His father, Patrick, was a banker with the Allied Irish Bank and his mother May studied commerce. When Peter was 11 years old, the family moved to Schull in West Cork, and this wa

Rex Barton was a former otolaryngologist, head and neck surgeon at the Leicester Royal Infirmary. He was born in Carmarthen, Wales, on 3 May 1944, the eldest son of Lieutenant Colonel Edward Cecil Barton of the Royal Sussex Regiment and Gwendolen Margaret Gladwys née Thomas, who qualified at the Roy

Philip Stell had an outstanding career as a reconstructive surgeon, dealing with head and neck cancers, and went on to a successful second career in mediaeval history. He was born in Dewsbury, Yorkshire, on 14 August 1934, the son of Frank Law Stell, a tailor’s manager, and Ada née Davies. He was ed

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

James Stinson Brown was a Canadian surgeon who specialized in treatment of the deaf. He was born on 24 February 1923 in Brandon, Manitoba, the son of Abner John Brown and his wife Lillian "Lilly" Roben Kidd. He graduated in medicine from the University of Manitoba in 1949 and came to England to stud