Howard Young was a consultant otorhinolaryngologist at Aberdeen Royal Infirmary from 1978 until 2006. He was a Lancashire lad, born on 3 September 1945 in a house overlooking Swinton Park Golf Club, Manchester. His mother and his father, who was a consulting engineer, brought him up there with his o

John Duff was an ENT surgeon in Cape Town, South Africa. He was born in Golders Green in London. He recorded on his *Lives of the Fellows* biographical form that: ‘Amazingly the exact date of my birth is confused. My father who registered it quotes 20.3.35. My mother claims it to be 21.3.35. Of no s

Stephen Thomas (or 'Steve' as he was known to his friends) was a consultant ENT surgeon at Leicester Royal Infirmary. He was born in Cardiff on 12 July 1940 to Hector Thomas, a consultant otolayrngologist at Cardiff Royal Infirmary, and Enid Thomas, a Welsh hockey international. He attended Radley C

Ugo Fisch was a leading otorhinolaryngologist and professor of otorhinolaryngology at the University of Zürich, Switzerland. He was born in Weinfelden, Switzerland on 3 March 1931 but, on the death of his father when he was two, moved to Lugano. He finished high school in 1949 and went to the Univer