Anthony James Sear, known as Tony, was an oral and maxillofacial consultant for Mid and South Worcestershire Hospitals. He was born on 9 March 1930. He studied dentistry at the University of Birmingham and qualified in 1953 and gained his FDSRCS in 1959. He carried out his National Service in West Africa. At Worcester, after attending the University Hospital of Zürich, he introduced operations to correct facial deformity, pioneered in Switzerland, and, with his anaesthetist, he developed a new laryngoscope. He had working exchanges with consultant colleagues in Napier, New Zealand and Kampala, Uganda. Outside medicine he enjoyed tennis, skiing, sailing and golf, which he took up in his retirement. He learnt French and had regular holidays in France. He also built his own single seat light aircraft in his garage. Sear died on 20 April 2007. He was 77. He was survived by his widow Catherine (née Messervy), three children and two grandchildren.