Vincent Briffa was a consultant ENT surgeon at Hammersmith Hospital. He was born in Malta, where he studied medicine. After qualifying in 1949, he came to the United Kingdom to study otorhinolaryngology. He was a clinical assistant at the Royal National Ear Nose and Throat Hospital in London, and ob

Leonard Kingdom was educated at Cambridge and St Bartholomew's Hospital. After junior jobs he entered the RAMC where he was a graded surgeon. After the war he returned to Cambridge to demonstrate anatomy, and then went back to Bart's to specialise in ENT. He became chief assistant in the ENT departm

Man Mohan Nath was born on 25 August 1911 at Fazilkah, Punjab - now part of Pakistan. His father, Kanwal Nain, was a magistrate and his mother was Bishan Dei, a housewife. He was part of the Leiah family, who were well known in the Punjab and who all moved to Delhi after the partition of India. Two

Rodney Vincent Tracy Forster was an ear, nose and throat surgeon in Southport and Sefton. He was born on 28 October 1918 in Warrington. He was the son of Louis Edward Tracy Forster and Helen Gertrude née Berry. His mother's father was a well-known general practitioner surgeon in Wigan. Tracy Forster

Granville Freeman was a consultant ENT surgeon at Lancaster, Kendal and Morecambe Hospitals. Born in 1922, he was educated at Bedford Grammar School and Uppingham, where he was house captain. He read medicine at Oxford and completed house jobs at the Radcliffe Infirmary. He did his National Service

Roshini Marcelle Alles was consultant in audiovestibular medicine at the Royal National Throat, Nose and Ear Hospital (RNTNEH) in London. She was born in Ceylon in 1953 and qualified from the University of Sri Lanka in Colombo in 1978. After completing postgraduate training in ear, nose and throat m

Alan Peter Ardouin was a consultant ENT surgeon at Kent and Canterbury Hospital. Born on 6 October 1930 in London, he was the second son of Herbert Charles Ardouin LDS, RCS, a dental surgeon and his wife Joyce Marion née Edmett. He was educated at Franklin House School in London, Vermont Academy in

Ghanekar qualified in Bombay and came to England to specialise in ENT, working at first in Farnborough, Liverpool and Burton-upon-Trent where he was appointed a consultant otolaryngologist and was involved in planning a new ENT unit. He was particularly interested in surgery of the parotid. Later he

Born in San Francisco on 1 February 1880, the eldest child of J Lewis Franklin, a business man, and his wife *née* Last; his father died while he was still a boy. He was educated at Lowell High School and the University of California. Coming to Europe he worked at Heidelberg University and at King's

Born 16 April 1868 at Merstham, Surrey, second child and second son of Edwin Peters and Damaris Kingsnorth, his wife. He was educated at Charterhouse and at Caius College, Cambridge, where he took first-class honours in Part 1 of the Natural Sciences Tripos, 1889, and second-class honours in Part 2,

Born 22 August 1892, the third and youngest son of George Douglas Pidcock, MD Cambridge, MRCP, who was in general practice at 74 Fitzjohn's Avenue, Hampstead, London, NW. Mrs Pidcock, née Thorn, had previously been married to a Mr Tasker, and had a son by that first marriage. He was educated at Univ

Born in London in 1875 the son of Richard Barwell FRCS, surgeon to Charing Cross Hospital, and Mary Diana Shuttleworth his wife, he was educated at Temple Grove and Westminster School, where he was Bishop Williams exhibitioner, and at St George's, where he held resident posts. Deciding to specialise