James Freeman was a consultant ENT surgeon in Bristol. He studied medicine at Middlesex Hospital Medical School and qualified in 1940. He gained his FRCS in 1948 and his diploma in laryngology and otology in 1950. Prior to his consultant appointment, he was a house surgeon at the Royal National Thr

Ghassan Hanna was a Palestinian who left his troubled homeland during the Six-Day War of 1967 to realise his dream of becoming a doctor; he subsequently made his home in Britain, where he became a successful ENT surgeon. He was born into a Palestinian Christian family in Nablus on 19 October 1949, o

Born in 1876, the second son of James Connolly, of Putney. He was educated at the Royal Academical Institution and at Queen's College, Belfast, whence he went on to the University of Edinburgh. He received his professional training at the University and Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh, and al

Wadi Yusuf Nassar was an ENT surgeon at Wythenshawe and Withington hospitals, Manchester. He was born in Jifna, a small village near Jerusalem, in the then Palestine, the fourth child and second son of Yousif Nassar, a priest in the Greek Orthodox Church, and Zakia née Samara, the daughter of a farm

Victor Lobo was a consultant ENT surgeon in the Maidstone and Medway areas of Kent. He was educated at St George's College, Weybridge, and then studied medicine at St Mary's Hospital Medical School. Victor Lobo died on 2 November 2008. He was survived by his wife Barbara, two children, Louise and

Robin Francis McNab Jones, a much-respected leading ENT surgeon, was a consultant at both St Bartholomew's Hospital and the Royal National Throat, Nose and Ear Hospital, London, where for five years he also served as dean of the Institute of Laryngology and Otology (from 1971 to 1976). He was born

James O'Reilly, known as 'Seamus' was a consultant ENT surgeon at South Tyrone Hospital, Dungannon, Northern Ireland. He was born in 1925 into a medical family in County Cavan, Ireland. His father, grandfather, two uncles, a brother and several cousins were all doctors. He studied medicine at Univer

William Mervyn Owen was a consultant ENT surgeon who worked in Liverpool. He was brought up in Caernarfon, Wales, and studied medicine at St Thomas's Hospital Medical School, qualifying with the conjoint diploma in 1937 and the MB BS in 1938. During the Second World War he served in the RAMC and in

Winifred Joan Wadge was a consultant ENT surgeon at the Royal Ear Hospital (University College Hospital) and the Nelson Hospital, Wimbledon. She was born on 22 May 1904 in Ilford, Essex, the second of three children to Frederick Collett Wadge, a solicitor, and Winifred Hardwick Wadge née Shacklock,

Paul Vincent Wadsworth was a consultant ear, nose and throat surgeon to the Brighton and Haywards Heath hospitals and, for many years, also principal laryngologist to Glyndebourne Opera. He was born in Harewood, Yorkshire, on 2 November 1919, the son of Joseph Harold Wadsworth, a school master, and

John Leach Wakelin trained at St Mary's Hospital, Paddington, where he became senior registrar in the ENT department. In 1944 he is recorded as serving in the RAMC as a lieutenant. In the 1971 *Medical Directory*, he is listed as being an honorary consultant ENT surgeon to the Bulawayo Government Ho

The second son of David Tod, JP, of Eastwood Park and Hartfield, Renfrewshire, was born at Partick, Glasgow, on September 15th, 1870. He was educated at Clifton College and at Trinity College, Cambridge, where he was admitted a Pensioner on May 27th, 1889, and graduated with 1st Class Honours in the