Anthony Radcliffe was a consultant ENT surgeon in London. He was born in South Africa and grew up in the same small village as his long-term friend Aaron Klug, the Nobel laureate, who influenced him greatly. Radcliffe qualified in Ireland and completed junior posts at the West London Hospital, Heme

Thomas James Wilmot was a consultant ENT surgeon in Tyrone and Fermanagh, Northern Ireland. He was born in 1920. His father was a general practitioner in Louth, Lincolnshire, but was originally from County Kerry. His mother was from Inverness. Wilmot was educated in Norfolk and at Epsom College, and

Born at Burntisland, Fife on 5 September 1857 the fourth child of David Low, Fellow of the Educational Institute of Scotland, a schoolmaster, and Elizabeth, his wife. He was educated at Madras College, St Andrews, at Edinburgh University, and at the University of Freiburg. He acted for some years as

Iolo Griffith was a consultant ENT surgeon at the University Hospital of Wales, Cardiff, who, as an otologist, co-established the South Wales Cochlear Implant Programme and, as a laryngologist, served the Welsh National Opera. He was greatly respected as a modest, private and diligent man, and admir

Edwin Nicholas Owen (known as 'Tim') was a consultant ENT surgeon for the Shrewsbury Group of Hospitals. He studied medicine at Liverpool University, qualifying in 1938 with the conjoint diploma and the MB BS. Prior to his consultant appointment, he was a registrar in the ENT department, Charing Cr

Peggy Kathleen Lillian Orton was a consultant ENT surgeon at Queen Mary's Hospital for Children, Carshalton, Elizabeth Garrett Anderson Hospital, London, and the South London Hospital for Women and Children. She was born on 8 March 1914 and studied medicine at the Royal Free Hospital Medical School

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

The fifth son of Andrew Pritchard, FRS, Edinburgh; studied at King's College Hospital, London, where he was House Surgeon, then at Edinburgh, winning the Ettles Scholarship and Gold Medal, his Thesis being "On the Structure of the Lamina Spiralis Membranacea". He returned to King's College Hospital,

Rusie Rustomjee, an ENT surgeon, practised medicine for 75 years, starting in Colombo, Ceylon and finally retiring in Australia at the age of 89. He was born in Colombo on 9 November 1912 one of the six children of Cowasjee Rustomjee, whom he described as a merchant, and his wife Piroja née Mistry.

Cyril Isaac Woolf was an ear, nose and throat surgeon in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada. He was born in the East End of London, into an orthodox Jewish family, the eldest of three sons of Adolph Woolf and Regina Woolf née Frey. He studied medicine in London, qualifying MB BS in 1952. After house posts,

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