Robert Davies Owen was born on 8 May 1898 at Morfa Nevin, Caernarvonshire, the second son of Griffith Owen, a master mariner and his wife Jane, nee Davies, the daughter of a master mariner. He was educated at Towyn Grammar School and University College, Cardiff. On leaving school he became a cadet i

Felix Robert Nagar was Professor of Otorhinolaryngology at the University of Zurich. He was awarded the Honorary Fellowship in 1949 and is believed to have died in 1974.

John Cope was born on 1 November 1907, in Birmingham, the son of John, a master drysalter and his wife Rose, née Wigley. He went to school at King Edward's in Birmingham before proceeding to Trinity College, Cambridge. He received his medical training at St Bartholomew's Hospital, where he became

Barbara Elizabeth Stead was an ENT surgeon at Nottingham General Hospital. She was born Barbara Elizabeth Wood on 13 November 1932 in East Dulwich, London, the daughter of Norman Victor Mark Wood, a clerk, and Violet Annie Wood née Dight. She studied medicine in Leeds and qualified with the conjoint

Malcolm Haydon-Baillie was born in Sunderland on 27 August 1906, the elder son of Dr Thomas Cleghorn Baillie, DSc, principal of a technical college and Lily Christine Haydon. He was educated at Whitgift Grammar School and St Edmund's College, Ware, before entering King's College, London, and King's

Stephen Creighton Suggit was born in Slingsby, Yorkshire, on 11 September 1909, the son of Dr Bertram Suggit MB, ChB Leeds, DPH, senior resident medical officer to the Public Dispensary, Leeds, and his wife Agnes Isabella, née Baker. His early education was at Bedford School, after which he enter

Robert Stewart McKim was born on 30 April 1930, qualified MB, BChir from Cambridge University in 1954 and passed the fellowship of the college in 1961. He lived in Bath and was a consultant ear, nose and throat surgeon to the Bath Area Health Authority. He died on 19 July 2019 aged 89 years.

Margaret Mary Mason was educated at Newnham College, Cambridge, and King's College Hospital Medical School, and qualified MB BCh in 1945. Specialising in otolaryngology after her house appointments, she held posts at the Institute of Laryngology and Otology and at Princess Beatrice Hospital and was

Julian Bihari was a consultant ENT surgeon at Singleton Hospital, Swansea and Glantawe Hospital. He was born on 24 June 1925, the son of Ida and Emil Bihari. Both of his parents were Jewish - his mother was from Lwów, Galicia, then part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, and his father was from Budapes

Eliasz Zwiefach (Elek or Alek to his friends) was born in 1910 and after gaining the diploma in medicine in 1936 proceeded to the degree of MD two years later. He had started to practise otorhinolaryngology before the war, but shortly after its outbreak was taken prisoner by the Russian Army and spe

Mohammod Younos was born in Pakistan on 11 November 1944 and after early education entered King Edward Medical College, Lahore, in 1962. He qualified six years later and after junior appointments in Pakistan came to England in 1969. He completed senior houses officer posts in ear, nose and throat su

George Milner was born on 26 May 1922 in Kingston, Jamaica, where his father, Edgar Webb Milner, was an accountant. His mother was Ida Emerett née Dixon. Educated at Kingston College, he went on to the University of Aberdeen to study medicine. On graduating, he returned to Jamaica to be a casualt