Born in South Africa on 31 May 1915 the son of Harold Wilson Wostenholm, a financier, he was educated at St Andrew's College, Grahamstown and at Trinity Hall, Cambridge, where he took third-class honours in the Natural Sciences Tripos part I in 1937. He took his medical training at the London Hospit

Peter Milling was senior surgeon at the Royal Ear Hospital, Huntley Street, then part of University College, London, and a hidden treasure of ENT wisdom. He was born in Port-of-Spain, Trinidad on 1 April 1916, the elder son of Frederick William Milling, a Yorkshireman, who, after gaining a degree in