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,

Born at Clapton, Middlesex, on 30 August 1856, the second child and eldest son of the four boys and four girls born to Charles Alfred Ballance (d 1873), of Taunton, where he had been in business as a government contractor for timber, and his wife Caroline Hendebrouck Pollard. Sir Hamilton Ashley Bal

Betsy Brown was a consultant ENT surgeon at Bradford Royal Infirmary. She was born on 15 February 1923 in Glasgow, the second daughter of Robert and Isabella Brown. Her father was a master builder, her mother a legal secretary until she married. Together with her sister and brother, Betsy attended H

Tom Lo was a consultant ENT surgeon in Hawke's Bay, New Zealand. He was born in Hong Kong, the son of a solicitor, Man Wai Lo, a member of the Legislative Council and, with his brother Sir Man Kam Lo, co-founder of the law firm of Lo & Lo. Tom's education was interrupted when he was 14 by the Japane

Born on 25 January 1876, son of S L Horsford, of St Kitt's, West Indies, he was educated at Bedford Modern School and Edinburgh University, taking his MD with honours in 1902. A year later he took the English Fellowship after serving as a clinical assistant at the Throat Hospital in Golden Square. H

Born at Hull on 4 February 1867 the son of John Wilkinson MRCS (1859), who was surgeon to the Hull police and died on 25 April 1875; his grandfather having also practised there, he was educated at Hull Grammar School, was a scholar of Emmanuel College, Cambridge, and took first-class honours in the

Born on 25 June 1904 at Johannesburg, South Africa, second son of John James Passe, an engineer, and Eleanor Jane Price his wife, his parents moved to Australia while he was a child, and he was educated at Melbourne High School and graduated in dentistry at Melbourne University in April 1926. Passe

Philip John Jory, the eldest son of the Reverend John Dunstan Jory, was born at Port Chalmers, New Zealand, on 1 March 1892. He was educated at Nelson College and was Senior University Scholar in 1910, proceeding to Otago University. Throughout the first world war he served in the New Zealand Army M

This obituary appeared in volume four: Born in Ceylon about 1905, he qualified with the Conjoint Diploma in 1927 and took the Fellowship two years later. Returning to practise at Colombo he was appointed ear nose and throat surgeon to the General Hospital. He died at Colombo about 1940, but his n

Born in New Zealand on 26 April 1902, only son of Robert Mill of the Bank of New Zealand he was brought to London at an early age and was educated at Whitgift School and Guy's Hospital qualifying with the Conjoint Diploma in 1924 and graduating MB BS with honours two years later. During his career a

The son of W L Mollison, Master of Clare College, Cambridge, he was born on 20 December 1878 and was educated at Haileybury and King's College, Cambridge, entering the latter as an exhibitioner in natural sciences in 1897. After obtaining a first class in Part I of the Natural Sciences Tripos, he en

John Parry Monkhouse was born on 18 December 1899. He did the medical course at St Mary's Hospital and qualified with the Conjoint Diploma in 1925, proceeding to the London degree the following year. After house appointments he soon began to specialize in otolaryngology, and after taking the FRCS in