Channarayapatna Ramachandra was an otolaryngologist at North Tyneside General Hospital. He qualified MB BS from Mysore University in India in 1959. He gained his fellowship of the Royal College of Surgeons in 1967 and his diploma in otolaryngology in 1973. Prior to his consultant appointment he was

Born in Western Australia on 11 April 1877, he was a student at St Mary's Hospital, London, where he was afterwards assistant lecturer in anatomy. After holding resident posts at St Mary's and Great Ormond Street Children's Hospital, he was appointed surgical registrar at St Mary's and subsequently

Born in 1928 of a medical family of five generations, son of John Richard Griffith FRCS and Elsie Maud Griffith MRCS, he was educated at Stowe School, Christ's College, Cambridge, where he won the E G Fearnsides scholarship, and St Bartholomew's Hospital. Soon after qualification in 1952 Griffith wa

Born in London 1 November 1903, the second child and only son of Alfred George Chamings, chief officer of the public control department, London County Council, and Bertha Wilson, his wife. He was educated at Westminster School (admitted 27 September 1917, non-resident King's Scholar September 1918,

Born on 27 February 1911 at Karlsruhe, Herbert Sigmund Kander came from a family with a strong medical tradition. He studied medicine at the Universities of Vienna and Munich, but was obliged by the Nazi tyranny to leave Germany before graduating, and came to England in 1933 at the age of 22. He stu

A renowned ear surgeon, Stuart Mawson was a consultant otolaryngologist at King’s College Hospital, London. He was born on 4 March 1918 in London. His father, Alec Robert Mawson, was chief officer of the parks’ department of the London County Council. His mother, Ena Grossmith, was an actress and th

Stewart Cameron was a much respected otolaryngologist at the Freeman Hospital, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, with a special interest in skull-based surgery. He was born in Newcastle on 3 July 1940 and was head boy at Dame Allan's School. A keen rugby player at school, he went on to play scrum half for the No

Born in 1928 he was educated at Emmanuel College, Cambridge where he took second-class honours in the Natural Sciences Tripos part I, 1948 and at King's College Hospital, qualifying in 1951. He was ear nose and throat house surgeon at King's, registrar at the Royal National Ear Nose and Throat Hospi

Andrew Morrison was born on 3 December 1925 in Huelva, southern Spain, where his father, William Andrew Morrison, was a mining engineer. His mother was Violet Mary née Common, the daughter of a dentist. The family returned to Scotland and Andrew attended Stirling High School, where he excelled both

Rex Barton was a former otolaryngologist, head and neck surgeon at the Leicester Royal Infirmary. He was born in Carmarthen, Wales, on 3 May 1944, the eldest son of Lieutenant Colonel Edward Cecil Barton of the Royal Sussex Regiment and Gwendolen Margaret Gladwys née Thomas, who qualified at the Roy

Howard Payne House was a pioneering ear specialist. During his long career he treated thousands of patients, including Howard Hughes, Bob Hope and the former President, Ronald Reagan. A graduate of the University of Southern California's Keck School of Medicine, House perfected the wire loop techni

Robert Sanderson was a consultant otolaryngologist in Edinburgh and Livingstone. He and his twin brother, Paul, were the first identical twins to pass the FRCS in general surgery together. ‘Rob’ elected to study otolaryngology and trained with Arnold Maran in Edinburgh, before doing a fellowship in