Bindiganavale Srinivas Srinivas Acharaya was a consultant ENT surgeon at Ashford Hospital, Middlesex. Born on 12 April 1910 in Ahmadnagar, India, he was the son of Bindiganavale Garuda Srinivas, an ophthalmologist, and his wife Rajamma. Educated at the London Mission High School in Bangalore, he then proceeded to London and studied medicine at London University and St Bartholomew’s Hospital (Barts). He did house jobs in ENT at Barts and the Royal Berkshire Hospital in Reading (where he was mentored by Gordon Leonard Bohn) qualifying MB BS in 1938. During the second world war he served as a major in the RAMC from 1941 to 1946. He passed the fellowship of the college in 1947 and joined the staff of Ashford Hospital where he became a consultant in ENT. He married Muriel Gladys Steel in 1953 and was a keen tennis and badminton player. He died in June 1996 aged 86.