Born in 1911, Boyle was educated at Ilkley Grammar School and Leeds University Medical School. After qualifying in 1935 Boyle successively was aural officer at the Leeds General and aural surgeon at Dewsbury Infirmary and an ENT specialist in the Royal Air Force, before becoming consultant ENT surge

Tony Seymour-Jones was an otolaryngologist to the Portsmouth and South East Hants Health District. He was born in Edgbaston, Birmingham, on 7 April 1911, the son of Bertrand Seymour-Jones, a consultant otolaryngologist, and Hilda Katherine née Poole, the daughter of a mining agent. Educated at West

Edith Whetnall was born at Hull in 1910, and trained at King's College Hospital where she graduated in 1938, taking the Conjoint Diploma in 1939, the Fellowship in 1940, and the London MS degree in 1944. She became interested in ear surgery while working at the branches of King's College Hospital at