John Norman McMichael Schofield was born on 11 April 1926 in Teddington, Middlesex. He was the eldest son of James William Schofield, a consultant dental surgeon at the Middlesex and University College Hospitals in London and his wife Lena née McMichael, who was the daughter of an Edinburgh JP. After attending St George’s School in Harpenden, he trained at the Middlesex Hospital where his two uncles had also studied medicine. John’s twin sister became a dental surgeon. Qualifying MB, BS in 1950, he was house surgeon to Sir Gordon Gordon-Taylor who strongly influenced him. Later that year he joined the Royal Navy to do his three years national service and served as a surgeon lieutenant. Demobilised in 1953, he worked for the United Birmingham Hospitals before being appointed consultant ENT surgeon in 1962 to the Warneford, Leamington Spa, Warwick and Stratford-upon Avon Hospitals. He retired in November 1990. A member of the British Academy of Otology, he was also the UK representative to the the European Federation of Otological Surgeons, president of the Midland Institution for Otology and one time president of the section of laryngology of the Royal Society of Medicine. He was on an appeals tribunal of the DHSS. As a student he played rugby and then cricket for the Navy. A member of the MCC, he was also a real tennis enthusiast and he continued to play golf well into his 80s. In 1952 he married a Belgian woman from Brussels, Arlette van Cavel, who died in 1994 from motor neurone disease. They had three children and his daughter predeceased him in 2017. He married his second wife Jane in October 1997. On 28 April 2019 he died aged 93 and was survived by Jane, his two sons from his first marriage, his stepchildren and their families.