John Campbell Stubbings was an ENT surgeon in Melbourne, Australia. He was born in Red Cliffs, Victoria on 28 December 1931, the fourth and youngest child of Claude Henry Stubbings, a horticulturalist, and Catherine Campbell Stubbings née Bothroyd, the daughter of a state schools inspector. He atten

Gordon Walter Mills was born in Hamilton, New Zealand, on 18 June 1927. He was educated at Hautapu Primary School, Hamilton High School, and the University of Otago. He obtained the MB ChB in 1953 and came to London in 1962 to specialise in otolaryngology. He spent some years at the Institute of Oto