Joselen Ransome was a consultant ENT surgeon at the West Middlesex Hospital, London. This is a draft obituary. If you have any information about this surgeon or are interested in writing this obituary, please email lives@rcseng.ac.uk

Tilak Raj Kapur was a consultant ENT surgeon at the North Staffordshire Royal Infirmary, Stoke-on-Trent. Born in India on 3 June 1930, he studied medicine at Osmania University in Hyderabad. He graduated MB,BS in 1953 and did house jobs at the Osmania General Hospital before coming to the UK. After

Cyril Isaac Woolf was an ear, nose and throat surgeon in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada. He was born in the East End of London, into an orthodox Jewish family, the eldest of three sons of Adolph Woolf and Regina Woolf née Frey. He studied medicine in London, qualifying MB BS in 1952. After house posts,

Omar Shaheen was recognised as one of the foremost head and neck cancer surgeons of his era in the UK. His reputation established the ENT department at Guy’s as a centre of excellence for head and neck cancer that attracted both British trainees and fellows from the USA and Australia. He influenced

David Dawson was a consultant surgeon at Plymouth Hospital. He was born on 21 July 1921 in Pinner, Middlesex. His father was John Alexander Dawson CBE, a civil engineer. His mother, Margaret Cruikshank, was the daughter of a medical practitioner. David was their third child and second son. His elder

Malcolm was born into a medical family in 1928. His father, Malcolm (Senior), was an ear nose and throat surgeon, one of Malcolm's brothers became a paediatrician and the other a psychiatrist. Malcolm was educated at Medbury Preparatory School and at Christ's College. After spending a year at Canter