Meher Derek Wells was a consultant ENT surgeon in Canterbury and Thanet, and a research fellow at the Institute of Laryngology and Otology, London. She was born Meher Mehta in Hyderabad, India, in 1937. She studied medicine at Osmania Medical College and qualified MB BS in 1960. After going to the

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

Patrick Booth (Pat) was an ENT surgeon at Gwynedd Hospital in Bangor. He was born on 17 March 1932. During the second world war he was evacuated from Hastings to St Albans and then sent with his two brothers, Geoffrey and Anthony, to Allhallows, a boy’s independent school in Rousdon, Devon in 1941.

Robert Alexander Bradwell was a consultant otorhinolaryngologist in Harrogate, North Yorkshire. He was born in Sheffield on 1 February 1938, the son of John Bradwell, a coke ovens manager and chemist, and Edith née Bakewell, owner and managing director of Bradwell Electrical Ltd. He was educated at

Stephen Thomas (or 'Steve' as he was known to his friends) was a consultant ENT surgeon at Leicester Royal Infirmary. He was born in Cardiff on 12 July 1940 to Hector Thomas, a consultant otolayrngologist at Cardiff Royal Infirmary, and Enid Thomas, a Welsh hockey international. He attended Radley C