Educated at the University of Cairo and at St Bartholomew's Hospital, he practised as an ear nose and throat surgeon in Cairo. He was distinguished in his specialty, and well-known to his European colleagues through his membership of the International Collegium Otolaryngologicum. He had intended to

Robert Louttit Flett qualified MB ChB from the Otago Medical School in 1925, where he was also demonstrator in anatomy. As an anatomist he won the Scott Memorial Medal in applied anatomy and was a member of the Anatomical Society. After obtaining his Fellowship he spent the rest of his career and

Ronald Macbeth was born in Stevenage, Hertfordshire, on 27 March 1903, the eldest son of William Murdoch Macbeth, secretary of the Northern Polytechnic, London, and Helena Kate, née Green, daughter of a GP in Hampstead. He was educated at Norman Court Preparatory School in Barnet, from which he won