Born at Clapton, Middlesex, on 30 August 1856, the second child and eldest son of the four boys and four girls born to Charles Alfred Ballance (d 1873), of Taunton, where he had been in business as a government contractor for timber, and his wife Caroline Hendebrouck Pollard. Sir Hamilton Ashley Bal

William (Bill) Spencer Lund was a consultant ENT surgeon at the Radcliffe Infirmary, Oxford. He was born on 19 July 1926 to non-medical parents, Reginald James Spencer Lund and Beatrice Alice Lund née Cudemore. He thought he might join the Navy and was accordingly educated at Pangbourne College. Bef

John Groves was a consultant ENT surgeon at the Royal Free, Hampstead General and New End hospitals in London. He studied medicine at St Mary’s Hospital Medical School, qualifying MB BS in 1947. He gained his FRCS in 1953. Prior to his consultant appointments, he was a house surgeon at St Mary’s

Ivor James Cunningham Frew was a consultant ENT surgeon in Newcastle. He was born in Sheffield on 2 October 1921, the son of William Frew, an area manager of Terry's Chocolate, and Kate Gibb Frew née McGillivray, a housewife. He was educated at Glasgow High School and Liverpool College, then studied

Carol Wengraf was a consultant ENT surgeon at the Greenwich, Lewisham and Woolwich Hospital and later at the University Hospital, Hull. In later life she started fencing and rose to compete and win international competitions in the veterans' class. She was the third of four children born to Frank an

The son of a well-known dentist in Boulogne. He became a student at St George's Hospital in 1851, studied at Heidelberg, and after qualifying was appointed one of the Surgeons of the West London Hospital, Hammersmith, on its foundation in 1856. He had only held this post a short time, as well as tha

Elder son of David Bridge Lees, MD, Physician to St Mary's Hospital, London, was a scholar of St Paul's School, and was admitted with an exhibition to King's College, Cambridge, where he was also a prizeman, on Oct 2nd, 1900, and graduated BA in 1903 after obtaining a 1st class in Part I of the Natu

Rusie Rustomjee, an ENT surgeon, practised medicine for 75 years, starting in Colombo, Ceylon and finally retiring in Australia at the age of 89. He was born in Colombo on 9 November 1912 one of the six children of Cowasjee Rustomjee, whom he described as a merchant, and his wife Piroja née Mistry.

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,

The second son of David Tod, JP, of Eastwood Park and Hartfield, Renfrewshire, was born at Partick, Glasgow, on September 15th, 1870. He was educated at Clifton College and at Trinity College, Cambridge, where he was admitted a Pensioner on May 27th, 1889, and graduated with 1st Class Honours in the

Studied at the Bristol Medical School in 1884 and at the Royal Infirmary, where he won the Tibbits Memorial Prize for Practical Surgery, then at St Bartholomew's Hospital. After acting as House Surgeon, House Physician, and Anaesthetist at the Bristol Royal Infirmary, also as Curator of the Museum,

Born at Heywood, Lancashire on 19 May 1886, third son of James Diggle, consulting water engineer, and Rachel Alice Holt, his wife. He was educated at Rossall School and Manchester University, and studied medicine at St Bartholomew's and the London Hospital. He won medals in anatomy and gynaecology,