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

Paul Vincent Wadsworth was a consultant ear, nose and throat surgeon to the Brighton and Haywards Heath hospitals and, for many years, also principal laryngologist to Glyndebourne Opera. He was born in Harewood, Yorkshire, on 2 November 1919, the son of Joseph Harold Wadsworth, a school master, and

Miles Foxen was a highly respected ear, nose and throat surgeon at the Westminster Hospital, London, known to every student, general practitioner and young aspirant to the speciality through his *Lecture notes on diseases of the ear, nose and throat* (Oxford, Blackwell Scientific Publications), firs

Peter Charles Leeson was a consultant ENT surgeon at Tunbridge Wells Hospital, Kent. He was born on 1 October 1920 and studied medicine at Guy's Hospital Medical School, qualifying MB BS in 1945. He gained his FRCS in 1956 and his diploma in laryngology and otology (DLO) in 1958. He trained at th

Victor Lobo was a consultant ENT surgeon in the Maidstone and Medway areas of Kent. He was educated at St George's College, Weybridge, and then studied medicine at St Mary's Hospital Medical School. Victor Lobo died on 2 November 2008. He was survived by his wife Barbara, two children, Louise and

Born 27 July 1875 at the Royal Naval Hospital, Stonehouse, Plymouth, only child of Staff-Surgeon Charles Lyon Ridout, RN, MRCS 1866, and Ada Perley Scott, his wife, daughter of Archibald Scott of Halifax, Nova Scotia. C L Ridout was at that time on the staff at Stonehouse and later served in HMS *To

Raymond Thomas Finde, son of T J Hinde of Harrow, was educated at the Haberdashers' School and at Guy's Hospital, where he played in the Rugby XV. After qualifying in 1940 he held house appointments at Guy's and then joined the Indian Medical Service. While in India he transferred to the Royal India

Born 13 May 1871 at Carlisle, the second child and second son of Robert Bowman Faulder, landowner, and Ann Jefferson, his wife. He was educated at St Bees School and matriculated from Clare College, Cambridge in 1888, where he held the Grindal exhibition and the senior classical scholarship. He grad

Born on 25 January 1876, son of S L Horsford, of St Kitt's, West Indies, he was educated at Bedford Modern School and Edinburgh University, taking his MD with honours in 1902. A year later he took the English Fellowship after serving as a clinical assistant at the Throat Hospital in Golden Square. H

Born at Prestwich, son of J E Howarth and twin brother of (Sir) Edgar Goldie Howarth KBE, CB, he was educated at Shrewsbury, King's College, Cambridge and St Thomas's Hospital. After house appointments, when he was house surgeon to Sir George Makins and W H Battle, he spent considerable time in post

Born in London in 1875 the son of Richard Barwell FRCS, surgeon to Charing Cross Hospital, and Mary Diana Shuttleworth his wife, he was educated at Temple Grove and Westminster School, where he was Bishop Williams exhibitioner, and at St George's, where he held resident posts. Deciding to specialise

Born in 1876, he graduated MD at Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, and came to London, where he took postgraduate courses at University College, King's College, and St Thomas's Hospitals. He settled in practice at New York as a specialist in diseases of the ear, throat, and nose. From 1922