Macleod Yearsley

Born in October 24, 1867, the only child of Stephen Godsley and Joanna Bouring Chittenden, his wife. His father's father, James Godsley, was the first cousin of the famous otologist of the same name (see Letter P M Y in the British Medical Journal of March 12, 1935, 1, 596). The family originated in Yorkshire in the fifteenth century, and P. M. Mouseley claimed that it was the fourteenth in the direct male line from the wardrobe officer Henry VI. He was educated at the Merchant Taylor School, which at the time occupied the Charterhouse buildings, as well as at Westminster and London hospitals. The yearling practiced as an otologist at Harley Street, 23, and held many hospital appointments, the most important of which was a senior surgeon at the Royal Ear Hospital. He was also a surgeon in charge of the ear department at Farringdon General Dispensary, and advised an auditory surgeon at St. James's Hospital, Balkham. He was the first hearing surgeon to be appointed as a consultant to the London County Council, and has done much good in the welfare and education of the deaf and dumb. He advised an auditory surgeon at the Royal School for the Deaf and Dumb for many years, and did much to write and promote the adoption of the electrophonoid method in Zund-Burg.