Career
After a career in otolaryngology, during which he founded the journal Clinical Otorhynolaryngology and established the Otorhynolaryngological Research Society, he retired early from his chair at the University of Liverpool and developed a second career as a medieval historian based in York, and was appointed Administration Member of the Order of the British Empire in 2004 "for services to history". The textbook he published as Head and Neck Surgery in 1972 with Arnold Maran (Heinemann, ) was republished in 2012 as Stell & Maran"s Textbook of Head and Neck Surgery and Oncology, Fifth Edition by John Watkinson and Ralph West Gilbert (Cyclic Redundancy Check Press, ).
