Professor Philip Michael Stell MBE FRCS FRCSE FRHistS FSA (14 August 1934 – 29 May 2004) was a British surgeon and historian.[1][2] After a career in otolaryngology he retired early from his chair at the University of Liverpool and developed a second career as a medieval historian based in York; he was appointed MBE in 2004 "for services to history".[3]