Terence Ward was born in Dartmouth on 16 January 1906, the son of a school teacher. Shortly afterwards the family moved to Edinburgh, where he was educated at the Royal High School. Wishing to pursue a career in dentistry, but with only limited means, he became apprenticed as a dental mechanic, and

Gilbert John Parfitt was the first department head of the faculty of dentistry at the University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada. He was born on 20 March 1920 in Caversham, Oxfordshire. His father, John Brodribb Parfitt, was a consultant dental surgeon at Guy’s Hospital, London; his mother wa

Born on 4 December 1923, Donald did not deviate from his childhood ambition of becoming a dentist. On leaving Manchester Grammar School he went to Manchester Dental School, where he graduated at the end of the Second World War. After serving as Captain in the Royal Army Dental Corps in Germany

Huia Masters Pickard, known as ‘Pick’, was a pioneering professor of restorative dentistry at the Royal Dental Hospital in London. He was born on 25 March 1909 in Masterton, New Zealand, the son of Ernest Pickard and Sophie Elizabeth Pickard née Robins, but at an early age went with his family to En

Martin died on 4 October 2017 following a year-long fight against cancer. He was born on 4 June 1950, the first of five children of Lawrence and Mary Wardle. Martin started his dental training at Birmingham University in 1968 following in the footsteps of his father Lawrence, who had also studied de

Stuart Crabb was a professor in the department of restorative dentistry at the University of Leeds. This is a draft obituary. If you have any information about this surgeon or are interested in writing this obituary, please email lives@rcseng.ac.uk

Neil Richard Attenborough was a dental surgeon who lived in Guildford, Surrey. This is a draft obituary. If you have any information about this surgeon or are interested in writing this obituary, please email lives@rcseng.ac.uk

Per-Ingvar Branemark was a professor in the Institute for Applied Biotechnology at Gothenburg University, Sweden. This is a draft obituary. If you have any information about this surgeon or are interested in writing this obituary, please email lives@rcseng.ac.uk

David Scott Shovelton was a professor at the University of Birmingham dental school. This is a draft obituary. If you have any information about this surgeon, or are interested in writing this obituary, please email lives@rcseng.ac.uk.

Ewen Eric James Kirk was a professor of dentistry at the University of Otago, New Zeland. This is a draft obituary. If you have any information about this surgeon, or are interested in writing this obituary, please email lives@rcseng.ac.uk.

Professor Adrian Harold Redfern Rowe, generally known as ‘Jack’, decided to be a dental surgeon at age five and never changed his mind. He was greatly influenced by his father, who was in practice, and a dentist with whom he lived as an evacuee during the early part of the war. He started at Guy’s i

Johnny died on 23 January 2018 aged 96 years. He was born in Leeds in 1921. At 14 he was apprenticed as a dental mechanic (technician). During this time he cycled from Leeds to Bradford to attend night school in order to gain further qualifications. At 19 he was called up into the RAF. Because of hi