John Fieldhouse was head of the department of oral and maxillofacial surgery at the Princess Margaret Hospital, Swindon. He was born on 22 August 1946 in Staffordshire, the son of Mary Catherine Fieldhouse née Kerley and Thomas Bradley Fieldhouse. He gained his fellowship of the Faculty of Dental Surgery at the Royal College of Surgeons of England in 1972. He was appointed as a consultant surgeon at the Princess Margaret Hospital, where he led the expansion of the oral surgery department. He also worked at the Great Western Hospital, also in Swindon, and Savernake Hospital in Marlborough. He treated soldiers injured in the 1982 Falklands War and the survivors of the 1987 Hungerford Massacre, one of Britain’s worst mass shootings, when a lone gunman killed 16 people and seriously injured 15. He left the NHS in 2003 but continued in private practice at Ridgeway Hospital in Wroughton. Fieldhouse died of a heart attack on 19 January 2011 in Buenos Aires, Argentia, on route to a two-week cruise around Antarctica. He was 64. Predeceased by his wife Josephine Margaret Fielhouse née Sims, whom he married in 1970 and who died in 2006, he was survived by their children, Simon, Stuart and Rebecca and two grandsons.