Educated at St George's Hospital and Edinburgh. He was first in general medical practice at Uxbridge, then practised as a dental surgeon in London. He was actively associated with the foundation of the Dental Hospital, the Odontological Society, and the institution of the Licence for Dental Surgery

Studied at the Middlesex Hospital and in Paris. He practised as a Dental Surgeon at 66 Brook Street, Hanover Square; 19a Hanover Square; and latterly at 21 Thicket Road, Norwood, where he died on June 20th, 1894. He served as Lecturer on Dental Anatomy and Physiology, also as Dental Surgeon, at the

Born 7 March 1864, eldest of the ten children of John Badcock, a draper, and Mary Frampton his wife, he was educated at University College School, and was then apprenticed to Percy May MRCS, a dental surgeon. He went on to the London School of Dentistry (now the Royal Dental Hospital), qualified in

Born in London on June 6th, 1846, the eldest son of Sir John Tomes (q.v.). He was educated at Radley College during the Wardenship of the Rev W Sewell and rowed in the School Eight in 1863. He matriculated at Oxford from Christ Church on May 27th, 1863, rowed in the Trial Eights in 1865, and graduat

Born in London 11 May 1864, the second child and eldest son of William Dolamore, wine merchant, and Cecilia Elizabeth Cook, his wife, he was educated privately and at Neuwied, Germany. He received his professional training from 1886 at the Dental Hospital in Leicester Square, where he gained the Sau

Born at Liverpool on 23 October 1882, the eldest child of George Stobie, electrical engineer, and Nellie Williams, his wife. His early life was spent in South Africa. He studied at St Thomas's Hospital, qualifying in 1911, having qualified as a dentist the previous year. He was appointed in 1915 ass

Born in 1870 he entered the medical school of St Thomas's Hospital in 1886, qualifying as a medical practitioner in 1892 with the Conjoint Diploma, and, having obtained the licence in dental surgery two years earlier, working at the Royal Dental Hospital. He was at one time consulting dental surg

Alan John Drinnan was a professor of dental surgery at the University of Buffalo, New York, USA. 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.

Roy Howell died peacefully in a residential home on Saturday 7 June 2014, aged 89. Roy was born in July 1924 in Upper Park Place near Marylebone in London. He was the eldest of four siblings, his two sisters both emigrated to America and his brother eventually moved to Toronto. Roy trained

Gerald Hubert (‘Gerry’) Leatherman was described by Dame Margaret Seward as ‘The father of world dentistry’. Born in London on 18 February 1903, the son of Harry Leatherman and Beatrice Leatherman née Freedman, at the age of seven he went to South Africa. He was educated at King Edward VII School in

It is difficult to do justice in a few hundred words to the life of Dame Margaret Seward whose career spanned a period of huge changes in UK dentistry, many of which were the result of her own influence and intervention. Born Felicity Bridget Openshaw on 4 August 1935, she was adopted at the age

Martin Rushton was born on 29 March 1903, the son of W Rushton, one of the leading dentists of his day; he was educated at Gresham's School, Holt, Caius College, Cambridge, and Guy's Hospital Medical and Dental School. After qualifying in medicine and dentistry in 1932 he practised in Harley Stre