Surgeon Commander Donald Keith Riden RN was born in Liverpool on 5 May 1959, the son of Alfred Donald and Mavis Irene Riden. He attended West Derby Comprehensive School in Liverpool from 1970 to 1977, and then went on to study dentistry at King’s College Dental School, winning the Wellcome award in

John Lowry was a distinguished consultant oral and maxillofacial surgeon. He was born on 6 June 1942 in Timperley, Cheshire, the son of Leslie and Betty Lowry. From Altrincham Grammar School, Cheshire, he went to the University of Manchester Turner Dental School and qualified BDS in 1963. He was a h

Benjamin William Fickling was a distinguished oral surgeon and a past president of the British Association of Oral Surgeons. The son of Robert Marshall Fickling, a dentist, he was born in London on 14 July 1909, in a house in Sloane Street where there had been a dental practice since 1840. His mothe

Ian Hanson Heslop was a consultant oral and maxillofacial surgeon at Queen Mary’s Hospital, Roehampton. 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

Walter Guralnick was a professor of oral and maxillofacial surgery at Massachusetts General Hospital and dean of the Harvard School of Dental Medicine. This is a draft obituary. If you have any information about this surgeon or are interested in writing this obituary, please email lives@rcseng.

Noel Ribeiro was an oral surgeon in Perth, Western Australia. 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

Ralph Kerr Gilbert was an oral and maxillofacial surgeon in Sunderland. 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.

On 27 May 2008 family, friends and former colleagues gathered at St Margaret’s Church, Hapton, Norfolk to say farewell to Geoffrey Cheney. Geoffrey was born in Hampshire in 1935, the youngest of five children. After leaving school he undertook his National Service in the Royal Navy. He then bec

Martin Clark was an oral and maxillofacial surgeon at Lincoln County Hospital. Born on 22 November 1961 he qualified MB BCh in Wales in 1993. His first post as a consultant was at the Dumfries and Galloway Royal Infirmary before he moved to Lincoln in, probably, 2010. Particular interests in his spe

Brian Littler was a consultant oral and maxillofacial surgeon at Whipps Cross Hospital, London. 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

Frederick James Hile Evans was a consultant oral and maxillofacial surgeon at Whipps Cross Hospital, London. 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

Andrew Baker was a consultant oral and maxillofacial surgeon at Leicester Royal Infirmary. He was born in Enfield, London, on 21 February 1961, the son of John Baker, a launderette owner, and Patricia Baker née Mighall, a housewife. He was the youngest of three siblings; he had a brother, John, and