Ron Broadway was a consultant orthodontist in Winchester. He was born in Ilford, Essex, on 14 October 1927, the son of Edward James Broadway and Martha Broadway née Swallow, and was educated at Bancroft’s School. He qualified at the Royal Dental Hospital in 1949, as did his twin brother Eddie. After house officer and senior house officer posts at the Royal, he undertook the required two-year National Service in the RAF, during which time he took and passed both parts of the fellowship of the Faculty of Dental Surgery at the first attempt, but found he was too young to receive the documentation – at that time the Royal College of Surgeons of England did not issue such diplomas to those under the age of 25! Determined to pursue a career in oral surgery, Ron gained a registrar post at the plastic and maxillofacial unit of Odstock Hospital, Salisbury (from 1952 to 1954), during which time he was awarded his master of dental surgery degree for a thesis on the application of oral surgery to dental prosthetics. A second oral surgery post then followed at Rooksdown House Maxillofacial Centre, Basingstoke, where Norman Rowe, Homer Charles Killey and Sir Harold Gillies were still working. By this time Ron realised that to progress to a successful career in oral surgery he would need a medical qualification and, about to be married, he decided instead to change specialties to orthodontics. With an already impressive CV, he gained a place on the newly established full-time orthodontic postgraduate course at the Eastman Dental Institute established by Clifford Ballard. Having achieved his diploma in orthodontics, he was now appointed to one of the hotly contested orthodontic senior registrar posts at the Eastman and, in 1960, was appointed to a new consultant post at Winchester with sessions at Alton and Basingstoke, where he soon gained approval for a registrar post linked to the Eastman. This was at a time when there was a rapidly rising demand for treatment but few orthodontic specialists working within the General Dental Services. As a result, much of the regional orthodontist’s time was spent providing treatment planning advice for straightforward cases which could be undertaken by local general dental practitioners. To increase the latter’s capabilities and at the same time reduce pressure on hospital waiting lists, many regional orthodontic consultants established ‘section 63’ postgraduate courses for their local general dental practitioners and Ron was no exception. He subsequently wrote a paper on the subject in 1976 (‘Continuing orthodontic education for the general dental practitioner’ *Br J Orthod*. 1976 Jan;3[1]:25-8). Since the establishment of the NHS, the Royal Colleges have played an increasing role in the standardisation of consultant training. In 1968 dental Specialist Advisory Committees (SACs) were set up to advise the Joint Committee for Higher Training in Dentistry. The formation of the Consultant Orthodontist Group (COG) arose from the need to provide authoritative and coherent advice to the SAC in orthodontics. Ron, who by this time was the Royal College’s regional dental adviser for Wessex, was a founder member and served as the COG secretary from 1963 to 1969, whereupon his brother took over. This freed Ron to join the council of the British Society for the Study of Orthodontics (BSSO), where he organised their 1976 meeting in Southampton. By this time, he had been elected to the Faculty board of the Royal College of Surgeons of England, completing his term in 1982, the year in which he became president of the BSSO. By the late 1970s it had been recognised that the obligation of dental practitioners to continually update their knowledge needed to be facilitated and reinforced. As a result, the Dentists Act of 1984 made the General Dental Council (GDC) the statutory authority responsible for postgraduate dental education in the UK and, three years later, regional dental postgraduate deans were created. It was highly appropriate that Ron would become the first postgraduate dental dean for Wessex. Shortly after this the GDC published its *Guidance on professional conduct and fitness to practice*, which recognised the need to introduce vocational training for those entering general dental practice. Ron organised one of the first voluntary schemes in the country and in due course this and the other voluntary courses became incorporated into a national scheme supported by the appointment of general dental practice advisers responsible to the postgraduate dental dean. During his time Ron was also very active locally. He was a member and later president of the Southampton branch of the British Dental Association and served on the board of management of the Winchester group of hospitals, as well as acting as a dental expert witness to the local coroners’ court. When Ron retired in 1993, he made a conscious decision not to carry on with any involvement in dentistry but to develop other interests. He had a large garden by this time and had been keeping bees since 1978. This and walking occupied much of his time. He became chairman and eventually president of the Winchester and District Beekeepers’ Association. He also joined a woodturning course at West Dean College: he found acquiring the basic skills of this craft very satisfying and, having equipped himself with a lathe and bandsaw, he joined the Hampshire Woodturners Association. He was soon taking an active part in its organisation and was its chairman for many years. In 2010 he won a voucher at a beekeeping meeting raffle, which entitled him to a trip in a glider and a three-month membership of the Lasham Gliding Society at Alton. Having enjoyed his first flight, he decided to carry on learning to fly. At 83 he faced a steep learning curve; he was still enjoying the challenges and thrills of gliding until the age of 90. Ron had met his wife Mary (née Pritchett) while working as a registrar at Odstock and by the time of his death 69 years later they had a family of two children, five grandchildren and four great grandchildren. Ron died on 17 April 2024 at the age of 96. Unusually there was no funeral as he had arranged for his body to be used for medical research.