Gordon Fordyce trained in dentistry at the University of St Andrews in Dundee from 1942 to 1946. After a few months of practice he was called up for national service where he treated army recruits and, after a year, was posted to Austria where he worked at the 31st British General Hospital as No 2 d

Born on 9 December 1858 second child and only son of George Rhind Bull MRCS and his wife Ann Savage Robins, he was educated at Epsom College and St Mary's Hospital, and after serving as house surgeon at the Kent and Canterbury Hospital and resident pathologist at the General Hospital, Birmingham, he

Alison Wendy Boulter was a dental surgeon from Woking, Surrey.

Frederick Rudolph Henning was a dental surgeon in Adelaide, South Australia. He was born on 22 April 1925 in Subiaco, Western Australia, the son of Frederick Rudolph Emil Dawson Henning and Maysie Henning née Bird. He studied dentistry at the University of Adelaide. During the Second World War he

Adrian William David Cowan, known as ‘Eddy’, was chief of the department of periodontology at Dublin Dental Hospital, a consultant oral surgeon in the city, and dean of the faculty of dental surgery at the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland. He was born on 26 August 1919 in Dublin, into an Orth

John Miller, Emeritus Professor of Child Dental Health at the University Hospital of Wales, died on 9 July 2011. A gifted, kind, generous teacher, he inspired many students and was internationally renowned for his contributions to caries research and the understanding of developmental anomalies of t

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

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

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

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

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