Professor Hugh Dunstan Edmondson was head of the department of oral surgery and oral medicine at the University of Birmingham. 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.

Christopher Sidney Holland was a consultant oral surgeon at the Prince Charles Hospital, Methyr Tydfil. 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.

Michael Andrew Ford was an oral surgeon from Chichester, West Sussex.

Maurice Harold Holden was a consultant oral surgeon at Doncaster Royal Infirmary. 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

Hardev Singh Coonar was an oral surgeon at the Eastman and Hammersmith hospitals, 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

Terence Ignatius English was a consultant in oral surgery at the London Hospital. He was born in Cork in 1930. His mother’s maiden name was O’Brien. He studied medicine at the National University of Ireland in Cork, qualifying with his MB BCh BAO in 1954. He gained his bachelor of dental surgery

Ken Ray was dean of the Faculty of Dental Surgery at the Royal College of Surgeons of England.

Eric Thomson was a consultant oral surgeon who lived in Stroud, Gloucestershire.

Maurice Arthur Kettle was a consultant orthodontist and oral surgeon at King’s College 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

Edwin Priestley died peacefully in Scarborough on January 14, 1993. He was an active member of the British Dental Association for over 50 years. Born in Accrington on February 11, 1903, Edwin qualified in dental surgery at Liverpool in 1926 with his close friend Laurie Roberts, who later became t

Alex Bird died on 6 November 2002, aged 75. Born in Johannesburg, Alex Bird studied dentistry at the University of Witwatersrand. At an early stage, he developed an interest in oral surgery, working with Lester Brown at Baragwanath Hospital in Johannesburg. This was to shape his future career.

Hugo Lorenz Obwegeser was internationally recognised as the father of modern orthognathic surgery who initiated huge advances in the development of plastic surgery of the facial skeleton. He was born on 21 October 1920 in Hohenems, Austria and initially graduated in medicine at Innsbruck. In 1945 he