Born at Wandsworth on December 30th, 1828, the son of Robert Coleman and Anna Were his wife. His father came of a Quaker family and was an Underwriter at Lloyd's, being one of the first members of the Corporation of Lloyd's at the Royal Exchange. Alfred Coleman was for a time associated with his fat

Born on March 21st, 1815, the eldest son of John Tomes and of Sarah his wife, daughter of William Bayliss, of Welford in Gloucestershire. His father's family had lived at Marston Sicca or Long Marston since the reign of Richard II. The house is mentioned in "Boscobel Tracts". It sheltered Charles II

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 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

John Rayne was born on 18 May 1932, the son of a dentist. He was educated at University College School, London, before graduating from the Royal Dental Hospital School of Dental Surgery in 1955 and, following house officer posts and military service in the RAF Dental Branch, embarked on a career in

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

Roy Duckworth was head of the department of oral medicine and periodontology, and a former dean of the London Hospital Medical College. He was born in Bolton in Lancashire on 19 July 1929 to Stanley Duckworth and Hilda Evelyn Duckworth née Moores. His secondary schooling was at King George V Grammar

John Hugh Sinclair was a professor of dental surgery in Auckland, New Zealand. 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

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

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 on 18 March 1889, son of Edward Fry of Greenwich, he was educated at Hurstpierpoint and Guy's Hospital, qualifying both as a doctor and a dental surgeon. In the war of 1914-18 he served as a regimental medical officer attached to the Welsh Fusiliers, and landed in France with the 7th Divisio

John Hovell was born in Wales in 1910. He was educated in Norwich and at the Royal Dental and Charing Cross Hospitals, becoming LDS in 1931 and MRCS, LRCP in 1934. He was appointed senior house surgeon at the Royal Dental Hospital and he had responsibility for dental in-patients at Charing Cross. He