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

Neil Richard Attenborough was a dental surgeon who lived in Guildford, Surrey. 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

Professor Adrian Harold Redfern Rowe, generally known as ‘Jack’, decided to be a dental surgeon at age five and never changed his mind. He was greatly influenced by his father, who was in practice, and a dentist with whom he lived as an evacuee during the early part of the war. He started at Guy’s i

Bryan Drury Markwell was an oral and maxillofacial surgeon at St Bartholomew’s 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

Johnny died on 23 January 2018 aged 96 years. He was born in Leeds in 1921. At 14 he was apprenticed as a dental mechanic (technician). During this time he cycled from Leeds to Bradford to attend night school in order to gain further qualifications. At 19 he was called up into the RAF. Because of hi

Francis Fish was head of the department of dental prosthetics at the London Hospital dental school. He was born on 23 April 1912 in Plaistow, East London, the son of Francis Raymond Fish, a foreman at a disinfectant works, and Elizabeth Fish née How. Fish studied dentistry at the London Hospital and