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

Glyn Burland was an oral surgeon at Coventry and Warwickshire Hospital. 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 a consultant in oral surgery at the London Hospital.

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

Ian Ralph Brooke was a professor of dentistry at Western University, London, Ontario, Canada and chief of dentistry at the University Hospital. 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

Harold Andreas ‘Pip’ Priestland died peacefully in Nobles Hospital, Douglas, Isle of Man on 22 February 2017 aged 95 years. He is survived by his wife, Margaret, son and daughter-in-law, Colin and Linda, and grandchildren, Abigail and Elizabeth. ‘Pip’ was born on 3 June 1921 in Liverpool. After

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

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

Reg Dinsdale was born in Leeds on 17 October 1926, son of dentist Reginald BT Dinsdale and of Beatrice May. He decided to follow in his father’s footsteps, gaining his BChD at Leeds University in 1949, where he met Fay, his future wife. After qualification with a distinction in operative dental surg

Frank Robert Coffin was an oral surgeon in London. He was born in Wandsworth, London, on 21 September 1915, the son of a printer. After qualifying at the Royal Dental Hospital in 1938, he completed house jobs at Leicester Square and at the Middlesex (then the only resident dental post in the country