Benjamin William Fickling was a distinguished oral surgeon and a past president of the British Association of Oral Surgeons. The son of Robert Marshall Fickling, a dentist, he was born in London on 14 July 1909, in a house in Sloane Street where there had been a dental practice since 1840. His mothe

John Lowry was a distinguished consultant oral and maxillofacial surgeon. He was born on 6 June 1942 in Timperley, Cheshire, the son of Leslie and Betty Lowry. From Altrincham Grammar School, Cheshire, he went to the University of Manchester Turner Dental School and qualified BDS in 1963. He was a h

Surgeon Commander Donald Keith Riden RN was born in Liverpool on 5 May 1959, the son of Alfred Donald and Mavis Irene Riden. He attended West Derby Comprehensive School in Liverpool from 1970 to 1977, and then went on to study dentistry at King’s College Dental School, winning the Wellcome award in

Martin Clark was an oral and maxillofacial surgeon at Lincoln County Hospital. Born on 22 November 1961 he qualified MB BCh in Wales in 1993. His first post as a consultant was at the Dumfries and Galloway Royal Infirmary before he moved to Lincoln in, probably, 2010. Particular interests in his spe

Ian Hanson Heslop was a consultant oral and maxillofacial surgeon at Queen Mary’s Hospital, Roehampton. 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

Jeremy Alan Sherman was a consultant oral and maxillofacial surgeon at the Queen Elizabeth II Hospital, Welwyn Garden City, and Luton and Dunstable Hospital. He was born on 2 June 1959 in London, the son of Philip Sherman and Gina L Sherman née Adamson and was educated at the City of London School.

John Fieldhouse was head of the department of oral and maxillofacial surgery at the Princess Margaret Hospital, Swindon. He was born on 22 August 1946 in Staffordshire, the son of Mary Catherine Fieldhouse née Kerley and Thomas Bradley Fieldhouse. He gained his fellowship of the Faculty of Denta

Ralph Kerr-Gilbert died (January 2013) after a short illness at the age of 93. He was one of the pioneers who established oral and maxillofacial surgery in district general hospitals. He worked for most of his consultant career as a single-handed surgeon, who created and established a thriving unit,

On 27 May 2008 family, friends and former colleagues gathered at St Margaret’s Church, Hapton, Norfolk to say farewell to Geoffrey Cheney. Geoffrey was born in Hampshire in 1935, the youngest of five children. After leaving school he undertook his National Service in the Royal Navy. He then bec

Colin Wishart, Consultant Oral and Maxillofacial surgeon, died peacefully in Poole General Hospital on 5 July 2001, aged 81. Colin was born in Edinburgh on 26 January 1920, one of twin boys. He attended George Watson’s Boys College and later entered the Dental School where he was an enthusiasti

Rüdiger Becker was chair of oral and maxillofacial surgery and director of the centre for dentistry, oral and maxillofacial medicine at Westphalian Wilhelms University, Münster, Germany. He was born in 1927. At Münster he was also vice dean and then dean of the medical faculty. He was primarily f

Dennis Leveson Wedgwood was a consultant oral and maxillofacial surgeon at the Royal Shrewsbury Hospital. He was born in Blurton, Staffordshire, on 14 September 1936, the son of Stanley Leveson Wedgwood, a pharmacist, and Hilda Wedgwood née Millington. His grandfather was a dental surgeon in Tunstal