Plarr’s Lives of the Fellows

Born on 25 September 1866 he trained as a dental surgeon at the Royal Dental Hospital, and completed his medical education at the Charing Cross Hospital. He served as house surgeon and demonstrator of operative dentistry at the Royal Dental Hospital, and was subsequently surgeon to the Hospital and

At one time Assistant Surgeon in the Royal Navy to the Royal Naval Hospital, Plymouth, and the Portsmouth Division of the Royal Marines. He settled in practice at Ramsgate, where he became Surgeon to the Ramsgate Dispensary. At his death on June 17th, 1861, he was in partnership with Henry Curling (

Thomas Collyer Summers studied medicine at the London Hospital and qualified MB BS in 1924. He held appointments as ophthalmic surgeon to the Connaught Hospital, the King George Hospital, Ilford, and the Brentwood and District Hospital. He was then appointed honorary consulting ophthalmic surgeon to

Coller was born on 2 October 1887 at Brookings, South Dakota, the son of Granville James Coller MD and Helen Rosalie Underwood. He qualified from Harvard in 1912 and became an intern at the Massachusetts General Hospital. He came to Europe during the 1914-18 war as a member of the Harvard Medical

Born at Liverpool on 23 October 1882, the eldest child of George Stobie, electrical engineer, and Nellie Williams, his wife. His early life was spent in South Africa. He studied at St Thomas's Hospital, qualifying in 1911, having qualified as a dentist the previous year. He was appointed in 1915 ass

Frank Clare Wilkinson was born in Wallasey on 31 August 1889. His father, also Frank, was a Liverpool pilot and his mother, Annie, née Clare, came from a family connected with shipping. Both his grandfathers were ship's captains. He was educated at Wallasey Grammar School and Liverpool University. H

Robert Bradlaw was born on 14 April 1905 in Dublin into a large family with medical and dental connections, the son of Philip Bradlaw, who died when Robert was a child. He was educated at Cranleigh and at Guy's Hospital both as a dental and medical student. After qualifying and a spell in private pr

Emeritus Professor Ivor Robert Horton Kramer who was Professor of Oral Pathology and Dean and Director of Studies of the Institute of Dental Surgery from 1970 to 1983 has died aged 93. He qualified in dentistry from the Royal Dental Hospital London in 1944 and spent the next four years in part-

Kenneth Liddelow, an outstanding clinician of his generation with a special interest in dental prosthetics, died on 30 May 2003 aged 87. He earned wide recognition after the war partly due to the publication of his first UK textbook of clinical prosthetic dentistry in collaboration with A P Gimson a

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

It is difficult to do justice in a few hundred words to the life of Dame Margaret Seward whose career spanned a period of huge changes in UK dentistry, many of which were the result of her own influence and intervention. Born Felicity Bridget Openshaw on 4 August 1935, she was adopted at the age

There can be no doubt that Clifford Ballard was the most important figure in British orthodontics during the 20th century and a significant influence in orthodontic thought throughout the world during the post war period. In his upbringing he had the advantage of being the eldest son of Frederick Ba