Plarr’s Lives of the Fellows

Ian Hanson Heslop was a consultant oral and maxillofacial surgeon at Queen Mary’s Hospital, Roehampton. He was born in 1923 in Hexham, Northumberland, the son of James M Heslop, an engineer, and Margaret Heslop née Hanson. He grew up in Hexham and was educated at the Royal Grammar School in Newcastl

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

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

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

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

Iain McVicar was a consultant oral and maxillofacial surgeon at Queen’s Medical Centre, Nottingham. 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

Laurence, the consultant who developed Oral & Maxillofacial Surgery services in Somerset, a gifted postgraduate educator, passed away on 2 October 2019. Born in 1931, the son of a headmaster, he was educated at Ashby Grammar School. He graduated from the University of Birmingham in 1955, follow

Robert Paul Jonathan Thompson was a consultant in oral and maxillofacial surgeon at Wythenshawe Hospital, Manchester. He was born in 1946 in Carlisle, Cumbria; his mother’s maiden name was Tomlinson. He gained his fellowship of the Faculty of Dental Surgery of the Royal College of Surgeons of Englan

Henry Myers Alty died on 27 February 2019 aged 89, after a short illness, and his well-attended funeral took place in his local church on 22 March 2019. ‘Harry’ or to be precise ‘HMA’, as he was known to his many colleagues, was modest and above all unflappable, which are the traits that spring t

John Ernest Bowerman was a consultant oral and maxillofacial surgeon at the Westminster and Roehampton hospitals. He was born on 13 March 1931, the son of Ernest J Bowerman, a pharmacist, and Irene M Bowerman née Partridge, a housewife, and was brought up in Torquay, Devon. He studied dentistry in B

Franklin Fook Yee Chan was an oral and maxillofacial surgeon in Hong Kong. He was born in 1941. He became a fellow of the Faculty of Dental Surgery of the Royal College of Surgeons of England in 1974 and went on to become a consultant at Queen Elizabeth Hospital, Hong Kong. He died on 24 January