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

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

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

Bob Woodwards was a consultant oral and maxillofacial surgeon at the Royal Blackburn 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

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

Walter Guralnick was a professor of oral and maxillofacial surgery at Massachusetts General Hospital and dean of the Harvard School of Dental Medicine. He was born in Boston, Massachusetts on 1 November 1916, the son of Rubin Guralnick, a physician and political activist, and Nina Guralnick née Chas

Michael George Hodge was a consultant oral and maxillofacial surgeon in Oxfordshire. 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

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

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

Robert Victor Walker was chairman of the division of oral and maxillofacial surgery at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, Texas. He was born on 21 September 1924 in Waco, Texas, the son of William Dedrick Walker, a farmer, and Annie Harrell Walker née Peerey, a schoolteache

Howard Arthur Critchlow was a consultant oral and maxillofacial surgeon at Glasgow Dental Hospital and School. 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