Gordon Fordyce trained in dentistry at the University of St Andrews in Dundee from 1942 to 1946. After a few months of practice he was called up for national service where he treated army recruits and, after a year, was posted to Austria where he worked at the 31st British General Hospital as No 2 d

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

Norman Lester Rowe was born on 15 December 1915 in Paganhill, Stroud, Gloucestershire. His father was Arthur William Rowe OBE and was a civil servant. His mother was Lucy Adams. He attended preparatory school at Neville House, Eastbourne, Sussex, and public school at Malvern College, Worcestershire.

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

Owen Francis Makinson was a member of the dental faculty at the University of Adelaide and a specialist in conservative dentistry. 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

Geoffrey Howe was dean of three dental schools – at the Royal Dental Hospital of London School of Dental Surgery (RDH), in Hong Kong and latterly in Jordan. He was born on 24 April 1924 in the London borough of Haringey, the eldest of three brothers. His father, Leo Leslie John Howe, died when Geoff

Charles Rowbotham, who has died aged 93 following a stroke, was an icon of operative excellence for decades of Manchester dental graduates. A clinician of outstanding technical ability, he challenged all about him – colleagues as well as students – with perceptive comments on new developments as wel

Mark Bloom was an oral surgeon who lived in Solihull. 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.

Brian Colman O’Riordan was a consultant oral surgeon at the Central Middlesex and Mount Vernon 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

David Poswillo, who died in London in June 2003, was born in Gisborne, New Zealand, in 1927 and graduated in Dentistry at the University of Otago in 1948. He obtained the Fellowship in Dental Surgery from the Royal College of Surgeons in England in 1951, returning to a post in oral and maxillofacial

Charles William Rowse was a consultant oral surgeon at Morriston Hospital, Swansea. 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

Thomas Lionel Hookham was an oral surgeon in Palmerston North, New Zealand. He was born in October 1931 in New Zealand, the son of Horace Hookham and Clara Hookham née Tanner. He attended Whangarei Boys’ High School from 1943 to 1949 and went on to study dentistry, qualifying with a BDS degree.