David Scott Barker was a senior lecturer in conservative dentistry at the University of Melbourne. 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

Bernard Smith died on 2 November 2016 following a brave fight with pancreatic cancer. Bernard qualified at University College Hospital Dental School in 1963 and worked in general dental practice as an associate and later principal and owner. Encouraged by Professor Pickard he went to America to stud

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

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