Search Results for Medical Obituaries - Narrowed by: Dental surgeonSirsiDynix Enterprisehttps://livesonline.rcseng.ac.uk/client/en_GB/lives/lives/qu$003dMedical$002bObituaries$0026qf$003dLIVES_OCCUPATION$002509Occupation$002509Dental$002bsurgeon$002509Dental$002bsurgeon$0026ps$003d300?2024-05-05T05:25:07ZFirst Title value, for Searching Robinson, Ann ( - 2012)ent://SD_ASSET/0/SD_ASSET:3876292024-05-05T05:25:07Z2024-05-05T05:25:07Zby Royal College of Surgeons of England<br/>Publication Date 2023-11-30<br/>Asset Path Root/Lives of the Fellows/E010000-E010999/E010500-E010599<br/>Occupation Dental surgeon<br/>Details Ann Robinson was a dental surgeon from Cambridge.<br/>Resource Identifier RCS: E010541<br/>Collection Plarr's Lives of the Fellows<br/>Format Obituary<br/>Format Asset<br/>First Title value, for Searching Ryder, Leonard Raphaelent://SD_ASSET/0/SD_ASSET:3876242024-05-05T05:25:07Z2024-05-05T05:25:07Zby Royal College of Surgeons of England<br/>Publication Date 2023-11-30<br/>Asset Path Root/Lives of the Fellows/E010000-E010999/E010500-E010599<br/>Occupation Dental surgeon<br/>Details Leonard Raphael ‘Len’ Ryder was a dental surgeon from Melbourne, Victoria, Australia.<br/>Resource Identifier RCS: E010535<br/>Collection Plarr's Lives of the Fellows<br/>Format Obituary<br/>Format Asset<br/>First Title value, for Searching Ross, John Wilson ( - 2013)ent://SD_ASSET/0/SD_ASSET:3876272024-05-05T05:25:07Z2024-05-05T05:25:07Zby Royal College of Surgeons of England<br/>Publication Date 2023-11-30<br/>Asset Path Root/Lives of the Fellows/E010000-E010999/E010500-E010599<br/>Occupation Dental surgeon<br/>Details John Wilson Ross was a dental surgeon from Truro, Cornwall<br/>Resource Identifier RCS: E010539<br/>Collection Plarr's Lives of the Fellows<br/>Format Obituary<br/>Format Asset<br/>First Title value, for Searching Young, Thomas Alan ( - 2011)ent://SD_ASSET/0/SD_ASSET:3876522024-05-05T05:25:07Z2024-05-05T05:25:07Zby Royal College of Surgeons of England<br/>Publication Date 2023-12-01<br/>Asset Path Root/Lives of the Fellows/E010000-E010999/E010500-E010599<br/>Occupation Dental surgeon<br/>Details Thomas Alan Young was a dental surgeon in Cambridge.<br/>Resource Identifier RCS: E010546<br/>Collection Plarr's Lives of the Fellows<br/>Format Obituary<br/>Format Asset<br/>First Title value, for Searching Bosman, Daniel Hendrik ( - 2009)ent://SD_ASSET/0/SD_ASSET:3876552024-05-05T05:25:07Z2024-05-05T05:25:07Zby Royal College of Surgeons of England<br/>Publication Date 2023-12-01<br/>Asset Path Root/Lives of the Fellows/E010000-E010999/E010500-E010599<br/>Occupation Dental surgeon<br/>Details Daniel Hendrik Bosman was a dental surgeon from London.<br/>Resource Identifier RCS: E010548<br/>Collection Plarr's Lives of the Fellows<br/>Format Obituary<br/>Format Asset<br/>First Title value, for Searching Grossman, Erwin (1928 - 2005)ent://SD_ASSET/0/SD_ASSET:3876632024-05-05T05:25:07Z2024-05-05T05:25:07Zby Royal College of Surgeons of England<br/>Publication Date 2023-12-01<br/>Asset Path Root/Lives of the Fellows/E010000-E010999/E010500-E010599<br/>Occupation Dental surgeon<br/>Details Erwin Grossman was a dental surgeon from Manchester.<br/>Resource Identifier RCS: E010557<br/>Collection Plarr's Lives of the Fellows<br/>Format Obituary<br/>Format Asset<br/>First Title value, for Searching Shah, Kirankumar Ramji ( - 2004)ent://SD_ASSET/0/SD_ASSET:3876652024-05-05T05:25:07Z2024-05-05T05:25:07Zby Royal College of Surgeons of England<br/>Publication Date 2023-12-01<br/>Asset Path Root/Lives of the Fellows/E010000-E010999/E010500-E010599<br/>Occupation Dental surgeon<br/>Details Kirankumar Ramji Shah was a dental surgeon from Stanmore, Middlesex<br/>Resource Identifier E010559<br/>Collection Plarr's Lives of the Fellows<br/>Format Obituary<br/>Format Asset<br/>First Title value, for Searching Newlyn, Charles Philip ( - 2017)ent://SD_ASSET/0/SD_ASSET:3876132024-05-05T05:25:07Z2024-05-05T05:25:07Zby Royal College of Surgeons of England<br/>Publication Date 2023-11-30<br/>Asset Path Root/Lives of the Fellows/E010000-E010999/E010500-E010599<br/>Occupation Dental surgeon<br/>Details Charles Philip Newlyn was a dental surgeon from Richmond, North Yorkshire.<br/>Resource Identifier RCS: E010525<br/>Collection Plarr's Lives of the Fellows<br/>Format Obituary<br/>Format Asset<br/>First Title value, for Searching Hinckley, Gilbert Harry ( - 2011)ent://SD_ASSET/0/SD_ASSET:3876512024-05-05T05:25:07Z2024-05-05T05:25:07Zby Royal College of Surgeons of England<br/>Publication Date 2023-12-01<br/>Asset Path Root/Lives of the Fellows/E010000-E010999/E010500-E010599<br/>Occupation Dental surgeon<br/>Details Gilbert Harry Hinckley was a dental surgeon from Solihull.<br/>Resource Identifier RCS: E010545<br/>Collection Plarr's Lives of the Fellows<br/>Format Obituary<br/>Format Asset<br/>First Title value, for Searching Edwards, Alan James ( - 2008)ent://SD_ASSET/0/SD_ASSET:3876582024-05-05T05:25:07Z2024-05-05T05:25:07Zby Royal College of Surgeons of England<br/>Publication Date 2023-12-01<br/>Asset Path Root/Lives of the Fellows/E010000-E010999/E010500-E010599<br/>Occupation Dental surgeon<br/>Details Alan James Edwards was a dental surgeon from Birmingham.<br/>Resource Identifier RCS: E010552<br/>Collection Plarr's Lives of the Fellows<br/>Format Obituary<br/>Format Asset<br/>First Title value, for Searching Mager, Maurice Ernest ( - 2007)ent://SD_ASSET/0/SD_ASSET:3876602024-05-05T05:25:07Z2024-05-05T05:25:07Zby Royal College of Surgeons of England<br/>Publication Date 2023-12-01<br/>Asset Path Root/Lives of the Fellows/E010000-E010999/E010500-E010599<br/>Occupation Dental surgeon<br/>Details Maurice Ernest Mager was a dental surgeon from Cobham, Surrey.<br/>Resource Identifier RCS: E010544<br/>Collection Plarr's Lives of the Fellows<br/>Format Obituary<br/>Format Asset<br/>First Title value, for Searching Tenuwera, Marie Manik (1941 - 2000)ent://SD_ASSET/0/SD_ASSET:3876742024-05-05T05:25:07Z2024-05-05T05:25:07Zby Sarah Gillam<br/>Publication Date 2023-12-01<br/>Asset Path Root/Lives of the Fellows/E010000-E010999/E010500-E010599<br/>Occupation Dental surgeon<br/>Details Marie Manik Tenuwera was a dental surgeon in Bury, Lancashire. She was born on 4 January 1941.
She gained her fellowship of the faculty of dental surgery of the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Glasgow in 1978 and of the Royal College of Surgeons of England in 1979.
Tenuwera died in August 2000 in Manchester. She was 59.<br/>Resource Identifier RCS: E010568<br/>Collection Plarr's Lives of the Fellows<br/>Format Obituary<br/>Format Asset<br/>First Title value, for Searching Sockett, Malcolm ( - 2018)ent://SD_ASSET/0/SD_ASSET:3868122024-05-05T05:25:07Z2024-05-05T05:25:07Zby Royal College of Surgeons of England<br/>Publication Date 2023-07-05<br/>Asset Path Root/Lives of the Fellows/E010000-E010999/E010200-E010299<br/>Occupation Dental surgeon<br/>Details Malcolm Sockett was a dental surgeon in Stokesley, Middlesbrough.
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<br/>Resource Identifier RCS: E010285<br/>Collection Plarr's Lives of the Fellows<br/>Format Obituary<br/>Format Asset<br/>First Title value, for Searching Hindle, Ian ( - 2024)ent://SD_ASSET/0/SD_ASSET:3880152024-05-05T05:25:07Z2024-05-05T05:25:07Zby Royal College of Surgeons of England<br/>Publication Date 2024-04-30<br/>Asset Path Root/Lives of the Fellows/E010000-E010999/E010600-E010699<br/>Occupation Dental surgeon<br/>Details Ian Hindle was a dental surgeon from Lincoln.
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<br/>Resource Identifier RCS: E010614<br/>Collection Plarr's Lives of the Fellows<br/>Format Obituary<br/>Format Asset<br/>First Title value, for Searching Prasad, Jogendra ( - 2015)ent://SD_ASSET/0/SD_ASSET:3876152024-05-05T05:25:07Z2024-05-05T05:25:07Zby Royal College of Surgeons of England<br/>Publication Date 2023-11-30<br/>Asset Path Root/Lives of the Fellows/E010000-E010999/E010500-E010599<br/>Occupation Dental surgeon<br/>Details Jogendra Prasad was a dental surgeon from Bristol.
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<br/>Resource Identifier RCS: E010527<br/>Collection Plarr's Lives of the Fellows<br/>Format Obituary<br/>Format Asset<br/>First Title value, for Searching Jones, John Maurice ( - 2010)ent://SD_ASSET/0/SD_ASSET:3876542024-05-05T05:25:07Z2024-05-05T05:25:07Zby Royal College of Surgeons of England<br/>Publication Date 2023-12-01<br/>Asset Path Root/Lives of the Fellows/E010000-E010999/E010500-E010599<br/>Occupation Dental surgeon<br/>Details Air Vice Marshal John Maurice Jones was director of Defence Dental Services.<br/>Resource Identifier RCS: E010549<br/>Collection Plarr's Lives of the Fellows<br/>Format Obituary<br/>Format Asset<br/>First Title value, for Searching Last, Keith Sydney (1946 - 2021)ent://SD_ASSET/0/SD_ASSET:3872932024-05-05T05:25:07Z2024-05-05T05:25:07Zby Royal College of Surgeons of England<br/>Publication Date 2023-09-13<br/>Asset Path Root/Lives of the Fellows/E010000-E010999/E010400-E010499<br/>Occupation Dental surgeon<br/>Details Keith Last was a dental surgeon at the University of Liverpool.<br/>Resource Identifier RCS: E010456<br/>Collection Plarr's Lives of the Fellows<br/>Format Obituary<br/>Format Asset<br/>First Title value, for Searching Holland, Patrick Stanley (1931 - 2023)ent://SD_ASSET/0/SD_ASSET:3877102024-05-05T05:25:07Z2024-05-05T05:25:07Zby Royal College of Surgeons of England<br/>Publication Date 2023-12-15<br/>Asset Path Root/Lives of the Fellows/E010000-E010999/E010500-E010599<br/>Occupation Dental surgeon<br/>Details Patrick Stanley Holland was a dental surgeon from Stockport.<br/>Resource Identifier RCS: E010576<br/>Collection Plarr's Lives of the Fellows<br/>Format Obituary<br/>Format Asset<br/>First Title value, for Searching Hamilton, Alan Ferguson (1920 - 2018)ent://SD_ASSET/0/SD_ASSET:3876102024-05-05T05:25:07Z2024-05-05T05:25:07Zby Royal College of Surgeons of England<br/>Publication Date 2023-11-30<br/>Asset Path Root/Lives of the Fellows/E010000-E010999/E010500-E010599<br/>Occupation Dental surgeon<br/>Details Alan Ferguson Hamilton was a dental surgeon from Cheltenham.<br/>Resource Identifier RCS: E010522<br/>Collection Plarr's Lives of the Fellows<br/>Format Obituary<br/>Format Asset<br/>First Title value, for Searching Chapman, Robert Cleaver ( - 2012)ent://SD_ASSET/0/SD_ASSET:3876502024-05-05T05:25:07Z2024-05-05T05:25:07Zby Royal College of Surgeons of England<br/>Publication Date 2023-12-01<br/>Asset Path Root/Lives of the Fellows/E010000-E010999/E010500-E010599<br/>Occupation Dental surgeon<br/>Details Robert Cleaver Chapman was a dental surgeon from Belfast.<br/>Resource Identifier RCS: E010544<br/>Collection Plarr's Lives of the Fellows<br/>Format Obituary<br/>Format Asset<br/>First Title value, for Searching Kirby, James ( - 2005)ent://SD_ASSET/0/SD_ASSET:3871492024-05-05T05:25:07Z2024-05-05T05:25:07Zby Royal College of Surgeons of England<br/>Publication Date 2023-08-15<br/>Asset Path Root/Lives of the Fellows/E010000-E010999/E010400-E010499<br/>Occupation Dental surgeon<br/>Details James Kirby was a consultant dental surgeon at Dudley Road Hospital, Birmingham.
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<br/>Resource Identifier RCS: E010442<br/>Collection Plarr's Lives of the Fellows<br/>Format Obituary<br/>Format Asset<br/>First Title value, for Searching Hemphill, Barry Francis ( - 2014)ent://SD_ASSET/0/SD_ASSET:3876202024-05-05T05:25:07Z2024-05-05T05:25:07Zby Royal College of Surgeons of England<br/>Publication Date 2023-11-30<br/>Asset Path Root/Lives of the Fellows/E010000-E010999/E010500-E010599<br/>Occupation Dental surgeon<br/>Details Barry Francis Hemphill was a dental surgeon from Richmond, Surrey.<br/>Resource Identifier RCS: E010532<br/>Collection Plarr's Lives of the Fellows<br/>Format Obituary<br/>Format Asset<br/>First Title value, for Searching Boulter, Alison Wendy (1965 - 2013)ent://SD_ASSET/0/SD_ASSET:3876282024-05-05T05:25:07Z2024-05-05T05:25:07Zby Royal College of Surgeons of England<br/>Publication Date 2023-11-30<br/>Asset Path Root/Lives of the Fellows/E010000-E010999/E010500-E010599<br/>Occupation Dental surgeon Paediatric dental surgeon<br/>Details Alison Wendy Boulter was a dental surgeon from Woking, Surrey.<br/>Resource Identifier RCS: E0103540<br/>Collection Plarr's Lives of the Fellows<br/>Format Obituary<br/>Format Asset<br/>First Title value, for Searching Tothill, Roger Mortimer (1929 - 2010)ent://SD_ASSET/0/SD_ASSET:3876532024-05-05T05:25:07Z2024-05-05T05:25:07Zby Royal College of Surgeons of England<br/>Publication Date 2023-12-01<br/>Asset Path Root/Lives of the Fellows/E010000-E010999/E010500-E010599<br/>Occupation Dental surgeon<br/>Details Roger Mortimer Tothill was a dental surgeon at Derbyshire Royal Infirmary.<br/>Resource Identifier RCS: E010467<br/>Collection Plarr's Lives of the Fellows<br/>Format Obituary<br/>Format Asset<br/>First Title value, for Searching Pearson, Stanley Law (1933 - 2005)ent://SD_ASSET/0/SD_ASSET:3876642024-05-05T05:25:07Z2024-05-05T05:25:07Zby Royal College of Surgeons of England<br/>Publication Date 2023-12-01<br/>Asset Path Root/Lives of the Fellows/E010000-E010999/E010500-E010599<br/>Occupation Dental surgeon<br/>Details Stanley Law Pearson was a dental surgeon from Ilkley, Yorkshire.<br/>Resource Identifier RCS: E010558<br/>Collection Plarr's Lives of the Fellows<br/>Format Obituary<br/>Format Asset<br/>First Title value, for Searching Fowler, Raymond John (1924 - 2004)ent://SD_ASSET/0/SD_ASSET:3876672024-05-05T05:25:07Z2024-05-05T05:25:07Zby Royal College of Surgeons of England<br/>Publication Date 2023-12-01<br/>Asset Path Root/Lives of the Fellows/E010000-E010999/E010500-E010599<br/>Occupation Dental surgeon<br/>Details Raymond John Fowler was a dental surgeon from Sutton Coldfield<br/>Resource Identifier RCS: E010561<br/>Collection Plarr's Lives of the Fellows<br/>Format Obituary<br/>Format Asset<br/>First Title value, for Searching Simpson, Robin John (1930 - 2004)ent://SD_ASSET/0/SD_ASSET:3876682024-05-05T05:25:07Z2024-05-05T05:25:07Zby Royal College of Surgeons of England<br/>Publication Date 2023-12-01<br/>Asset Path Root/Lives of the Fellows/E010000-E010999/E010500-E010599<br/>Occupation Dental surgeon<br/>Details Robin John Simpson was a dental surgeon who lived in Woking, Surrey.<br/>Resource Identifier RCS: E010562<br/>Collection Plarr's Lives of the Fellows<br/>Format Obituary<br/>Format Asset<br/>First Title value, for Searching Stockdale, Charles Robert (1926 - 2004)ent://SD_ASSET/0/SD_ASSET:3876702024-05-05T05:25:07Z2024-05-05T05:25:07Zby Royal College of Surgeons of England<br/>Publication Date 2023-12-01<br/>Asset Path Root/Lives of the Fellows/E010000-E010999/E010500-E010599<br/>Occupation Dental surgeon<br/>Details Charles Robert Stockdale was a dental surgeon in Manchester.<br/>Resource Identifier RCS: E010564<br/>Collection Plarr's Lives of the Fellows<br/>Format Obituary<br/>Format Asset<br/>First Title value, for Searching Creed, Ian Grenville (1934 - 2013)ent://SD_ASSET/0/SD_ASSET:3875892024-05-05T05:25:07Z2024-05-05T05:25:07Zby Royal College of Surgeons of England<br/>Publication Date 2023-11-29<br/>Asset Path Root/Lives of the Fellows/E010000-E010999/E010500-E010599<br/>Occupation Dental surgeon<br/>Details Ian Grenville Creed was a dental surgeon from Wolverhampton.<br/>Resource Identifier RCS: E010513<br/>Collection Plarr's Lives of the Fellows<br/>Format Obituary<br/>Format Asset<br/>First Title value, for Searching Jones, Winthrop Bismark (1930 - 2018)ent://SD_ASSET/0/SD_ASSET:3875962024-05-05T05:25:07Z2024-05-05T05:25:07Zby Royal College of Surgeons of England<br/>Publication Date 2023-11-29<br/>Asset Path Root/Lives of the Fellows/E010000-E010999/E010500-E010599<br/>Occupation Dental surgeon<br/>Details Winthrop Bismark Jones was a dental surgeon from Scarborough.<br/>Resource Identifier RCS: E010520<br/>Collection Plarr's Lives of the Fellows<br/>Format Obituary<br/>Format Asset<br/>First Title value, for Searching Lubel, John Samuel (1966 - 2018)ent://SD_ASSET/0/SD_ASSET:3876092024-05-05T05:25:07Z2024-05-05T05:25:07Zby Royal College of Surgeons of England<br/>Publication Date 2023-11-30<br/>Asset Path Root/Lives of the Fellows/E010000-E010999/E010500-E010599<br/>Occupation Dental surgeon<br/>Details John Samuel Lubel was a dental surgeon from Westcliff-on-Sea.<br/>Resource Identifier RCS: E010521<br/>Collection Plarr's Lives of the Fellows<br/>Format Obituary<br/>Format Asset<br/>First Title value, for Searching Smith, Denis Coates (1923 - 2014)ent://SD_ASSET/0/SD_ASSET:3876212024-05-05T05:25:07Z2024-05-05T05:25:07Zby Royal College of Surgeons of England<br/>Publication Date 2023-11-30<br/>Asset Path Root/Lives of the Fellows/E010000-E010999/E010500-E010599<br/>Occupation Dental surgeon<br/>Details Denis Coates Smith was a dental surgeon from Folkestone, Kent<br/>Resource Identifier RCS: E010533<br/>Collection Plarr's Lives of the Fellows<br/>Format Obituary<br/>Format Asset<br/>First Title value, for Searching Rice, Vernon George (1928 - 2006)ent://SD_ASSET/0/SD_ASSET:3876622024-05-05T05:25:07Z2024-05-05T05:25:07Zby Royal College of Surgeons of England<br/>Publication Date 2023-12-01<br/>Asset Path Root/Lives of the Fellows/E010000-E010999/E010500-E010599<br/>Occupation Dental surgeon<br/>Details Vernon George Rice was a dental surgeon from Camberley, Surrey.<br/>Resource Identifier RCS: E010556<br/>Collection Plarr's Lives of the Fellows<br/>Format Obituary<br/>Format Asset<br/>First Title value, for Searching Sinclair, John Hugh ( - 2016)ent://SD_ASSET/0/SD_ASSET:3868562024-05-05T05:25:07Z2024-05-05T05:25:07Zby Royal College of Surgeons of England<br/>Publication Date 2023-07-06<br/>Asset Path Root/Lives of the Fellows/E010000-E010999/E010300-E010399<br/>Occupation Dental surgeon<br/>Details John Hugh Sinclair was a professor of dental surgery in Auckland, New Zealand.
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<br/>Resource Identifier RCS: E010312<br/>Collection Plarr's Lives of the Fellows<br/>Format Obituary<br/>Format Asset<br/>First Title value, for Searching Stone, Bruce Frank ( - 2015)ent://SD_ASSET/0/SD_ASSET:3868672024-05-05T05:25:07Z2024-05-05T05:25:07Zby Royal College of Surgeons of England<br/>Publication Date 2023-07-06<br/>Asset Path Root/Lives of the Fellows/E010000-E010999/E010300-E010399<br/>Occupation Dental surgeon<br/>Details Bruce Frank Stone was a dental surgeon in Perth, Western Australia.
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<br/>Resource Identifier RCS: E010322<br/>Collection Plarr's Lives of the Fellows<br/>Format Obituary<br/>Format Asset<br/>First Title value, for Searching Wood, Phillip Boyd ( - 2010)ent://SD_ASSET/0/SD_ASSET:3869542024-05-05T05:25:07Z2024-05-05T05:25:07Zby Royal College of Surgeons of England<br/>Publication Date 2023-07-18<br/>Asset Path Root/Lives of the Fellows/E010000-E010999/E010300-E010399<br/>Occupation Dental surgeon<br/>Details Phillip Boyd Wood was a dental surgeon in Sydney, New South Wales.
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<br/>Resource Identifier RCS: E010356<br/>Collection Plarr's Lives of the Fellows<br/>Format Obituary<br/>Format Asset<br/>First Title value, for Searching Hughes, Jennifer May ( - 2022)ent://SD_ASSET/0/SD_ASSET:3875092024-05-05T05:25:07Z2024-05-05T05:25:07Zby Royal College of Surgeons of England<br/>Publication Date 24-11-2023<br/>Asset Path Root/Lives of the Fellows/E010000-E010999/E010400-E010499<br/>Occupation Dental surgeon<br/>Details Jennifer May Hughes was a dental surgeon from Radlett, Hertfordshire.
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<br/>Resource Identifier RCS: E010496<br/>Collection Plarr's Lives of the Fellows<br/>Format Obituary<br/>Format Asset<br/>First Title value, for Searching Matthews, David Owen (- 2020)ent://SD_ASSET/0/SD_ASSET:3867822024-05-05T05:25:07Z2024-05-05T05:25:07Zby Royal College of Surgeons of England<br/>Publication Date 2023-07-03<br/>Asset Path Root/Lives of the Fellows/E010000-E010999/E010200-E010299<br/>Occupation Dental surgeon<br/>Details Air Commodore David Owen Matthews was a dental surgeon in the Royal Air Force.
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<br/>Resource Identifier RCS: E010264<br/>Collection Plarr's Lives of the Fellows<br/>Format Obituary<br/>Format Asset<br/>First Title value, for Searching Waite, Ian Mowbray ( - 2021)ent://SD_ASSET/0/SD_ASSET:3872942024-05-05T05:25:07Z2024-05-05T05:25:07Zby Royal College of Surgeons of England<br/>Publication Date 2023-09-13<br/>Asset Path Root/Lives of the Fellows/E010000-E010999/E010300-E010399<br/>Occupation Dental surgeon<br/>Details Ian Mowbray Waite was dean of postgraduate dentistry for the London and Thames region.
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<br/>Resource Identifier RCS: E010349<br/>Collection Plarr's Lives of the Fellows<br/>Format Obituary<br/>Format Asset<br/>First Title value, for Searching Sims, William (1926 - 2004)ent://SD_ASSET/0/SD_ASSET:3876692024-05-05T05:25:07Z2024-05-05T05:25:07Zby Royal College of Surgeons of England<br/>Publication Date 2023-12-01<br/>Asset Path Root/Lives of the Fellows/E010000-E010999/E010500-E010599<br/>Occupation Dental surgeon Microbiologist<br/>Details William Sims was a professor of microbiology at the University of London, Royal Dental Hospital.<br/>Resource Identifier RCS: E010563<br/>Collection Plarr's Lives of the Fellows<br/>Format Obituary<br/>Format Asset<br/>First Title value, for Searching Murray, Robin Derek ( - 2018)ent://SD_ASSET/0/SD_ASSET:3876122024-05-05T05:25:07Z2024-05-05T05:25:07Zby Royal College of Surgeons of England<br/>Publication Date 2023-11-30<br/>Asset Path Root/Lives of the Fellows/E010000-E010999/E010500-E010599<br/>Occupation Dental surgeon<br/>Details Robin Derek Murray was a dental surgeon from Beckenham.
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<br/>Resource Identifier RCS: E010524<br/>Collection Plarr's Lives of the Fellows<br/>Format Obituary<br/>Format Asset<br/>First Title value, for Searching Hindle, Maurice Owen ( - 2015)ent://SD_ASSET/0/SD_ASSET:3876172024-05-05T05:25:07Z2024-05-05T05:25:07Zby Royal College of Surgeons of England<br/>Publication Date 2023-11-30<br/>Asset Path Root/Lives of the Fellows/E010000-E010999/E010500-E010599<br/>Occupation Dental surgeon<br/>Details Maurice Owen Hindle was dental surgeon in Sheffield.
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<br/>Resource Identifier RCS: E010529<br/>Collection Plarr's Lives of the Fellows<br/>Format Obituary<br/>Format Asset<br/>First Title value, for Searching Mepsted, John Anthony ( - 2014)ent://SD_ASSET/0/SD_ASSET:3876222024-05-05T05:25:07Z2024-05-05T05:25:07Zby Royal College of Surgeons of England<br/>Publication Date 2023-11-30<br/>Asset Path Root/Lives of the Fellows/E010000-E010999/E010500-E010599<br/>Occupation Dental surgeon<br/>Details John Antony Mepsted was a dental surgeon from Truro, Cornwall.
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<br/>Resource Identifier RCS: E010534<br/>Collection Plarr's Lives of the Fellows<br/>Format Obituary<br/>Format Asset<br/>First Title value, for Searching Wheatley, Anthony James Leonard (1923 - 2000)ent://SD_ASSET/0/SD_ASSET:3876772024-05-05T05:25:07Z2024-05-05T05:25:07Zby Sarah Gillam<br/>Publication Date 2023-12-01<br/>Asset Path Root/Lives of the Fellows/E010000-E010999/E010500-E010599<br/>Occupation Dental surgeon<br/>Details Anthony James Leonard Wheatley was a dental surgeon from Bridport, Dorset. He was born on 20 May 1923 in Woolwich, London, the son of Leonard James Theodor Wheatley, an engineer, and Lily Caroline Wheatley née Stanley, the daughter of an engineer. He was educated at Eggar’s Grammar School in Alton, Hampshire.
He gained his LDS in 1946 and became an FDSRCS in 1953.
In 1946 he married Margaret Clough. Wheatley died in August 2000 in Dorset. He was 77.<br/>Resource Identifier RCS: E010571<br/>Collection Plarr's Lives of the Fellows<br/>Format Obituary<br/>Format Asset<br/>First Title value, for Searching Drinnan, Alan John ( - 2004)ent://SD_ASSET/0/SD_ASSET:3871162024-05-05T05:25:07Z2024-05-05T05:25:07Zby Royal College of Surgeons of England<br/>Publication Date 2023-08-11<br/>Asset Path Root/Lives of the Fellows/E010000-E010999/E010400-E010499<br/>Occupation Dental surgeon<br/>Details Alan John Drinnan was a professor of dental surgery at the University of Buffalo, New York, USA.
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.<br/>Resource Identifier RCS: E010417<br/>Collection Plarr's Lives of the Fellows<br/>Format Obituary<br/>Format Asset<br/>First Title value, for Searching Jackson, Sheila Rosemary ( - 2022)ent://SD_ASSET/0/SD_ASSET:3875302024-05-05T05:25:07Z2024-05-05T05:25:07Zby Royal College of Surgeons of England<br/>Publication Date 2023-11-24<br/>Asset Path Root/Lives of the Fellows/E010000-E010999/E010400-E010499<br/>Occupation Dental surgeon<br/>Details Sheila Rosemary Jackson was a dental surgeon from Wilmslow, Cheshire.
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<br/>Resource Identifier RCS: E010497<br/>Collection Plarr's Lives of the Fellows<br/>Format Obituary<br/>Format Asset<br/>First Title value, for Searching Zoitopoulos, Liana (1955 - 2010)ent://SD_ASSET/0/SD_ASSET:3869712024-05-05T05:25:07Z2024-05-05T05:25:07Zby Royal College of Surgeons of England<br/>Publication Date 2023-07-19<br/>Asset Path Root/Lives of the Fellows/E010000-E010999/E010300-E010399<br/>Occupation Dental surgeon<br/>Details Liana Zoitopoulos was head of community dental services at King’s Dental Institute, 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.<br/>Resource Identifier E010359<br/>Collection Plarr's Lives of the Fellows<br/>Format Obituary<br/>Format Asset<br/>First Title value, for Searching Smith, Alex Frank James ( - 2008)ent://SD_ASSET/0/SD_ASSET:3870702024-05-05T05:25:07Z2024-05-05T05:25:07Zby Royal College of Surgeons of England<br/>Publication Date 2023-08-09<br/>Asset Path Root/Lives of the Fellows/E010000-E010999/E010300-E010399<br/>Occupation Dental surgeon<br/>Details Alex Frank James Smith was a surgeon captain.
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<br/>Resource Identifier RCS: E010393<br/>Collection Plarr's Lives of the Fellows<br/>Format Obituary<br/>Format Asset<br/>First Title value, for Searching Pert, Donald Inslay (1928 - 2018)ent://SD_ASSET/0/SD_ASSET:3868092024-05-05T05:25:07Z2024-05-05T05:25:07Zby Royal College of Surgeons of England<br/>Publication Date 2023-07-05<br/>Asset Path Root/Lives of the Fellows/E010000-E010999/E010200-E010299<br/>Occupation Dental surgeon<br/>Details Donald Inslay Pert was a dental surgeon in Auckland, New Zealand.
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<br/>Resource Identifier RCS: E010282<br/>Collection Plarr's Lives of the Fellows<br/>Format Obituary<br/>Format Asset<br/>First Title value, for Searching Mayhew, Robert Alan Jewers (1923 - 2019)ent://SD_ASSET/0/SD_ASSET:3875942024-05-05T05:25:07Z2024-05-05T05:25:07Zby Royal College of Surgeons of England<br/>Publication Date 2023-11-29<br/>Asset Path Root/Lives of the Fellows/E010000-E010999/E010500-E010599<br/>Occupation Dental surgeon<br/>Details Robert Alan Jewers Mayhew was a dental surgeon from Hexham, Northumberland.<br/>Resource Identifier RCS: E010518<br/>Collection Plarr's Lives of the Fellows<br/>Format Obituary<br/>Format Asset<br/>First Title value, for Searching Soul, Donald Frederick (1919 - 2002)ent://SD_ASSET/0/SD_ASSET:3876762024-05-05T05:25:07Z2024-05-05T05:25:07Zby Sarah Gillam<br/>Publication Date 2023-12-01<br/>Asset Path Root/Lives of the Fellows/E010000-E010999/E010500-E010599<br/>Occupation Dental surgeon<br/>Details Donald Frederick Soul was a dental surgeon in London. He was born on 1 September 1919 in Ilford, Essex, the son of Charles Frederick Soul, a grocer, and Kathleen Ethel Soul née Prue. Soul studied dentistry at University College London and qualified with his LDS in 1941.
From 1942 he served as a surgeon lieutenant in the Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve. He became a fellow of the faculty of dental surgery of the Royal College of Surgeons of England in 1949. In the 1950s he was a research assistant at the London Hospital studying root canal therapy.
In October 1951 he married Helen Leggett. They had three children. Soul died in April 2002 in Waltham Forest, London.<br/>Resource Identifier RCS: E010670<br/>Collection Plarr's Lives of the Fellows<br/>Format Obituary<br/>Format Asset<br/>First Title value, for Searching Hatchuel, Albert Isaac (1916 - 1996)ent://SD_ASSET/0/SD_ASSET:3871912024-05-05T05:25:07Z2024-05-05T05:25:07Zby Sarah Gillam<br/>Publication Date 2023-08-17<br/>Asset Path Root/Lives of the Fellows/E010000-E010999/E010400-E010499<br/>Occupation Dental surgeon<br/>Details Albert Isaac Hatchuel was a dental surgeon in Johannesburg, South Africa. He was born into a Jewish family in Salisbury, Rhodesia on 5 May 1916. His mother, Theodora (‘Dora’) Pilowsky Hatchuel née Cohen, was originally from Lodz in Poland; his father, Haim Hatchuel, was born in Tetouan, in northern Morocco. An ancestor on his father’s side, Solica Hatchuel, refused to convert to Islam, and was beheaded in Fez in 1834. She was declared a martyr by the rabbinate.
Hatchuel became a dental surgeon and practised in Johannesburg, South Africa. He gained his FDSRCS in 1975.
In 1962 in Salisbury he married Roma (‘Ronnie’) Fuhr. They had three children, including David. Hatchuel died on 20 May 1996 in Johannesburg. He was 80.<br/>Resource Identifier RCS: E010452<br/>Collection Plarr's Lives of the Fellows<br/>Format Obituary<br/>Format Asset<br/>First Title value, for Searching Frazer, Eric Ian (1930 - 2015)ent://SD_ASSET/0/SD_ASSET:3868612024-05-05T05:25:07Z2024-05-05T05:25:07Zby Royal College of Surgeons of England<br/>Publication Date 2023-07-06<br/>Asset Path Root/Lives of the Fellows/E010000-E010999/E010300-E010399<br/>Occupation Dental surgeon<br/>Details Eric Ian Frazer was a dental surgeon in Pudsey, Yorkshire who also taught at the University of Sheffield.
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<br/>Resource Identifier RCS: E010316<br/>Collection Plarr's Lives of the Fellows<br/>Format Obituary<br/>Format Asset<br/>First Title value, for Searching Houston, Robin William (1944 - 2014)ent://SD_ASSET/0/SD_ASSET:3868722024-05-05T05:25:07Z2024-05-05T05:25:07Zby Royal College of Surgeons of England<br/>Publication Date 2023-07-06<br/>Asset Path Root/Lives of the Fellows/E010000-E010999/E010300-E010399<br/>Occupation Dental surgeon<br/>Details Robin William Houston was a dental surgeon in Toowoomba, Queensland, Australia.
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<br/>Resource Identifier RCS: E010327<br/>Collection Plarr's Lives of the Fellows<br/>Format Obituary<br/>Format Asset<br/>First Title value, for Searching Henning, Frederick Rudolph (1925 - 2003)ent://SD_ASSET/0/SD_ASSET:3871172024-05-05T05:25:07Z2024-05-05T05:25:07Zby Royal College of Surgeons of England<br/>Publication Date 2023-08-11<br/>Asset Path Root/Lives of the Fellows/E010000-E010999/E010400-E010499<br/>Occupation Dental surgeon<br/>Details Frederick Rudolph Henning was a dental surgeon in Adelaide, South Australia.
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.<br/>Resource Identifier RCS: E010418<br/>Collection Plarr's Lives of the Fellows<br/>Format Obituary<br/>Format Asset<br/>First Title value, for Searching Van Wyk, Christian Werner ( - 2003)ent://SD_ASSET/0/SD_ASSET:3871192024-05-05T05:25:07Z2024-05-05T05:25:07Zby Royal College of Surgeons of England<br/>Publication Date 2023-08-11<br/>Asset Path Root/Lives of the Fellows/E010000-E010999/E010400-E010499<br/>Occupation Dental surgeon<br/>Details Christian Werner Van Wyk was a professor in the centre for stomatological research, school of dentistry, University of Pretoria, South Africa.
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.<br/>Resource Identifier RCS: E010420<br/>Collection Plarr's Lives of the Fellows<br/>Format Obituary<br/>Format Asset<br/>First Title value, for Searching Calverley, Brian Coupe (1913 - 2004)ent://SD_ASSET/0/SD_ASSET:3871202024-05-05T05:25:07Z2024-05-05T05:25:07Zby Royal College of Surgeons of England<br/>Publication Date 2023-08-11<br/>Asset Path Root/Lives of the Fellows/E010000-E010999/E010400-E010499<br/>Occupation Dental surgeon<br/>Details Brian Coupe Calverley was a dental surgeon from Stratford-upon-Avon.
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.<br/>Resource Identifier RCS: E010421<br/>Collection Plarr's Lives of the Fellows<br/>Format Obituary<br/>Format Asset<br/>First Title value, for Searching Tay, Edmund Mai Hong ( - 2014)ent://SD_ASSET/0/SD_ASSET:3879352024-05-05T05:25:07Z2024-05-05T05:25:07Zby Royal College of Surgeons of England<br/>Publication Date 2024-03-19<br/>Asset Path Root/Lives of the Fellows/E010000-E010999/E010600-E010699<br/>Occupation Dental surgeon<br/>Details Edmund Mai Hong Tay was a professor of dental surgery at the National University of Singapore.
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<br/>Resource Identifier RCS: E010604<br/>Collection Plarr's Lives of the Fellows<br/>Format Obituary<br/>Format Asset<br/>First Title value, for Searching O’Neill, Terence Cuthbert Anthony (1936 - 2011)ent://SD_ASSET/0/SD_ASSET:3876782024-05-05T05:25:07Z2024-05-05T05:25:07Zby Royal College of Surgeons of England<br/>Publication Date 2023-12-01<br/>Asset Path Root/Lives of the Fellows/E010000-E010999/E010500-E010599<br/>Occupation Pharmacologist Dental surgeon<br/>Details Terence Cuthbert Anthony O’Neill was a dental surgeon from Rotherham Yorkshire.<br/>Resource Identifier RCS: E010572<br/>Collection Plarr's Lives of the Fellows<br/>Format Obituary<br/>Format Asset<br/>First Title value, for Searching Issa, Mohamed Abdel-Moneim Moustafa (1939 - 2014)ent://SD_ASSET/0/SD_ASSET:3876192024-05-05T05:25:07Z2024-05-05T05:25:07Zby Royal College of Surgeons of England<br/>Publication Date 2023-11-30<br/>Asset Path Root/Lives of the Fellows/E010000-E010999/E010500-E010599<br/>Occupation Dental surgeon<br/>Details Mohamed Abdel-Moneim Moustafa Issa was a dental surgeon from Gerrards Cross, Buckinghamshire.<br/>Resource Identifier RCS: E010531<br/>Collection Plarr's Lives of the Fellows<br/>Format Obituary<br/>Format Asset<br/>First Title value, for Searching Priestley, Edwin (1903 - 1993)ent://SD_ASSET/0/SD_ASSET:3876712024-05-05T05:25:07Z2024-05-05T05:25:07Zby PJM<br/>Publication Date 2023-12-01<br/>Asset Path Root/Lives of the Fellows/E010000-E010999/E010500-E010599<br/>Occupation Dental surgeon Oral surgeon<br/>Details Edwin Priestley died peacefully in Scarborough on January 14, 1993. He was an active member of the British Dental Association for over 50 years.
Born in Accrington on February 11, 1903, Edwin qualified in dental surgery at Liverpool in 1926 with his close friend Laurie Roberts, who later became the first Dean of Sheffield Dental School.
Edwin practised in Oldham for 4 years with Cyril Hutchinson, who was to become the Dean of Edinburgh Dental School. He later joined Frank Salter’s practice in Scarborough as partner in 1930.
Edwin first served as honorary dental surgeon and then as consultant dental surgeon to Scarborough Dental Hospital with 44 years of continuous hospital service. These hospital appointments were of a part-time nature, as was the custom of that time, allowing Edwin to work as principal in what was to become a family practice with first his daughter Ruth and then his son, John, in partnership.
At that time 90% of extractions were performed under nitrous oxide and oxygen general anaesthetic, and Edwin, during a period of staff shortages, acted as anaesthetist for ENT operations at Scarborough.
Before the war, Edwin attended international dental conferences in Stockholm and Vienna, and after the war in Boston, Massachusetts, and in Dublin where he first met Professor Bradlaw who became a regular visitor of his.
Edwin gave short papers at some of these conferences, on partial gold dental design using the new technique of surveying the plaster models.
Edwin served on his local branch of the BDA for many years as secretary and also as chairman. He was also chairman of the Yorkshire Branch.
During World War II Edwin was detailed for extra training in maxillofacial surgery at East Grinstead, to remain as a key member of the civilian emergency team dealing with casualties in his part of the country. He is remembered by many of his colleagues and patients for his skills and devotion to the profession.
Edwin always enjoyed his chosen career which certainly proved to be a vocation for him, and he did not retire until he was 83 years old. He is survived by his wife Mary, and his two children Ruth and John who are both dental surgeons.<br/>Resource Identifier RCS: E010565<br/>Collection Plarr's Lives of the Fellows<br/>Format Obituary<br/>Format Asset<br/>First Title value, for Searching Bowen, William Henry (1934 - 2016)ent://SD_ASSET/0/SD_ASSET:3868502024-05-05T05:25:07Z2024-05-05T05:25:07Zby Royal College of Surgeons of England<br/>Publication Date 2023-07-06<br/>Asset Path Root/Lives of the Fellows/E010000-E010999/E010300-E010399<br/>Occupation Dental surgeon<br/>Details William Henry ‘Bill’ Bowen was a professor in the department of dental research at the University of Rochester, New York
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<br/>Resource Identifier RCS: E010305<br/>Collection Plarr's Lives of the Fellows<br/>Format Obituary<br/>Format Asset<br/>First Title value, for Searching Attenborough, Neil Richard (1940 - 2023)ent://SD_ASSET/0/SD_ASSET:3873792024-05-05T05:25:07Z2024-05-05T05:25:07Zby Royal College of Surgeons of England<br/>Publication Date 2023-10-11<br/>Asset Path Root/Lives of the Fellows/E010000-E010999/E010400-E010499<br/>Occupation Dental surgeon Oral and maxillofacial surgeon<br/>Details Neil Richard Attenborough was a dental surgeon who lived in Guildford, Surrey.
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<br/>Resource Identifier RCS: E010480<br/>Collection Plarr's Lives of the Fellows<br/>Format Obituary<br/>Format Asset<br/>First Title value, for Searching Kurer, Hans Gustav (1929 - 2012)ent://SD_ASSET/0/SD_ASSET:3870002024-05-05T05:25:07Z2024-05-05T05:25:07Zby Royal College of Surgeons of England<br/>Publication Date 2023-07-20<br/>Asset Path Root/Lives of the Fellows/E010000-E010999/E010300-E010399<br/>Occupation Dental surgeon<br/>Details Hans Gustav Kurer was a dental surgeon in Manchester and a former president of the British Society for General Dental Surgery.
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.<br/>Resource Identifier RCS: E010372<br/>Collection Plarr's Lives of the Fellows<br/>Format Obituary<br/>Format Asset<br/>First Title value, for Searching MacGregor, Ian Drury Montgomerie (1937 - 2020)ent://SD_ASSET/0/SD_ASSET:3867802024-05-05T05:25:07Z2024-05-05T05:25:07Zby Royal College of Surgeons of England<br/>Publication Date 2023-07-03<br/>Asset Path Root/Lives of the Fellows/E010000-E010999/E010200-E010299<br/>Occupation Dental surgeon<br/>Details Ian Drury Montgomerie MacGregor was a dental surgeon in Newcastle-upon-Tyne.
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<br/>Resource Identifier RCS: E010262<br/>Collection Plarr's Lives of the Fellows<br/>Format Obituary<br/>Format Asset<br/>First Title value, for Searching Parkins, Brian James Michael (1938 - 2019)ent://SD_ASSET/0/SD_ASSET:3867972024-05-05T05:25:07Z2024-05-05T05:25:07Zby Royal College of Surgeons of England<br/>Publication Date 2023-07-04<br/>Asset Path Root/Lives of the Fellows/E010000-E010999/E010200-E010299<br/>Occupation Dental surgeon<br/>Details Brian James Michael Parkins was a dental surgeon in Bath.
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<br/>Resource Identifier RCS: E010277<br/>Collection Plarr's Lives of the Fellows<br/>Format Obituary<br/>Format Asset<br/>First Title value, for Searching Chan, Franklin Fook Yee (1941 - 2019)ent://SD_ASSET/0/SD_ASSET:3867982024-05-05T05:25:07Z2024-05-05T05:25:07Zby Royal College of Surgeons of England<br/>Publication Date 2023-07-04<br/>Asset Path Root/Lives of the Fellows/E010000-E010999/E010200-E010299<br/>Occupation Dental surgeon<br/>Details Franklin Fook Yee Chan was a dental surgeon in Hong Kong.
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<br/>Resource Identifier RCS: E010278<br/>Collection Plarr's Lives of the Fellows<br/>Format Obituary<br/>Format Asset<br/>First Title value, for Searching Morgan, Eric John Rowland (1923 - 2018)ent://SD_ASSET/0/SD_ASSET:3868002024-05-05T05:25:07Z2024-05-05T05:25:07Zby Royal College of Surgeons of England<br/>Publication Date 2023-07-04<br/>Asset Path Root/Lives of the Fellows/E010000-E010999/E010200-E010299<br/>Occupation Dental surgeon<br/>Details Eric John Rowland Morgan was a consultant dental 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<br/>Resource Identifier RCS: E010280<br/>Collection Plarr's Lives of the Fellows<br/>Format Obituary<br/>Format Asset<br/>First Title value, for Searching Crabb, Henry Stuart Malcolm (1922 - 2017)ent://SD_ASSET/0/SD_ASSET:3868222024-05-05T05:25:07Z2024-05-05T05:25:07Zby Royal College of Surgeons of England<br/>Publication Date 2023-07-05<br/>Asset Path Root/Lives of the Fellows/E010000-E010999/E010200-E010299<br/>Occupation Specialist in restorative dentistry Dental surgeon<br/>Details Stuart Crabb was a professor in the department of restorative dentistry at the University of Leeds.
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<br/>Resource Identifier RCS: E010295<br/>Collection Plarr's Lives of the Fellows<br/>Format Obituary<br/>Format Asset<br/>First Title value, for Searching Fish, Sidney Francis (1912 - 1998)ent://SD_ASSET/0/SD_ASSET:3871892024-05-05T05:25:07Z2024-05-05T05:25:07Zby Sarah Gillam<br/>Publication Date 2023-08-17<br/>Asset Path Root/Lives of the Fellows/E010000-E010999/E010400-E010499<br/>Occupation Dental surgeon Specialist in dental prosthetics Dental educator<br/>Details Francis Fish was head of the department of dental prosthetics at the London Hospital dental school. He was born on 23 April 1912 in Plaistow, East London, the son of Francis Raymond Fish, a foreman at a disinfectant works, and Elizabeth Fish née How. Fish studied dentistry at the London Hospital and qualified in 1940.
During the Second World War he served in the Army Dental Corps. He then spent a few years in private practice, before joining the London Hospital dental school in 1950 as a part-time assistant. In the same year he was appointed as a lecturer in the department of dental prosthetics, and in 1956 became head of the department. He appointed a scientist with experience in the properties of materials to his staff, which led to the development of the pioneering department of material science in dentistry. He became a professor in 1965 and retired in 1977.
A key theme of his teaching to clinical students – and his research – was the importance of physiology and anatomy to dentistry. He also had a special interest in the dental problems of the elderly, which led to the establishment of a two-year MSc in gerodontics.
In 1991 his book *The dental school of the London Hospital Medical College, 1911-1991: the story of London’s dental school* (London Hospital Dental Club, 1991) was published.
In September 1940 he married Elizabeth Ruby Lunn (née Scott), an accomplished pianist and music teacher. They had two daughters. Predeceased by his wife, who died in 1992, Fish died on 4 September 1998 in Chippenham, Wiltshire. He was 86.<br/>Resource Identifier RCS: E010450<br/>Collection Plarr's Lives of the Fellows<br/>Format Obituary<br/>Format Asset<br/>First Title value, for Searching Preston, Charles Henry ( - 1923)ent://SD_ASSET/0/SD_ASSET:3751772024-05-05T05:25:07Z2024-05-05T05:25:07Zby Royal College of Surgeons of England<br/>Publication Date 2012-10-10<br/>Unknown<br/>Asset Path Root/Lives of the Fellows/E002000-E002999/E002900-E002999<br/>URL for Files <a href="https://livesonline.rcseng.ac.uk/client/en_GB/search/asset/375177">https://livesonline.rcseng.ac.uk/client/en_GB/search/asset/375177</a>375177<br/>Occupation Dental surgeon General surgeon<br/>Details Was educated at Owens College, at the Royal Infirmary, Manchester, and at the Victoria Dental Hospital. He was House Surgeon both at the Royal Infirmary and at the Victoria Dental Hospital, and also for a time at the British Seamen's Hospital, Royal Albert Dock.
Intense deafness led him to take up dentistry. He practised at 16 Lynwood Grove, Broad Road, Sale, Cheshire, held the posts of Tutor and then of Surgeon to the Victoria Dental Hospital, and Lecturer on Dental Anatomy at the Victoria University, Manchester. He died on June 15th, 1923.
Publications:
*Handbook of Surgical Anatomy* (with Professor G F WRIGHT), 1903; 2nd ed., 1905.
Several odontological papers.<br/>Resource Identifier RCS: E002994<br/>Collection Plarr's Lives of the Fellows<br/>Format Obituary<br/>Format Asset<br/>First Title value, for Searching De Bruyn, Robert Saunders (1897 - 1954)ent://SD_ASSET/0/SD_ASSET:3771782024-05-05T05:25:07Z2024-05-05T05:25:07Zby Royal College of Surgeons of England<br/>Publication Date 2014-02-10 2018-03-23<br/>Unknown<br/>Asset Path Root/Lives of the Fellows/E004000-E004999/E004900-E004999<br/>URL for Files <a href="https://livesonline.rcseng.ac.uk/client/en_GB/search/asset/377178">https://livesonline.rcseng.ac.uk/client/en_GB/search/asset/377178</a>377178<br/>Occupation Dental surgeon General surgeon<br/>Details He was educated at Guy's Hospital, and qualified first as a dentist. After serving as house surgeon, resident medical officer, and surgical registrar at Guy's he settled in general practice at Stamford, Lincolnshire, where he became surgeon to the Infirmary and also to the Holbeach Emergency Hospital and Bourne Butterfield Hospital. During the second world war he served in the RAF and won the Distinguished Flying Cross. De Bruyn died at Observatory, Cape Town on 6 May 1954.<br/>Resource Identifier RCS: E004995<br/>Collection Plarr's Lives of the Fellows<br/>Format Obituary<br/>Format Asset<br/>First Title value, for Searching Ibbetson, George Augustus (1815 - 1894)ent://SD_ASSET/0/SD_ASSET:3744982024-05-05T05:25:07Z2024-05-05T05:25:07Zby Royal College of Surgeons of England<br/>Publication Date 2012-05-03<br/>Unknown<br/>Asset Path Root/Lives of the Fellows/E002000-E002999/E002300-E002399<br/>URL for Files <a href="https://livesonline.rcseng.ac.uk/client/en_GB/search/asset/374498">https://livesonline.rcseng.ac.uk/client/en_GB/search/asset/374498</a>374498<br/>Occupation Dental surgeon<br/>Details Studied at the Middlesex Hospital and in Paris. He practised as a Dental Surgeon at 66 Brook Street, Hanover Square; 19a Hanover Square; and latterly at 21 Thicket Road, Norwood, where he died on June 20th, 1894. He served as Lecturer on Dental Anatomy and Physiology, also as Dental Surgeon, at the Dental Hospital, Leicester Square; further as Dental Surgeon to University College Hospital and Lecturer on the Principles and Practice of Dental Surgery. At the Royal College of Surgeons he was Examiner in Dental Surgery from 1870-1875; he was also President of the Odontological Society and a Member of Council, British Medical Association.
Publications:
"On Fossil Teeth of Fishes in the Paleozoic and Lower Mesozoic Rocks." - *Trans Odontol Soc*, 1865, v, 95.<br/>Resource Identifier RCS: E002315<br/>Collection Plarr's Lives of the Fellows<br/>Format Obituary<br/>Format Asset<br/>First Title value, for Searching Duckworth, Roy (1929 - 2020)ent://SD_ASSET/0/SD_ASSET:3839732024-05-05T05:25:07Z2024-05-05T05:25:07Zby Sir Miles Irving<br/>Publication Date 2020-11-02<br/>Asset Path Root/Lives of the Fellows/E009000-E009999/E009800-E009899<br/>Occupation Dental surgeon<br/>Details Roy Duckworth was head of the department of oral medicine and periodontology, and a former dean of the London Hospital Medical College. He was born in Bolton in Lancashire on 19 July 1929 to Stanley Duckworth and Hilda Evelyn Duckworth née Moores. His secondary schooling was at King George V Grammar School in Southport, from where he entered Liverpool University’s school of dentistry, qualifying with a BDS degree in 1952.
From 1953 to 1955 he carried out his National Service in the RAF dental branch. He then enrolled again at Liverpool University to undertake medical training for the MB ChB. It must have been a strange experience: the new medical students were much younger and at least ten were from his old school, students he would have supervised as a prefect years before. Despite this, he bonded well with the rest of the year and qualified with the MB ChB in 1959.
Immediately thereafter Roy obtained a post as a Nuffield fellow at the Postgraduate Medical School of London and Guy’s Hospital. In 1961 he joined the London Hospital, remaining on the staff of that hospital for the rest of his varied and illustrious career.
Roy made rapid progress through the academic ranks, becoming professor and head of the department of oral medicine and periodontology in 1968. The following year he took over the mantle of dean of dental studies from Geoffrey Slack and carried out those duties with great distinction for six years. From 1986 to 1994 he took on the wider role of dean of the medical college at a time of great change when a clear mind and steady hand at the helm were essential.
Outside the London Hospital he made many significant contributions to the dental profession. In 1983 he was elected dean of the faculty of dental surgery of the Royal College of Surgeons of England and also held office at various times as president of the British Society of Periodontology, the British Society for Oral Medicine and, in 1990, the British Dental Association.
He served on numerous important committees and advisory bodies, both nationally and internationally, and was editor of the *International Dental Journal* for many years. His outstanding contributions were recognised by the award of the CBE in 1987. He was one of the first recipients of the Geoffrey Layton Slack medal.
Roy married Marjorie Jean Bowness in 1953, a microbiologist. He died peacefully on 16 September 2020 aged 91 and was survived and missed by his beloved wife Marjorie, sons Michael and Stephen, daughter Anne and nine grandsons.<br/>Resource Identifier RCS: E009860<br/>Collection Plarr's Lives of the Fellows<br/>Format Obituary<br/>Format Asset<br/>First Title value, for Searching Howell, Roy Aubrey (1924 - 2014)ent://SD_ASSET/0/SD_ASSET:3869132024-05-05T05:25:07Z2024-05-05T05:25:07Zby Peter Heasman<br/>Publication Date 2023-07-07<br/>Asset Path Root/Lives of the Fellows/E010000-E010999/E010300-E010399<br/>Occupation Dental surgeon<br/>Details Roy Howell died peacefully in a residential home on Saturday 7 June 2014, aged 89.
Roy was born in July 1924 in Upper Park Place near Marylebone in London. He was the eldest of four siblings, his two sisters both emigrated to America and his brother eventually moved to Toronto.
Roy trained as a navigator and served in the RAF during WW2 before studying dentistry at the Royal Free in London, where he graduated in 1950. Roy’s academic prowess emerged during his undergraduate years when he was awarded many prizes, so it came as no surprise that after working in general practice for a year and then as a registrar in London, he decided on academia and teaching. Roy was appointed to a lectureship in operative dentistry in Newcastle and, when Professor Hopper moved to Leeds in 1959, Roy assumed responsibility for Lead in Periodontology. He was instrumental in setting up and developing the School of Dental Hygiene at Newcastle.
Roy was Senior Lecturer and Honorary Consultant in Periodontology at Newcastle Dental School until his retirement in 1985. He was also Treasurer of the British Society of Periodontology Society for many years and President of the Society during 1983-1984.
I have special reason to remember Roy both as a teacher when I was an undergraduate at Newcastle and then as President of the Society when he held his Spring Meeting at the Gosforth Park Hotel. Roy invited some of periodontology’s ‘big hitters’ to the Gosforth Park Hotel with Professors Ainamo and Page being ‘top-of-the-bill’. Roy Page, in particular, was a massive ‘signing’, and as a junior academic attending his first BSP meeting, it was inspiring to hear Professor Page giving his lectures on early and established lesions.
Roy Howell retired from academia in 1985 to care for his wife, Margaret, who had Parkinson's disease. They moved to Devon where, until his death, he remained totally independent and very active in his pursuit of steam (and other kinds of) trains around the UK and other parts of the world – camera always at the ready. Indeed, I recall many night-time journeys on the (now) East Coast line between King's Cross and Newcastle with Roy, Robin Seymour and Ian Macgregor. Roy would often announce that we would be arriving ‘wherever’ in a few minutes, not from having seen landmarks from the window, but from his extraordinary knowledge of the camber of the track at specific places along the line. A truly remarkable talent!
Roy is survived by his three daughters Elizabeth, Jane and Louise.<br/>Resource Identifier RCS: E010336<br/>Collection Plarr's Lives of the Fellows<br/>Format Obituary<br/>Format Asset<br/>First Title value, for Searching Pendlebury, Malcolm Ernest (1939 - 2004)ent://SD_ASSET/0/SD_ASSET:3871102024-05-05T05:25:07Z2024-05-05T05:25:07Zby P Lowndes<br/>Publication Date 2023-08-11<br/>Asset Path Root/Lives of the Fellows/E010000-E010999/E010400-E010499<br/>Occupation Dentist Dental surgeon<br/>Details Malcolm Pendlebury died suddenly on Sunday 26 September 2004 at his home in Nottingham; he was 65. Dean of the Faculty of General Dental Practitioners (UK) 1997-2000, Malcolm was one of the profession’s enthusiasts with a wide range of interests in clinical dentistry, teaching and research, and will be sadly missed.
Up to the time of his death, he was working in his general dental practice at The Parks in Nottingham, and was also undertaking specialist sessions in prosthodontics and oral surgery at Queen's Medical Centre in Nottingham. He was involved in teaching in various fields within the universities of Nottingham, Sheffield and Leeds, was educational adviser to the FGDP(UK) and was, among other projects, engaged in the re-writing and updating of the well-known *Self assessment manual of standards (SAMS)* handbook.
Outside dentistry, Malcolm worked on behalf of the World Health Organization in verifying quality assurance in the examination systems of medical schools in the former Yugoslavia. Another interest was transprofessional activity and he had recently organised a conference for the UK Centre for the Advancement of InterProfessional Education on overseas recruitment and cultural change, which embraced medicine, dentistry, nursing, physiotherapy and a number of other healthcare professions. In dental affairs, he was the president-elect of the East Midlands branch of the BDA.
A number of Malcolm’s activities throughout his career are worthy of particular mention. He was one of the pioneers of vocational training in the East Midlands, running a vocational training scheme and acting as regional adviser. He was a well-known member of the BDA’s Representative Board and the General Dental Services Committee. Inevitably, this led to much involvement in the committee structure of the BDA, from which he only stood down recently. Finally, he was one of the founder members of the FGDP(UK), making considerable contributions to the development of its structure. He served as its third dean and ensured that the Faculty was soundly based and a permanent member of the family of dental institutions.
Most of all, Malcolm will be remembered for the many qualities he brought to the world of general dental practice. He sought to raise the status of general dental practitioners, provide them with standards they could aspire to and thereby to raise the quality of patient care. A career as busy and structured as Malcolm's required certain personal attributes. He brought energy and commitment to the work that he did. Above all, he will be remembered particularly for his enthusiasm and energy in developing the world of primary dental care.
Malcolm is survived by a son and a daughter, and his wife Andrea, to whom our sympathies are extended. A funeral service was held in Nottingham, and a further service of remembrance at St Clement Danes Church in London.<br/>Resource Identifier RCS: E010411<br/>Collection Plarr's Lives of the Fellows<br/>Format Obituary<br/>Format Asset<br/>First Title value, for Searching Prophet, Arthur Shelley ( - 2003)ent://SD_ASSET/0/SD_ASSET:3870912024-05-05T05:25:07Z2024-05-05T05:25:07Zby A G Alexander<br/>Publication Date 2023-08-10<br/>Asset Path Root/Lives of the Fellows/E010000-E010999/E010400-E010499<br/>Occupation Dental surgeon<br/>Details Arthur Prophet CBE died on l8th October, aged 84. Arthur was Dean of UCH Dental School and subsequently Dean of UCH Medical School. He played a large part in planning the new UCH Dental Hospital and School that opened in 1963.
He was educated at Sedbergh School and Manchester University where he graduated BDS with Honours in 1940. He returned there to obtain the Diploma in Bacteriology in 1948 and the DDS in 1950. He was a Fellow in Dental Surgery of the Royal Colleges of England and Ireland, and served in the RNVR from 1941 to 1946. He held a Nuffleld Dental Fellowship from 1946 to 1948.
Arthur’s first teaching posts were Lecturer in Dental Bacteriology at Manchester and then Lecturer in Dental Surgery at Belfast. He was appointed to the Chair of Dental Surgery at the University of London and Director of Dental Studies at UCH in 1956. He became dean in 1974 and then Dean of the Medical School in 1977 until he retired in 1983. During his time he was involved in the many changes that took place in the re-organisation of dental and medical education in the university, including the closure and amalgamation of schools eventually incorporating UCH Medical School into University College.
Arthur Prophet made an enormous contribution to the dental profession. He was an active and energetic committee man, serving on the General Dental Council, the Board of the Faculty of Dental Surgery, the Dental Sub-committee of the UGC and the Committee of Management of the Institute of Dental Surgery. He served on the Bloomsbury Health Authority and was a Consultant Dental Adviser to the DHSS. In 1987 he was made an honorary DSc at the University of Malta and was appointed CBE in 1980 for his services to Dentistry.
In spite of all his commitments Arthur played an active role in his dental school where the students held him in high regard and affection. He dealt with their problems with great kindness and sympathy and established a fair and liberal admissions policy. He brought distinction to the school through his work, the eponymous lectures he delivered and his publications. His house surgeon post was the most highly sought junior post and many of his house surgeons have gone on to achieve great distinction.
On retirement he moved to the New Forest and developed his golf and gardening, but he never lost his interest in dentistry in general and the progress and achievements of his students in particular. In the last few years of his life he suffered a disabling stroke, which caused him much frustration, but he bore it with fortitude and with the tremendous support of his wife Vivienne and their two sons and their families. It was a source of great comfort to his wife that he was able to celebrate their diamond wedding anniversary at the end of September. All his friends, colleagues and former students will miss him. Our thoughts go out to Vivienne and to his sons and their families.<br/>Resource Identifier RCS: E010404<br/>Collection Plarr's Lives of the Fellows<br/>Format Obituary<br/>Format Asset<br/>First Title value, for Searching Pickard, Huia Masters (1909 - 2002)ent://SD_ASSET/0/SD_ASSET:3870922024-05-05T05:25:07Z2024-05-05T05:25:07Zby Sarah Gillam<br/>Publication Date 2023-08-10<br/>Asset Path Root/Lives of the Fellows/E010000-E010999/E010400-E010499<br/>Occupation Dental surgeon Specialist in restorative dentistry<br/>Details Huia Masters Pickard, known as ‘Pick’, was a pioneering professor of restorative dentistry at the Royal Dental Hospital in London. He was born on 25 March 1909 in Masterton, New Zealand, the son of Ernest Pickard and Sophie Elizabeth Pickard née Robins, but at an early age went with his family to England. He was educated at Latymer School in Edmonton, and in 1927 began studying at the Royal Dental Hospital’s London School of Dental Surgery in Leicester Square. He qualified with a licentiate in dental surgery in 1932, and went on to Charing Cross Hospital medical school, qualifying as a doctor with the conjoint examination in 1936.
After house posts at the Royal Dental Hospital, he went into general practice, working with Wilfred Fish. During the Second World War, he initially worked at East Grinstead with the Emergency Medical Service, but in 1940 joined the Royal Army Medical Corps as a medical officer. He went with the 8th Army to North Africa, where he became a trainee surgical specialist. He was mentioned in despatches.
After the war, he returned to dentistry, spending half his week teaching conservative dentistry at the Royal Dental Hospital and half in private practice in Harley Street. He gained his fellowship of the newly established faculty of dental surgery of the Royal College of Surgeons of England in 1949.
In 1955 he became a consultant and director of the department of conservative dentistry at the Royal Dental Hospital. He was a reader from 1957 to 1963 and professor from 1963 to 1974. From 1965 to 1974 he was head of the enlarged department of restorative dentistry. He divided the restorative department into three divisions – conservative dentistry, fixed and removable prosthodontics and complete dentures – with the aim of giving young hospital dentists a broad training in each area. He was an examiner for the universities of London, Newcastle, Glasgow, Birmingham and Wales, as well as for the Royal College of Surgeons of England.
At the Royal Dental Hospital Pickard also started the innovative Commonwealth lectureship scheme, whereby young male academics from Commonwealth countries were appointed to the hospital for three years, to teach, research and take the FDSRCS exam.
Pickard’s influential textbook *A manual of operative dentistry* (London, Oxford University Press) was first published in 1961, and was subsequently published in multiple editions, latterly renamed *Pickard’s manual of operative dentistry*. He also wrote papers for the *Dental Record*, the *British Dental Journal* and the *International Dental Journal*.
Pickard was a founder member and first president of the British Society for Restorative Dentistry (from 1968 to 1969). He also started an annual Conservation Teachers Conference, which met at a different dental school every year. In 1971 he was president of the odontological section of the Royal Society of Medicine. In 1983 he was awarded the Tomes medal of the British Dental Association.
In 1945 he married Daphne (‘Dafy’) Evelyn Marriott. They had two daughters and several grandchildren. At one time he and Dafy ran the Nuttery in Newham, Northamptonshire, an historic cobnut orchard, now gifted to the Woodland Trust.
Pickard died on 17 July 2002 at the age of 93. As one of his obituarists wrote: ‘Pick was an excellent clinician, a wonderful teacher and a man with strong and progressive views about how dentistry should be taught and practised.’<br/>Resource Identifier RCS: E010405<br/>Collection Plarr's Lives of the Fellows<br/>Format Obituary<br/>Format Asset<br/>First Title value, for Searching Greenfield, Bernard Edward (1915 - 2003)ent://SD_ASSET/0/SD_ASSET:3871702024-05-05T05:25:07Z2024-05-05T05:25:07Zby A G Alexander<br/>Publication Date 2023-08-16<br/>Asset Path Root/Lives of the Fellows/E010000-E010999/E010400-E010499<br/>Occupation Dental surgeon<br/>Details Bernard Greenfield died within a few weeks of his 89th birthday after suffering from Alzheimer's disease since June 2001.
He was born in Hackney and educated at the Central Foundation School, Cowper Street, EC2. He matriculated in 1931 and spent a year in the sixth form before leaving to work in a general engineering factory.
The long journey made studying for a BSc impossible and he was persuaded to change to dental surgery by his local dentist. He studied for 1st MB at Chelsea Polytechnic and passed after two terms. He completed his dental studies at the National Dental Hospital in Great Portland Street, passing the LDSRCS examination in February 1939.
He was commissioned into the RAF and served in North Africa, Sicily and India. After the war he practised in Hendon, Harley Street and Queen Anne Street. He went back to UCHDS to teach conservation, at the same time obtaining the BDS degree in 1949 and the FDSRCS in 1951. He had an enquiring mind that needed much intellectual stimulation and he found this in the Physiology Department of the Royal College of Surgeons where he developed a lasting interest in the electromyography of the muscles of mastication.
Bernard was a very popular teacher, he was deeply devoted and loyal to the students and never had a bad word to say about anyone. As a colleague he was stimulating and provocative in discussions with a very subtle sense of humour. He was fiercely loyal to UCHDS and to the old National Dental Hospital.
For relaxation Bernard enjoyed gardening, walking and camping. He shared these hobbies with his wife Shirley, and continued walking well into his later years. However his passion was work and on retirement from the Dental School in 1979 he continued as Honorary Research Fellow and was invited to continue his honorary work at the Eastman on the closure of UCHDS, until 1998.
He first met his wife Shirley at the Royal College of Surgeons. She worked as his dental nurse for 35 years and after he became ill in 2001 she nursed him devotedly through two very difficult years until a urinary infection led to his death in hospital on 9 July 2003.
We will remember Bernard as a very private, modest and unassuming gentleman who made a great contribution to dental science. He was much loved by his patients, his students and his many friends. He will be greatly missed by Shirley to whom our deepest sympathy is extended.<br/>Resource Identifier RCS: E010445<br/>Collection Plarr's Lives of the Fellows<br/>Format Obituary<br/>Format Asset<br/>First Title value, for Searching Poswillo, David Ernest (1927 - 2003)ent://SD_ASSET/0/SD_ASSET:3871712024-05-05T05:25:07Z2024-05-05T05:25:07Zby Newell Johnson<br/>Publication Date 2023-08-16<br/>Asset Path Root/Lives of the Fellows/E010000-E010999/E010400-E010499<br/>Occupation Dental surgeon Oral surgeon<br/>Details 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 surgery at the plastic surgery unit in Christchurch. He was discovered there by Sir Harold Himsworth, then Secretary of the Medical Research Council in the UK, conducting research in his garden shed on cleft lip and palate! That was the beginning of a tremendously dedicated and successful career as an experimental scientist and innovative surgeon, with a rapidly-achieved and long-sustained international reputation. The Royal College of Surgeons established a Chair in Teratology especially for him, which he occupied for eight years from the late 1960’s, combining work at the College’s research farm adjacent to Charles Darwin’s House in Kent with clinical work at the famous East Grinstead Centre for maxillofacial and plastic surgery. He was an inspiring teacher and many of today's leaders in the field were trained by him at this time. Two years followed as Professor of Craniofacial Surgery in Adelaide, and then from 1979 as Professor of Oral Surgery at the Royal Dental Hospital in London – moving to Guy’s when those institutions merged in 1986, until his ‘retirement’ in 1992.
He went on making seminal contributions. He was always in demand around the world as a lecturer, as a wise officer of many national and international professional organisations, and as an advisor to government in several countries. Outstanding amongst the latter was his leadership of the Department of Health for England Working Party on Anaesthesia, Sedation and Resuscitation in Dental Practice (which produced the ‘Poswillo Report’ in 1990) and the Scientific Committee on Tobacco and Health, which reported in 1999. The former led rapidly to new procedures and vastly improved safety for dental anaesthesia. The latter led to battles with industry and to hard bargaining with government. Both were pursued with dedication, a hard evidence base, and much charm. The enormous advances in health policy on tobacco issues which we are now seeing in Britain are built to a large extent upon the SCOTH Report of 1998.
Amongst the many offices he held was a spell as Chairman of the UK Committee of the Royal Australasian College of Dental Surgeons, where he worked hard and effectively to maintain a high standard of scientific meetings whilst, with Elisabeth always at his side, he ensured hospitable and always dignified social occasions for that College.
He worked tirelessly as a trustee of the Hunterian Collection at the Royal College of Surgeons from 1994 He was a staunch supporter of the Royal Society of Medicine, serving as President of the Section of Odontology, with many years on Section Council, an elected member of Council of the Society, Honorary Treasurer of the Society from 1996-1999 and Vice President 1999-2001.
Wherever he and his family lived they became pillars of their community. He was a good and loyal friend, a wise counsellor and an inspiration as a scientist. In his last years he bore increasing physical difficulty with determination. When Elisabeth developed a fatal illness and passed away his own health rapidly deteriorated. A simple and immensely moving Memorial Service was held at Guy’s Hospital Chapel on 16th October 2003. Two of his four children and two of six grandchildren were present and the Chapel was packed to the top of the Gallery, a clear indication of the esteem in which he was held by a wide range of professional colleagues, neighbours and friends. He is especially missed by his children and grandchildren.<br/>Resource Identifier RCS: E010446<br/>Collection Plarr's Lives of the Fellows<br/>Format Obituary<br/>Format Asset<br/>First Title value, for Searching Harrison, William Anthony (1801 - 1873)ent://SD_ASSET/0/SD_ASSET:3743302024-05-05T05:25:07Z2024-05-05T05:25:07Zby Royal College of Surgeons of England<br/>Publication Date 2012-04-04<br/>Unknown<br/>Asset Path Root/Lives of the Fellows/E002000-E002999/E002100-E002199<br/>URL for Files <a href="https://livesonline.rcseng.ac.uk/client/en_GB/search/asset/374330">https://livesonline.rcseng.ac.uk/client/en_GB/search/asset/374330</a>374330<br/>Occupation Dental surgeon<br/>Details Educated at St George's Hospital and Edinburgh. He was first in general medical practice at Uxbridge, then practised as a dental surgeon in London. He was actively associated with the foundation of the Dental Hospital, the Odontological Society, and the institution of the Licence for Dental Surgery by the Royal College of Surgeons. He was one of the first Surgeons at the Hospital; was the fourth President of the Odontological Society; Examiner in Dental Surgery from 1865-1870; and Surgeon to the London Institution for Diseases of the Teeth, which he founded in conjunction with Edwin Saunders (qv). He was besides Vice-President and Librarian of the Medical Society, Corresponding Fellow of the Chirurgical Academy of Madrid, and a member of the Central Society of German Dentists. Throughout his life he was a prime mover in anything which tended to elevate dentistry into a profession. He died at 10 Keppel Street on April 23rd, 1873. There is a three-quarter-length oil painting of him in the Royal Society of Medicine and a photograph in the College Collection.<br/>Resource Identifier RCS: E002147<br/>Collection Plarr's Lives of the Fellows<br/>Format Obituary<br/>Format Asset<br/>First Title value, for Searching Adeline, Albert Emile Louis (1914 - 2018)ent://SD_ASSET/0/SD_ASSET:3868192024-05-05T05:25:07Z2024-05-05T05:25:07Zby Peter Adeline<br/>Publication Date 2023-07-05<br/>Asset Path Root/Lives of the Fellows/E010000-E010999/E010200-E010299<br/>Occupation Dental surgeon<br/>Details My father Albert Adeline, passed away recently, just a few weeks short of his 104th birthday. His longevity was a bewilderment to him, but a delight to his family, with great-grandchildren more than 100 years his junior.
Born to become the eldest of three sons, and academically gifted, his medical studies were dramatically truncated after two years when his father died from peritonitis while undergoing surgery. Suddenly there was no money, but a bursary and a benefactor funded a change to the shorter dental course. An unexpected enthusiasm developed, which was in time matched by an enthusiasm for the NHS when it was launched in 1948. He rejected the lure of private practice in favour of providing improved healthcare to those whom it might otherwise have been denied.
As World War II developed he enlisted, barely qualified, and served mostly with the 8th Army in a desert field hospital. Routine dental work was augmented by an intermittent stream of battle casualties, often with major facial trauma. In quieter times he would repair broken spectacle frames in the dental workshop, an invaluable service. With the Allied advancement post-Normandy landings he found himself billeted in provincial Belgium. The daughter of the house became his wife, Josette. He was, I believe, in the first cohort of students to gain a formal surgical qualification in dentistry.
At 41, he developed meningitis. I remember waving at him through the window of his isolation ward. I learned later that he thought this was the last time he would see me as he was not expected to survive.
Survival, though, came with total deafness in one ear and frequent bouts of severe vertigo. In those days dental chairs had a high vertical back, and he would steady himself against it until the nauseous wave passed, while his patient waited in blissful ignorance.
He would have been exposed to much larger doses of gamma radiation than is the norm today. Mercury was another hazard – an early practice of mixing amalgam in the palm of his hand, to bring it up to body temperature before applying it, manifested in the tarnishing of spectacle legs as the mercury was excreted through his hair.
Ever sensitive to his patients’ anxieties and well-being, a reputation developed as 'the magic dentist whose patients felt no pain', and people sought him out. In later years he served as Dental Officer at Harefield Hospital, attending to the needs of patients preparing for thoracic surgery.
He retired to the south coast and re-kindled an interest in sailing, but his greatest joy in later life was pottering in his workshop.
He is survived by myself and my family.<br/>Resource Identifier RCS: E010292<br/>Collection Plarr's Lives of the Fellows<br/>Format Obituary<br/>Format Asset<br/>First Title value, for Searching Doherty, Una Bernadette (1963 - 2023)ent://SD_ASSET/0/SD_ASSET:3873492024-05-05T05:25:07Z2024-05-05T05:25:07Zby Derrick Willmot<br/>Publication Date 2023-10-06<br/>JPEG Image<br/>Asset Path Root/Lives of the Fellows/E010000-E010999/E010400-E010499<br/>URL for Files <a href="https://livesonline.rcseng.ac.uk/client/en_GB/search/asset/387349">https://livesonline.rcseng.ac.uk/client/en_GB/search/asset/387349</a>387349<br/>Occupation Dental surgeon Orthodontist<br/>Details Una Doherty was a dental surgeon and specialist orthodontist in Sheffield. She was born on 2 October 1963 in the Creggan, Derry, the sixth of nine children. Her father Patrick Doherty’s employment, he was a project manager in the construction industry, brought the family to Cheshire in August 1970. Her mother was Susan Doherty née Browne.
Una qualified as a dental surgery assistant in 1985 at Liverpool Dental Hospital, at the same time as studying for her A levels. She was accepted on the dental degree course at Liverpool University, commencing September 1986, however, she was already determined to follow her lifelong passion, orthodontics. In the summer holidays she observed and assisted Warren Jones, a consultant at Warrington Hospital, with the intention of making that her career.
She was awarded her BDS in December 1990 and she stayed on at the dental school as a junior house officer. She then spent 18 months as a resident house officer at Worcester Royal Infirmary, under maxillofacial consultant Tony Sears. Living on site, she performed a one-in-two days on-call, and she would find herself travelling to district hospitals in Droitwich, Redditch and Malvern in the middle of the night.
After Worcester, she worked in the community in Hanley, in the Potteries, before returning to Liverpool for an oral surgery post. All this time she was studying for her FDS parts one and two, which she obtained in 1995. She was then accepted as a registrar on the MOrth training programme at Liverpool. She was an orthodontic registrar to Stephen Rudge, who described her as a tremendous clinician who was caring, conscientious and had a great rapport with patients. She obtained her MOrth and specialist registration in 1999 and worked as an associate with several orthodontists, before, in 2003, becoming principal of her own practice in Sheffield.
Her practice was on Glossop Road, Sheffield, and was subsequently based in a Georgian town house on that road, which had been a dental practice for over a century. She was involved in all the details of a refurbishment, which reflected her own strong sense of style, colour and aesthetics. It was a time of change in NHS primary dental care, with the new contract bringing in the ‘UOA’ (units of orthodontic activity) and the introduction of the ‘IOTN’ (index of orthodontic treatment need) scale. The practice was well-situated to expand into private treatments, both children and adults, and she became a successful Invisalign provider.
Una was very much a hands-on principal and was enthusiastically involved in all aspects of running the practice. The success of the orthodontic clinic derived as much from her personality as from the excellent results she achieved. Una was pleasant, reassuring, attentive and ready to answer any question. Patients would often send in friends and other family members for treatment. Una’s good nature brought loyal, hard-working support staff, who she would encourage to take extra qualifications to advance their careers.
She travelled internationally, Buenos Aires and Tokyo were particular favourites, and she raised money for the dental charity Dentaid on a 2007 trek up Mount Sinai. Closer to home, she enjoyed visiting the ancient houses of Derbyshire, and sponsored the Yorkshire Sculpture Park. She always dressed in her own distinctive style, enjoyed concerts, good food and dining out, and, during lockdown, she finally perfected her favourite, Irish soda bread.
It was orthodontics that was her great motivation and, even when she was unwell, Una continued to treat patients. This, and her positive, optimistic nature, helped her through the often-challenging treatments. Her passing, still seeming so young and full of energy for life, affected all who knew her. She will be deeply missed and ever remembered by former patients, family, friends, colleagues, and especially her husband Alan Caton.<br/>Resource Identifier RCS: E010468<br/>Collection Plarr's Lives of the Fellows<br/>Format Obituary<br/>Format Asset<br/>First Title value, for Searching McClure, Alfred Fay (1883 - 1956)ent://SD_ASSET/0/SD_ASSET:3772992024-05-05T05:25:07Z2024-05-05T05:25:07Zby Royal College of Surgeons of England<br/>Publication Date 2014-03-07<br/>Unknown<br/>Asset Path Root/Lives of the Fellows/E005000-E005999/E005100-E005199<br/>URL for Files <a href="https://livesonline.rcseng.ac.uk/client/en_GB/search/asset/377299">https://livesonline.rcseng.ac.uk/client/en_GB/search/asset/377299</a>377299<br/>Occupation Dental surgeon General surgeon<br/>Details Educated at Wesley College and Ormonde College, University of Melbourne, where he was awarded a major scholarship, he was later at the Middlesex Hospital as a postgraduate.
After qualification he worked as a general practitioner in Kyneton, and in 1908 as resident medical officer at the Alfred Hospital. In 1913 he was appointed surgeon to the Alfred Hospital, working under Hamilton Russell, and also surgeon to the Melbourne Dental Hospital, having worked under Gillies at Sidcup in 1909. In the war of 1914-18 he became a Major in the AAMC attached to the 2nd CCS, and later to the 2nd and then the 3rd General Hospital at Lemnos. He was awarded the OBE in the Birthday Honours of 1919. In 1926 he joined the State Dental Board and from 1929 to 1936 was chairman of the Dental Practitioners Education Committee. He wrote little but was regarded as one of the best surgical opinions in Victoria and a good "Alfredian".
He enjoyed golf and fly-fishing, and in his later years he spent much of his time in his workshop making surgical instruments, splints or some special gadget. He died on 4 October 1956 in Melbourne.<br/>Resource Identifier RCS: E005116<br/>Collection Plarr's Lives of the Fellows<br/>Format Obituary<br/>Format Asset<br/>First Title value, for Searching Turner, Joseph George (1870 - 1955)ent://SD_ASSET/0/SD_ASSET:3776092024-05-05T05:25:07Z2024-05-05T05:25:07Zby Royal College of Surgeons of England<br/>Publication Date 2014-06-09<br/>Unknown<br/>Asset Path Root/Lives of the Fellows/E005000-E005999/E005400-E005499<br/>URL for Files <a href="https://livesonline.rcseng.ac.uk/client/en_GB/search/asset/377609">https://livesonline.rcseng.ac.uk/client/en_GB/search/asset/377609</a>377609<br/>Occupation Dental surgeon<br/>Details Born in 1870 he entered the medical school of St Thomas's Hospital in 1886, qualifying as a medical practitioner in 1892 with the Conjoint Diploma, and, having obtained the licence in dental surgery two years earlier, working at the Royal Dental Hospital.
He was at one time consulting dental surgeon to St Thomas's Hospital and to the Royal Dental Hospital. He was President and Honorary Life Member of the Odontological Section of the Royal Society of Medicine and was President of the Metropolitan Branch of the BDA.
In 1917 he was awarded the John Tomes Prize and in 1947 on 17 July delivered the Charles Tomes Lecture on "Movements of the Teeth" subsequently published in the *British Dental Journal* 1948, 84, 1-9.
Turner's father, James Smith Turner, also had strong connections with the Royal Dental Hospital and was partly responsible for the Dentists Act of 1878 and the founding of the British Dental Association.
Joseph Turner died on 28 February 1955 at his home at Middleton-on-Sea aged 85, survived by his widow.<br/>Resource Identifier RCS: E005426<br/>Collection Plarr's Lives of the Fellows<br/>Format Obituary<br/>Format Asset<br/>First Title value, for Searching Sweetman, Alan John Patrick (1927 - 2015)ent://SD_ASSET/0/SD_ASSET:3868642024-05-05T05:25:07Z2024-05-05T05:25:07Zby Michael Frazer<br/>Publication Date 2023-07-06<br/>JPEG Image<br/>Asset Path Root/Lives of the Fellows/E010000-E010999/E010300-E010399<br/>URL for Files <a href="https://livesonline.rcseng.ac.uk/client/en_GB/search/asset/386864">https://livesonline.rcseng.ac.uk/client/en_GB/search/asset/386864</a>386864<br/>Occupation Dental surgeon<br/>Details Alan was born in East Barnet. His father was an accountant for boat builders on the Thames at Brentford. He was educated at Queen Elizabeth Grammar School and in 1945 was awarded a major scholarship to university. He immediately entered The London Hospital Dental School, where he became a prizeman, qualifying BDS and LDS in 1949. After completing a year as house surgeon he spent two years on national service as a commissioned officer in the Royal Army Dental Corps. It was while in North Africa that he met and married his first wife, Pat Maddock.
Returning to England he settled in general dental practice in Twickenham. He soon joined the local yacht club and subsequently the Hayling Island Sailing Club. He was an active club member and a natural sailor who braved the waters in a Flying Fifteen in most conditions. He received the Royal Yachting Association’s International Certificate of Competence in 2000 and enjoyed passing on his knowledge of tides, winds and the nautical arts to many aspiring and grateful young sailors.
While studying for the primary FDS, Alan was asked on a temporary basis to teach in the Department of Oral Surgery at The London Hospital Dental School. This led to a permanent part-time lectureship which he also combined with running his popular and successful general dental practice. He qualified FDS in 1968 and was clinical dental tutor at the West Middlesex Hospital and at The London.
Alan was an excellent administrator – from 1974 there followed a series of posts as Dental Officer for Health Authorities in North and West London and North West Hertfordshire. He retired from general practice in 1993 and became Legal Affairs Manager for the West Hertfordshire Community NHS Trust.
His second wife, Patsy (née Edmonds), sadly passed away in 1999.
He joined the Hounslow and Twickenham Section of the BDA in the early 1950s where he was an active member and became President of the Middlesex and Hertfordshire Branch in 1977.
Away from dentistry his interests included membership of Le Cercle Français de Richmond, receiving the Academic Diploma in French from the Open University in 1977. He was a member of the Whitton Model Club with interests in model aeroplanes, model boats and above all model railways, of which he had an encyclopaedic knowledge.
He received the Class A International Licence in Amateur Radio in 1980 and a certificate from the British Model Flying Association in 2003.
In 2002, Alan married Dorothy Goodsir, whom he met when he was Legal Affairs Manager and who had worked alongside him in his practice in the 1960s. She survives him, as do his children Beverly, Bryan and Andrew, his seven grandchildren and one great grandson.<br/>Resource Identifier RCS: E010319<br/>Collection Plarr's Lives of the Fellows<br/>Format Obituary<br/>Format Asset<br/>First Title value, for Searching Rowe, Adrian Harold Redfern (1925 - 2019)ent://SD_ASSET/0/SD_ASSET:3867932024-05-05T05:25:07Z2024-05-05T05:25:07Zby Stephen Challacombe<br/>Publication Date 2023-07-04<br/>Asset Path Root/Lives of the Fellows/E010000-E010999/E010200-E010299<br/>Occupation Specialist in conservative dental surgery Dental surgeon<br/>Details Professor Adrian Harold Redfern Rowe, generally known as ‘Jack’, decided to be a dental surgeon at age five and never changed his mind. He was greatly influenced by his father, who was in practice, and a dentist with whom he lived as an evacuee during the early part of the war. He started at Guy’s in 1943, took 2nd MB in 1945 (despite being interrupted by V1 flying bombs and temporarily living in an air raid shelter) and obtained the BDS in 1948. Appointed house surgeon to Kelsey Fry (later Sir), he was called up for national service, preventing completion of the rest of the MB. He served 18 months in the Royal Army Dental Corps in Egypt’s canal zone, and in Libya in a mobile dental truck.
Professor Rowe then went into practice with David Robinson, worked part-time at Guy’s and ran the equivalent of a full-time practice. He passed the FDS exam in 1954 and in 1962 was appointed senior lecturer in the conservation department at Guy’s, being awarded the MDS degree of the university in 1965. He was a pioneer in the area of endodontology, and in 1967 he was appointed reader and head of the department of conservative dental surgery and promoted to professor in 1971. There were many highlights in his career, including designing the new conservation department for the tower and moving from the old building in 1975.
During the following years he was involved with: the Medical Defence Union, the medical sub-committee of the University Grants Committee, the Board of Faculty of Dental Surgery of the Royal College of Surgeons, the University of London Board of Studies in Dentistry as Chairman, Senator of the University of London (representing dentistry), the Endodontic Society, the British Society for Restorative Dentistry, external examining in dental surgery in many major UK universities and also across Africa and Asia.
He was elected Dean of the Dental School in 1985, on the day that Guy’s merged with the Royal Dental Hospital of London School of Dental Surgery. He always gave the impression of enjoying his work at Guy's and the company of his colleagues; as he noted: ‘I had the great privilege to work with many distinguished colleagues, including Tony Naylor, Nick Vale, Stephen Challacombe, Tom Pitt Ford and Richard Johns, to mention just a few’. In 1993, he was awarded the Collyer Gold Medal by the College of Surgeons for distinguished services to dentistry.
Professor Rowe will be sorely missed by all of us who knew and worked alongside him at King’s. His greatest legacy may well be the generations of students that he inspired and for which he was a role model. He passed away aged 93 on 22 May 2019 in QEQM Hospital, Margate after a short illness. He leaves his wife Pat and three sons.<br/>Resource Identifier RCS: E010273<br/>Collection Plarr's Lives of the Fellows<br/>Format Obituary<br/>Format Asset<br/>First Title value, for Searching Vero, Dennis (1921 - 2018)ent://SD_ASSET/0/SD_ASSET:3868212024-05-05T05:25:07Z2024-05-05T05:25:07Zby R A Dendy<br/>Publication Date 2023-07-05<br/>Asset Path Root/Lives of the Fellows/E010000-E010999/E010200-E010299<br/>Occupation Oral surgeon Oral and maxillofacial surgeon, Dental surgeon<br/>Details Johnny died on 23 January 2018 aged 96 years. He was born in Leeds in 1921. At 14 he was apprenticed as a dental mechanic (technician). During this time he cycled from Leeds to Bradford to attend night school in order to gain further qualifications. At 19 he was called up into the RAF. Because of his qualifications in physics he was sent to work under the direction of Robert Watson-Watt, pioneer of radar. He was a junior assistant to M G Scroggie and worked on the network of radio masts around the south and east coasts of Britain. He was trained in servicing the new mobile radar units, armoured vans engaged in advanced direction finding. After D-Day his unit followed the front line, sometimes into enemy territory to guide the bombers onto their targets. He had to identify and change the radio valves when they blew. He was invited into the Buchenwald concentration camp by the US troops who liberated it as a witness to the atrocities.
After the war he applied to Leeds Dental School to do the LDSRCS course as this was more widely recognised than the BDS at the time. After working in general dental practice he commenced training in dental surgery (later oral surgery and then oral and maxillofacial surgery). He did a number of oral surgery jobs most notably with Alan Moule in Manchester. He subsequently obtained the FDSRCS (Eng) qualification. In 1960 he was appointed a Senior Hospital Dental Officer in Preston under Eric Cooper, who had been the dentist in Colditz. He was subsequently promoted to consultant a few years later. This enabled the splitting of the very large patch, with Eric Cooper covering Lancaster, Kendal and Barrow, leaving Johnny to cover Preston, Chorley and Blackpool.
He was very innovative in his work, when the discipline of oral and maxillofacial surgery was just starting in the early days of the NHS. He pioneered orthognathic surgery with his orthodontic colleague Donald Timms. In particular, he developed a technique for surgically-assisted rapid maxillary expansion. He was also the first postgraduate dental tutor out in the region arranging Section 63 courses for general dental practitioners. He was always very helpful and supportive to his colleagues. He retired in 1984. Among other things he was a keen and intrepid sailor and talented artist. He was married to his theatre sister, Audrey, who predeceased him.<br/>Resource Identifier RCS: E010294<br/>Collection Plarr's Lives of the Fellows<br/>Format Obituary<br/>Format Asset<br/>First Title value, for Searching Stephenson, John Christopher (1929 - 2020)ent://SD_ASSET/0/SD_ASSET:3867742024-05-05T05:25:07Z2024-05-05T05:25:07Zby Chris Stephens<br/>Publication Date 2023-07-03<br/>Asset Path Root/Lives of the Fellows/E010000-E010999/E010200-E010299<br/>Occupation Dental surgeon<br/>Details It was very fortunate that at the end of the Second World War a local dentist who played golf with Chris’ father suggested that Chris – who enjoyed making model aircraft and seemed to be quite bright – might make a success of dentistry as a career. As a result, he became a pioneering consultant in orthodontics at Bristol, and the south west region and the Dental School went on to gain an outstanding reputation for the treatment of patients with cleft lip and palate.
J C Stephenson was born in Blackburn in 1928 and qualified from Guy’s in 1954. After time in general practice in Woolwich, during which he attended the primary fellowship course at the Royal College of Surgeons of England, he joined the first full time orthodontic postgraduate course at the Eastman Dental Hospital in London, run by Clifford Ballard. He gained his diploma in orthodontics in 1956 and his fellowship of the Faculty of Dental Surgery a year later, after which he applied successfully for the senior registrar post at the Bristol Dental School, where Bill Nicol was the sole orthodontic consultant. In addition, Bill was responsible for giving orthodontic advice to the School Dental Service and the treatment of babies born with cleft lip and palate who went to the Bristol Children’s Hospital from all over the south west region.
Following a General Dental Council visitation to the Bristol Dental School in 1962, a recommendation was made for an additional orthodontic consultant and Chris was well placed to apply successfully for the new post the following year. The appointment included two days at Bath and two sessions a week teaching Bristol dental undergraduates. In a rearrangement of local services, Chris took over the early dental treatment of cleft patients from Bill Nicol and, as these children went on to cleft repair at the regional plastic surgery unit at Frenchay Hospital, this meant Chris became the unofficial orthodontic consultant there, working closely initially with Denis Bodenham and, after 1969, with his successor Ron Pigott.
Chris’ initial limited accommodation at Bath had been part of the former American Army Hospital and comprised a small surgery with one dental chair, no laboratory and limited X-ray facilities. In the subsequent 30 years, Chris’ efforts resulted in a fully equipped department at the Royal United Hospital (RUH) at Bath, with a linked senior registrar post and a second consultant appointed in 1987. As important, behind the scenes Chris achieved a new orthodontic consultant post at Frenchay, which allowed further development of the cleft lip and palate services there.
Three years after Chris retired UK cleft lip and palate services were reviewed nationally to rationalise treatment, then being carried out at over 250 hospitals. As a result, Bristol became one of eight new national centres, producing occlusal and facial results which match the best in Europe, as well as being a centre for ground-breaking research.
I first met Chris in 1971 when I came to Bristol to take up a junior lectureship in the orthodontic department of the Dental School. At that time some senior consultants still used to arrive with ponderous gravitas at about 10am. Chris used to bound into the department every Tuesday at 8.50, ready to supervise his group of undergraduates with all the cheerful enthusiasm of a new house surgeon.
Two years later, when my senior academic colleague took up a regional consultant post and our senior registrar left to take up a consultant appointment, the Bristol department staff was reduced from five to three, presenting considerable problems in maintaining our service and teaching commitments. At the time there was a national shortage of both senior academic and junior hospital staff and, having advertised unsuccessfully for a new senior registrar for a year, Chris, with typical helpfulness, persuaded Bath to readvertise his unfilled senior registrar post as a registrar. Duly appointed, that individual, now a head of a UK postgraduate orthodontic department, recently wrote: ‘I was registrar at the RUH, a post Chris had set up. It was a great idea, and I learned a huge amount in my two years, which I was able to apply in my later career.’
Chris retired in 1992 to devote himself to his family, garden and vineyard and to gain his amateur radio licence. He died on 11 August 2020 at the age of 91.<br/>Resource Identifier RCS: E010257<br/>Collection Plarr's Lives of the Fellows<br/>Format Obituary<br/>Format Asset<br/>First Title value, for Searching Mumford, James Muir (1923 - 2019)ent://SD_ASSET/0/SD_ASSET:3867852024-05-05T05:25:07Z2024-05-05T05:25:07Zby Robin Mills<br/>Publication Date 2023-07-03<br/>Asset Path Root/Lives of the Fellows/E010000-E010999/E010200-E010299<br/>Occupation Dental surgeon<br/>Details James Muir Mumford, known as ‘Jim’, was professor of operative dental surgery at the University of Liverpool. His career was not only very distinguished but very nearly didn’t happen. He was born on 10 March 1923, the son of James Montgomery Mumford and Elizabeth Mumford née Muir. During the Second World War he lived with his parents and two sisters at 37 Bianca Street in the Bootle area of Liverpool, just a few hundred yards away from the Liverpool docks and large railway sidings. The house next door received a direct hit, which destroyed both it and the Mumford residence. His father, two sisters and a friend who had been staying overnight were all killed outright. Jim and his mother were buried in the rubble but were rescued and survived; they lived at his mother’s cousin’s house for the rest of the war.
After this personal trauma, he was persuaded to enrol at the Liverpool Dental School and was accepted, remaining there for the rest of his career except for a short spell as a surgeon lieutenant in the Royal Navy and a year out in Michigan, USA, where he gained the degree of master of science in conservative dentistry. He passed his FDSRCS examination in December 1950 and it was awarded in 1951.
While he spent the majority of his career in conservative dentistry in Liverpool from 1949, his interests ranged much further than teaching clinical techniques. His research into facial pain led him into collaboration with the neurology department at Walton Hospital and the Pain Relief Foundation, of which he was the only dentally qualified member and undertook the responsibility of being chairman of the scientific committee. He lectured internationally on his research interests.
He was a member of several professional bodies, including being a past president of the British Endodontic Society (from 1970 to 1971) and serving in the International Association for the Study of Pain.
I still have my 1973 first edition textbook copy of *Toothache and related pain* (Edinburgh, Churchill Livingstone) by J M Mumford, published in the year I entered Liverpool Dental School. This work on facial pain was the definitive work on the subject at that time and was translated into several languages.
Jim set very high standards and did not suffer fools gladly. For me he was one of those lecturers that you pretended not to notice when you wanted a clinical procedure stage checked and signed off. Appearing ‘busy’ until a more ‘user friendly’ clinician becomes available is, I suspect, a scenario familiar to generations of clinical students.
I did, however, see another side to him during a final practical exam of a student two years ahead of me. I was the examination patient and had a badly decayed tooth as the result of a misspent youth due to a lamentable lack of preventive advice, i.e. ignorance. The pulp was cariously exposed as opposed to iatrogenically exposed (I hope) by the very nervous final year student during the operation. A decision was made by the student and Jim to extract the offending tooth. The student was shaking as it was a final exam, and I was shaking as my only previous extractions had been performed under a general anaesthetic by my general dental practitioner in the front room of his house. Jim could clearly see everyone was stressed and held my hand and supported my head and was very reassuring and kind. The fact that both trainee surgeon and patient were shaking maybe facilitated the whole removal process!
Jim also served as a senior tutor dealing with the pastoral welfare of students.
Jim’s interests were eclectic, and his standards were high in everything he did. He was a member of the staff golf team and was a regular feature in the staff versus student golf matches. Living ‘around the corner’ from Warrington Golf Club may not have been a coincidence.
Jim met his wife Enid McFarland via a route that may not have been allowed to occur today. A fellow student was treating a patient who made such an impression on him that he engineered it so that he ended up treating her himself and not his colleague! Enid was the patient, and they were married in July 1947. She went on to become professor of organisational behaviour at Manchester Business School.
Jim Mumford died on 27 October 2019 at the age of 96. Predeceased by his wife, he was survived by their two children, Colin and Michèle.<br/>Resource Identifier RCS: E010267<br/>Collection Plarr's Lives of the Fellows<br/>Format Obituary<br/>Format Asset<br/>First Title value, for Searching Bull, George Coulson Robins (1858 - 1952)ent://SD_ASSET/0/SD_ASSET:3771162024-05-05T05:25:07Z2024-05-05T05:25:07Zby Royal College of Surgeons of England<br/>Publication Date 2014-02-03<br/>Unknown<br/>Asset Path Root/Lives of the Fellows/E004000-E004999/E004900-E004999<br/>URL for Files <a href="https://livesonline.rcseng.ac.uk/client/en_GB/search/asset/377116">https://livesonline.rcseng.ac.uk/client/en_GB/search/asset/377116</a>377116<br/>Occupation Dental surgeon General surgeon Pathologist<br/>Details Born on 9 December 1858 second child and only son of George Rhind Bull MRCS and his wife Ann Savage Robins, he was educated at Epsom College and St Mary's Hospital, and after serving as house surgeon at the Kent and Canterbury Hospital and resident pathologist at the General Hospital, Birmingham, he settled in practice at Bedford. He took the Fellowship on the same day as Sir William J Collins, Sir John Bland-Sutton, and R L Knaggs. At the time of his death he was the senior Fellow of the College.
He practised at 5 Cutcliffe Place, Bedford, and served for a time as medical officer to the Reformatory. He qualified as a dentist at the Royal College of Surgeons of Ireland in 1908. He married in 1888 Mary Alice Slaney, who died on 11 January 1936, leaving two sons and a daughter. He died at Bedford on 29 February 1952 aged 93.<br/>Resource Identifier RCS: E004933<br/>Collection Plarr's Lives of the Fellows<br/>Format Obituary<br/>Format Asset<br/>First Title value, for Searching Lamb, Christopher Edmund Manley (1936 - 2019)ent://SD_ASSET/0/SD_ASSET:3850892024-05-05T05:25:07Z2024-05-05T05:25:07Zby Joanna Lamb<br/>Publication Date 2021-10-08 2022-01-07<br/>JPEG Image<br/>Asset Path Root/Lives of the Fellows/E010000-E010999/E010000-E010099<br/>URL for Files <a href="https://livesonline.rcseng.ac.uk/client/en_GB/search/asset/385089">https://livesonline.rcseng.ac.uk/client/en_GB/search/asset/385089</a>385089<br/>Occupation Dental surgeon ENT surgeon<br/>Details Christopher (Chris) Lamb started his professional life as a dentist but, whilst a lecturer at Guy’s Hospital dental school, he realised that he wanted to be the one performing the procedures he was obliged to refer. He subsequently chose to retrain, gaining a medical degree and a dental fellowship and elected to have a career in ENT surgery, becoming a consultant at the Princess Alexandra Hospital in Harlow, Essex and at St Margaret’s Hospital, Epping.
Chris was the only child of Alexander Raymond Lamb, a company director, and Phyllis Lamb née Manley, who was called to the Bar in 1934 and became chair of the Epping Juvenile Bench. He was very close to his family, especially his parents.
After being educated at Repton, Chris claimed that he could have survived Colditz. His long-held hope of a future test-flying jets was dashed when he failed his medical on the grounds of imperfect eyesight. However, whilst sitting in his dentist’s chair, he thought ‘I could do this’! Thus started his long and happy association with Guy’s dental and then medical schools. In 1964, he was awarded a Nuffield Foundation travelling scholarship in tropical medicine that enabled him to spend his three-month elective in Hong Kong. He wrote up this experience in the *Guy’s Hospital Gazette* (2 October 1965).
Having decided on ENT surgery as a career, Chris trained at the Royal National Throat Nose and Ear Hospital and the Institute of Laryngology and Otology where, as a senior registrar, he came under the guidance of Donald Harrison. At that time there was a close link with the University of the West Indies, Kingston, Jamaica where, for a year, Chris was seconded as a consultant working with John Conley, the world-famous American head and neck surgeon. This experience not only gave him a superb training but also fostered in him a lifelong love of the Caribbean and its people.
He then returned to Epping, his home, and Harlow, where he established an ENT service. He was a keen member of the Royal Society of Medicine’s sections of laryngology and otology and the European Academy of Facial Plastic Surgery (he gained a diploma in nasal plastic surgery in 1986).
Chris’s first marriage was in 1965 to Susan Evans. They had two daughters, Sally and Helen. In 1989 he met Joanna Griffiths, a local GP, at Chislehurst Golf Club and they were married the following year. Their daughter Madeleine was born in 1991. None of his children followed in their father’s footsteps.
Whilst at medical school Chris was actively rallying, flying (he featured in Harold Preiskel’s book *Wings of youth*) and playing football. Chris was a devoted golfer, a lover of French wines and a voracious reader, particularly of non-fiction. He was reading a book on quantum physics on the day he suffered from a terminal stroke. He died on 6 December 2019 in the Princess Royal University Hospital, Farnborough Common. He was 83.<br/>Resource Identifier RCS: E010012<br/>Collection Plarr's Lives of the Fellows<br/>Format Obituary<br/>Format Asset<br/>First Title value, for Searching Cowan, Adrian William David (1919 - 1996)ent://SD_ASSET/0/SD_ASSET:3871902024-05-05T05:25:07Z2024-05-05T05:25:07Zby Sarah Gillam<br/>Publication Date 2023-08-17<br/>Asset Path Root/Lives of the Fellows/E010000-E010999/E010400-E010499<br/>Occupation Dental surgeon Periodontologist Oral surgeon<br/>Details Adrian William David Cowan, known as ‘Eddy’, was chief of the department of periodontology at Dublin Dental Hospital, a consultant oral surgeon in the city, and dean of the faculty of dental surgery at the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland.
He was born on 26 August 1919 in Dublin, into an Orthodox Jewish family. His father, Alfred (‘Abe’) Cowan, was a dentist; his mother was Elizabeth (‘Lib’) Cowan née Nurock. The family name Cohen had been changed to Cowan in the early 1900s by Abe and his brothers. Cowan attended St Andrew’s College and Sandford Park School, both in Dublin, and in 1936 went on to study at Trinity College Dublin. He gained a BA in 1939, his BDentSc in 1941 and qualified as a doctor in 1943, winning prizes along the way.
Cowan joined his father’s dental practice at 19 Harcourt Street, Dublin. He gained the FDSRCS in 1950 – one of the first dental surgeons in Ireland to do so – and developed a large dental practice. He was a visiting dental surgeon and chief of the department of periodontology at Dublin Dental Hospital and a consultant oral surgeon at Royal City of Dublin Hospital, the National Children’s Hospital and Mercer’s Hospital, Dublin.
He carried out clinical dental research, particularly on local anaesthesia, wrote more than 40 publications, made films and lectured and gave demonstrations and seminars throughout the world.
He taught part-time at the Incorporated Dental Hospital of Ireland and was a lecturer and examiner in dental surgery at the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland (RCSI) from 1951 to 1963. At the RCSI he was a founding fellow of the faculty of dentistry (in 1963), the first vice dean (1963 to 1966) and second dean (1966 to 1969).
He was president of the odontological section of the Royal Academy of Medicine in Ireland (from 1957 to 1959) and also a fellow, and was president of the Irish Dental Association (from 1977 to 1978).
He was on the list of honour of the Fédération Dentaire Internationale (FDI), the first Irishman to be so honoured, and became a member, then vice chairman and finally chairman of the FDI's commission on dental education (from 1964 to 1970). He was a fellow of the American College of Dentists, the British Association of Oral Surgeons and the International College of Dentists, a member of the Pierre Fauchard Academy, which recognises leaders in the dental profession, and an honorary member of the American Dental Association and the International Association of Dental Research.
He enjoyed music, art, travel, playing golf and being with his family. In 1943 he married Phyllis Boland. They had four children. Pam, Gillian (Gilly), David and Peter. Peter also became a dental surgeon and followed his father as dean of the faculty of dentistry, Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland. Sadly, Cowan suffered from Parkinson’s Disease during his final years. He died on 18 November 1996 at the age of 77.
The Adrian Cowan medal was established by the Cowan family in his memory and is awarded to the best fourth year undergraduate student in the Dublin Dental School.<br/>Resource Identifier RCS: E010451<br/>Collection Plarr's Lives of the Fellows<br/>Format Obituary<br/>Format Asset<br/>First Title value, for Searching Stobie, Harry (1882 - 1948)ent://SD_ASSET/0/SD_ASSET:3768302024-05-05T05:25:07Z2024-05-05T05:25:07Zby Royal College of Surgeons of England<br/>Publication Date 2013-11-13<br/>Unknown<br/>Asset Path Root/Lives of the Fellows/E004000-E004999/E004600-E004699<br/>URL for Files <a href="https://livesonline.rcseng.ac.uk/client/en_GB/search/asset/376830">https://livesonline.rcseng.ac.uk/client/en_GB/search/asset/376830</a>376830<br/>Occupation Dental surgeon<br/>Details 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 assistant surgeon at the Royal Dental Hospital, where he had studied dentistry. During the war of 1914-18 he served as a surgeon specialist under Sir Frank Colyer at the Croydon War Hospital for Injuries of the Jaws. He became dean and lecturer at the Royal Dental Hospital College in 1920, was elected surgeon in 1930, and from 1932 to 1936 was postgraduate instructor in oral surgery. He was appointed the first University of London professor of dental surgery and pathology, with a chair at the Royal Dental Hospital, in 1939. He examined in dentistry for the Universities of Birmingham, Bristol, Durham, Leeds, and London. During the second world war he was consulting dental surgeon to the Army with the rank of brigadier.
Stobie was a vice-president of the Medical Protection Society, and served as president of the Metropolitan branch of the British Dental Association and of the section of odontology at the Royal Society of Medicine. He was elected FRCS, as a member of 20 years' standing, in 1945, and was among the foundation Fellows of the new Faculty of Dental Surgery at the College in 1947. Stobie married in 1912 Emmeline Mary, daughter of F M Guanziroli. Mrs Stobie survived him with two sons, one of whom qualified LDS in 1940. He died at 11 Mulgrave Road, Sutton, Surrey, on 27 April 1948, aged 65. He was buried at Sutton cemetery, and a memorial service was held at St Martin's-in-the-Fields on 6 May 1948.<br/>Resource Identifier RCS: E004647<br/>Collection Plarr's Lives of the Fellows<br/>Format Obituary<br/>Format Asset<br/>First Title value, for Searching Nasmyth, Alexander ( - 1848)ent://SD_ASSET/0/SD_ASSET:3749732024-05-05T05:25:07Z2024-05-05T05:25:07Zby Royal College of Surgeons of England<br/>Publication Date 2012-08-29<br/>Unknown<br/>Asset Path Root/Lives of the Fellows/E002000-E002999/E002700-E002799<br/>URL for Files <a href="https://livesonline.rcseng.ac.uk/client/en_GB/search/asset/374973">https://livesonline.rcseng.ac.uk/client/en_GB/search/asset/374973</a>374973<br/>Occupation Anatomist Dental surgeon<br/>Details Alexander Nasmyth came of the Scottish family of that name. He practised latterly at 13A George Street, Hanover Square, W, and was well known as an anatomist and surgeon-dentist. He made valuable donations to the Royal College of Surgeons Museum, and is included in Richard Owen's "Lists of Donors of Specimens presented to the Museum, 1832-1856". The membrane covering the enamel of an unworn tooth is named after him 'Nasmyth's membrane', and his work on the anatomy of the teeth was of high importance. Nasmyth worked harmoniously with Edwin Saunders (qv) in connection with the dental treatment of cleft palate. He became paralysed in the spring of 1846, when Saunders undertook his practice at an hour's notice and carried it on successfully.
At the time of his death he was Surgeon-Dentist to the Queen and the Prince Consort, and Member of the Linnean, Royal Medico-Chirurgical, Zoological, Microscopical, and Ethnological Societies. Whilst practising at 13A George Street, Hanover Square, he had a house at Great Malvern, where he died on August 4th, 1848. His lithograph portrait is in the College Collection.
Publications:
Nasmyth contributed many valuable papers to the *Edin Med and Surg Jour* between 1830 and 1840.
*Researches on the Development, Structure and Diseases of the Teeth*, 8vo, 7 plates, London, 1839. There is an historical introduction republished at Baltimore by the American Society of Dental Surgeons, 8vo, 1842.
A continuation of the preceding, 8vo, 10 plates, London, 1849. (This is posthumous.)
"Report of a Paper on the Cellular Structure of the Ivory, Enamel and Pulp of the Teeth, as well as of the Epithelium," 8vo, London, 1839; reprinted from *Brit Assoc Rep*.
"On the Structure, Physiology and Pathology of the Persistent Capsular Investments and Pulp of the Tooth." - *Med-Chir Trans*, 1839, xxii, 310; and other papers to the Royal Medico-Chirurgical Society.
*Three Memoirs on the Development and Structure of the Teeth and Epithelium*, 9 plates, London, 1841.
In the College Library are the Appendix in MS to the *Researches on the Teeth*, also the original sketches for plates illustrating "Cellular Structure of the Teeth".
Nasmyth contributed papers to the Geological and Ethnological Societies on the teeth and subjects connected with them. To the Institut de Paris he contributed "Memoir on the Cellular Structure of the Teeth and Epithelium", and he was Lecturer to the Royal Institution on "The Structure of Recent and Fossil Teeth".<br/>Resource Identifier RCS: E002790<br/>Collection Plarr's Lives of the Fellows<br/>Format Obituary<br/>Format Asset<br/>First Title value, for Searching Emslie, Ronald Douglas (1915 - 2002)ent://SD_ASSET/0/SD_ASSET:3870952024-05-05T05:25:07Z2024-05-05T05:25:07Zby M N N<br/>Publication Date 2023-08-10<br/>Asset Path Root/Lives of the Fellows/E010000-E010999/E010400-E010499<br/>Occupation Dental surgeon<br/>Details Professor Ronald Emslie who died on 31st May, was born on the 9th March 1915 of Scottish parents. Although born south of the border, throughout his life, he remained very proud of his ancestry. He was educated at Felsted School after which he first embarked upon actuarial training which he came to dislike so much that after three years he left the City, crossed London Bridge and entered Guy’s Hospital Dental School. He graduated BDS of the University of London in 1943 and after 6 months as a house surgeon was commissioned in the dental branch of the Royal Navy and appointed to the British Naval Base in Haifa. In 1946, he returned to civilian life dividing his time between teaching at Guy’s and practice in the West End.
He soon became a full time lecturer in the department of preventive dentistry which had recently been established at Guy's with funding provided by the late Lord Nuffield. This led, in 1948, to a one year research fellowship at the University of Illinois in Chicago where he established his life-long interest in periodontology. However, he always claimed that the jewel of his year in Chicago was meeting Dorothy Dennis, a farmer’s daughter from the Middle West whom, in 1951, he married.
Returning to Guy’s he was appointed head of the department of preventive dentistry, a post he held until his retirement in 1980. In 1961, under the auspices of the Nuffield Foundation, he visited Nigeria for four months to carry out a detailed study of the gangrenous facial disease, *Cancrum Oris*, which was prevalent there. His report proved of immeasurable value in the management of this seriously disfiguring condition. In 1956, he was appointed as Reader in preventive dentistry and in 1962 he was promoted to ‘Personal Chair’, the title of which in 1970 was expanded to include periodontology. In 1968, Ron Emslie was appointed Dean of dental studies, the first full-time academic to hold the position, which he held until his retirement in 1980. Amongst his major tasks as Dean was the transfer in 1973 of the dental school from the obsolete 19th century building into the newly completed Guy’s Tower. In addition to his duties at Guy’s, for 10 years he served as scientific editor of the *BDJ*, member and for several years was the chairman of the Dental Health Committee of the BDA, chairman of the Fluoridation Society, president of the Odontological Section of the RSM, membership of several FDI Commissions, of the Board of Faculty of Dental Surgery of the Royal College of Surgeons – Vice Dean 1976/77 – and civil consultant in periodontology to the Royal Navy. For his services to the profession, he was elected an Honorary Life Member of the BDA, a fellow of UMDS and recently a fellow of King’s College.
Ronald Emslie was blessed with a quiet, patient and equable temperament, and a dry sense of humour; he was modest almost to a fault concerning his own achievements. He had an extremely clear and concise mind, was never in a hurry and always available to discuss problems. He had many interests beyond his work most of which centred around his home and family. In his youth he was an accomplished hockey and squash player and he continued to play tennis until he was well into his 80’s. He greatly enjoyed sailing and regularly took his catamaran on the top of his VW camping van for family holidays in the South of France.
In his retirement he revived his youthful interest in Austin 7 cars and completed several successful restorations. His many friends and professional colleagues will wish to extend deepest sympathy to his wife Dot, his sons, Douglas, Robbie and Dennis and his grandchildren.<br/>Resource Identifier RCS: E010408<br/>Collection Plarr's Lives of the Fellows<br/>Format Obituary<br/>Format Asset<br/>First Title value, for Searching Rogers, Arnold (1798 - 1870)ent://SD_ASSET/0/SD_ASSET:3753182024-05-05T05:25:07Z2024-05-05T05:25:07Zby Royal College of Surgeons of England<br/>Publication Date 2012-11-14<br/>Unknown<br/>Asset Path Root/Lives of the Fellows/E003000-E003999/E003100-E003199<br/>URL for Files <a href="https://livesonline.rcseng.ac.uk/client/en_GB/search/asset/375318">https://livesonline.rcseng.ac.uk/client/en_GB/search/asset/375318</a>375318<br/>Occupation Dental surgeon<br/>Details Born at Martley, Worcestershire; was apprenticed to a chemist in Worcester, and served with Messrs Allen & Hanburys, the chemists, in Plough Court, EC. He afterwards started in business for himself in Cheapside, but soon began to study medicine at St Bartholomew's Hospital, and was admitted MRCS in 1830. He began to practise as a dentist in Regent Street before he obtained his diploma; he was appointed Dental Surgeon to St Bartholomew's Hospital in 1837. He served as an Examiner on the Dental Board of the Royal College of Surgeons of England from 1860-1865 and was elected FRCS in 1853. He took an active part in the formation of the Odontological Society, contributing the first paper read before the members in 1857, was elected the third President in 1859, and undertook the duties of Hon Treasurer from 1861-1867. He was also one of the founders and early supporters of the Dental Hospital and London School of Dental Surgery. He practised successfully at 26 Hanover Square, and died there on March 18th, 1870.
Rogers was one of the leaders amongst the band of men who converted dentistry into a profession in England (*see* Tomes, Sir John). A testimonial presented to him in 1867, which was signed individually by every member a the Odontological Society, states that - "In the course of a long life spent in the arduous and toilsome duties of your profession you have gained for yourself a character of no ordinary kind - a reputation for extreme courtesy and kindness by your patients, and a reputation for urbanity and extreme ability by your professional brethren, who alone can be considered competent judges of this last qualification."
An engraved portrait by Cochran after a photograph, and a Woodbury type photograph, are in the College Collection. There is a three-quarter-length oil painting, sitting left, in the possession of the Royal Society of Medicine.<br/>Resource Identifier RCS: E003135<br/>Collection Plarr's Lives of the Fellows<br/>Format Obituary<br/>Format Asset<br/>First Title value, for Searching Strickland, Harold Foster (1884 - 1959)ent://SD_ASSET/0/SD_ASSET:3777672024-05-05T05:25:07Z2024-05-05T05:25:07Zby Royal College of Surgeons of England<br/>Publication Date 2014-06-25 2014-10-24<br/>Unknown<br/>Asset Path Root/Lives of the Fellows/E005000-E005999/E005500-E005599<br/>URL for Files <a href="https://livesonline.rcseng.ac.uk/client/en_GB/search/asset/377767">https://livesonline.rcseng.ac.uk/client/en_GB/search/asset/377767</a>377767<br/>Occupation Dental surgeon Orthopaedic surgeon<br/>Details This obituary appeared in volume four:
Born in 1884 he received his medical education at Charing Cross Hospital, where after qualifying he was appointed house surgeon, and then became a house surgeon at the Royal National Orthopaedic Hospital. At one time resident medical officer at the Hampstead General Hospital, during the war of 1914-18 he served as a temporary Major RAMC from 1916. In 1922 he was in general practice with Dr P Hope Murray at Beckenham, having been honorary surgeon to the Marylebone Dispensary.
In 1934 his address was 37 Walbrook, EC4, with a country home at The Market House, Sawbridgeworth; and latterly he acted as a limb surgeon at Queen Mary's Hospital, Roehampton. He died at Sawbridgeworth, Herts on 12 December 1959.
The following obituary appeared in volume five:
Harold Foster Strickland studied at Charing Cross Hospital and qualified with the Conjoint Board Diploma in 1905. He held posts as house surgeon at Charing Cross Hospital, and also at the Royal National Orthopaedic Hospital and passed the FRCS examination in 1912. During the first world war he was a Captain in the RAMC and worked as a specialist in limb surgery at Queen Mary's Hospital, Roehampton. He was promoted later to Temporary Major, RAMC.
Strickland practised in London, and as he took the LDSRCS in 1929 he must have switched his interest to dental surgery. Later he went to live at Singleborough in Buckinghamshire, but finally moved to Pulborough in Sussex. He died on 12 December 1959.<br/>Resource Identifier RCS: E005584<br/>Collection Plarr's Lives of the Fellows<br/>Format Obituary<br/>Format Asset<br/>First Title value, for Searching Paterson, William Bromfield (1861 - 1924)ent://SD_ASSET/0/SD_ASSET:3750932024-05-05T05:25:07Z2024-05-05T05:25:07Zby Royal College of Surgeons of England<br/>Publication Date 2012-09-26<br/>Unknown<br/>Asset Path Root/Lives of the Fellows/E002000-E002999/E002900-E002999<br/>URL for Files <a href="https://livesonline.rcseng.ac.uk/client/en_GB/search/asset/375093">https://livesonline.rcseng.ac.uk/client/en_GB/search/asset/375093</a>375093<br/>Occupation Dental surgeon General surgeon<br/>Details Born on February 20th, 1861, the son of William Paterson, of Ridge Stockland, Devonshire, a dentist who practised in Fleet Street, London. He was educated at Merchant Taylors' School from Apri1, 1875, to 1877, and then at St Bartholomew's Hospital and the Royal Dental Hospital. He was elected Dental Surgeon to St Bartholomew's Hospital on December 11th, 1884. Such was his ability and attention to the study of surgery that he qualified in general surgery by taking the FRCS examination, which early marked him as a leader of the dental profession during a special period of its development. Hence he represented the profession on many committees, meetings of societies, and congresses.
He was Surgeon and Lecturer on Dental Surgery and Pathology at the Royal Dental Hospital; Examiner in Dental Surgery at the Royal College of Surgeons; Dental Adviser and Examiner to the RAMC. He was President of the British Dental Association, 1911-1912; Hon President of the International Dental Association; President of the Odontological Section of the Royal Society of Medicine; an honorary member of the École Dentaire de Paris, of the Société d'Odontologie de Paris, and of the Association Général des Dentistes de France; President of the Organization and Vice-President of the International Dental Congress, 1914.
Paterson filled admirably the position as representative of the profession; much travelled, a humorous personality, fond of anecdote, an ardent fisherman, he had reached the age for retiring from his practice at 7a Manchester Square, when he died suddenly on a holiday at Buncrana, Co Donegal, on September 2nd, 1924. He was survived by his wife and only child, a son, then in India.<br/>Resource Identifier RCS: E002910<br/>Collection Plarr's Lives of the Fellows<br/>Format Obituary<br/>Format Asset<br/>First Title value, for Searching Wilkinson, Frank Clare (1889 - 1979)ent://SD_ASSET/0/SD_ASSET:3792262024-05-05T05:25:07Z2024-05-05T05:25:07Zby Royal College of Surgeons of England<br/>Publication Date 2015-04-13<br/>Unknown<br/>Asset Path Root/Lives of the Fellows/E007000-E007999/E007000-E007099<br/>URL for Files <a href="https://livesonline.rcseng.ac.uk/client/en_GB/search/asset/379226">https://livesonline.rcseng.ac.uk/client/en_GB/search/asset/379226</a>379226<br/>Occupation Dental surgeon Maxillofacial surgeon<br/>Details 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. He was house surgeon to Blair Bell and Robert Jones in 1914, before serving in the RAMC as a Captain in the Liverpool Merchants' Mobile Hospital (1915-18). After the war he became dental tutor at Liverpool University and later travelled abroad to become the first Professor of Dental Science in Melbourne. In 1933 he returned to England to become the first Professor of Dental Surgery in Manchester where he remained until 1939 when he was made Director of the Maxillo-Facial and Plastic Unit at the EMS Hospital at Baguley. He returned to Manchester for a short time until his final appointment as the first Professor of Dental Surgery at the Postgraduate Dental School in London where he remained until 1959.
He held many other appointments and served on the Dental Committee of the Medical Research Council, the University Grants Committee and became Chairman of the Education Committee of the General Dental Council. He was an active member of the Faculty of Dental Surgery at the Royal College of Surgeons and was elected Dean of that Faculty in 1953, when he served on the Council of the College until 1956. In that year he was awarded the CBE and in 1965 he received the Colyer Gold Medal. During his career he wrote many articles in the medical and dental journals. In 1917 he married Miss Tweedie and their daughter became a general practitioner in Christchurch, New Zealand. His favourite sport was yachting. He died on 22 August 1979.<br/>Resource Identifier RCS: E007043<br/>Collection Plarr's Lives of the Fellows<br/>Format Obituary<br/>Format Asset<br/>First Title value, for Searching Hovell, John Herbert (1910 - 1988)ent://SD_ASSET/0/SD_ASSET:3795252024-05-05T05:25:07Z2024-05-05T05:25:07Zby Royal College of Surgeons of England<br/>Publication Date 2015-05-22<br/>Unknown<br/>Asset Path Root/Lives of the Fellows/E007000-E007999/E007300-E007399<br/>URL for Files <a href="https://livesonline.rcseng.ac.uk/client/en_GB/search/asset/379525">https://livesonline.rcseng.ac.uk/client/en_GB/search/asset/379525</a>379525<br/>Occupation Dental surgeon<br/>Details John Hovell was born in Wales in 1910. He was educated in Norwich and at the Royal Dental and Charing Cross Hospitals, becoming LDS in 1931 and MRCS, LRCP in 1934. He was appointed senior house surgeon at the Royal Dental Hospital and he had responsibility for dental in-patients at Charing Cross. He later joined a practice in Harley Street, specialising in orthodontics and oral surgery and he became honorary consultant to the Dental Hospital in 1938, lecturing there in orthodontics, dental anatomy and dental surgery. He joined the Royal Army Dental Corps in 1939 and was posted to No 3 Maxillofacial Surgical Unit in India in 1942, where he gained much experience of facial and dental injuries to servicemen who were casualties from South East Asia Command.
In 1946, he rejoined the Royal Dental Hospital and he was appointed assistant dental surgeon to St Thomas's Hospital. With others, he suggested that the special departments of St Thomas's, the Westminster and St George's Hospitals, including dental surgery, plastic surgery, ophthalmic and neurosurgery, should be housed on one site to form a centre for postgraduate study and research, but this idea never came to fruition. He established an orthodontic department at the Royal Dental Hospital, with Professor Clifford Ballard and John Hooper and postgraduate courses were later arranged. He was a founder member of the British Society for the Study of Orthodontics. He became FDSRCS by election in 1948 and he was appointed Hunterian Professor in 1960, Charles Tomes Lecturer in 1964 and Dean of the Faculty of Dental Surgery at the College in 1974. He became FRCS by election in 1978. He was President of the British Dental Association in 1967 and a founder member of the Oral Surgery Club and of the British Association of Oral Surgeons.
He died on 19 August 1988 aged 78 years.<br/>Resource Identifier RCS: E007342<br/>Collection Plarr's Lives of the Fellows<br/>Format Obituary<br/>Format Asset<br/>First Title value, for Searching Bell, Thomas (1792 - 1880)ent://SD_ASSET/0/SD_ASSET:3758372024-05-05T05:25:07Z2024-05-05T05:25:07Zby Royal College of Surgeons of England<br/>Publication Date 2013-03-06<br/>Unknown<br/>Asset Path Root/Lives of the Fellows/E003000-E003999/E003600-E003699<br/>URL for Files <a href="https://livesonline.rcseng.ac.uk/client/en_GB/search/asset/375837">https://livesonline.rcseng.ac.uk/client/en_GB/search/asset/375837</a>375837<br/>Occupation Dental surgeon Zoologist<br/>Details Born at Poole, Dorsetshire, on October 11th, 1792, the only son of Thomas Bell, a surgeon. He entered Guy's and St Thomas's Hospitals in 1813 and was appointed Dental Surgeon to Guy's Hospital in 1817, holding the post and lecturing on Dental Anatomy until 1861. In 1836 he was appointed Professor of Zoology at King's College, having already lectured on the subject of comparative anatomy at Guy's Hospital. He was elected FRS in 1828 and was one of the Secretaries from 1848-1853. He was for eleven years a Vice-President of the Zoological Society, where he had been one of the originators of the scientific meetings. He was President of the Linnean Society from 1853-1861, and under his guidance the society advanced greatly, and in spite of strong Government opposition became housed in Burlington House. He was also President of the Ray Society from its foundation in 1843 until 1859.
He died at Selborne in Hampshire at The Wakes, which he had bought from Gilbert White's grandniece, on March 13th, 1880.
Bell was a pioneer in raising dentistry to the rank of a profession - work which was continued by Salter and by the Tomes - father and son. His work, *On the Anatomy and Diseases of the Teeth*, published 8vo, London, 1829 (2nd ed, 1835), was largely a compilation from Hunter, Blake, and Fox. He was a very good administrator, and a man of such attractive manners as to gain the confidence of young and old in every class of life. He published a classic edition of White's *Natural History of Selborne* in 1877, with a pleasing memoir of Gilbert White. In his house at Selborne he made a collection of relics and memorials of White, which he was always willing to show to admirers of the naturalist. A fine mezzotint portrait of Bell by Nobel after the painting by Taples is in the College Collection.
Publications:
*History of British Quadrupeds, including the Cetacea*, 8vo, London, 1837; 2nd ed (with R F TOMES and E R ALSTON), 1874.
*History of British Reptiles*, 8vo, London, 1839.
*History of British Stalk-eyed Crustacea*, 8vo, London, 1853.
*Monograph of Testudinata*, 8 parts, fol, London, 1833-42.
*Monograph on Fossil Malacostracous Crustacea*, 4to, London (Palaeontographical Society), 1857-62.
"On Chelonia of the London Clay" in *Fossil Reptilia of London Clay* (with R Owen), 4to, London (Palaeontographical Society), i, 1849-58.
*Catalogue of Crustacea in the British Museum* i, *Leucosiadoe*, 12mo, London, 1855.<br/>Resource Identifier RCS: E003654<br/>Collection Plarr's Lives of the Fellows<br/>Format Obituary<br/>Format Asset<br/>First Title value, for Searching Cocker, Ralph (1908 - 1986)ent://SD_ASSET/0/SD_ASSET:3793712024-05-05T05:25:07Z2024-05-05T05:25:07Zby Royal College of Surgeons of England<br/>Publication Date 2015-05-08<br/>Unknown<br/>Asset Path Root/Lives of the Fellows/E007000-E007999/E007100-E007199<br/>URL for Files <a href="https://livesonline.rcseng.ac.uk/client/en_GB/search/asset/379371">https://livesonline.rcseng.ac.uk/client/en_GB/search/asset/379371</a>379371<br/>Occupation Dental surgeon<br/>Details Ralph Cocker was born on 18 April 1908, the elder son of Frank B. Cocker and Mary, nee Wildman. After early education at William Hulme's Grammar School he entered Victoria University, Manchester, for dental studies. He was awarded the Preston Prize and Medal and qualified as a dental surgeon in 1930. He entered private practice in Sale immediately after qualifying, but in 1933 started to work part time as assistant honorary dental surgeon in Manchester Dental Hospital. In 1936 he returned to his university to study medicine, qualifying as a doctor in 1939 and passing the Conjoint Diploma in the following year. From 1940 to 1945 he was seconded to work in the industrial health service of Imperial Chemical Industries, returning to Manchester after the war as lecturer in periodontia at Manchester University and consultant dental surgeon at Manchester Royal Infirmary.
In 1947 he was appointed consultant dental surgeon and director of the dental department of King's College Hospital as well as being sub-dean of King's College Hospital Medical School and was elected to the Fellowship of the Faculty of Dental Surgery at the time of its foundation. After the introduction of the National Health Service there was a great expansion in the demand for dentists and Professor Cocker stressed to the Ministry of Health the need to expand the provision for dental training by establishing new dental schools. The ensuing programme included the building of a new dental hospital and dental school at King's which opened in 1966.
He served as examiner in dental surgery to the Universities of Manchester, London, Birmingham, Bristol, Sheffield and St Andrew's and was chairman of the Board of Examiners for the statutory examination of the General Dental Council from 1964 to 1973. He was a member of the Board of Dental Faculty at the Royal College of Surgeons from 1955 to 1971 and vice-dean from 1964 to 1965.
He served as examiner for the Final Fellowship in Dental Surgery and as a member of the Standing Dental Advisory Committee of the Department of Health and Social Security from 1963 to 1974 and was a member of the General Dental Council during the same twelve years, during the last four of which he was chairman of the Council's education committee. He was active in the Odontological Section of the Royal Society of Medicine serving as secretary from 1961 to 1963 and vice-president from 1970 to 1973. He was adviser in dental surgery to the Department of Health and Social Security from 1968 to 1974 and temporary adviser to the World Health Organisation from 1970 to 1972. He was awarded the CBE in 1968 and the FRCS by election in 1971. Throughout his life he was a dedicated supporter of the many committees on which he served.
He retired from his hospital and university appointments in 1973 and was elected Professor Emeritus in the University of London and Fellow of King's College Hospital Medical School. His retirement years were spent at his home in Charing, Kent, with his wife, Margaret Jacques, whom he married in 1942. They had one son and two daughters. His outside interests were mountaineering, skiing, ornithology and photography.
He died on 30 July 1986, aged 78, survived by his wife and children.<br/>Resource Identifier RCS: E007188<br/>Collection Plarr's Lives of the Fellows<br/>Format Obituary<br/>Format Asset<br/>First Title value, for Searching Bramley, Sir Paul Anthony (1923 - 2020)ent://SD_ASSET/0/SD_ASSET:3837132024-05-05T05:25:07Z2024-05-05T05:25:07Zby John Williams<br/>Publication Date 2020-08-12 2021-02-18<br/>JPEG Image<br/>Asset Path Root/Lives of the Fellows/E009000-E009999/E009700-E009799<br/>URL for Files <a href="https://livesonline.rcseng.ac.uk/client/en_GB/search/asset/383713">https://livesonline.rcseng.ac.uk/client/en_GB/search/asset/383713</a>383713<br/>Occupation Dental surgeon Oral surgeon<br/>Details Sir Paul Bramley was a professor of dental surgery at the University of Sheffield. He was born in Leicester on 24 May 1923 to Charles Bramley and Constance Bramley née Jordan, the younger of their two sons. His father was a gifted engineering draughtsman; neither of his parents had a medical background. He was educated at Wyggeston Grammar School in Leicester, where his athleticism led to him excelling at rugby.
A committed Christian, he joined the Crusaders’ Christian Union, known today as the Urban Saints. When applying for university, he chose dentistry, thinking it would be an easier option than medicine, but a local dentist, one of the leaders of the Crusader Group, persuaded him to read medicine as well. He went to Birmingham University at the height of the Second World War and found himself involved with others in civil defence. At night, they kept watch and dealt with such hazards as incendiary bombs, firefighting before the bombs did more damage. He also found time to captain the university rugby team and to play for the English Universities.
Once qualified as a dentist, he was called-up to do his National Service in the Royal Army Dental Corps. An early opportunity arose for him to volunteer for secondment to the 224 Parachute Field Ambulance, part of the 6th Airborne Division in Palestine, which he accepted, since he felt this would be a much more exciting way of serving his two years. He had to jump many times, dangling a portable dental chair from his pack. Following this, he was able to return to Birmingham to complete his medical degree, which he had to self-fund by working evenings and weekends in a dental practice.
In 1952, shortly before he qualified as a doctor, he went on a climbing holiday in the Lake District, where he met Morag Boyd, a medical student in Glasgow, who was planning to become a medical missionary for the Church of Scotland. It was not long before they decided to marry. However, Paul had to ask permission from her father, who firstly wanted some questions answered. Was Paul’s income adequate to keep her? ‘No, I’m a medical student.’ Next, did he have good job prospects? ‘No, I am not yet qualified.’ Lastly, did he have a life insurance policy? ‘No, I’m still a reservist attached to the parachute regiment and we are not eligible for life policies.’ They married shortly afterwards and he joined her in running a 100-bedded hospital in a remote area of Kenya, where you never knew what would walk through the door. Equipped with an emergency surgery textbook open on a music stand and one of them reading out the text, they performed everything, including wildly heroic surgery under primitive anaesthesia. It taught both of them self-reliance and the ability to adapt.
After a year, they returned to the UK to start a family and for Paul to complete his specialty training, which he did as a registrar at the unit run by Harold Gillies and Norman Rowe and still housed at its war time emergency facilities in Rooksdown House, Basingstoke. A year later he was appointed to a consultant post in Plymouth, Devon and the Royal Cornwall Infirmary, Truro. The challenge was enormous since there were no facilities west of Bristol, seat belts did not exist, crash helmets were seldom worn, windscreens were only of toughened glass and cattle roamed freely across the unlit and unfenced moors.
Although Plymouth was his main base, together with Truro, he went on in his role as director of oral surgery and orthodontics for the region to oversee units being created in Exeter and Torbay. With such an enormous area to cover it meant his team in Plymouth had to develop self-reliance and were encouraged to get on with whatever they were capable of and prepare the other cases for his return. He was a very capable surgeon and took a lot of trouble to teach his trainees a safe way of coping with a wide range of clinical cases.
With this reputation, it was inevitable that he would be elected to the board of faculty at the Royal College of Surgeons and subsequently to the council, as well as becoming dean of Faculty along the way. His interest in education and training were marked in these College positions and, in 1969, he was tempted by the University of Sheffield to become professor of dental surgery and a consultant to the Trent Regional Health Authority (from 1969 to 1988). His subsequent appointment as dean of the school of clinical dentistry (from 1972 to 1975) saw him fulfilling the true lure of his Sheffield appointment when he oversaw a total rebuilding of the school of clinical dentistry, together with its entire undergraduate curriculum. This was a time of significant change in dental education focused on the Nuffield Foundation’s Inquiry into Dental Education, which he very significantly supported (from 1978 to 1980).
He had served as one of the few clinicians on the Royal Commission on the NHS (1976 to 1979) and for this and his services to dentistry and surgery, he was recognised in 1984 by the award of a knighthood. He also received the prestigious award of the Colyer gold medal from the Faculty of Dental Surgery of the RCS, was national president of the British Dental Association (from 1988 to 1989), and an RCS external examiner to dental professional bodies and to many universities at home and abroad. He received honorary degrees from Birmingham, Sheffield and the Prince of Songkla University in Thailand.
At home in Plymouth, he and Morag had a busy life. They raised their family of three daughters and a son, living in a village near Plymouth and Paul became a lay reader in the Anglican diocese of Winchester. Together they created a Sunday school on a nearby housing estate with no active church life, which grew rapidly to accommodate 300 children with 20 volunteer teachers. He considered this one of the most rewarding experiences in his life as well as the best possible training for a university teacher!
In retirement, his enthusiasm and activity were still apparent, remaining as director of the Medical Protection Society and chairman of Dental Protection Ltd. He was a stalwart member of Hathersage Parish Church and edited a book on retirement (*Doing anything after work? …What about retirement?* Hucklow Publishing, 2010). Sadly, Morag died three years ago, whom he greatly missed. Despite physical handicaps, he lived independently almost until the end and was survived by his four children, 12 grandchildren and 11 great grandchildren. He believed our role in this world was to serve our fellow beings and this is exemplified by all he did.<br/>Resource Identifier RCS: E009760<br/>Collection Plarr's Lives of the Fellows<br/>Format Obituary<br/>Format Asset<br/>First Title value, for Searching Roughton, Edmund Wilkinson (1863 - 1913)ent://SD_ASSET/0/SD_ASSET:3753392024-05-05T05:25:07Z2024-05-05T05:25:07Zby Royal College of Surgeons of England<br/>Publication Date 2012-11-20<br/>Unknown<br/>Asset Path Root/Lives of the Fellows/E003000-E003999/E003100-E003199<br/>URL for Files <a href="https://livesonline.rcseng.ac.uk/client/en_GB/search/asset/375339">https://livesonline.rcseng.ac.uk/client/en_GB/search/asset/375339</a>375339<br/>Occupation Dental surgeon General surgeon<br/>Details Son of a naval officer; studied at St Bartholomew's Hospital, where he had a brilliant career, and gained many honours at the London University. He was successively House Surgeon, Ophthalmic House Surgeon, Resident Midwifery Assistant, and Assistant Demonstrator of Anatomy from 1886-1890, at St Bartholomew's Hospital. In 1890 he was appointed, at St Mary's Hospital, Demonstrator of Anatomy and later Warden of the College, holding the posts for seven years. In the meantime he was elected Assistant Surgeon to the Royal Free Hospital, Lecturer on Surgery at the London School of Medicine for Women, and Surgeon in Charge of the Throat and Ear Department.
A tall, handsome man, he was apt to assume a rather brusque, superior manner, and his temperament did not allow him to subordinate his views to those of his seniors. Hence he lost their support, and when a vacancy occurred for an Assistant Surgeon to St Mary's Hospital he was not elected.
As regards diagnosis and skill as an operator he well maintained his early promise without devoting himself to original research. Whilst a House Surgeon he had added to Cline's side splint a foot-piece to prevent extension of the foot when a Pott's fracture was treated on the side, and this splint was named after him.
He was Visiting Surgeon to the National Dental Hospital, and published some good communications on oral sepsis and cancer of the mouth, as well as a *Text-book of Oral Surgery* (8vo, London, 1898) for the use of dental students. In the Special Throat and Ear Department he operated skilfully on the mastoid antrum and nasal septum. He was Examiner in Elementary Anatomy at the Royal College of Surgeons in 1895.
Nearly a year before his death he found that he was suffering from inoperable intestinal cancer. He retired from 38 Queen Anne Street to Lauderdale Mansions, Marylebone, but continued his hospital work as long as possible, courageously and uncomplainingly facing the end, which occurred on June 10th, 1913. He married but left no children.
His portrait accompanies the obituary notice in the *Lancet* (1913, i, 1685, 1775) by his colleague, Dr Walter Carr, and a biographical notice by A S W appeared in the *St Bartholomew's Hospital Journal* (1912-13, xx, 182).<br/>Resource Identifier RCS: E003156<br/>Collection Plarr's Lives of the Fellows<br/>Format Obituary<br/>Format Asset<br/>First Title value, for Searching Coleman, Alfred (1828 - 1902)ent://SD_ASSET/0/SD_ASSET:3734022024-05-05T05:25:07Z2024-05-05T05:25:07Zby Royal College of Surgeons of England<br/>Publication Date 2011-06-07<br/>Unknown<br/>Asset Path Root/Lives of the Fellows/E001000-E001999/E001200-E001299<br/>URL for Files <a href="https://livesonline.rcseng.ac.uk/client/en_GB/search/asset/373402">https://livesonline.rcseng.ac.uk/client/en_GB/search/asset/373402</a>373402<br/>Occupation Dental surgeon<br/>Details Born at Wandsworth on December 30th, 1828, the son of Robert Coleman and Anna Were his wife. His father came of a Quaker family and was an Underwriter at Lloyd's, being one of the first members of the Corporation of Lloyd's at the Royal Exchange. Alfred Coleman was for a time associated with his father at Lloyd's, but at the age of 29 bound himself apprentice to a surgeon and in due course received his medical education at St Bartholomew's Hospital, where he was elected President of the Abernethian Society. He then determined to practise dentistry, and was one of the first dental surgeons to be admitted a Licentiate in Dental Surgery of the Royal College of Surgeons of England, and the first to pass the FRCS examination.
From 1867-1884 he was Dental Surgeon to St Bartholomew's Hospital and Lecturer on Dental Surgery in the Medical School. He was also Dental Surgeon and Lecturer on Dental Surgery to the Dental Hospital, London, and he acted as an Examiner in Dental Surgery at the Royal College of Surgeons. Failing health caused him to retire to Streatham, and in 1884 he emigrated with his family to New Zealand, where he was appointed Surgeon to the New Zealand Defence Forces and had opportunities of engaging in municipal affairs and the development of the colony. Returning to England in 1890, he renewed his interest in St Bartholomew's Hospital, of which he was elected a Governor, and served from 1894 as an almoner. He was an original member of the Odontological Society, and after serving in all the minor offices was chosen President in 1878; with Dr. Joseph Walker he was the first Editor of the *British Dental Journal*.
He married Fanny Butler in April, 1863, and had a family of two sons and eight daughters. He died at Ealing on Aug 26th, 1902, and his remains were cremated at Woking.
Coleman took a keen interest in anaesthesia. In 1868 he was a member of the committee appointed to inquire into "The Value and Advantages of the Protoxide of Nitrogen as an Anaesthetic in Surgical Operations", and he acted prominently in introducing nitrous oxide into this country. The method of administering this gas through the nose was introduced in 1898, and his apparatus for administering it in this way is preserved in the Museum of the Royal College of Surgeons. He also introduced, as early as 1861, the mouth-opening gag which was re-invented, with very slight acknowledgement, in 1870 by Francis Mason (q.v.) and is commonly called by that name -'Mason's gag'.
Coleman practised at first in Finsbury Square, EC; next, and in partnership with Samuel Cartwright, in Old Burlington Street, W, and afterwards in Savile Row, where he was joined by F Ewbank and J Ackery.
Publications:
*Anaesthesia: considered especially in relation to Operations in Dental Surgery*, 8vo, London, 1862.
*Manual of Dental Surgery and Pathology*, 8vo, illustrated, London, 1881; American ed., 8vo, Philadelphia, 1882; translated into French by Dr. Darin, Paris, 1885.
Various contributions to the Odontological Society, the *Lancet*, the *Brit. Med. Jour.*, and the *Med. Times and Gaz.*
The protoxide of nitrogen papers appear in the *Trans. Odontol. Soc.*, N.S. 31, and v, 11.
"On a Method of Administering Anaesthetics through the Nose." - *Trans. Soc. of Anaesthetists*, 1898, i, 117.
The account of the mouth-opening gag is in the *Med. Times and Gaz.*, 1861, i, 105, and of Mason's gag in the *Monthly Rev. of Dental Surg.*, 1876, August, 144. The original is preserved in the Museum of the Royal College of Surgeons.<br/>Resource Identifier RCS: E001219<br/>Collection Plarr's Lives of the Fellows<br/>Format Obituary<br/>Format Asset<br/>First Title value, for Searching James, William Warwick (1874 - 1965)ent://SD_ASSET/0/SD_ASSET:3780292024-05-05T05:25:07Z2024-05-05T05:25:07Zby Royal College of Surgeons of England<br/>Publication Date 2014-08-18<br/>Unknown<br/>Asset Path Root/Lives of the Fellows/E005000-E005999/E005800-E005899<br/>URL for Files <a href="https://livesonline.rcseng.ac.uk/client/en_GB/search/asset/378029">https://livesonline.rcseng.ac.uk/client/en_GB/search/asset/378029</a>378029<br/>Occupation Dental surgeon Maxillofacial surgeon<br/>Details William Warwick James was born on 20 September 1874 in Wellingborough School, and also had the advantage of making good use of his father's fine library. Having decided to become a dentist he began his training as an apprentice in his native town and then came to London to the Royal Dental and the Middlesex Hospital Schools from which he took the LDS in 1898, and the MRCS, LRCP in 1902. It is a good testimony to his unusual ability that he passed the FRCS Examination in 1905, and was soon elected a dental surgeon to the Royal Dental and to the Middlesex Hospitals, and also to the Hospital for Sick Children, Great Ormond Street.
In spite of being pretty fully occupied in an extensive private practice he managed to find time for research, and made valuable contributions to the study of the odontomes, and to knowledge of the causation of dental caries, and the problems of pyorrhoea alveolaris. In 1922 he was awarded the John Tomes Prize of the Royal College of Surgeons.
During and after the first world war he was a member of the maxillo-facial unit at the 3rd London General Hospital, Wandsworth, and it was in recognition of his skill in the repair of gunshot wounds of the face and jaws that he was appointed OBE. His contributions to this special field were recorded in a book he wrote in collaboration with B W Fickling which was published in 1940.
After his retirement from practice he continued with research which he extended into comparative anatomy, with histological studies of the dentine of a wide range of animals, working both in London and in the University of Birmingham which recognized his outstanding merit by the award of the honorary MCh degree. When the Faculty of Dental Surgery was founded in the Royal College of Surgeons in 1947 he was elected to the Fellowship.
With the object of encouraging research by the younger members of the dental profession he made a generous donation to the School of Dental Surgery of the Royal Dental Hospital in 1960 for research in dental anatomy and an eponymous lectureship was founded in his honour in 1962.
In addition to his great capacity for work he also found time for mountaineering in his younger days and was a member of the Alpine Club. He was fond of music and enjoyed playing the violin, and took a special delight in playing chess and solving chess problems.
In 1903 he married Ada Louise Mary; daughter of L Froude of Calne, Wiltshire, and she died in 1948. They had a family of six sons and a daughter; of his sons two are medical men and one a dental surgeon. Warwick James died at his home in Curry Rivel, Somerset on 14 September 1965, a few days before his 91st birthday.<br/>Resource Identifier RCS: E005846<br/>Collection Plarr's Lives of the Fellows<br/>Format Obituary<br/>Format Asset<br/>First Title value, for Searching Rushton, Martin Amsler (1903 - 1970)ent://SD_ASSET/0/SD_ASSET:3782642024-05-05T05:25:07Z2024-05-05T05:25:07Zby Royal College of Surgeons of England<br/>Publication Date 2014-10-06<br/>Unknown<br/>Asset Path Root/Lives of the Fellows/E006000-E006999/E006000-E006099<br/>URL for Files <a href="https://livesonline.rcseng.ac.uk/client/en_GB/search/asset/378264">https://livesonline.rcseng.ac.uk/client/en_GB/search/asset/378264</a>378264<br/>Occupation Dental surgeon<br/>Details Martin Rushton was born on 29 March 1903, the son of W Rushton, one of the leading dentists of his day; he was educated at Gresham's School, Holt, Caius College, Cambridge, and Guy's Hospital Medical and Dental School.
After qualifying in medicine and dentistry in 1932 he practised in Harley Street and taught part-time at Guy's Dental School until the outbreak of the second world war, when he became chief dental surgeon to the Plastic and Jaw Unit in the Emergency Medical Service at Basingstoke. At that time he was also on the consultant staff of both Guy's and St Thomas's Hospitals which was a rare achievement.
In 1946 he was appointed to the newly created chair of Dental Medicine in the University of London tenable at Guy's Hospital. This was the first chair of its kind and Professor Rushton occupied it with distinction until his retirement in 1966 through ill health.
Rushton's contributions to the advancement of dentistry and dental education since the war were numerous and varied; he was a founder member of the Faculty of Dental Surgery of the Royal College of Surgeons from 1948-64 and from 1959-62 served as its Dean. He was a University of London representative on the General Dental Council and secretary, later chairman, of the Dental Committee of the Medical Research Council. In 1964 he was elected President of the International Association for Dental Research. Among his many honours bestowed on him were the CBE in 1960, the honorary LLD of Toronto University and Queen's University Belfast and the DSc of the University of Wales.
In the field of oral pathology and oral medicine Rushton's contributions were considerable and his postgraduate teaching were greatly appreciated by many dental surgeons, both in this country and abroad, so that his department at Guy's Hospital enjoyed an international reputation. In 1963-64 he was President of the Odontological Section of the Royal Society of Medicine, an office previously held by his father.
Despite his success and influence Rushton remained a man who enjoyed the simple things of life, his garden, art and literature; as an after-dinner speaker he was a master and he never had to resort to cheap humour to hold the attention of his audiences. In 1949 he married Dorothy Whiteside and in his years of failing strength her help was a great source of comfort to him.
He died in Guy's Hospital after a long illness on 16 November 1970 at the age of 67, and was survived by his wife and daughter.<br/>Resource Identifier RCS: E006081<br/>Collection Plarr's Lives of the Fellows<br/>Format Obituary<br/>Format Asset<br/>First Title value, for Searching Dolamore, William Henry (1864 - 1938)ent://SD_ASSET/0/SD_ASSET:3761692024-05-05T05:25:07Z2024-05-05T05:25:07Zby Royal College of Surgeons of England<br/>Publication Date 2013-05-20<br/>Unknown<br/>Asset Path Root/Lives of the Fellows/E003000-E003999/E003900-E003999<br/>URL for Files <a href="https://livesonline.rcseng.ac.uk/client/en_GB/search/asset/376169">https://livesonline.rcseng.ac.uk/client/en_GB/search/asset/376169</a>376169<br/>Occupation Dental surgeon<br/>Details Born in London 11 May 1864, the second child and eldest son of William Dolamore, wine merchant, and Cecilia Elizabeth Cook, his wife, he was educated privately and at Neuwied, Germany. He received his professional training from 1886 at the Dental Hospital in Leicester Square, where he gained the Saunders scholarship in 1888, the first prize in metallurgy, Ash's prize, and the first prize in operative dental surgery. He then studied medicine at St Mary's Hospital, was admitted MRCS in 1892, and was dental surgeon from 13 June 1907 to 10 May 1928. He acted as dental surgeon to the London Hospital 1896-1907 and to the Westminster Hospital, whilst at the Dental Hospital he filled in succession the posts of demonstrator (1891), assistant dental surgeon (1892-1903), medical tutor (1892-97), dental surgeon, lecturer on operative dental surgery (1907-13), dean of the school (1910-20), and consulting surgeon (1923-38). At the British Dental Association he was honorary secretary 1901-08, and president 1915-18. Dental tribunals were appointed in 1918, and in the following year, when the second Dentists Act came into operation, the first Dental Board was established to supervize the administration, education, and morals of the profession. When the Dental Board of the United Kingdom was formed in 1921 Dolamore was appointed a member, and three years later, when his term of office expired, he was re-elected to the Board by the vote of the qualified dentists in England and Wales. He retired from the Board in 1934, after serving for the thirteen years as treasurer. The Privy Council also nominated him an additional member of the General Medical Council under the Dentists Act of 1921. In these positions Dolamore did excellent and stimulating work in raising dentistry to a high level as a profession. He was, too, mainly instrumental in obtaining for the dental profession the right of representation in the government of all universities and institutions of which a dental school was a part. From 1912 to 1922 he was a member of the Board of Dental Examiners at the Royal College of Surgeons of England; he examined also at Liverpool and Leeds. He was president of the odontological section of the Royal Society of Medicine in 1920, and acted as a vice-president of the section of odontology at the London meeting of the British Medical Association in 1910.
Dolamore married Nina Buchanan in November 1893. She survived him with five daughters; their only son was killed in action in Mesopotamia during the war of 1914-18.
He died on 19 April 1938 at 1 Links Road, Ealing, W and was buried in Ealing cemetery. Mrs Dolamore died on 13 December 1944.
Publications:-
Editor of the *British Dental Journal*.
Some observations on the motions of the mandible, with Sir Charles S Tomes. *Trans Odont Soc Lond*. 1901, 33, 167.
Hyperplasia of the pulp. *Brit Dent J*. 1923, 44, 249.
Concerning the misplacement of teeth in relation to the deformities of the dental arches. *Ibid*. 1925, 46, 565.
Inferior retrusion. *Trans Brit Soc Orthodont*. 1923, pp 28-38.<br/>Resource Identifier RCS: E003986<br/>Collection Plarr's Lives of the Fellows<br/>Format Obituary<br/>Format Asset<br/>First Title value, for Searching Badcock, John Henry (1864 - 1953)ent://SD_ASSET/0/SD_ASSET:3770552024-05-05T05:25:07Z2024-05-05T05:25:07Zby Royal College of Surgeons of England<br/>Publication Date 2014-01-15<br/>Unknown<br/>Asset Path Root/Lives of the Fellows/E004000-E004999/E004800-E004899<br/>URL for Files <a href="https://livesonline.rcseng.ac.uk/client/en_GB/search/asset/377055">https://livesonline.rcseng.ac.uk/client/en_GB/search/asset/377055</a>377055<br/>Occupation Dental surgeon<br/>Details Born 7 March 1864, eldest of the ten children of John Badcock, a draper, and Mary Frampton his wife, he was educated at University College School, and was then apprenticed to Percy May MRCS, a dental surgeon. He went on to the London School of Dentistry (now the Royal Dental Hospital), qualified in Dental Surgery in 1887, and after studies at Charing Cross Hospital qualified in medicine in 1890. He practised as a dental surgeon at 140 Harley Street for forty-six years (1890-1936).
Badcock was interested equally in education and in professional affairs. He was appointed assistant dental surgeon at Guy's in 1891, lecturer on operative dentistry in 1893, and dental surgeon in 1894, resigning these posts in 1904. He was also professor of dental surgery at the Royal Army Medical College. During the war of 1914-18 he served at the 1st London General Hospital, working particularly at the repair of jaw injuries of German prisoners of war. He was a notable teacher, and being inventive introduced several advances into current practice, for instance the screw named after him and the use of cohesive gold-filling.
He joined the British Dental Association in 1893, served as Treasurer 1919-24 and was President in 1925; subsequently he acted as chairman of the benevolent fund. He was a foundation member of the British Society for the Study of Orthodontics in 1908, and its first President. He was President of the Section of Odontology in the Royal Society of Medicine in 1917, and of the second International Orthodontic Congress in 1931. At the British Medical Association he was a member of the Ministry of Health committee during 1919-21 and of the Insurance Acts Royal Commission special committee during 1924-27. At the College he was elected a Fellow in 1932 and a foundation Fellow in Dental Surgery in 1947.
Badcock was a man of keen and artistic intellect and formed a notable collection of Chinese and Japanese art. He also enjoyed outdoor life, especially walking, climbing, and boating. He explored the waterways of Holland, Belgium, and France by canoe and yacht, and had sailed in an auxiliary-engined cruiser all about the Thames estuary and the east and south coasts of England. He learned to ski in Norway before the sport became popular and was among the earliest Englishmen who introduced ski-ing into Switzerland. Quiet, gentle, and helpful, he was a great influence for good both personally and in raising the professional status of dentists. After his retirement he lived for many years at Prior's Close, Walsham-le-Willows, Suffolk. He died on 23 September 1953 in a nursing home at Malvern, aged 89. He had married Isabel Edgell in 1904, and was survived by their only daughter.
Publications:
The treatment of the patient. *Brit dent J* 1904, 25, 738.
The degree of asepsis necessary in dental surgery and the most practical means of attaining it. *Ibid* 1906, 27, 433.
Importance of the bite in the study and treatment of malpositions of teeth. *Ibid* p 1109.
Sepsis and prosthesis. *Ibid* 1911, 32, 1069.
Necessity for the correction of malpositions of the teeth as a preventive of dental caries. *Brit med J* 1910, 2, 771.
Dietetic and other causes of irregularities of teeth. *Trans Nat Food Reform Soc* 1920.<br/>Resource Identifier RCS: E004872<br/>Collection Plarr's Lives of the Fellows<br/>Format Obituary<br/>Format Asset<br/>First Title value, for Searching Hankey, George Trevor (1900 - 1987)ent://SD_ASSET/0/SD_ASSET:3794932024-05-05T05:25:07Z2024-05-05T05:25:07Zby Royal College of Surgeons of England<br/>Publication Date 2015-05-18<br/>Unknown<br/>Asset Path Root/Lives of the Fellows/E007000-E007999/E007300-E007399<br/>URL for Files <a href="https://livesonline.rcseng.ac.uk/client/en_GB/search/asset/379493">https://livesonline.rcseng.ac.uk/client/en_GB/search/asset/379493</a>379493<br/>Occupation Dental surgeon<br/>Details George Trevor Hankey was born in London on 15 March 1900, the elder son of Trevor Hankey. After education at Oakham School he served in the final years of the war as a Second Lieutenant in the Royal Horse Artillery from 1917 to 1919. After demobilisation he entered Guy's Hospital Dental School, qualifying in dentistry in 1922 and subsequently in medicine in 1925.
Within three years of attaining his double qualification he had been appointed consultant dental surgeon to St Bartholomew's Hospital which he served until 1965, and the London Hospital which he attended until 1966. He married Norah Coulson in 1933 and one son was born before the outbreak of the second world war when he returned to the Army, as Officer Commanding 141 Field Ambulance, having served in the Territorial Army since 1927. He was mentioned in despatches but was taken prisoner and on his return to England had to face the double tragedy of the deaths of both his wife and his only son during the war years.
He was awarded the OBE in 1945 and in the same year married his deceased wife's elder sister Mary. In the early years after the war he continued to serve in the Territorial Army as Officer Commanding 12th General Hospital and was awarded the Territorial Decoration as well as being appointed a member of the Legion of Merit of the United States of America. He was elected to the Fellowship in Dental Surgery in 1948 and served the College as examiner in dental surgery for the next six years. The University of London appointed him lecturer in oral surgery and he was examiner for the University from 1948 to 1956. He was Charles Tomes Lecturer in 1953, President of the Odontological Section of the Royal Society of Medicine 1957-58 and member of the Board of the Dental Faculty at the Royal College of Surgeons from 1958 to 1973. He was awarded the John Tomes Prize by the College in 1960 and served as Vice-Dean of the Dental Faculty 1966-67. He was also a founder Fellow of the British Association of Oral Surgeons and President from 1963 to 1964. In addition to professional appointments he was a member of the Board of Governors of the London Hospital from 1954 to 1964. In addition to professional appointments he was a member of the Board of Governors of the London Hospital from 1954 to 1963 and of the N E Metropolitan Hospital Board from 1959 to 1962. In 1967 the London Hospital made him Sprawson Lecturer for his contributions to the Hospital.
During his professional life he contributed extensively to dental journals and standard textbooks. A particular interest was disorders of the temporomandibular joint. After retiring from hospital he lived in Oxted, Surrey, and pursued his hobbies of golf and tennis. He also used to sing as a tenor in Gilbert and Sullivan opera with Guy's Choral Society.
He died on 4 January 1987 and is survived by his wife, Mary.<br/>Resource Identifier RCS: E007310<br/>Collection Plarr's Lives of the Fellows<br/>Format Obituary<br/>Format Asset<br/>First Title value, for Searching Fry, Sir William Kelsey (1889 - 1963)ent://SD_ASSET/0/SD_ASSET:3775632024-05-05T05:25:07Z2024-05-05T05:25:07Zby Royal College of Surgeons of England<br/>Publication Date 2014-06-04<br/>Unknown<br/>Asset Path Root/Lives of the Fellows/E005000-E005999/E005300-E005399<br/>URL for Files <a href="https://livesonline.rcseng.ac.uk/client/en_GB/search/asset/377563">https://livesonline.rcseng.ac.uk/client/en_GB/search/asset/377563</a>377563<br/>Occupation Dental surgeon<br/>Details Born on 18 March 1889, son of Edward Fry of Greenwich, he was educated at Hurstpierpoint and Guy's Hospital, qualifying both as a doctor and a dental surgeon.
In the war of 1914-18 he served as a regimental medical officer attached to the Welsh Fusiliers, and landed in France with the 7th Division in October 1914. He was wounded at Festubert in May 1915 but soon rejoined, and remained with the battalion until wounded again on 26 August 1916. During his two years he was present at Neuve Chapelle, Aubers Ridge, Festubert and the Somme. He was steadfastly courageous and his calm, happy temperament carried him through the long period apparently unaffected. Immensely kind and devoted to his battalion, he remained in touch with the survivors of his little band of stretcher bearers. Later in the war he worked with Sir Harold Gilles at Queen Mary's Hospital, Sidcup, pioneering the development of facio-maxillary surgery; his experience provided the substance of his essay on "Treatment of injuries of the jaws" which was awarded the Cartwright prize of the College.
After the war he was appointed to the staff of Guy's, where he was recognised as an outstanding teacher and clinician. During the war of 1939-45 he worked at the Queen Victoria Hospital, East Grinstead, which he made the foremost postgraduate teaching centre. He was also largely responsible for the establishment of a postgraduate dental school at the Eastman Dental Hospital, where he was lecturer in oral surgery. In these war years he acted as consultant in dentistry to the Emergency Medical Service and also to the Royal Air Force. He retired from the staff of Guy's in 1949 but retained his connection with the Eastman Clinic. He was Dean of the Faculty of Dental Surgery in the College 1950-53, a Governor of Guy's, and a member of the S E Metropolitan Health Board.
In his youth he was a hockey player of repute and later a keen golfer, also finding time to devote to his garden, carnations being his favourite flowers.
He married in 1916 Ruby Hannah, second daughter of John Preston, by whom he had a son. He died on 26 October 1963 at Bexhill. A memorial service was held on 20 November at St Clement Danes, the RAF church.<br/>Resource Identifier RCS: E005380<br/>Collection Plarr's Lives of the Fellows<br/>Format Obituary<br/>Format Asset<br/>First Title value, for Searching Bradlaw, Sir Robert Vivian (1905 - 1992)ent://SD_ASSET/0/SD_ASSET:3800202024-05-05T05:25:07Z2024-05-05T05:25:07Zby Royal College of Surgeons of England<br/>Publication Date 2015-09-02<br/>Unknown<br/>Asset Path Root/Lives of the Fellows/E007000-E007999/E007800-E007899<br/>URL for Files <a href="https://livesonline.rcseng.ac.uk/client/en_GB/search/asset/380020">https://livesonline.rcseng.ac.uk/client/en_GB/search/asset/380020</a>380020<br/>Occupation Dental surgeon<br/>Details 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 practice and as a ship's surgeon he held some part time academic appointments at the Royal Dental Hospital and at the National Hospital, Queen's Square. In 1936 he was appointed to the chair of dental surgery at the Dental School of Newcastle upon Tyne, which at that time was located within the University of Durham. In 1960 he became Dean and Director of Studies at the Institute of Dental Surgery, Director of the Eastman Dental Hospital and Professor of Oral Medicine at the University of London, posts which he held until his retirement.
In Newcastle he revolutionised the dental undergraduate curriculum. He was a member of the Dental Board of the United Kingdom (GMC) and the Government's Interdepartmental Committee on Dentistry, which made recommendations for dentistry and its rôle in the new National Health Service. In 1947 he was involved with Webb-Johnson, Wilfred Fish and Kelsey Fry in the activity which led to the establishment of the Faculty of Dental Surgery of the College, becoming its first Dean. He was Hunterian Professor in 1955, and received the Colyer gold medal in the same year and the Honorary gold medal of the College in 1972. He was awarded the CBE in 1950, and was knighted in 1965. He was President of the General Dental Council from 1964 to 1974 and President of the British Dental Association in 1974. He received many international honours, and was made an Honorary Fellow of the Royal Society of Medicine in 1975.
He was a skilled lecturer, and a widely read man with diverse interests including culinary art, 18th century paintings, Chinese and Korean celadon ware, pottery and cultivating orchids. A convivial and considerate host, he was known for his sense of humour. A former colleague recounted how 'he arrived for a meeting at Senate House on the morning his knighthood was announced and, with much glee, told us how in his carriage on the train up to London one avid reader of *The Times* lifted his head to say to his neighbour "look at the people they give knighthoods to these days".
Robert Bradlaw died, unmarried, on 9 February 1992.<br/>Resource Identifier RCS: E007837<br/>Collection Plarr's Lives of the Fellows<br/>Format Obituary<br/>Format Asset<br/>First Title value, for Searching Rayne, John (1932 - 1995)ent://SD_ASSET/0/SD_ASSET:3804652024-05-05T05:25:07Z2024-05-05T05:25:07Zby Royal College of Surgeons of England<br/>Publication Date 2015-10-01 2016-02-12<br/>Unknown<br/>Asset Path Root/Lives of the Fellows/E008000-E008999/E008200-E008299<br/>URL for Files <a href="https://livesonline.rcseng.ac.uk/client/en_GB/search/asset/380465">https://livesonline.rcseng.ac.uk/client/en_GB/search/asset/380465</a>380465<br/>Occupation Dental surgeon<br/>Details John Rayne was born on 18 May 1932, the son of a dentist. He was educated at University College School, London, before graduating from the Royal Dental Hospital School of Dental Surgery in 1955 and, following house officer posts and military service in the RAF Dental Branch, embarked on a career in the hospital service. His training posts were in the Oxford Region, first at Stoke Mandeville Hospital and then in the United Oxford Hospitals. During his training he was engaged in research in the Department of Human Anatomy of Oxford University and attained the D Phil (Oxon), a proper doctorate, not an assumed courtesy title!
His first consultant appointment was to Mount Vernon, Slough and Ashford Hospitals in 1968 but he returned to Oxford, a university city with which he had a great affinity, on the retirement of his former chief, Desmond Hayton-Williams. There in the new John Radcliffe Hospital, together with his fellow consultants, he built up a Unit which has given excellent service to the community and general practitioners.
In 1978 he was elected to the Board of the Faculty of Dental Surgery of the Royal College of Surgeons of England and served for fourteen years, being Vice-Dean in 1985. He represented the Faculty on the Council of the College and, uniquely for a dental surgeon, was elected as a Vice-President of the College from 1991 to 1992, an honour of which he was justifiably proud. He was also awarded the FRCS by election. In 1980 he spent a period as Visiting Professor of Oral Surgery in the University of Singapore. He served his specialty association, the British Association of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgeons, well, with productive periods as both honorary secretary, and as President from 1993 to 1994.
In 1985 he was appointed as a civilian consultant to the RAF. John was an enthusiast for postgraduate education both as a teacher and organiser at local, regional and national levels. He had been for many years the director of Oxford Regional Postgraduate Dental Education and a member of the Conference of Postgraduate Deans/Directors. He was a tall man with a commanding presence which he used to great advantage in the numerous committees and working parties that he was asked to chair, including a spell as Chairman of the Secretary of State's Standing Dental Advisory Committee.
He had been an examiner for the Fellowship of the Faculty of Dental Surgery and several UK and overseas universities. There were many nervous candidates who, being initially fearful of this large man with a haughty countenance, were soon put at ease as his facial expression relaxed and the reassuring twinkle became apparent in his eyes.
During the few years before his untimely death, having dropped some clinical sessions, he took up the appointment as Director of the National Advice Centre for Postgraduate Dental Education, based at the Faculty of Dental Surgery of the Royal College of Surgeons to which he was so devoted. Many overseas colleagues seeking training in this country were given sound advice in a kindly manner and remain grateful for his help.
The recognition of John's talents by his colleagues led to his election to the General Dental Council on two occasions, in 1984 and 1991, and he became Chairman of the Council's Postgraduate Education Committee. His interest in and support for the British Dental Association was constant throughout his career. He was Chairman of the Council of the former Berks, Bucks and Oxon Branch for many years and President from 1979 to 1980. He was elected Vice-President of the successor South Mercia Branch in 1993. Nationally he served on the Representative Board, the Central Committee for Hospital Dental Services, as a Scientific Adviser to the Journal and as President in 1989.
Rowing was his sport. In his younger days he had been a successful oarsman in representative crews for the University of London, Thames Rowing Club and the Royal Air Force. Later he coached crews of various Oxford Colleges and Reading University. He had a great love of the traditional social side of rowing and many friends enjoyed his generous hospitality at Henley Royal Regatta, where he would be immaculately dressed for the Stewards' Enclosure with straw boater bearing the University of London purple and cerise Leander Club socks. Berks, Bucks and Oxon Branch colleagues will remember John and his wife Norma, having traversed the regatta course, arriving by boat at the Leander Club steps for his magnificent Branch President's Summer Ball.
He died peacefully in the early hours of Saturday 21 October 1995 at the early age of 63 years, having been unconscious since an accidental fall whilst gardening on 23 July. He was survived by his wife Norma, whom he had married in 1962, daughter Philippa and son Tim.<br/>Resource Identifier RCS: E008282<br/>Collection Plarr's Lives of the Fellows<br/>Format Obituary<br/>Format Asset<br/>First Title value, for Searching Colyer, Sir James Frank (1866 - 1954)ent://SD_ASSET/0/SD_ASSET:3771522024-05-05T05:25:07Z2024-05-05T05:25:07Zby Royal College of Surgeons of England<br/>Publication Date 2014-02-05<br/>Unknown<br/>Asset Path Root/Lives of the Fellows/E004000-E004999/E004900-E004999<br/>URL for Files <a href="https://livesonline.rcseng.ac.uk/client/en_GB/search/asset/377152">https://livesonline.rcseng.ac.uk/client/en_GB/search/asset/377152</a>377152<br/>Occupation Curator Dental surgeon<br/>Details 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 Dean of its School 1904-09. At Charing Cross Hospital he was elected dental surgeon in 1893. During the first world war he was consulting dental surgeon to Croydon War Hospital, the Queen's Hospital for Facial Injuries at Sidcup, and to the Ministry of Pensions.
He took a prominent part in the work of the British Dental Association, the Odontological Section of the Royal Society of Medicine of which he was president in 1919, and the British Society of Dental Surgeons of which he was the first president in 1932. From 1900 he was honorary curator of the museum of the Odontological Society which was vested in the Royal Society of Medicine and transferred in 1908 from the Royal Dental Hospital to the Royal College of Surgeons. Sir Frank built up this museum during more than fifty years' work and largely at his own cost to be the most comprehensive collection of comparative odontology in the world. On this collection he based his invaluable historical books.
His textbook, first published as *Diseases and Injuries of the Teeth* in collaboration with Morton Smale, was revised with the help of Evelyn Sprawson and ran to eight editions under the title of *Dental Surgery and Pathology*. Colyer was universally respected and loved for his sterling and forthright character, the simplicity with which he carried his great knowledge, and his ever-youthful zest. In younger days he was an active player of ball games and continued to follow them with keen interest. In later years he could not easily accept the changing policy of the College Council who, in his view, put the social life and teaching work of the College too far before the interests of the Hunterian Museum of which he was a Trustee. However he loyally carried on his work as honorary curator, even when his exhibits were partially dismantled.
Colyer was elected a Fellow of the College in 1916 and was created KBE for his war-work in 1920. The Royal Society of Medicine founded a triennial Colyer prize in 1926 to commemorate his first 25 years service to the Museum, and the Faculty of Dental Surgery, whose Fellowship he accepted in 1947, awarded him its first Colyer medal in gold in 1954. He was a vice-president of the section of comparative medicine at the centenary meeting of the British Medical Association in London in 1932, and was elected an honorary member of the British Dental Association.
He married in 1895 Lucy Olivia Simpson who died on 5 September 1950. He died on 30 March 1954, aged 87, survived by his son, Norman Colyer, a house-master at Epsom College, and his daughter Mrs Bilham. His other daughter, Eileen Colyer, a prominent lawn tennis player, had died very young. Sir Frank Colyer's portrait, by Clarence White, was presented by his admirers to the British Dental Association on his eightieth birthday in 1946, and his own replica was given after his death to the Odontological Museum by his son.
Publications:
*Diseases and Injuries of the Teeth*, with Morton Smale 1893; 8th edition (*Dental Surgery and Pathology*, with Evelyn Sprawson) 1942.
*Dental Disease in its relation to general medicine*. 1911
*John Hunter and odontology*. 1913.
*Chronic general periodontitis*. 1916.
*Variations and diseases of the teeth of animals*. 1936.
*Old Instruments for extracting teeth*. 1952.<br/>Resource Identifier RCS: E004969<br/>Collection Plarr's Lives of the Fellows<br/>Format Obituary<br/>Format Asset<br/>First Title value, for Searching Newland-Pedley, Frederick (1855 - 1944)ent://SD_ASSET/0/SD_ASSET:3765672024-05-05T05:25:07Z2024-05-05T05:25:07Zby Royal College of Surgeons of England<br/>Publication Date 2013-09-04<br/>Unknown<br/>Asset Path Root/Lives of the Fellows/E004000-E004999/E004300-E004399<br/>URL for Files <a href="https://livesonline.rcseng.ac.uk/client/en_GB/search/asset/376567">https://livesonline.rcseng.ac.uk/client/en_GB/search/asset/376567</a>376567<br/>Occupation Dental surgeon<br/>Details The son of Percival Robert Pedley, who had practised in London as a dentist but went to Australia with his family for reasons of health. While there he felt it his duty to register in the newly established *Dentists' Register* of 1879. F N Pedley (he later hyphenated his name) was educated at Dulwich College and Guy's Hospital, intending to continue his father's practice as a dentist. He was persuaded by Henry Moon, LDS, dental surgeon to Guy's, to enter the Royal Dental Hospital in Leicester Square, whence he qualified LDS in 1880. From Guy's he qualified MRCS in 1881 and took the Fellowship in 1885. He served as dental surgeon to the Evelina Hospital for Children and the North-West London Hospital. At Guy's he acted as Moon's assistant, and in 1885 he substituted conservative dentistry for the wholesale extraction of teeth in the out-patient department. In 1887 he was appointed dental surgeon; the Hospital Board gave him a special room with five chairs, and he began to run this first special dental department of the hospital at his own expense. He was assisted by R Wynne Rouw, LDS 1885, and their work quickly attracted students, sisters, and nurses, as well as their ordinary out-patients. In May 1888 he placed a draft scheme for a Dental School before the Hospital Board. He was supported by Sir Cooper Perry, MD FRCP, and in October 1889 a room with twelve dental chairs was opened. Newland-Pedley became the first lecturer in dental surgery; he held the dental surgeoncy till 1907, when he resigned and was appointed consulting dental surgeon. His colleagues and students then founded the Newland-Pedley gold medal for practical dentistry, in his honour. He had had among his early assistants, besides Rouw, W A Maggs, J Mansbridge, H Murray, H L Pillen, and G O Richards.
On the outbreak of the South African war Newland-Pedley volunteered to accompany Sir Alfred Fripp to the front as dental surgeon to the Imperial Yeomanry Hospital; seventy-five students volunteered to go with him, but were not allowed to proceed. Pedley had to provide all his own equipment and transport it as personal luggage, including three dental chairs and cylinders containing 5,000 gallons of liquid gas. He did sterling work in very difficult circumstances both as oral and dental surgeon, and acted as his own mechanic. He received the medal for the campaign. On his return to England he put forward a scheme in 1901 for the formation of an Army Dental Service. On the outbreak of the first world war in 1914 he served at Rouen as a volunteer dental surgeon attached No 2 Base Hospital and again proposed the formation of a special Dental Corps, a proposal which led to some controversy in *The Lancet*, but was finally accepted officially.
Newland-Pedley was a member of the Pathological Society and the British Medical Association. He joined the Odontological Society in 1882 and presented many cases before it. He was an original member (1881) of the British Dental Association and was elected an honorary member at its jubilee in 1930. He gave his design of a porcelain crown to Messrs Rutherford, dental manufacturers, in recognition of much help, and they named it after him. He married in 1916 Octavie Gertrude Bernardine Therèse, daughter of Nicolas and Octavie Gathy, of Liège, Belgium; there were no children. Newland-Pedley practised first at 49 Finsbury Square, EC and then at 32 Devonshire Place, W. After retirement he continued to live at 22 Willow Road, Hampstead, NW3, but later settled at Lake Como in North Italy, where he died during the German occupation on 4 May 1944. He was a versatile man, equally able as oral surgeon, dental clinician and mechanic, organizer, and writer, with a high standard of professional duty. His recreation was golf and he twice won the open championship of Belgium. He left the residue of his fortune for scholarships and prizes at Guy's Hospital Dental School.
Publications:
Some points connected with the fracture of the inferior maxilla. *Trans Odont Soc* 1884, 16, 206.
On the pathology of pyorrhoea alveolaris; Rigg's disease. *Ibid* 1887, 20, 142.
Dental surgery in general hospitals. *Guy's Hosp Rep* 1886, 44, 113.
Cocaine in dental practice. *Ibid* 1886, 44, 355.
Two cases of alveolar haemorrhage. *J Brit dent Assoc* 1887, 8, 150.
How to reform the dental departments of our hospitals. *Brit med J* 1888, 1, 741.
Four cases of fractured inferior maxilla. *Ibid* 1889, 1, 583.
Guy's Dental Department. *Lancet*, 1889, 1, 149.
South African experiences. *J Brit dent Assoc* 1901, 22, 106.
Army Dental Corps. *Lancet*, 1914, 2, 1430.<br/>Resource Identifier RCS: E004384<br/>Collection Plarr's Lives of the Fellows<br/>Format Obituary<br/>Format Asset<br/>First Title value, for Searching Fish, Sir Eric Wilfred (1894 - 1974)ent://SD_ASSET/0/SD_ASSET:3786622024-05-05T05:25:07Z2024-05-05T05:25:07Zby Royal College of Surgeons of England<br/>Publication Date 2014-12-01<br/>Unknown<br/>Asset Path Root/Lives of the Fellows/E006000-E006999/E006400-E006499<br/>URL for Files <a href="https://livesonline.rcseng.ac.uk/client/en_GB/search/asset/378662">https://livesonline.rcseng.ac.uk/client/en_GB/search/asset/378662</a>378662<br/>Occupation Dental surgeon<br/>Details Eric Wilfred Fish was born on 30 January 1894, the son of a Methodist Minister. He was educated at Kingswood School, Bath, and his first qualification was in dentistry at Manchester. This was followed by the MB ChB in 1916 and service in the RAMC during the latter two years of the Great War. After an interval in dental practice he took the MD of Manchester University and while in practice at Sevenoaks gained the DSc (London) in 1932 on the strength of research work he had pursued during the previous ten years and which subsequently continued throughout three decades. The histopathology of enamel, dentine, and the dental pulp, the surgical pathology of the mouth and in particular infection in bone, full denture prosthesis, and the aetiology and treatment of periodontal disease were areas of his chief contributions. To all of these he brought experimental innovation, histological techniques of great skill and most of all a penetrating insight which clarified many of the problems of his time and have passed almost intact into basic understanding and practice today.
For Wilfred Fish, by the generosity of a benefactor, the John Hampton Hale Laboratory was established at the Royal Dental Hospital and his work continued in the Meyerstein Research Laboratory at St Mary's Hospital, where in a neighbouring laboratory he came into fruitful contact with Alexander Fleming. At both hospitals he held consultant appointments over many years, taking his share of clinical work, teaching and administration whilst engaged in busy dental practice in the West End of London. But for more than thirty years it was his research work which claimed most of his effort and concentration of thought and provided the subjects for the continuous output of published work which gained for him an international reputation and numerous academic honours. The implications of 'dead tracts' in dentine, of the stabilization of full dentures, of the formation and treatment of periodontal pockets, to mention only a few of his favourite topics, were of immediate practical importance and he applied them daily in his treatment of patients.
After serving some time on the Dental Board of the United Kingdom he was elected Chairman in 1944, and was appointed CBE in 1947. When the board became the General Dental Council in 1956 he assumed its presidency which he held until 1964, thus completing twenty years at the head of the statutory body charged with dental education and maintaining the highest professional standards. Of all his activities the one which gave him the keenest satisfaction was his association with the Nuffield Foundation Fellowship scheme, for here he could use his encyclopaedic knowledge and shrewd foresight to encourage younger workers in various research fields. In the field of international dentistry he was active within the International Dental Federation, holding office as President of its Scientific Commission from 1931 to 1936 and he was President of the International Dental Congress held in London in 1952.
At the Royal College of Surgeons of England he held all the prizes and lectureships open to him. He became a Fellow of the newly-established Faculty of Dental Surgery and Dean of the Faculty in 1958, was later elected to the Fellowship of the College and played an invaluable part in the creation of the Department of Dental Science, of which he became the first director, the last major appointment of his professional life.
It seemed entirely fitting that the conferment of knighthood in 1954 should mark his contribution to the profession. When he retired to a quiet life in Sussex it seemed to many that a gap was left which none could fill.
He married Hilda Russell in 1916 and had one son and a daughter. This marriage ended in divorce and in 1950 he married Myfanwy Hazel Bruce Hodge. He died on 20 July 1974 aged 80 years.<br/>Resource Identifier RCS: E006479<br/>Collection Plarr's Lives of the Fellows<br/>Format Obituary<br/>Format Asset<br/>First Title value, for Searching Ward, Sir Terence George (1906 - 1991)ent://SD_ASSET/0/SD_ASSET:3805472024-05-05T05:25:07Z2024-05-05T05:25:07Zby Royal College of Surgeons of England<br/>Publication Date 2015-10-08<br/>Unknown<br/>Asset Path Root/Lives of the Fellows/E008000-E008999/E008300-E008399<br/>URL for Files <a href="https://livesonline.rcseng.ac.uk/client/en_GB/search/asset/380547">https://livesonline.rcseng.ac.uk/client/en_GB/search/asset/380547</a>380547<br/>Occupation Dental surgeon Maxillofacial surgeon Oral surgeon<br/>Details Terence Ward was born in Dartmouth on 16 January 1906, the son of a school teacher. Shortly afterwards the family moved to Edinburgh, where he was educated at the Royal High School. Wishing to pursue a career in dentistry, but with only limited means, he became apprenticed as a dental mechanic, and was then able to enter Edinburgh University, where he qualified in both medicine and dentistry in 1928.
In 1931 he married Elizabeth (Betty) Wilson, a fellow dental surgeon, and they then moved to Hastings where he practised dentistry for the next nine years, becoming increasingly interested in its surgical aspects.
In 1940 he joined the dental branch of the RAF where he came under the influence of Kelsey Fry, who was also to become his lifelong friend. As a squadron leader at RAF Cosford, working in close collaboration with Archibald McIndoe at the Queen Victoria Hospital, East Grinstead, he became increasingly involved in treating the maxillofacial injuries of aircrew. In 1945 he was appointed head of the maxillofacial unit at East Grinstead and was awarded the MBE (Mil) for his wartime services. In 1948 he was appointed consultant oral and maxillofacial surgeon at the Queen Victoria Hospital, which was to become a centre of excellence for this specialty under his leadership.
He was to achieve a worldwide reputation as surgeon, teacher and administrator, and many aspiring young surgeons from overseas came to his unit to gain experience. He always demanded the highest surgical standards from them and inspired team-work and loyalty in his trainees. He was also an innovative surgeon, designing many of his own instruments, some of which are still used today, and he established a tumour biopsy service and the teratology research unit at Downe in Kent.
As consultant adviser to the Ministry of Health he used his considerable influence in political circles to maintain and advance the training standards and range of maxillofacial surgery, and he played a leading role in the development of hospital dentistry in the NHS. His greatest attribute was perhaps his visionary zeal - he had the ability to see what needed to be done to advance his specialty - and then the determination to achieve that goal.
In 1948 he became a founder fellow of the Faculty of Dental Surgery of the Royal College of Surgeons of England, and later its outstanding dean from 1965 to 1968. In 1962 he was elected the first President of the British Association of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgeons, and in 1970 he became President of the International Association of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgeons.
He served on the Council of the Royal College of Surgeons of England, and received many honours and awards from overseas universities. He was appointed CBE in 1961 and knighted in 1971. These honours, however, never affected his quiet dignity and modesty, and although a forceful personality he remained essentially a private person. Though he drove himself hard, when the day's work was over Ward was a man of mischief and, in the many pastimes he enjoyed, not above a little cheating if necessary. On one occasion he 'borrowed' a mackerel from the local fishmonger in order to bolster his catch in a hospital fishing competition. 'Throw it to me' he told the puzzled vendor, 'I have to say I caught it'.
He retained links with all three armed services, being consultant oral surgeon to the RAF and the Royal Navy, and emeritus surgeon to the army. He established a medical centre at Kaduna for the treatment of facial injuries resulting from the Nigerian civil war.
His first wife Betty died in 1981, and he later married Sheila Lawry, who survived him, together with a son and a daughter from his first marriage. He died aged 85 on 30 September 1991 at Bexhill-on-Sea.<br/>Resource Identifier RCS: E008364<br/>Collection Plarr's Lives of the Fellows<br/>Format Obituary<br/>Format Asset<br/>First Title value, for Searching Saunders, Sir Edwin (1814 - 1901)ent://SD_ASSET/0/SD_ASSET:3752722024-05-05T05:25:07Z2024-05-05T05:25:07Zby Royal College of Surgeons of England<br/>Publication Date 2012-10-31<br/>Unknown<br/>Asset Path Root/Lives of the Fellows/E003000-E003999/E003000-E003099<br/>URL for Files <a href="https://livesonline.rcseng.ac.uk/client/en_GB/search/asset/375272">https://livesonline.rcseng.ac.uk/client/en_GB/search/asset/375272</a>375272<br/>Occupation Dental surgeon<br/>Details The son of Simon Saunders, senior partner in the firm of Saunders & Otley, publishers and librarians, in Brook Street, Grosvenor Square. From an early age he showed great mechanical aptitude, and would have devoted himself to civil engineering, for which, however, there were no good prospects, as canal construction was nearly over and railways had not yet been introduced. Between the ages of 12 and 14 he experimented in the propulsion of vessels by hydraulic power, and he invented a crane for raising great weights, and a sweeping machine for the city thoroughfares by which the refuse was left in an even line at the side of the street, similar to that in use at the present time.
Turning to dentistry as a livelihood, Saunders was articled to Mr Lemaile, a dentist in the Borough. At the end of three years he was so well grounded in dental mechanics as to feel himself qualified to give a course on elementary mechanics, anatomy, and phrenology. Frederick Tyrrell (d 1843), Surgeon to St Thomas's Hospital, happening to attend one of the lectures during the second course, was so struck by the lecturer that he invited him to apply for leave to lecture in the Medical School of St Thomas's Hospital. Permission was granted and Saunders lectured unofficially from 1887-1889, when, having become a member of the College, he was appointed Lecturer on Dental Surgery and held office until 1854. He was also dentist from 1884 to the Blenheim Street Infirmary and Free Dispensary. In conjunction with Mr Harrison and Mr Snell he opened in 1840 a small institution for the treatment of the teeth of the poor. It was the first charity of the kind and lasted about twelve years.
Saunders had always been interested in the economic value of the teeth, and at the very beginning of his practice published a small popular work under the title, *Five Minutes' Advice on the Care of the Teeth* (16mo, London, 1837), setting out the principles of dental hygiene. Charles Wing in 1840 issued his large work on *The Evils of the Factory System,* in which he showed that there was great falsification in the register of the age of employed children, and that measurements of girth, weight, and chest were useless to establish even the approximate age of children. Saunders took the matter in hand, collected extensive tables from personal observation of children between the ages of 9 and 13, and embodied his results in *The Teeth a Test of Age Considered with Reference to Factory Children* (8vo, London, 1837). He followed this up by papers in the *London Medical Gazette* in which he pointed out the characters of the teeth in the first and second dentitions.
Saunders was employed for some time in inventing prosthetic appliances for use in patients with cleft palate, and obtained an introduction to Mr Stearne, of Massachusetts, who was fitted with an unusually effective obturator. He obtained plans of the apparatus and, finding that Alexander Nasmyth (qv) was also working at the dental treatment of cleft palate, joined forces with him. In the spring of 1846 Nasmyth was suddenly incapacitated by a stroke of paralysis, and Saunders, as a friend, undertook his practice at an hour's notice at 13 George Street, Hanover Square, where he remained until he retired to Wimbledon. Saunders, having first ascertained that such an arrangement would not act prejudicially in case Nasmyth recovered, accepted the appointment of Surgeon Dentist to Queen Victoria and the Prince Consort.
In 1856 Saunders, with others, petitioned the Royal College of Surgeons of England to grant a diploma in dental surgery, and was thus amongst the first to maintain that dentistry was a part of medicine and to attempt to make it a profession. It was not until September 8th, 1859, that the College obtained powers to examine candidates and grant a diploma in the dental art.
The Odontological Society was founded in the house of Samuel Cartwright FRS in 1857 to consolidate the new profession still further. Saunders was the first Treasurer, and was President in 1864 and 1879. He was also trustee of the first dental hospital and school established in Soho Square, London, in 1859. The institution prospered, and in 1874 the hospital was opened in Leicester Square, and was handed over to the managing committee free of debt. It became affiliated to the London University as the Royal Dental Hospital of London School of Dental Surgery. Saunders rendered important services to the new hospital, which his colleagues and friends recognized by founding in the school the Saunders scholarship.
Saunders was president of the Dental Section at the International Medical Congress which met in London in 1881; in the same year he was President of the Metropolitan Counties Branch of the British Medical Association; and in 1886 he was President of the British Dental Association.
He was created a knight bachelor in 1883, being the first dentist to receive the honour of knighthood. From 1853 he occupied Fairlawn on Wimbledon Common, died there on March 15th, 1901, and was buried in Putney Vale Cemetery. He married in 1848 Marian, eldest daughter of Edmund William Burgess, with whom he celebrated his golden wedding. His photograph is in the Fellows'Album; there are also a woodcut in the *Medical Circular *and a lithograph by G R Black, dated 1877, at the Royal Society of Medicine.<br/>Resource Identifier RCS: E003089<br/>Collection Plarr's Lives of the Fellows<br/>Format Obituary<br/>Format Asset<br/>First Title value, for Searching Tomes, Sir John (1815 - 1895)ent://SD_ASSET/0/SD_ASSET:3754602024-05-05T05:25:07Z2024-05-05T05:25:07Zby Royal College of Surgeons of England<br/>Publication Date 2012-12-20<br/>Unknown<br/>Asset Path Root/Lives of the Fellows/E003000-E003999/E003200-E003299<br/>URL for Files <a href="https://livesonline.rcseng.ac.uk/client/en_GB/search/asset/375460">https://livesonline.rcseng.ac.uk/client/en_GB/search/asset/375460</a>375460<br/>Occupation Dental surgeon<br/>Details Born on March 21st, 1815, the eldest son of John Tomes and of Sarah his wife, daughter of William Bayliss, of Welford in Gloucestershire. His father's family had lived at Marston Sicca or Long Marston since the reign of Richard II. The house is mentioned in "Boscobel Tracts". It sheltered Charles II after the Battle of Worcester, when Jane Lane, a connection of the Tomes family, assisted in his escape.
John Tomes was born in the neighbouring village of Weston-on-Avon and was articled in 1831 to Thomas Farley Smith, a surgeon at Evesham. He entered the medical schools of King's College and the Middlesex Hospital, then temporarily united, in 1836, and was House Surgeon at the Middlesex Hospital, 1839-1840. Whilst he was House Surgeon he invented the tooth-forceps with jaws accurately adapted to forms of the necks of the teeth, the first of the modern type to supplant the 'key' instrument which had been in ordinary use. During this period, too, he was engaged in the histology of bone and teeth, for he fed a nest of young sparrows and a sucking-pig on madder and examined their bones microscopically. This work brought him to the knowledge of Sir Thomas Watson (1792-1882) and James Moncrieff Arnott (qv), who advised him to adopt dental surgery as his profession. He began to practise at 41 Mortimer Street (now Cavendish Place) in 1840, and on March 3rd, 1845, he took out a patent for a machine to copy in ivory irregular curved surfaces, and for this he was awarded the Gold Medal of the Society of Arts.
In 1845 he delivered a course of lectures at the Middlesex Hospital which marked a new era in dentistry. He was also much occupied with the question of general anaesthesia, and in 1847 administered ether at the Middlesex Hospital for the extraction of teeth as well as for operations in general surgery.
He contributed a series of important papers on 'Bone' and on dental tissues to the *Philosophical Transactions* between 1849 and 1856. The most valuable of these is, perhaps, that upon the structure of dentine, in which he demonstrated the protoplasmic prolongations from the odontoblasts which have since been known as 'Tomes' fibrils'. He was admitted a Fellow of the Royal Society on June 6th, 1850.
Tomes early took a deep interest in the welfare of the dental profession, and was one of those who in 1843 and again in 1855 unsuccessfully approached the Royal College of Surgeons with a view to a closer alliance between English surgeons and English dentists. He was more successful in 1858, when the College agreed to give a Licence in Dental Surgery. He was also one of the chief founders of the Odontological Society in 1856 and of the Dental Hospital in 1858. He gave the first systematic clinical demonstration in dental surgery at this hospital. In 1878 he was ably assisted by James Smith Turner in obtaining the Dentists Act to ensure the registration, and render compulsory the education, of those who proposed to adopt dentistry as a profession.
After carrying on a large and lucrative practice Tomes retired in 1876 to Upwood Gorse, Caterham, Surrey. He was twice President of the Odontological Society, and in 1877 he was elected Chairman of the Dental Reform Committee. He received the honour of knighthood on May 28th, 1886.
He married on February 15th, 1844, Jane, daughter of Robert Sibley, of Great Ormond Street, London, an architect. He had by her one surviving son, Sir Charles Sissmore Tomes (qv), and lived with her to celebrate his golden wedding. He died on July 29th, 1895, and was buried at St Mary's, Upper Caterham.
A portrait of Tomes painted in 1884 by Carlisle Macartney hangs in the rooms of the Royal Society of Medicine. A Triennial Prize for researches in the field of dental science in its widest acceptation is awarded by the Royal College of Surgeons of England. It was founded in 1894 by members of the dental profession in memory of Sir John Tomes and his services in promoting the study of dental surgery and the status of its practitioners. The first award for 1894-1896 was made to his son, Charles Sissmore Tomes.
Like his contemporary and coadjutor, Sir Edwin Saunders (qv), Tomes began to practise dentistry when it was a trade and left it a well-equipped profession. The change was in great part due to the personal exertions of the two fellow-workers; but Tomes did more than this, for he showed that a dentist was capable of the highest kind of scientific work - original investigation - and this faculty he transmitted to his son. His mind was at the same time eminently practical and be possessed considerable mechanical ingenuity.
Publications:
*A Course of Lectures on Dental Physiology and Surgery*, 8vo, London, 1848. The lectures are a classic. They were delivered at the Middlesex Hospital, but Tomes made the significant entry in his diary: "I am resolved never to deliver any more lectures unless I have a class of at least six."
*A System of Dental Surgery*, 12mo, London, 1859; 3rd ed, revised and enlarged by his son, C S Tomes, 12mo, London, 1887. Translated into French, Paris, 1873.<br/>Resource Identifier RCS: E003277<br/>Collection Plarr's Lives of the Fellows<br/>Format Obituary<br/>Format Asset<br/>First Title value, for Searching Tomes, Sir Charles Sissmore (1846 - 1928)ent://SD_ASSET/0/SD_ASSET:3726442024-05-05T05:25:07Z2024-05-05T05:25:07Zby Royal College of Surgeons of England<br/>Publication Date 2008-03-07<br/>Unknown<br/>Asset Path Root/Lives of the Fellows/E000000-E000999/E000400-E000499<br/>URL for Files <a href="https://livesonline.rcseng.ac.uk/client/en_GB/search/asset/372644">https://livesonline.rcseng.ac.uk/client/en_GB/search/asset/372644</a>372644<br/>Occupation Dental surgeon<br/>Details Born in London on June 6th, 1846, the eldest son of Sir John Tomes (q.v.). He was educated at Radley College during the Wardenship of the Rev W Sewell and rowed in the School Eight in 1863. He matriculated at Oxford from Christ Church on May 27th, 1863, rowed in the Trial Eights in 1865, and graduated BA in 1866 after gaining a 1st class in the honours school of Natural Science. His name appeared in one of the shortest honours lists ever issued at the University, for he was alone in the first class, there were two names in the second, and none in the third or fourth classes. He became a student at the Middlesex Hospital, where his father was Surgeon Dentist, in October, 1866, and also attended at the Dental Hospital. He gained prizes in medicine and surgery in 1869. The Natural Science School at Oxford, in which he had been educated, was a school of biology under Professor George Rolleston; and histology, then a new science, was being taught by Charles Robertson. Tomes immediately showed the effects of their training and published in rapid succession a series of remarkable papers on the structure and development of the teeth in the Batrachia, Reptilia, Ophidia, and Pisces, as well as one on the enamel organ of the armadillo. The papers contained much that was original, and in 1878 he was elected FRS.
He practised at 37 Cavendish Square, at first in partnership with his father, later with E G Bett and Sir Harry Baldwin. He lectured on anatomy and physiology at the Dental Hospital, where he was afterwards Surgeon and Consulting Surgeon.
In 1898 he was appointed Crown representative on the General Medical Council when the Dental Board was established, and he acted as Treasurer of the General Medical Council from 1904-1920. At the Royal College of Surgeons he was an Examiner in Dental Surgery, 1881-1895, and in 1920 he presented to the Museum the microscopic preparations of teeth made by himself and by his father. The collection thus presented consists of more than 1300 specimens of ground, or otherwise prepared, sections of the teeth of vertebrate animals. The dental anatomy of all forms of mammalian teeth is depicted more fully than in any other collection. The ‘Tomes Collection’, which is thus accessible at the Royal College of Surgeons to students of dental anatomy, proves of the utmost use to those who are investigating problems in dental structure. Many of the specimens used by Sir Richard Owen in the preparation of his Odontography are also preserved in the Museum of the College. The oldest microscopic preparations of teeth in the College collection are those made by Hewson in the later part of the eighteenth century.
During the European War Tomes served as Chairman of the Norfolk and Norwich Hospital and was Inspector for the Norfolk Red Cross. For his services he was gazetted Knight Bachelor in 1919. He married in 1873 Lizzie Eno, a daughter of Charles D Cook, MD, of Brooklyn, New York, who with one daughter survived him. He died at his home, Mannington Hall, Aylsham, Norfolk, on Oct 24th, 1928.
Like his father before him Tomes was a pioneer in the scientific advancement of dentistry, by which means alone it could attain the status of a learned profession. Less concerned with the political aspect of the movement to advance dentistry, he showed by his high character and hard work that there was such a scientific side which might be usefully investigated and profitably applied to the advancement of orthodontics.
Publications:-
“On the Development of the Teeth of Newt, Frog, Slowworm and Green Lizard.” — *Phil. Trans.*, 1875, clxv, 285.
“On the Structure and Development of Teeth of Ophidia.”— *Ibid.*, 297.
“On the Development and Succession of Poison-fangs of Snakes.” — *Ibid.*, 1876, clxvi, 377.
“On the Development of the Teeth of Fishes.” — *Ibid.*, 257.
“On the Structure and Development of Vascular Dentine.”— *Ibid.*, 1878, clxviii, 25.
Tomes edited the 4th, 5th, and 6th editions (1894-1904) of *A Manual of Dental Anatomy, Human and Comparative*, and *A System of Dental Surgery*, 4th and 5th editions (1897-1906), originally written by Sir John Tomes (q.v.).<br/>Resource Identifier RCS: E000460<br/>Collection Plarr's Lives of the Fellows<br/>Format Obituary<br/>Format Asset<br/>