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First Title value, for Searching Selwyn, Peter ( - 2020)

2024-05-05T16:13:01Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2023-07-03
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Occupation Maxillofacial surgeon
Details Peter Selwyn was a consultant maxillofacial surgeon in Nottingham This is a draft obituary. If you have any information about this surgeon or are interested in writing this obituary, please email lives@rcseng.ac.uk
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First Title value, for Searching Wesson, Colin Martin ( - 2011)

2024-05-05T16:13:01Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2023-08-03
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Occupation Maxillofacial surgeon
Details Colin Martin Wesson was a maxillofacial surgeon at Luton and Dunstable and Queen Elizabeth II Welwyn Garden City hospitals. 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
Resource Identifier RCS: E010379
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First Title value, for Searching Jago, John Christopher (1940 - 2018)

2024-05-05T16:13:01Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2023-08-15
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Occupation Maxillofacial surgeon
Details John Christopher Jago was a consultant maxillofacial surgeon for the Dumfries and Galloway hospitals. 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.
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First Title value, for Searching Ager, David Alexander (1925 - 2002)

2024-05-05T16:13:01Z

by Sarah Gillam
Publication Date 2023-08-10
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Occupation Maxillofacial surgeon
Details David Alexander Ager was a consultant maxillofacial surgeon for the Royal Army Dental Corps. He was born on 30 June 1925 in Sudbury, Essex. His mother’s maiden name was Sillens. He studied medicine at Guy’s Hospital Medical School and qualified as a doctor with the conjoint examination in 1948. After house appointments, he carried out his National Service in the Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve at Harwich. He was briefly a general practitioner, and then became a dental student, qualifying in 1957. In 1962 he joined the Royal Army Dental Corps, eventually becoming a colonel. His postings included Cyprus, Hong Kong, Germany and Northern Ireland. He gained his FDSRCS in 1969 and became a consultant in 1977. Outside his work, he was interested in music. In 1951 he married Hazel Margaret Amess. They had three children and three grandchildren. Ager died on 5 April 2002 from a raptured aortic aneurysm. He was 76.
Resource Identifier RCS: E010409
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First Title value, for Searching Evans, Colin Everson (1932 - 2014)

2024-05-05T16:13:01Z

by Tina Craig
Publication Date 2018-06-19 2021-06-16
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Occupation Maxillofacial surgeon
Details Colin Evans was a maxillofacial surgeon in Singapore. After initially studying dentistry, he proceeded to study medicine at the University of Aberdeen where he graduated MB, ChB in 1973 and proceeded to Guy’s Hospital in London for further training. He passed the fellowship of the college in 1977. In Singapore, he was a consultant maxillofacial surgeon at the Head, Neck, Nose and Ear Clinic of the Mount Elizabeth Medical Centre. He was also visiting consultant surgeon to the Mount Elizabeth Medical Centre and the American Hospital. Previously he had been professor of ENT- head and neck surgery at the National University of Malaysia and senior lecturer at the Institute of Laryngology, London and honorary consultant surgeon to the Royal National Ear Nose and Throat Hospital. He was a member of the British Association of Head and Neck Oncologists and the British Association of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgeons. He was married to Anne née Lewis and, while living in Merthyr Tydfil in 1959, they had a daughter, Penelope, who is a journalist and author. On his retirement they went to live at Welsh-St-Donats in the Vale of Glamorgan, where he died on 4 September 2014 aged 81, survived by his wife, children and grandchildren.
Resource Identifier RCS: E009463
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First Title value, for Searching Petersen, Norman August Marais ( - 1972)

2024-05-05T16:13:01Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2014-09-24
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Occupation Maxillofacial surgeon Plastic surgeon Plastic and reconstructive surgeon
Details Norman August Marais Petersen studied at the University of London and passed MB BS in 1920. In 1920 he also passed the Conjoint Examination at the Royal College of Surgeons of England. In 1923 he became a Fellow of both the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh and England. He specialised in plastic and maxillo-facial surgery in South Africa. Norman August Marais Petersen died in either 1971 or 1972.
Resource Identifier RCS: E006019
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First Title value, for Searching Bird, Alexander Lithgow (1927 - 2002)

2024-05-05T16:13:01Z

by D Barnard
Publication Date 2023-12-01
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Occupation Oral surgeon Maxillofacial surgeon
Details Alex Bird died on 6 November 2002, aged 75. Born in Johannesburg, Alex Bird studied dentistry at the University of Witwatersrand. At an early stage, he developed an interest in oral surgery, working with Lester Brown at Baragwanath Hospital in Johannesburg. This was to shape his future career. He came to London in 1954 to study for the Fellowship in Dental Surgery of the Royal College of Surgeons of England. He spent two years as registrar at Odstock Hospital and married Louise Jones in 1958. He returned to South Africa with his new wife, intending to settle. He gained enormous experience in the management of maxillofacial injuries, at a time of considerable civil unrest but became increasingly disturbed by the political climate in the early 60’s. He decided to move to England with Louise and their young daughter Ann in 1963. The family settled in Portsmouth where David was born. Alex made a major contribution to the provision of oral surgery services in the local area. He was promoted to consultant in 1978 and worked tirelessly to create the new department at Queen Alexandra Hospital which opened in May 1979. He remained a key member of the Head and Neck Cancer team until his retirement in 1992. He earned the respect of his colleagues locally. He was elected chairman of the Portsmouth section of the British Dental Association and chairman of the Medical Staff Committee of the Portsmouth Hospitals. He was a fearless champion of patients and the doctors and nurses involved in their care. He enjoyed a robust relationship with hospital administrators and had little tolerance of the new bureaucracy which was beginning to emerge within the NHS. Alex was actively involved in the local community and had a broad range of interests. For the last ten years, he was a governor of Sharps Copse Primary School and had been secretary of the Emsworth Community Association. He was sailing secretary of the Emsworth Sailing Club, past secretary of the local RNLI and had a passionate interest in organ music. He was devoted to his family and is survived by his wife Louise, daughter Ann, son David and grandchildren Katie and John to whom we extend our warmest sympathies. His friends and colleagues will all have their own memories of Alex but above all, he will be remembered for his sense of humour and his laugh. He was a man of colour and warmth. He will be greatly missed.
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First Title value, for Searching Midgley, Gordon Siegfried (1913 - 1985)

2024-05-05T16:13:01Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2015-06-15
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Occupation ENT surgeon General practitioner Maxillofacial surgeon
Details Gordon Midgley received his medical training at the Westminster Hospital Medical School where he qualified in 1937 and proceeded to house appointments at the Charing Cross Hospital. In 1938 he joined a general practice in Winchester and also the Territorial Army. He was called up in 1939 and served as regimental medical officer in the Household Cavalry and at Dover Castle before being posted to India for the next five years. He became a registrar in the ear, nose and throat department at Charing Cross Hospital before his appointment as the first consultant in ear, nose and throat surgery at the Royal Hampshire County Hospital in Winchester. He was also consultant to the maxillo-facial unit at Rooksdown House in Basingstoke where he worked with Sir Harold Gillies and John Barron. He took an active part in the committee work in the hospital where he became chairman of the medical staff and a member of the higher awards committee. He also visited Guernsey on a regular basis to advise on their ear, nose and throat problems. Gordon Midgley became a keen Mason, Master of the Merdon Lodge, Provincial Grand Officer and a member of Winton Rose Croix. He was an active member of the BMA becoming Chairman of the Winchester division. In 1938 he married Inez Masters and they had one daughter. He died on 19 February 1985 survived by his wife, daughter Susan, and granddaughter Antonia.
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First Title value, for Searching Wilkinson, Frank Clare (1889 - 1979)

2024-05-05T16:13:01Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2015-04-13
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Occupation Dental surgeon Maxillofacial surgeon
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.
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First Title value, for Searching Brandrick, John Thomas (1944 - 2023)

2024-05-05T16:13:01Z

by Robert M D Tranter
Publication Date 2023-10-11
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Occupation Maxillofacial surgeon Otolaryngologist
Details John Brandrick was a consultant in the department of otolaryngology and head and neck surgery at Fairfield General Hospital, Bury. He was born on 16 September 1944, the son of John Brandrick and Edith Brandrick née Neale, and studied dentistry at the University of Birmingham. He was awarded the Alexander MacGregor prize and qualified BDS in December 1968. Initially John undertook a resident house surgical job in oral surgery at Birmingham General Hospital. He then moved to Plymouth as a senior house officer in maxillofacial surgery with Paul Bramley and Tom Crewe. This was before the introduction of mandatory seatbelts and, in the summer months especially, the department was extremely busy treating facial injuries due to road traffic accidents. Techniques used for treating facial fractures in this unit were very innovative, using internal fixations such as plates and wires long before they came into common usage. John then became a registrar at Plymouth working with Sandy Davis, who replaced Paul Bramley, who had moved to Sheffield University as professor and dean of dental surgery. John decided he would like a career in maxillofacial surgery and returned to Birmingham in 1975 to study medicine. Having qualified in 1979, he went to work with two other Birmingham ENT colleagues who had also trained in dentistry – myself and David Proops. We were working with Norman Crabtree, George Dalton and Jim Bennett at the Queen Elizabeth Hospital, Birmingham. He obtained his fellowship of the Royal College of Surgeons of England in otolaryngology in 1983 and was then appointed as a senior registrar around the West Midlands circuit. In 1989 he was appointed as a consultant working at Fairfield General Hospital in Bury. He worked with two other colleagues, Fergus O’Connor and David Gordon; their department was renowned throughout the hospital as being very happy and efficient. He was caring and professional in his manner and was popular with his colleagues and other hospital staff and, above all, his patients. At his private practice, over 65s were charged half price and he even gave some a lift home. John had many sporting interests. He played in the second row for the medics rugby team at Birmingham, where he did not display the kind, caring, compassionate manner that he was renowned for with his patients. He also enjoyed walking and, just before his death, had completed the Pennine Way, the Coast to Coast Walk and the Wealdway. He was interested in music and would often go to Bridgewater Hall in Manchester to hear classical concerts. He was a member of the Manchester Literary and Philosophical Society and, at home, had over 6,000 books. He was a member of the Elgar and the J P Priestley societies. He had a photographic memory and was able to recite the ‘The night mail’ by W H Auden and ‘The lion and Albert’ by Marriott Edgar with appropriate accents. John, however, had an overriding passion for steam engines and model engineering. He and his father built their first model steam locomotive in a bedroom they had converted into a workshop. He even built railway tracks in their garden at Birmingham and Ramsbottom. He bought and refurbished many large, model steam engines. He was a stalwart and chairman of the Old Locomotive Committee, which aims to foster research, encourage communication, preserve artefacts and publish information about the Lion, a steam engine built in 1838 and now on display at the Museum of Liverpool. John was very active with the Old Locomotive Committee, organising meetings and stands at many model engineering exhibitions. John married Marlene (née France) in 1973 in Birmingham and they had four children, Sarah, Lucy, Tom and Rachel. He died suddenly on 22 May 2023 with a ruptured aortic aneurysm. He was 78.
Resource Identifier RCS: E010479
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First Title value, for Searching Rowe, Norman Lester (1915 - 1991)

2024-05-05T16:13:01Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2015-10-01
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Occupation Maxillofacial surgeon Oral surgeon
Details Norman Lester Rowe was born on 15 December 1915 in Paganhill, Stroud, Gloucestershire. His father was Arthur William Rowe OBE and was a civil servant. His mother was Lucy Adams. He attended preparatory school at Neville House, Eastbourne, Sussex, and public school at Malvern College, Worcestershire. From there he went on to Guy's Hospital, London. His war service was in the Royal Army Dental Corps from 1941 to 1946 in the 86th (British) General Hospital, serving in Normandy and the Baltic with the rank of captain. He served as consultant in oral and maxillofacial surgery at Rookstown House Maxillofacial Centre, Hampshire, from 1948 to 1959, and as consultant to the South West Metropolitan Regional Hospital Board from 1948 to 1965. He was senior consultant surgeon at the Westminster Hospital and consultant at the Institute of Dental Surgery, Gray's Inn Road. At the Royal College of Surgeons he was a member of the Board of the Faculty of Dental Surgery from 1956 to 1974, serving as Vice-Dean in 1968. He was a Webb-Johnson lecturer in 1970, and an examiner for the Final FDSRCS from 1965 to 1971 and 1973 to 1975. He was Chairman of the Steering Committee of the British Association of Oral Surgeons in 1961, its Honorary Secretary from 1962 to 1966 and its President in 1969. He was Secretary-General of the International Association of Oral Surgeons from 1969 to 1971. Norman Rowe's stature as a clinician and a statesman grew after Rookstown House was transferred to Queen Mary's University Hospital in Roehampton in 1959. Under Rowe's leadership Roehampton became a mecca for oral surgeons throughout the world. Jointly with Professor H C Killey he wrote the classic book *Maxillofacial injuries *which was published by Churchill Livingstone and went on to many editions. He had a very distinguished overseas career and was an honorary member of fourteen foreign societies of oral surgery in places as widely disparate as Brazil, Uruguay, Australia, South Africa, Canada, France, Poland, Germany and Belgium, and he delivered lectures in many countries. Despite his knowledge, experience and ability, Norman Rowe remained, to the end, a humble man. He demonstrated his marvellous sense of humour and fun to lighten the mood. He made friends wherever he went and was affectionately known as 'uncle' to both senior and junior colleagues. This reflected his wisdom and willingness to give help. Outside surgery, he had a great interest in music and photography. He died on 4 August 1991 survived by his wife, Cynthia, née Freeman, whom he married in 1938 and their children David and Susan.
Resource Identifier RCS: E008321
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First Title value, for Searching Crockford, David Allen (1930 - 1982)

2024-05-05T16:13:01Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2014-11-25
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Occupation Maxillofacial surgeon Plastic surgeon Plastic and reconstructive surgeon
Details David Allen Crockford was born on 21 August 1930 in London. The son of Allen Lepard Crockford, CBE, DSO, MC, TD, MA, MB, BCh, MRCS, LRCP, late Brigadier, RAMC, and then Hon Surgeon to King George VI and HM the Queen. His mother was Doris Ellen, née Brookes-Smith. His early education was at St Pirans-on-the-Hill, Maidenhead, and Rugby. In 1951 he went up to King's College, Cambridge, where he took his BA in 1954 before entering St Thomas's Hospital Medical School. On qualifying 1957 he became successively house surgeon, casualty officer and surgical registrar at St Thomas's then for a time surgical registrar at Leicester Royal Infirmary where he was influenced by E R Frizelle. In 1965 he was appointed senior surgical registrar at St Thomas's before moving to Frenchay Hospital, Bristol, where he worked in the department of plastic and facio-maxillary surgery. This field became his main interest. After a year he was appointed a registrar in plastic surgery in Newcastle then senior registrar in the Newcastle University Hospital group. Here he worked for F Braithwaite and J R G Edwards. While senior registrar he spent the year from 1970 to 1971 as a visiting fellow in the Institute of Reconstructive Plastic Surgery at the New York University Medical Centre. While there he made many friends and left a lasting impression of his sincerity and honest approach to his work. He contributed 'The transplantation of tendons' to the second edition of *Reconstructive plastic surgery*, edited by John Converse. On his return to Britain he continued to work in Newcastle and was appointed consultant plastic surgeon to the area health authority and senior registrar to the University Hospital. His special interests were hand and maxillo-facial surgery, particularly the primary and secondary problems of children with cleft lip and palate. He was carrying out research on the latter when he died. While at school at Rugby he distinguished himself by being the first boy ever to score a double 'possible' in the Ashburton Shield at Bisley. On leaving school he joined the Coldstream Guards to do his National Service, and was commissioned. He hoped to see service abroad, but his shooting skill was such that he was kept at home as an instructor. His other interests included sailing - he was a member of the Royal Ocean Racing Club - music, especially the classical guitar, at which he was proficient, gardening and cabinet-making. In 1962 he married Diane Mary Baynes, daughter of Dr Helton Godwin Baynes who wrote *The mythology of the soul*, *Germany possessed*, and other works relating to Jungian psychology. He died on 7 January, 1982, his wife and three daughters survived him.
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First Title value, for Searching James, William Warwick (1874 - 1965)

2024-05-05T16:13:01Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2014-08-18
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Occupation Dental surgeon Maxillofacial surgeon
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.
Resource Identifier RCS: E005846
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First Title value, for Searching Bremner, John Cameron (1930 - 1973)

2024-05-05T16:13:01Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2014-07-14
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Occupation Maxillofacial surgeon Plastic surgeon Plastic and reconstructive surgeon
Details Bremner was born in Queensland, Australia on 8 November 1930 and educated at Melbourne University, Victoria; later he moved to Perth, Western Australia, where he was making a distinguished career in plastic surgery when he fell ill and died at the age of forty-two. At the University he won the Syme Prize in Anatomy with an Exhibition in 1950, the Ryan Prize in Surgery in 1953, and qualified that year; in 1956 he passed Part 1 of the MS examination. After holding resident posts at the Royal Melbourne Hospital he was appointed in 1956 associate-assistant surgeon to E E Dunlop and became associate-assistant to B K Rank, plastic and facio-maxillary surgeon to the Hospital; he was also part-time surgeon to the Casualty Clinic and assistant to A R Wakefield, reparative surgeon to the Peter MacCallum Clinic, Melbourne Cancer Institute. In the same period he was a demonstrator, first of pathology and then of surgery, in the University and from 1957 clinical supervisor of students at the Hospital. He won a Fulbright Fellowship for advanced study at the University of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania in 1959. On his way to America he visited London, took the Fellowship, and attended the Second International Congress of Plastic Surgery. At Pittsburgh he held the post of teaching fellow and preceptor in plastic surgery, and undertook research on tendon healing. He also attended the meetings of the Canadian and American Societies of Plastic Surgeons, and was elected an Honorary Fellow of the latter; he became a Fellow of the American College of Surgeons in 1961. He returned to Australia in 1960 on appointment to the staff of the plastic and maxillo-facial unit at the Royal Perth Hospital, and was promoted to be surgeon to the unit in 1964. He was also plastic surgeon to the Fremantle Hospital, and consultant plastic surgeon to the Royal Australian Navy, in which he had held the rank of Surgeon-Lieutenant, RAN Reserve, since 1955. He was lecturer in surgery at the University of Western Australia, and a member of the West Australia State Medical Planning Committee; he built up a prosperous private practice, and was active in the West Australian Society of Plastic Surgeons. Bremner was a cultivated and generous man; he gave a munificent donation in 1973 to buy works of art for the adornment of the Medical School at the University of Western Australia in the hope that future students would enjoy looking at the pictures and broaden their interests. His recreations were tennis, golf and sailing; he was interested in farming and a partner in two grazing and beef-cattle properties outside Perth. He was also a keen Freemason, and was Master-elect of the St George Lodge, Perth at the time of his death. Bremner was seriously ill in 1972, received leave from his duties, and died at Portsea, Victoria on 8 June 1973 aged forty-two; he was unmarried. Publications: Correlation of tongue changes and nutrition. *Roy Melb Hosp Clin Rep* 1952, 22, 46. Splenic vein thrombosis in patient with myeloproliferative syndrome. *Roy Melb Hosp Clin Rep* 1954, 24, 117.
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First Title value, for Searching Oldfield, Michael Whitaker Carlton (1907 - 1963)

2024-05-05T16:13:01Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2014-04-07
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Occupation General surgeon Maxillofacial surgeon
Details Born in Leeds on 18 September 1907 son of Charlton Oldfield, Professor of Obstetrics and Gynaecology at Leeds 1919-32, he was educated at Harrow, Oxford and, for his clinical studies, Leeds. Qualifying in 1931, he held house appointments at the General Infirmary, Leeds and, ascending the surgical ladder, the posts of resident casualty officer, resident surgical officer, and finally surgical tutor. In 1938 he was appointed to the consultant staff as assistant surgeon. For ten years, as an experienced horseman, he had been an officer in the Yorkshire Hussars, and on the outbreak of war in 1939 was mobilised as such, but almost immediately had to transfer to the RAMC. He was posted to the Middle East in 1941, holding the rank of Lieutenant-Colonel and being officer in charge of a Field Surgical Unit serving for six months in Palestine during the Syrian campaign. After this, having been specially trained by Gillies, he had charge of No 2 Faciomaxillary Unit in the Western Desert, where he carried out very valuable work, but in 1944 as a general surgeon he returned to a surgical division for the remainder of the war. On returning to Leeds, in addition to his appointment as surgeon to the General Infirmary, he had a maxillo-facial unit at St James's Hospital and was also consulting surgeon to Dewsbury and District General Infirmary, to the Royal Infirmary, Halifax, and to Batley Hospital; in addition he attended Mirfield Memorial Hospital. At the College he was Arris and Gale Lecturer in 1940, considering the problems of hare-lip and cleft palate, and in 1949 Hunterian Professor dealing with the same subjects. He was for a time external examiner for the University of Cairo, and he was a founder member of the British Association of Plastic Surgeons, a Fellow of the British Association of Surgeons, Vice- President of the Surgical Section of the Royal Society of Medicine, a very active member of the Surgical Travellers Club and of the Leeds and West Riding Medico-Chirurgical Society. A regular member of the Bramham Moor Hunt, he rode in point-to-point meetings, and had a small farm. He was a good cricketer and enjoyed shooting and fishing. In 1938 he married Rosamund Adela, daughter of Lt-Colonel and Mrs Harris St John, who survived him with their four children. He died suddenly at his home on the evening of 11 July 1963. Publications: Cleft palate and the mechanism of speech. (Arris and Gale lecture, RCS 1940). *Brit J Surg* 1941, 29, 197. Reparative surgery in the Middle East, with a review of 1200 cases. *Brit J Surg* 1944, 32, 237.
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First Title value, for Searching Mummery, John Howard (1847 - 1926)

2024-05-05T16:13:01Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2012-08-22
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Occupation Maxillofacial surgeon
Details Born on January 19th, 1847, the son of John R Mummery, distinguished as a dental surgeon and anthropologist, author of the pioneer work on the incidence of dental caries among different races - *On the Relations which Dental Caries, as discovered amongst the Ancient Inhabitants of Britain, and amongst Existing Aboriginal Races, may be supposed to hold to their Food and Social Conditions* - (8vo, 2 tables, London, 1870). John Howard Mummery, after a private school education, studied at University College Hospital, where under Sharpey he early began to work as microscopist on the very difficult subject of dental histology. He joined his father in dental practice in Cavendish Square, and in 1893 was elected to the Court of Examiners in Dental Surgery at the Royal College of Surgeons, and in 1897 was awarded by the College the Tomes Prize. He was President of the Odontological Society of Great Britain in 1892 and again in 1908, when the Society became the Odontological Section of the Royal Society of Medicine. He also held office as President of the British Dental Association and of the Sixth International Dental Congress in London in 1914. During the European War he was Registrar and Superintendent of the Maxillofacial Hospital for Injuries of the Face and Jaws at Kennington, for which services he was awarded the CBE. He was a Member of the Committee for the Investigation of Dental Diseases of the Medical Research Council, and in 1922 received the Miller Prize of the International Dental Federation in recognition of his original and scientific research in dental histology. The dental tissues present so many technical difficulties to an investigator of their minute structures that exceptional skill and patience are required. Mummery's addition to knowledge of the normal and morbid changes in the structure created a scientific conception of dental disease. Dental anatomy has such an important bearing on zoology that both zoologists and anthropologists appreciated his work. Mummery was the first to describe adequately the development of dentine, of which he gave an account in 1892. His best-known work was the demonstration of the nerves which enter the dental tubules. It had been obvious long ago that the dental pulp was richly supplied by nerves, and for many years histologists sought without success to demonstrate them. Mummery, after long stages of work in preparing sections to show a hard tissue-like dentine at the same time as a delicate tissue pulp, succeeded in doing so, and his results were generally accepted. He succeeded both in demonstrating the passage of the neurofibrils into the dental pulp, and also in showing that enamel has an organic content which exhibits vital reaction to injury and disease. Mummery in middle life was remarkable for his fresh countenance and sandy hair. He was the most modest and kindest of men, ever ready in the service of research; a charming, humorous companion, widely read and with artistic interests. In spite of weakening sight, within the last two months of his life he published two papers on histological researches of first-rate importance. He attained a European reputation, not merely as a technician of great skill, but as a vigorous and clear writer with a wide knowledge of general anatomy and pathology. He was a skilled draughtsman, and enriched his communications with excellent drawings, in addition to microphotographs of his remarkable sections. As a water-colour painter he possessed great merit. He had retired to live at 79, Albert Bridge Road, when, on a holiday in Cornwall, he died after a short illness on August 30th, 1926. Publications:- *Notes on the Preparation of Microscopical Sections of Teeth and Bone*, 8vo, London, 1890. "Some Points in the Structure and Development of Dentine." - *Phil Trans*, 1891, clxxxii, B, 527. "On the Distribution of the Nerves of the Dental Pulp." - *Ibid*, 1912, ccii, B, 337. "On the Process of Calcification of Enamel and Dentine." - *Ibid*, 1914, ccv, B, 95. " On the Nature of the Tubes in Marsupial Enamel and its Bearing on Enamel Development." - *Ibid*, 295. "On the Structure and Development of the Tubular Enamel of the Sparidae and Labridre." - *Ibid*, 1918, ccviii, B, 251. "The Epithelial Sheath of Hertwig in Man." - *Ibid*, 1920, ccix, B, 305. "On the Nerve and Nerve Cells of the Dental Pulp." - *Ibid*, 321. His classic work: *The Microscopic Anatomy of the Teeth, with Illustrations and Biographies*, 8vo, London, 1919; 2nd ed, 1924, enlarged to include the general anatomy of the teeth, human and comparative. "The Pathology of Chronic Perforating Hyperplasia of the Pulp." - *Brit Dent Jour*, 1926, xlvii, 801, with portrait.
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First Title value, for Searching Ward, Sir Terence George (1906 - 1991)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2015-10-08
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Occupation Dental surgeon Maxillofacial surgeon Oral surgeon
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.
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First Title value, for Searching Wayman, Jeremy Brian (1934 - 2020)

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Publication Date 2023-07-03
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Occupation Maxillofacial surgeon
Details Jeremy Brian Wayman was a maxillofacial surgeon at Queen’s Hospital, Burton. 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
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