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First Title value, for Searching Bloom, Mark ( - )

2024-05-04T17:03:12Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2023-08-15
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Occupation Oral surgeon
Details Mark Bloom was an oral surgeon who lived in Solihull. This is a draft obituary. If you have any information about this surgeon, or are interested in writing this obituary, please email lives@rcseng.ac.uk.
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First Title value, for Searching Simpson, William ( - 2022)

2024-05-04T17:03:12Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2023-08-15
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Occupation Oral surgeon
Details William Simpson was a consultant in oral surgery at the University Hospital of South Manchester. 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: E010432
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First Title value, for Searching Ford, Michael Andrew (1936 - 2018)

2024-05-04T17:03:12Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2023-11-29
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Occupation Oral surgeon
Details Michael Andrew Ford was an oral surgeon from Chichester, West Sussex.
Resource Identifier RCS: E010519
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First Title value, for Searching Sowray, John Herbert ( - 2015)

2024-05-04T17:03:12Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2023-07-06
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Occupation Oral surgeon
Details John Herbert Sowray was a professor of oral surgery at King’s College Hospital, 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
Resource Identifier RCS: E010314
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First Title value, for Searching Gray, William (1927 - 2022)

2024-05-04T17:03:12Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2023-10-17
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Occupation Oral surgeon
Details William Gray was an oral surgeon from Ipswich. 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: E010495
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First Title value, for Searching Macalister, Alton Donald ( - 2004)

2024-05-04T17:03:12Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2023-08-11
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Occupation Oral surgeon
Details Alton Donald Macalister was dean of the Otago Dental School, 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.
Resource Identifier RCS: E010416
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First Title value, for Searching Holland, Christopher Sidney ( - 2022)

2024-05-04T17:03:12Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2023-08-15
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Occupation Oral surgeon
Details Christopher Sidney Holland was a consultant oral surgeon at the Prince Charles Hospital, Methyr Tydfil. 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: E010436
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First Title value, for Searching Moore, Reginald Joseph ( - 2012)

2024-05-04T17:03:12Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2023-07-20
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Occupation Oral surgeon
Details Reginald Joseph Moore was a professor of oral surgery at Manchester University. 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: E010370
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First Title value, for Searching Thomson, Eric Richard Edward ( - 2008)

2024-05-04T17:03:12Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2023-12-01
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Occupation Oral surgeon
Details Eric Thomson was a consultant oral surgeon who lived in Stroud, Gloucestershire.
Resource Identifier RCS: E010550
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First Title value, for Searching Ray, Kenneth Richard (1930 - 2023)

2024-05-04T17:03:12Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2023-09-20
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Occupation Oral surgeon
Details Ken Ray was dean of the Faculty of Dental Surgery at the Royal College of Surgeons of England.
Resource Identifier RCS: E010465
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First Title value, for Searching Jenrick, Helen Mary ( - 2022)

2024-05-04T17:03:12Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2023-11-27
Asset Path Root/Lives of the Fellows/E010000-E010999/E010500-E010599
Occupation Oral surgeon
Details Helen Mary Jenrick was a senior clinical lecturer in oral surgery at the Royal Dental Hospital, 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
Resource Identifier RCS: E010502
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First Title value, for Searching Edmondson, Hugh Dunstan ( - 2023)

2024-05-04T17:03:12Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2023-08-15
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Occupation Oral surgeon
Details Professor Hugh Dunstan Edmondson was head of the department of oral surgery and oral medicine at the University of 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.
Resource Identifier RCS: E010435
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First Title value, for Searching Holden, Maurice Harold (1937 - 2018)

2024-05-04T17:03:12Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2023-07-04
Asset Path Root/Lives of the Fellows/E010000-E010999/E010200-E010299
Occupation Oral surgeon
Details Maurice Harold Holden was a consultant oral surgeon at Doncaster Royal Infirmary. 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: E010269
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First Title value, for Searching Coonar, Hardev Singh (1933 - 2019)

2024-05-04T17:03:12Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2023-07-04
Asset Path Root/Lives of the Fellows/E010000-E010999/E010200-E010299
Occupation Oral surgeon
Details Hardev Singh Coonar was an oral surgeon at the Eastman and Hammersmith hospitals, London. This is a draft obituary. If you have any information about this surgeon or are interested in writing this obituary, please email lives@rcseng.ac.uk
Resource Identifier RCS: E010275
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First Title value, for Searching Burland, James Glyn (1929 - 2012)

2024-05-04T17:03:12Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2023-07-02
Asset Path Root/Lives of the Fellows/E010000-E010999/E010300-E010399
Occupation Oral surgeon
Details Glyn Burland was an oral surgeon at Coventry and Warwickshire Hospital. This is a draft obituary. If you have any information about this surgeon, or are interested in writing this obituary, please email lives@rcseng.ac.uk.
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First Title value, for Searching English, Terence Ignatius (1930 - 2003)

2024-05-04T17:03:12Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2023-12-01
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Occupation Oral surgeon
Details Terence Ignatius English a consultant in oral surgery at the London Hospital.
Resource Identifier RCS: E010567
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First Title value, for Searching Priestley, Edwin (1903 - 1993)

2024-05-04T17:03:12Z

by PJM
Publication Date 2023-12-01
Asset Path Root/Lives of the Fellows/E010000-E010999/E010500-E010599
Occupation Dental surgeon Oral surgeon
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.
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First Title value, for Searching Brooke, Ralph Ian (1934 - 2014)

2024-05-04T17:03:12Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2023-07-07
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Occupation Oral surgeon
Details Ian Ralph Brooke was a professor of dentistry at Western University, London, Ontario, Canada and chief of dentistry at the University Hospital. This is a draft obituary. If you have any information about this surgeon or are interested in writing this obituary, please email lives@rcseng.ac.uk
Resource Identifier RCS: E010331
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First Title value, for Searching Priestland, Harold Andreas (1921 - 2017)

2024-05-04T17:03:12Z

by C Priestland
Publication Date 2023-07-05
Asset Path Root/Lives of the Fellows/E010000-E010999/E010300-E010399
Occupation Oral surgeon
Details Harold Andreas ‘Pip’ Priestland died peacefully in Nobles Hospital, Douglas, Isle of Man on 22 February 2017 aged 95 years. He is survived by his wife, Margaret, son and daughter-in-law, Colin and Linda, and grandchildren, Abigail and Elizabeth. ‘Pip’ was born on 3 June 1921 in Liverpool. After secondary education at Prescott Grammar, he studied at Liverpool University from 1939, graduating with a Bachelor of Dental Surgery in 1945. Following house jobs he joined the Royal Army Dental Corps as a Captain serving in the UK and in Germany at the British Military Hospital Hamburg. Following military service he returned to Liverpool, training as an oral surgeon at Broadgreen Hospital. He was appointed Consultant in Oral Surgery in 1956 and served as a full-time NHS Consultant until 1980 in a number of hospitals in the Liverpool region. He moved to the Isle of Man and was appointed as Consultant at Nobles Hospital, Douglas from 1981 until 1986, when he retired. A funeral was held at the crematorium, Douglas, Isle of Man on Thursday 2 March 2017 with family present.
Resource Identifier RCS: E010303
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First Title value, for Searching Bird, Alexander Lithgow (1927 - 2002)

2024-05-04T17:03:12Z

by D Barnard
Publication Date 2023-12-01
Asset Path Root/Lives of the Fellows/E010000-E010999/E010500-E010599
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 Obwegeser, Hugo Lorenz (1920 - 2017)

2024-05-04T17:03:12Z

by Tina Craig
Publication Date 2018-11-19 2021-03-08
Asset Path Root/Lives of the Fellows/E009000-E009999/E009400-E009499
Occupation Oral surgeon Plastic surgeon
Details Hugo Lorenz Obwegeser was internationally recognised as the father of modern orthognathic surgery who initiated huge advances in the development of plastic surgery of the facial skeleton. He was born on 21 October 1920 in Hohenems, Austria and initially graduated in medicine at Innsbruck. In 1945 he attended the Rockitansky Institute of Pathological Anatomy at the University of Vienna and studied pathology under Hermann Chiari – a man whom he always acknowledged as a highly influential teacher. From there he moved to Graz and trained in oral and maxillofacial surgery for six years, where his mentor was Richard Trauner. Building on this experience of dealing with war time injuries, he spent 5 months in the UK with Sir Harold Gillies in Basingstoke from October 1951 to February 1952 and also joined Eduard Schmidt in Stuttgart for a while. Appointed to the staff of the department of surgery at the University of Zurich in a fairly junior position, he rapidly rose through the ranks and was appointed a personal chair in 1962. By the time he retired he was professor of oral and maxillofacial surgery at the medical school and professor of oral and maxillofacial surgery, oral pathology and oral diagnosis at the dental school. When he began his research, orthognathic surgery was merely a subspecialty of oral surgery. The ground breaking procedures he introduced were notable not only in their effectiveness, but also because they were carried out via intraoral incisions thus leaving no facial scarring. He pioneered the sagittal split osteotomy in 1953 on two patients with a sagittal plane of fracture of the mandibular ramus. Four years later, in 1957, he undertook the first osseous genoplasty on a living patient. A further innovation was the development of what was known as the Le Fort I osteotomy of the maxilla which he described in 1965 and in 1970 he published a description of the first bimaxillary osteotomy. Later, in 1986, he published an important classification of mandibular asymmetry. He lectured widely on his innovative procedures, including a memorable three day lecture series at the Walter Reed Army Medical Center in Washington DC in 1966. Working with fellow craniofacial surgeons all over the world, he developed particularly fruitful relationships with Paul Tessier in Paris and Norman Rowe in the UK. Many aspiring surgeons visited his unit which came to be referred to as the ‘Zurich School’ of cranio-maxillofacial surgery. He published extensively and was on the editorial panels of several important journals. A member of many professional organisations, he was at one time president of the German Society of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery and of the European Association of Maxillofacial Surgery. Having retired from his academic posts in 1987, he continued his research and an article written by him was published in the *Journal of Craniomaxillofacial surgery* in the month in which he passed away. On 2 September 2017 he died at the age of 96 in Schwerzenbach, Switzerland. He was survived by Luise, his wife of almost 70 years, six children, 17 grandchildren and six great-grandchildren.
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First Title value, for Searching Cowan, Adrian William David (1919 - 1996)

2024-05-04T17:03:12Z

by Sarah Gillam
Publication Date 2023-08-17
Asset Path Root/Lives of the Fellows/E010000-E010999/E010400-E010499
Occupation Dental surgeon Periodontologist Oral surgeon
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.
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First Title value, for Searching Dinsdale, Reginald Christopher Walter (1926 - 2016)

2024-05-04T17:03:12Z

by Chris Dinsdale
Publication Date 2023-07-06
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Occupation Oral surgeon
Details Reg Dinsdale was born in Leeds on 17 October 1926, son of dentist Reginald BT Dinsdale and of Beatrice May. He decided to follow in his father’s footsteps, gaining his BChD at Leeds University in 1949, where he met Fay, his future wife. After qualification with a distinction in operative dental surgery, he worked as a house officer at Leeds Infirmary before joining the Royal Navy. He later transferred to the Royal Naval Reserve where he gained the rank of Surgeon Lieutenant Commander, gaining the Volunteer Reserve Decoration towards the end of his service. In 1959, he was appointed Consultant and Honorary Lecturer in Sheffield, specialising in oral surgery, after holding training posts at Guys and Newcastle and where he remained until retirement in 1990. He was involved in teaching students from the outset and was known for his kindness and approachability. Many of his past students and colleagues remember his meticulous clinical skills and gentle chair-side manner. Reg was involved in postgraduate education and served as postgraduate dental dean for the Trent region from 1976-81. He played a major part in developing the national vocational training scheme. He also enjoyed research and innovation, publishing over 50 articles and papers, and writing two books. His book, published in 1985 by the *British Dental Journal* aimed at general practitioners, *Viral hepatitis, aids and dental treatment* was a popular reference book and to be found in most dental practices of the time. He felt very privileged to be awarded an honorary MD by the University of Sheffield in 1989 in recognition of his service to the dental profession. He was a lifelong member of the BDA, serving as South Yorkshire Branch President in 1983, and was elected fellow of the BDA in 1989. Reg retired in 1990, and he and Fay had more time to pursue a life-long interest in sailing, together with worldwide travel; however, he was devastated by Fay’s death in 1993. He later married Jill and they were able to enjoy a very happy retirement together until his final illness. Reg died on 9 February 2016 at the age of 89 and leaves Jill, his sons, Christopher, a retired dental surgeon, and Richard, a consultant anaesthetist, together with four grandchildren, three great grandchildren and an extended step family. His passing will be felt not only by his family but many former colleagues and friends who knew or worked with him, both in Sheffield and elsewhere.
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First Title value, for Searching Coffin, Frank Robert (1915 - 2004)

2024-05-04T17:03:12Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2005-09-23
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URL for Files https://livesonline.rcseng.ac.uk/client/en_GB/search/asset/372226372226
Occupation Oral surgeon
Details Frank Robert Coffin was an oral surgeon in London. He was born in Wandsworth, London, on 21 September 1915, the son of a printer. After qualifying at the Royal Dental Hospital in 1938, he completed house jobs at Leicester Square and at the Middlesex (then the only resident dental post in the country). During the war he organised the emergency oral surgery service in London. In 1941, he joined the RAF, where he gained experience of maxillofacial injury in the UK and abroad. After the war, he became a medical student at the Middlesex Hospital and completed an ENT house job there in 1949. He was appointed as a consultant at the Royal Marsden Hospital, where he became interested in head and neck oncology, and was subsequently appointed to the staff of the Royal Dental Hospital and St George’s, Tooting. He was a recognised teacher for the University of London, the Royal Dental Hospital, St Bartholomew’s and the Institute of Cancer Research, London. He was particularly interested in pharmacology and lectured on the subject at the Royal Dental Hospital during the fifties and sixties. He gave many lectures abroad, in Denmark, Holland, Spain, Portugal, Asia and North and South America. He served on many consultants’ committees, and was also President of the hospitals group of the British Dental Association in 1977, and was, for a time, honorary treasurer and Chairman of the Dentists’ Provident Society. A true workaholic, he gave a full commitment to his many NHS hospitals, but still found time to enjoy skiing, sailing, travelling, and furniture and clock restoration. He was also an enthusiastic gardener. He remained unmarried. He died from cardiac failure on 13 January 2004.
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First Title value, for Searching Thompson, Noel (1914 - 1989)

2024-05-04T17:03:12Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2015-08-12
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URL for Files https://livesonline.rcseng.ac.uk/client/en_GB/search/asset/379926379926
Occupation Oral surgeon Plastic surgeon Plastic and reconstructive surgeon
Details Noel Thompson was born at Newcastle-upon-Tyne on 8 September 1914. His father was John G Thompson, a school teacher, and he was educated at King's College, Newcastle, before qualifying as a licentiate in dental surgery in 1936. He remained in hospital practice and passed his BDS degree in 1940. During the later years of the war, he served in the Royal Army Dental Corps as a specialist oral surgeon to the maxillo-facial unit of South East Asia Command with the rank of Major. After demobilisation he entered Durham Medical School, becoming Stephen Scott scholar in anatomy and qualifying in 1950. He passed the FRCS four years later and worked in plastic and reconstructive surgery under Professor TP Kilner at Oxford and Wilfred Hynes at Sheffield. In 1959 he was appointed consultant plastic surgeon at Stoke Mandeville but took six months off to work in the United States with Lyndon Peer, having won first prize in the essay competition of the Education Foundation of the American Society of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery. At that time he developed an interest in tissue transplantation and the free grafting of muscle which he developed at Stoke Mandeville and later at the Middlesex and Mount Vernon Hospitals, to which he was appointed in 1963. His great interest was academic research and he introduced the buried dermis flap for the treatment of lymphoedema. He served as a member of the working party on endolymphatic therapy of malignant melanoma and received a research grant from the Medical Research Council to continue this study. He carried out further experimental study on the fate of onlay bone grafts and the importance of including periosteum in the graft as well as establishing a new technique of reanimating the paralysed face using a free graft of skeletal muscle. He was elected Hunterian Professor giving a lecture entitled *Autogenous free transplantation of skeletal muscle* and was Visiting Professor of Plastic Surgery at Winnipeg in 1971 and New York in 1973. He retired in 1979 and went to live in Tuscany where he developed an interest in Florentine art in addition to his earlier pastimes of fell walking, swimming and photography. In 1956 he married Dr Christine Fairclough MB, BS and there was one daughter and two sons of the marriage. He died on 2 July 1989 aged 74.
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First Title value, for Searching Howe, Geoffrey Leslie (1924 - 2014)

2024-05-04T17:03:12Z

by Stanley Gelbier
Publication Date 2023-07-07
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Occupation Oral surgeon
Details Geoffrey Howe was dean of three dental schools – at the Royal Dental Hospital of London School of Dental Surgery (RDH), in Hong Kong and latterly in Jordan. He was born on 24 April 1924 in the London borough of Haringey, the eldest of three brothers. His father, Leo Leslie John Howe, died when Geoffrey was only 10 years old, having spent a number of spells in sanatoria for the treatment of TB, probably caught when serving in the trenches in the First World War. His mother was Ada Blanche Howe née Partridge. Geoffrey went to a number of schools, partly due to wartime emergencies, finishing at Newquay County Boys’ School. Whilst there he joined the Local Defence Volunteers (later to become the Home Guard). He gained a scholarship to enter the Royal Dental Hospital of London School of Dental Surgery for a joint dental and medical course, however, just after joining, he was told by the dean that whilst RDH was staying in London, because of the war, he would have to transfer to Guy’s Hospital if he wanted to continue with medicine. He chose to stay, so continued with the dental course only. His school exams had been mathematics-based, so before starting dentistry proper he attended a crammer to pass exams in physics, chemistry and biology. Conditions were very difficult, with buildings affected by bombing and many staff away. He was especially grateful to be taught by two oral surgeons who treated casualties under the Emergency Medical Service: Desmond Greer Walker and Ben Fickling. With other students, he served at the first aid centre at Charing Cross Hospital and in the Home Guard. It was at RDH that he met Heather Hambly, a Red Cross nurse. Geoffrey was a bright student and gained a number of prizes. Completing his studies before the age of 21, he was too young to take his final examinations; instead he worked as a student house officer at Stoke Mandeville Hospital with Desmond Greer Walker, a pioneer in war injuries care. Geoffrey qualified LDSRCS in 1946 and became a house surgeon in children’s dentistry and orthodontics under Clifford Ballard; he then became a senior house officer. In December, after proposing to Heather, Lieutenant Howe joined the Royal Army Dental Corps (RADC) to begin a long association with the military. On 8 April 1947 they married at St Paul’s Church, Haringey, prior to him being sent overseas. Following his demobilisation in 1949, he tried general dental practice but was unhappy. With Heather’s support and advice from Ballard, he took up part-time training programmes in orthodontics and oral surgery, working with Ballard, John Hovell and John Hooper. Becoming convinced of the need for medicine, he gained a place in October 1949 at the Middlesex Hospital Medical College, which had strong links with the Royal. He was an excellent student and gained the Begley prize for basic medical sciences from the Royal College of Surgeons of England in March 1951. A few weeks later he passed the primary FDSRCS exam. He wanted to maintain contact with the Army so he joined the Territorial Army as an RADC officer at the17th (London) General Hospital RAMC (TA), based at the Duke of York’s Headquarters in Chelsea. In October 1951 he became a part-time clinical assistant in the dental department at the Middlesex. It brought in an income as well as experience whilst continuing with his medical studies, qualifying MRCS LRCP in 1954. He was then appointed as a house physician to D Evan Bedford and Walter Somerville in cardiology. Next came ENT with C P Wilson (a head and neck surgeon with a special interest in cancer), J P Monkhouse and Sir Douglas Ranger. 1955 saw him gain his FDSRCS, then joining Sir William Kelsey Fry and Frank Wilkinson (the dean) as a registrar in the department of oral surgery at the Eastman Dental Hospital. He was later promoted to senior registrar. To gain more experience he was later encouraged to apply for a senior registrar post at the Welsh regional plastic and oral surgery unit at Chepstow Hospital, to work with oral surgical consultant John Gibson. There was much outreach work. In 1959, aged only 35, Geoffrey became the first professor of oral surgery in Newcastle (Durham University). In 1961 the Royal College of Surgeons of England awarded him its Cartwright prize for research into surgical aids to prosthetics. Six years later, Geoffrey returned to London as the first professor of oral surgery at RDH and an honorary consultant at St Thomas’. Within five years he was the dean. By 1976 Geoffrey was asked to help Hong Kong plan a new school as chairman of the university’s dental academic advisory committee. It was built and equipped but they couldn’t find a suitable Chinese academic to become dean of the Prince Philip Dental School. They invited Geoffrey and he became dean in l978, holding that post until 1983. C E (Ted) Renson from the London Hospital was appointed as professor of conservative dentistry. The building was officially opened in March 1981 by the Duke of Edinburgh, then centenary president of the British Dental Association. In general Geoffrey was very successful, but there was an unpleasant period. The background, covered in his autobiography *Reflections of a fortunate fellow* (County Durham, Memoir Club, 2002), revolved around the purchase of equipment. Initially the supplier performed well, but in time problems arose. Geoffrey said he didn’t know at the time there was dissension between its directors, two couples. Eventually things came to a head and one couple had to give up their directorships and income from the Hong Kong dental project. Hong Kong had perhaps the world’s most draconian anti-corruption laws. In an attempt to bankrupt the company, the couple reported to the feared Independent Commission Against Corruption (ICAC) that the school’s equipment had been obtained by corrupt means. As Geoffrey describes in his book: ‘They were friendly with Ted Renson who had long been jealous of my success and lusted after my job as Dean and Director and he started making telephone calls to me demanding that I resign in his favour or he would expose what Heather and I had been up to.’ Geoffrey said he had no idea what was being inferred. In fact, Renson did renounce him to the ICAC and to the press and he was investigated for corruption. As a result, two ICAC officers asked him to accompany them to their headquarters. Heather was interviewed in a separate room. The investigation lasted 18 months, after which he was cleared. But mud sticks. To maintain a mandate, he decided to resign and stand for re-election as dean, but he did not succeed. However, he was contacted by Douglas Allen, an ex-Newcastle colleague, who was establishing a school in Jordan. He asked Geoffrey to deliver an oral medicine course. The University of Science and Technology’s dental school opened in February 1987, with Geoffrey as professor of oral surgery and oral medicine. He was dean from 1988 to 1996. He was thus dean at three dental schools on three continents. Geoffrey examined for Newcastle, Belfast, Dublin, Baghdad, Singapore, Malta, Melbourne and London universities. He published several books and numerous articles and gained many awards from abroad. He was very involved with committee work. Geoffrey was a fellow of the British Association of Oral Surgeons and of the British Dental Association’s central committee for hospital dental services (chair from 1971 to 1973). He chaired the British Dental Association's council, its top committee, for five years. Geoffrey was president of the European Economic Community’s dental liaison committee and of the International Association of Oral Surgeons. He was to be president of the British Dental Association but that slipped when he left for Hong Kong. Whilst working at the Eastman, the London Zoo’s veterinary officer told him they had a spider monkey with a severe facial deformity and didn’t know how to treat it. Geoffrey went to their aid. At that time few vets knew about diseases of the teeth and mouths of animals. As a result, for over a decade Geoffrey undertook much voluntary oral surgery for the Zoo’s animals, including for an elephant. Geoffrey was very sociable. He belonged to the Savage, Gents and Travellers clubs in the UK and Hong Kong’s United Services Recreation Club. He thoroughly enjoyed sea sailing, including at the Royal HK Yacht Club, reading, ballet, opera and walking. He played football for the RDH. After retirement, he enjoyed drinks and a meal at a local public house, where he was well known and liked. He always sat in his favourite seat, over which the proprietor had placed a painting of Geoffrey’s old house. Much time was devoted to the Territorial Army. He was a RADC officer with the Territorial Army General Hospitals, consultant dental surgeon to the RADC and the first RADC officer to command a general hospital. He was also the first honorary colonel commandant of the RADC. Geoffrey was awarded the Territorial Decoration (1962) and bars (in 1969 and 1974); and the T&AVR medal (1975). Geoffrey had married Heather in 1947. Their son, Timothy John, died just before Heather in 1997. In 2003 Geoffrey married Mrs Margaret Samuel (née Hall), but she died in 2010. Geoffrey Howe died on 17 July 2014 at the age of 90, and was survived by his younger brothers John and Alan (also a dentist), as well as his stepson Peter.
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First Title value, for Searching Bramley, Sir Paul Anthony (1923 - 2020)

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by John Williams
Publication Date 2020-08-12 2021-02-18
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Occupation Dental surgeon Oral surgeon
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.
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First Title value, for Searching Rowe, Norman Lester (1915 - 1991)

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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 Ward, Sir Terence George (1906 - 1991)

2024-05-04T17:03:12Z

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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