Search Results for Medical Obituaries - Narrowed by: OrthodontistSirsiDynix Enterprisehttps://livesonline.rcseng.ac.uk/client/en_GB/lives/lives/qu$003dMedical$002bObituaries$0026qf$003dLIVES_OCCUPATION$002509Occupation$002509Orthodontist$002509Orthodontist$0026ps$003d300$0026isd$003dtrue?2024-05-10T08:30:45ZFirst Title value, for Searching Nath, Narindra (1930 - 2003)ent://SD_ASSET/0/SD_ASSET:3876722024-05-10T08:30:45Z2024-05-10T08:30:45Zby Royal College of Surgeons of England<br/>Publication Date 2023-12-01<br/>Asset Path Root/Lives of the Fellows/E010000-E010999/E010500-E010599<br/>Occupation Orthodontist<br/>Details Narindra Nath was an orthodontist from Croydon.<br/>Resource Identifier RCS: E010566<br/>Collection Plarr's Lives of the Fellows<br/>Format Obituary<br/>Format Asset<br/>First Title value, for Searching Smith, Donald Ian ( - 2019)ent://SD_ASSET/0/SD_ASSET:3875902024-05-10T08:30:45Z2024-05-10T08:30:45Zby Royal College of Surgeons of England<br/>Publication Date 2023-11-29<br/>Asset Path Root/Lives of the Fellows/E010000-E010999/E010500-E010599<br/>Occupation Orthodontist<br/>Details Donald Ian Smith was a consultant orthodontist for the North West Metropolitan Region.<br/>Resource Identifier RCS: E010514<br/>Collection Plarr's Lives of the Fellows<br/>Format Obituary<br/>Format Asset<br/>First Title value, for Searching Howard, Reginald Denis ( - 2017)ent://SD_ASSET/0/SD_ASSET:3876142024-05-10T08:30:45Z2024-05-10T08:30:45Zby Royal College of Surgeons of England<br/>Publication Date 2023-11-30<br/>Asset Path Root/Lives of the Fellows/E010000-E010999/E010500-E010599<br/>Occupation Orthodontist<br/>Details Reginald Denis Howard was an orthodontist from Richmond, Surrey.<br/>Resource Identifier RCS: E010526<br/>Collection Plarr's Lives of the Fellows<br/>Format Obituary<br/>Format Asset<br/>First Title value, for Searching Gould, Donald George ( - 2013)ent://SD_ASSET/0/SD_ASSET:3876262024-05-10T08:30:45Z2024-05-10T08:30:45Zby Royal College of Surgeons of England<br/>Publication Date 2023-11-30<br/>Asset Path Root/Lives of the Fellows/E010000-E010999/E010500-E010599<br/>Occupation Orthodontist<br/>Details Donald George Gould was a consultant orthodontist in Nottingham and Derby.<br/>Resource Identifier RCS: E010539<br/>Collection Plarr's Lives of the Fellows<br/>Format Obituary<br/>Format Asset<br/>First Title value, for Searching Foster, Eric Siddons ( - 2009)ent://SD_ASSET/0/SD_ASSET:3876562024-05-10T08:30:45Z2024-05-10T08:30:45Zby Royal College of Surgeons of England<br/>Publication Date 2023-12-01<br/>Asset Path Root/Lives of the Fellows/E010000-E010999/E010500-E010599<br/>Occupation Orthodontist<br/>Details Eric Siddons Foster was an orthodontist from Lincoln.<br/>Resource Identifier RCS: E010551<br/>Collection Plarr's Lives of the Fellows<br/>Format Obituary<br/>Format Asset<br/>First Title value, for Searching Johnson, David Bridon ( - 2007)ent://SD_ASSET/0/SD_ASSET:3876592024-05-10T08:30:45Z2024-05-10T08:30:45Zby Royal College of Surgeons of England<br/>Publication Date 2023-12-01<br/>Asset Path Root/Lives of the Fellows/E010000-E010999/E010500-E010599<br/>Occupation Orthodontist<br/>Details David Bridon Johnson was a consultant orthodontist in Leeds and Bradford.<br/>Resource Identifier RCS: E010553<br/>Collection Plarr's Lives of the Fellows<br/>Format Obituary<br/>Format Asset<br/>First Title value, for Searching Thomson, Hamish ( - 2003)ent://SD_ASSET/0/SD_ASSET:3871692024-05-10T08:30:45Z2024-05-10T08:30:45Zby Royal College of Surgeons of England<br/>Publication Date 2023-08-16<br/>Asset Path Root/Lives of the Fellows/E010000-E010999/E010400-E010499<br/>Occupation Orthodontist<br/>Details Hamish Thomson was a consultant orthodontist in private practice in London.
This is a draft obituary. If you have any information about this surgeon or are interested in writing this obituary, please email lives@rcseng.ac.uk<br/>Resource Identifier RCS: E010444<br/>Collection Plarr's Lives of the Fellows<br/>Format Obituary<br/>Format Asset<br/>First Title value, for Searching Butler, Dorothy Joy (1932 - 2005)ent://SD_ASSET/0/SD_ASSET:3876662024-05-10T08:30:45Z2024-05-10T08:30:45Zby Royal College of Surgeons of England<br/>Publication Date 2023-12-01<br/>Asset Path Root/Lives of the Fellows/E010000-E010999/E010500-E010599<br/>Occupation Orthodontist<br/>Details Dorothy Joy Butler was an orthodontic consultant in Stafford.<br/>Resource Identifier RCS: E010560<br/>Collection Plarr's Lives of the Fellows<br/>Format Obituary<br/>Format Asset<br/>First Title value, for Searching Collin, Brian David (1942 - 2013)ent://SD_ASSET/0/SD_ASSET:3876252024-05-10T08:30:45Z2024-05-10T08:30:45Zby Royal College of Surgeons of England<br/>Publication Date 2023-11-30<br/>Asset Path Root/Lives of the Fellows/E010000-E010999/E010500-E010599<br/>Occupation Orthodontist<br/>Details Brian David Collin was an orthodontist from Kilmacolm, Renfrewshire, Scotland.<br/>Resource Identifier RCS: E010537<br/>Collection Plarr's Lives of the Fellows<br/>Format Obituary<br/>Format Asset<br/>First Title value, for Searching Friend, Dorothy Jean (1917 - 2006)ent://SD_ASSET/0/SD_ASSET:3876612024-05-10T08:30:45Z2024-05-10T08:30:45Zby Royal College of Surgeons of England<br/>Publication Date 2023-12-01<br/>Asset Path Root/Lives of the Fellows/E010000-E010999/E010500-E010599<br/>Occupation Orthodontist<br/>Details Dorothy Jean Friend was a consultant orthodontist at Stratford.<br/>Resource Identifier RCS: E010555<br/>Collection Plarr's Lives of the Fellows<br/>Format Obituary<br/>Format Asset<br/>First Title value, for Searching Reading, John Frederick ( - 2009)ent://SD_ASSET/0/SD_ASSET:3870312024-05-10T08:30:45Z2024-05-10T08:30:45Zby Royal College of Surgeons of England<br/>Publication Date 2023-08-02<br/>Asset Path Root/Lives of the Fellows/E010000-E010999/E010300-E010399<br/>Occupation Orthodontist<br/>Details John Frederick Reading was an orthodontist in Sydney, New South Wales.
This is a draft obituary. If you have any information about this surgeon or are interested in writing this obituary, please email lives@rcseng.ac.uk<br/>Resource Identifier RCS: E010378<br/>Collection Plarr's Lives of the Fellows<br/>Format Obituary<br/>Format Asset<br/>First Title value, for Searching Russell, Lionel Harold ( - 2020)ent://SD_ASSET/0/SD_ASSET:3875512024-05-10T08:30:45Z2024-05-10T08:30:45Zby Royal College of Surgeons of England<br/>Publication Date 2023-11-24<br/>Asset Path Root/Lives of the Fellows/E010000-E010999/E010500-E010599<br/>Occupation Orthodontist<br/>Details Lionel Harold Russell was an orthodontist in London.
This is a draft obituary. If you have any information about this surgeon or are interested in writing this obituary, please email lives@rcseng.ac.uk<br/>Resource Identifier RCS: E010500<br/>Collection Plarr's Lives of the Fellows<br/>Format Obituary<br/>Format Asset<br/>First Title value, for Searching Yacoot, Abrahim Hasan ( - 2020)ent://SD_ASSET/0/SD_ASSET:3875562024-05-10T08:30:45Z2024-05-10T08:30:45Zby Royal College of Surgeons of England<br/>Publication Date 2023-11-24<br/>Asset Path Root/Lives of the Fellows/E010000-E010999/E010500-E010599<br/>Occupation Orthodontist<br/>Details Abrahim Hasan Yacoot was an orthodontist in London.
This is a draft obituary. If you have any information about this surgeon or are interested in writing this obituary, please email lives@rcseng.ac.uk<br/>Resource Identifier RCS: E010501<br/>Collection Plarr's Lives of the Fellows<br/>Format Obituary<br/>Format Asset<br/>First Title value, for Searching Maccauley, Francis Joseph ( - 2019)ent://SD_ASSET/0/SD_ASSET:3875932024-05-10T08:30:45Z2024-05-10T08:30:45Zby Royal College of Surgeons of England<br/>Publication Date 2023-11-29<br/>Asset Path Root/Lives of the Fellows/E010000-E010999/E010500-E010599<br/>Occupation Orthodontist<br/>Details Francis Joseph Maccauley was a consultant orthodontist in Worcester and Hereford.
This is a draft obituary. If you have any information about this surgeon or are interested in writing this obituary, please email lives@rcseng.ac.uk<br/>Resource Identifier RCS: E010517<br/>Collection Plarr's Lives of the Fellows<br/>Format Obituary<br/>Format Asset<br/>First Title value, for Searching Hart, Judith Clare ( - 2018)ent://SD_ASSET/0/SD_ASSET:3876112024-05-10T08:30:45Z2024-05-10T08:30:45Zby Royal College of Surgeons of England<br/>Publication Date 2023-11-30<br/>Asset Path Root/Lives of the Fellows/E010000-E010999/E010500-E010599<br/>Occupation Orthodontist<br/>Details Judith Clare Hart was an orthodontist from Cardiff.
This is a draft obituary. If you have any information about this surgeon or are interested in writing this obituary, please email lives@rcseng.ac.uk<br/>Resource Identifier RCS: E010523<br/>Collection Plarr's Lives of the Fellows<br/>Format Obituary<br/>Format Asset<br/>First Title value, for Searching Carrington, David Robert (1960 - 2014)ent://SD_ASSET/0/SD_ASSET:3869122024-05-10T08:30:45Z2024-05-10T08:30:45Zby Royal College of Surgeons of England<br/>Publication Date 2022-07-07<br/>Asset Path Root/Lives of the Fellows/E010000-E010999/E010300-E010399<br/>Occupation Orthodontist<br/>Details David Robert Carrington was an orthodontist in Dubai.
This is a draft obituary. If you have any information about this surgeon or are interested in writing this obituary, please email lives@rcseng.ac.uk<br/>Resource Identifier RCS: E010335<br/>Collection Plarr's Lives of the Fellows<br/>Format Obituary<br/>Format Asset<br/>First Title value, for Searching Kokich, Vincent George (1944 - 2013)ent://SD_ASSET/0/SD_ASSET:3869172024-05-10T08:30:45Z2024-05-10T08:30:45Zby Royal College of Surgeons of England<br/>Publication Date 2023-07-07<br/>Asset Path Root/Lives of the Fellows/E010000-E010999/E010300-E010399<br/>Occupation Orthodontist<br/>Details Vincent George Kokich was an orthodontist in Tacoma, Washington, USA.
This is a draft obituary. If you have any information about this surgeon or are interested in writing this obituary, please email lives@rcseng.ac.uk<br/>Resource Identifier RCS: E010340<br/>Collection Plarr's Lives of the Fellows<br/>Format Obituary<br/>Format Asset<br/>First Title value, for Searching Hogg, Christopher Mackintosh (1958 - 2007)ent://SD_ASSET/0/SD_ASSET:3870732024-05-10T08:30:45Z2024-05-10T08:30:45Zby Royal College of Surgeons of England<br/>Publication Date 2023-09-08<br/>Asset Path Root/Lives of the Fellows/E010000-E010999/E010300-E010399<br/>Occupation Orthodontist<br/>Details Christopher Hogg was an orthodontist in London.
This is a draft obituary. If you have any information about this surgeon or are interested in writing this obituary, please email lives@rcseng.ac.uk<br/>Resource Identifier RCS: E010396<br/>Collection Plarr's Lives of the Fellows<br/>Format Obituary<br/>Format Asset<br/>First Title value, for Searching Brenchley, Malcolm Leslie (1935 - 2018)ent://SD_ASSET/0/SD_ASSET:3868112024-05-10T08:30:45Z2024-05-10T08:30:45Zby Royal College of Surgeons of England<br/>Publication Date 2023-07-05<br/>Asset Path Root/Lives of the Fellows/E010000-E010999/E010200-E010299<br/>Occupation Orthodontist<br/>Details Malcolm Leslie Brenchley was a consultant orthodontist in Taunton.
This is a draft obituary. If you have any information about this surgeon or are interested in writing this obituary, please email lives@rcseng.ac.uk<br/>Resource Identifier RCS: E010284<br/>Collection Plarr's Lives of the Fellows<br/>Format Obituary<br/>Format Asset<br/>First Title value, for Searching McDonald, John Dennis Hugh ( - 2015)ent://SD_ASSET/0/SD_ASSET:3868652024-05-10T08:30:45Z2024-05-10T08:30:45Zby Royal College of Surgeons of England<br/>Publication Date 2023-07-06<br/>Asset Path Root/Lives of the Fellows/E010000-E010999/E010300-E010399<br/>Occupation Orthodontist<br/>Details John Dennis Hugh McDonald was an orthodontist in Melbourne, Victoria.
This is a draft obituary. If you have any information about this surgeon or are interested in writing this obituary, please email lives@rcseng.ac.uk<br/>Resource Identifier RCS: E010320<br/>Collection Plarr's Lives of the Fellows<br/>Format Obituary<br/>Format Asset<br/>First Title value, for Searching Ridley, Doris Rosemary (1930 - 2013)ent://SD_ASSET/0/SD_ASSET:3869232024-05-10T08:30:45Z2024-05-10T08:30:45Zby Royal College of Surgeons of England<br/>Publication Date 2023-07-07<br/>Asset Path Root/Lives of the Fellows/E010000-E010999/E010300-E010399<br/>Occupation Orthodontist<br/>Details Doris Ridley was a consultant in orthodontics for the north of Scotland.
This is a draft obituary. If you have any information about this surgeon or are interested in writing this obituary, please email lives@rcseng.ac.uk<br/>Resource Identifier RCS: E010346<br/>Collection Plarr's Lives of the Fellows<br/>Format Obituary<br/>Format Asset<br/>First Title value, for Searching Wynne, Thomas Hedd Morgan ( - 2021)ent://SD_ASSET/0/SD_ASSET:3875312024-05-10T08:30:45Z2024-05-10T08:30:45Zby Royal College of Surgeons of England<br/>Publication Date 2023-11-27<br/>Asset Path Root/Lives of the Fellows/E010000-E010999/E010400-E010499<br/>Occupation Orthodontist<br/>Details Thomas Hedd Morgan Wynne was an orthodontist from the Wirral.
This is a draft obituary. If you have any information about this surgeon or are interested in writing this obituary, please email lives@rcseng.ac.uk<br/>Resource Identifier RCS: E010498<br/>Collection Plarr's Lives of the Fellows<br/>Format Obituary<br/>Format Asset<br/>First Title value, for Searching Lynch, Alan Russell (1936 - 2018)ent://SD_ASSET/0/SD_ASSET:3868132024-05-10T08:30:45Z2024-05-10T08:30:45Zby Royal College of Surgeons of England<br/>Publication Date 2023-07-05<br/>Asset Path Root/Lives of the Fellows/E010000-E010999/E010200-E010299<br/>Occupation Orthodontist<br/>Details Alan Russell Lynch was an orthodontist who lived in Rye, East Sussex.
This is a draft obituary. If you have any information about this surgeon or are interested in writing this obituary, please email lives@rcseng.ac.uk<br/>Resource Identifier RCS: E010286<br/>Collection Plarr's Lives of the Fellows<br/>Format Obituary<br/>Format Asset<br/>First Title value, for Searching Campbell, Alan Compton (1921 - 2008)ent://SD_ASSET/0/SD_ASSET:3870722024-05-10T08:30:45Z2024-05-10T08:30:45Zby Royal College of Surgeons of England<br/>Publication Date 2023-08-09<br/>Asset Path Root/Lives of the Fellows/E010000-E010999/E010300-E010399<br/>Occupation Orthodontist<br/>Details Alan Compton Campbell was a consultant orthodontist at Guy’s 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<br/>Resource Identifier RCS: E010395<br/>Collection Plarr's Lives of the Fellows<br/>Format Obituary<br/>Format Asset<br/>First Title value, for Searching Dockrell, Rodney Beresford (1921 - 2007)ent://SD_ASSET/0/SD_ASSET:3870352024-05-10T08:30:45Z2024-05-10T08:30:45Zby Royal College of Surgeons of England<br/>Publication Date 2023-08-02<br/>Asset Path Root/Lives of the Fellows/E010000-E010999/E010300-E010399<br/>Occupation Orthodontist<br/>Details Professor Rodney Beresford Dockrell was the first dean of the faculty of dentistry at the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland.
This is a draft obituary. If you have any information about this surgeon or are interested in writing this obituary, please email lives@rcseng.ac.uk<br/>Resource Identifier RCS: E010383<br/>Collection Plarr's Lives of the Fellows<br/>Format Obituary<br/>Format Asset<br/>First Title value, for Searching Moss, James Percy (1933 - 2010)ent://SD_ASSET/0/SD_ASSET:3869532024-05-10T08:30:45Z2024-05-10T08:30:45Zby Royal College of Surgeons of England<br/>Publication Date 2023-07-18<br/>Asset Path Root/Lives of the Fellows/E010000-E010999/E010300-E010399<br/>Occupation Orthodontist<br/>Details James Percy Moss was an honorary consultant at the Royal Hospitals Trust and University College Hospitals and a professor of orthodontics at St Bartholomew’s and the Royal London School of Medicine and Dentistry.
This is a draft obituary. If you have any information about this surgeon or are interested in writing this obituary, please email lives@rcseng.ac.uk<br/>Resource Identifier RCS: E010355<br/>Collection Plarr's Lives of the Fellows<br/>Format Obituary<br/>Format Asset<br/>First Title value, for Searching Ardouin, Dennis George Francis (1930 - 2017)ent://SD_ASSET/0/SD_ASSET:3868302024-05-10T08:30:45Z2024-05-10T08:30:45Zby Royal College of Surgeons of England<br/>Publication Date 2023-07-05<br/>Asset Path Root/Lives of the Fellows/E010000-E010999/E010300-E010399<br/>Occupation Orthodontist<br/>Details Dennis George Francis Ardouin was a consultant in the department of orthodontics at Royal East Sussex, Hastings.
This is a draft obituary. If you have any information about this surgeon or are interested in writing this obituary, please email lives@rcseng.ac.uk<br/>Resource Identifier RCS: E010302<br/>Collection Plarr's Lives of the Fellows<br/>Format Obituary<br/>Format Asset<br/>First Title value, for Searching Ramsay, David John ( - 2006)ent://SD_ASSET/0/SD_ASSET:3875782024-05-10T08:30:45Z2024-05-10T08:30:45Zby JM<br/>Publication Date 2023-11-28<br/>Asset Path Root/Lives of the Fellows/E010000-E010999/E010500-E010599<br/>Occupation Orthodontist<br/>Details David Ramsay, Orthodontic Consultant at Guy’s Hospital, died after a long illness on 21 September 2006.
David qualified from the London Hospital Medical and Dental Institute in 1965/6. His first appointment was at the London Hospital as a dental house surgeon, spending time in many of the departments of dentistry to gain experience. Subsequently he worked in the community service and general dental practice. A year was spent as a rotating intern at the Eastman Dental Centre in Rochester, New York.
He progressed through basic postgraduate training, holding a junior hospital post at Guy’s Hospital and achieving a Fellowship.
He undertook orthodontic postgraduate training at the Eastman Dental Institute and then a Registrar post linked with Winchester. He then completed Senior Registrar training on a Guy's link with the South East Thames Region.
David was appointed Consultant in Orthodontics at Guy’s, Greenwich District and Lewisham Hospitals in 1976. He was always a very practical clinical teacher and made a large contribution to the orthodontic education at Guy’s, both at undergraduate and postgraduate levels. Many students qualifying from both Guy’s and UMDS will recall the Friday night reflections on the teaching of the day — the atmosphere was smoky and noisy but always friendly and congenial! At Greenwich, a very good regional service was provided for general dental practice, the community service and the training of junior staff; at Lewisham, as well as providing a regional service, David developed a special interest in early management of premature babies with the constriction of feeding plates.
David retired from clinical work in January 1998, which unfortunately signalled the start of his long illness.
As a student and after qualifying he played rugby for the London Hospital and later became a referee. He enjoyed travelling and gardening and was devoted to his family, to whom he gave total support in all their undertakings. He was a very intelligent man with a great sense of humour, and a regular churchgoer. A memorial service was held in his local church with large numbers present — evidence of his great popularity.
David is survived by his wife Lynne and his children, Michelle and John, to whom we extend our thoughts and deepest sympathy.<br/>Resource Identifier RCS: E010512<br/>Collection Plarr's Lives of the Fellows<br/>Format Obituary<br/>Format Asset<br/>First Title value, for Searching Leech, Hugh Lester (1921 - 2010)ent://SD_ASSET/0/SD_ASSET:3869722024-05-10T08:30:45Z2024-05-10T08:30:45Zby LROH<br/>Publication Date 2023-07-19<br/>Asset Path Root/Lives of the Fellows/E010000-E010999/E010300-E010399<br/>Occupation Orthodontist<br/>Details It is with sadness that we report the death of Hugh Lester Leech on 1 February 2010 aged 88.
Hugh was born on 11 September 1921 near Newport, South Wales, and was educated locally, his singing ability leading to him being selected for the Newport Cathedral Choir, and later the Exeter Cathedral School and Cathedral Choir.
He went up to Bristol University in 1939 to study dentistry. His studies coincided with the Bristol Blitz. The Bristol Royal Infirmary and Dental School being close to the centre, he found himself at night on fire-watch duty on the roof of the BRI, as well as carrying injured people on stretchers up and down stairs if the lifts could not be used, particularly during air-raids. He was also in the Home Guard, guarding the Clifton Suspension Bridge.
A keen sportsman, he found time to captain the Rugby 2nd XV, as well as playing football, tennis and cricket, later becoming a member of the MCC on moving to London.
On graduating in 1944, he joined the Army Dental Corps, being posted to Egypt where he served with the Paras.
At demob, he studied orthodontics at the Eastman.
He then lectured at Birmingham Dental School before, in 1958, being appointed as one of the earliest consultant orthodontists. Initially he worked at Bedford, Luton, Stevenage, Hemel Hempstead and Watford from his home base of Amersham, where he met his future wife Lorna at amateur dramatics. They married in 1961.
Slowly, he managed to hand over some units to new consultants: Bedford and Stevenage in 1979, Luton and Hemel Hempstead in 1987, and Watford in 1990, when he was finally able to take his well-earned retirement.
Throughout his career Hugh showed total commitment to the NHS, and was very popular with his patients, receiving many expressions of gratitude.
In retirement, he continued to attend the Lord's Test Match each year, and played tennis and golf, until his wife’s failing health took precedence for a number of years until her death in 2007.
Sadly their only child Nicky also predeceased him in 2008.<br/>Resource Identifier E010360<br/>Collection Plarr's Lives of the Fellows<br/>Format Obituary<br/>Format Asset<br/>First Title value, for Searching Peacock, Thomas Robert (1941 - 2011)ent://SD_ASSET/0/SD_ASSET:3870522024-05-10T08:30:45Z2024-05-10T08:30:45Zby J Fleet<br/>Publication Date 2023-08-03<br/>Asset Path Root/Lives of the Fellows/E010000-E010999/E010300-E010399<br/>Occupation Orthodontist<br/>Details Born in 1941, Tom was brought up in Manchester and attended Chethams School. He loved to play rugby and football and was an ardent supporter of Manchester United.
He was a chorister at Manchester Cathedral, played the flute and always had a great love of music.
Tom followed his mother and father into dentistry and qualified BDS from King’s College in 1966. His father Jack was Secretary of the BDA from 1959 to 1971 for which he received a CBE.
Tom was an Army dental cadet while at King’s College which allowed him to indulge his passion for cars, and where he met his wife Lottie, working as an assistant nurse at the neurosurgical unit.
Tom had a distinguished career in the Royal Army Dental Corps initially in general practice then later specialising in oral surgery and in orthodontics. He served in Harrogate, Malaysia, Cyprus, Berlin, Ireland, Wroughton and Rinteln. He reached the rank of Lt. Colonel and with changing times in the Army decided to leave and try his hand in orthodontic practice.
After two years in Norwich, he opened his own specialist orthodontic practice in Stratford and Gants Hill where he worked very successfully for the next 18 years.
He continued his interest in cars and enjoyed holidays at their villa in the South of France.
Sadly he only enjoyed two years of retirement before being diagnosed with a malignant astrocytoma, which progressively transformed to a glioblastoma. Despite surgery and radiotherapy and the enormous support of his wife and family, Tom died on 13 September 2011 just short of his seventieth birthday.
He will be remembered for his dry humour, his love, kindness and support as well as his total enjoyment of life and for a lifetime of service to his many patients.
He leaves wife Lottie, daughter Mary, and grandchildren, Jack and Emily.<br/>Resource Identifier RCS: E010386<br/>Collection Plarr's Lives of the Fellows<br/>Format Obituary<br/>Format Asset<br/>First Title value, for Searching Carter, Nigel Edward (1950 - 2005)ent://SD_ASSET/0/SD_ASSET:3871482024-05-10T08:30:45Z2024-05-10T08:30:45Zby R Mattick<br/>Publication Date 2023-08-15<br/>Asset Path Root/Lives of the Fellows/E010000-E010999/E010400-E010499<br/>Occupation Orthodontist<br/>Details Nigel Carter was born on 3 December 1950. Qualifying from King’s in 1973, he began working in general dental practice in Edenbridge in Kent. He then returned to a hospital career with house jobs at The Royal, Guy’s, East Grinstead, St George’s and Sheffield Dental Hospital. Nigel studied orthodontics at the Eastman and took up a consultant post at Newcastle Dental Hospital in 1988. He was also an honorary senior lecturer at the University of Newcastle, a role he took seriously, publishing books and papers. Significantly, Nigel was the training programme director for the orthodontic programme. This programme has produced the majority of orthodontic consultants and specialists from North Yorkshire across to the Lakes, up to the Scottish Border and beyond. Many thousands of patients are therefore benefiting from Nigel's teaching.
As an NHS consultant Nigel was a clinician and a team member first, a man who encouraged quiet progress rather than brash, fast achievement. As Senior Consultant he gathered his colleagues willingly around him. This manner made him a diplomat, bringing calm to the committees he sat on – and they were many – notably the British Dental Association Council and Council at the British Orthodontic Society, where he was secretary for the Consultant Orthodontists Group from 1999 until ill health forced him to resign in 2004.
Nigel was a born orthodontist: fastidious and a lover of order. When Nigel knew he was dying he said that he had achieved all he wanted to achieve, but his thoughts were for those he would leave behind. He leaves, most painfully, his wife Shelagh and 13-year-old son, James, who continue Nigel’s active passion for choral church music, a deep love they shared together. Nigel died at home on 10 June 2005 from cancer of the kidney. He planned his own funeral, choosing the music sung so beautifully by his choir, accompanied by the Hexham Abbey organ that he so enjoyed playing in life. The packed Abbey congregation was bathed in sunlight streaming through the windows on that gloriously hot summer’s day – true to form, Nigel will have organised that too!<br/>Resource Identifier RCS: E010423<br/>Collection Plarr's Lives of the Fellows<br/>Format Obituary<br/>Format Asset<br/>First Title value, for Searching Dickson, Gordon Colin (1920 - 2013)ent://SD_ASSET/0/SD_ASSET:3869152024-05-10T08:30:45Z2024-05-10T08:30:45Zby David Barnard<br/>Publication Date 2023-07-07<br/>Asset Path Root/Lives of the Fellows/E010000-E010999/E010300-E010399<br/>Occupation Orthodontist<br/>Details Gordon Dickson was born in Yorkshire on 15 April 1920. He qualified in dentistry in Sheffield and served in the Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve during the Second World War. Developing an interest in orthodontics, he was the second consultant orthodontist to be appointed after the formation of the National Health Service in 1948. Initially in Birmingham, he moved to the south coast to establish a new department at the Royal Portsmouth Hospital in 1957.
Gordon developed a close working relationship with local colleagues and at an early stage established an innovative, part-time training programme and support service for dental practitioners undertaking orthodontic treatment. He was the author of *Orthodontics in general dental practice* and co-authored with Albert Wheatley, his technician, *An atlas of removable orthodontic appliances*. These became standard texts and were translated into several languages. He was active in the British Dental Association and served as chairman of the Portsmouth Section. He was later elected a life member of the Association.
He was invited to deliver the Northcroft Lecture of the British Society for the Study of Orthodontics in 1969 and served as president of the Society. He was elected as a member the Board of the Faculty of Dental Surgery of the Royal College of Surgeons of England in 1972 and vice-dean in 1978. At Portsmouth his personal qualities earned the respect of his consultant colleagues and he was elected chairman of medical staff. He retired from clinical practice in 1985.
Outside a distinguished career in dentistry, he had a love of music and combined his interests in natural history and photography. He received an award from the British Mycological Society in 1987 for organising a mycological survey in the Amazonian rain forest in Ecuador. In 1996 he co-authored *The fungi of the new forest – a mycota*, which became a definitive reference book.
Gordon was held in great affection by those who knew him. He died in Hampshire on 1 August 2013 in his 94th year. His wife Joy predeceased him but he is survived by his sons Richard and Robert, his daughter Diana and four grandchildren.<br/>Resource Identifier RCS: E010338<br/>Collection Plarr's Lives of the Fellows<br/>Format Obituary<br/>Format Asset<br/>First Title value, for Searching Metcalf, John (1932 - 2022)ent://SD_ASSET/0/SD_ASSET:3873412024-05-10T08:30:45Z2024-05-10T08:30:45Zby Chris Stephens<br/>Publication Date 20-09-2023<br/>Asset Path Root/Lives of the Fellows/E010000-E010999/E010400-E010499<br/>Occupation Orthodontist<br/>Details John Metcalf was a consultant orthodontist at Woolwich and Dartford, London. He was born in Bury St Edmunds, the son of Reginald Metcalf and Leila Metcalf née Moore, and qualified from Guy’s Hospital Dental School in 1955.
After National Service, he entered general dental practice in Thames Ditton but, having soon decided on a career in orthodontics, obtained a part-time registrar post in the children’s dental department of Guy’s at a time when it was still possible to fulfil the requirements for the diploma in orthodontics (DOrth) from the Royal College of Surgeons of England by a preceptorship rather than by attending a full-time taught course.
John applied himself to whatever he did with industry and dedication. At that time more than 90 per cent of NHS orthodontics was still undertaken with removable appliances and the use of simple, fixed appliances was confined to hospital departments. Like many of his generation, John was soon aware that his DOrth training and subsequent senior registrar experience at Guy’s had not equipped him to provide an internationally acceptable standard of treatment. This longstanding inadequacy was later acknowledged by Dick Mills in his 1977 editorial ‘At the crossroads’ in the *British Journal of Orthodontics* (*Br J Orthod*. 1977 Oct;4[4]:157-8), but John was already well ahead of the game. In the 1960s he attended a Tweed Edgewise course at Tucson, Arizona and followed this up by joining one of the early Begg courses held in Nijmegen, in the Netherlands.
In 1969 John was appointed to a new consultant post at Woolwich and Dartford, which included one day a week at Guy’s, where he remained a popular and effective undergraduate teacher. Always unfailingly helpful and cheerful, he endeared himself to many generations of students. During this time he met an attractive Guy’s house surgeon intent on a career in orthodontics; he and Eileen (née Scutt) married in 1972.
Soon after his consultant appointment, John set up the Brook Orthodontic Study Group at Shooters Hill to raise orthodontic treatment standards provided by local dental practitioners and subsequently became the local postgraduate tutor. He was later to become chairman of the regional dental committee and a member of the dental surgery specialty sub-committee of the regional medical committee.
In 1992 John was elected president of the British Society for the Study of Orthodontics. His thoughtful presidential address entitled ‘1992 – the year of change’ accurately foresaw the changes in specialist dental training which were likely to follow the implementation of the European Act of that year and which were later described in the Mouatt Report of 1995.
John retired in 1997 and was then able to devote more time to his family and his many interests. These included fly fishing, traditional jazz, gardening and wine (he had an extensive air-conditioned wine cellar). Keen on motoring from an early age, John was a longstanding member of the Institute of Advanced Motorists (IAM) and held the RoSPA (Royal Society for the Prevention of Accidents) gold award. For many years he was an official observer/instructor for those aiming to pass IAM tests and provided free lessons for many friends and local residents wishing to take this.
John died peacefully surrounded by his family on 17 June 2022, having fallen ill shortly after celebrating his 90th birthday. The high esteem in which he was held, both among his colleagues and within the local community of Knockholt, Kent, was reflected by the huge attendance at his funeral held at St Katharine’s Church. John was survived by his wife Eileen and five children.<br/>Resource Identifier RCS: E010463<br/>Collection Plarr's Lives of the Fellows<br/>Format Obituary<br/>Format Asset<br/>First Title value, for Searching Broadway, Edward Samuel (1927 - 2020)ent://SD_ASSET/0/SD_ASSET:3867812024-05-10T08:30:45Z2024-05-10T08:30:45Zby Ronald Broadway<br/>Publication Date 2023-07-03<br/>JPEG Image<br/>Asset Path Root/Lives of the Fellows/E010000-E010999/E010200-E010299<br/>URL for Files <a href="https://livesonline.rcseng.ac.uk/client/en_GB/search/asset/386781">https://livesonline.rcseng.ac.uk/client/en_GB/search/asset/386781</a>386781<br/>Occupation Orthodontist<br/>Details Eddie, the elder of twins, was born in Hackney, his early education was at Bancroft’s School and his undergraduate years were spent at The Royal Dental Hospital, where he qualified BDS with Honours. After House Surgeon appointments and during RAF National Service, he gained FDS RCS. On demobilisation he worked at the Westminster, St Thomas's, Eastman and Royal Dental Hospitals and passed the D Orth RCS.
In 1957, he was appointed the first Consultant Orthodontist to the East Anglian region, based in Ipswich. He set up clinics, and as a member of the Hospitals Group (President 1974) lectured to BDA sections. This progressed and became normalised under the Regional Postgraduate Medical and Dental Federation. Cambridge University appointed him Regional Advisor; he subsequently became its Chairman and latterly dental Dean.
He was a council member of the British Society for the Study of Orthodontics and a founder member of the Consultant Orthodontists Group.
A WHO fellowship enabled him to visit Scandinavia with his plastic surgical colleague to further his interest in cleft lip and palate repair. He joined the European Orthodontic Society and was an active participant.
In the 1970s, a new hospital was being planned for Ipswich; as planning committee chairman, he negotiated with the Minister of Health for a nucleus hospital, and in 1977, he was awarded a Queen’s Jubilee Medal.
From 1978, he served on the East Anglian Regional Health Authority, and in 1984 was elected Vice Chairman. He gained experience of government's attitudes to medicine and dentistry. In 1990, he was appointed OBE for Services to Medicine and on retirement he was awarded BDA life membership.
His dental training helped him to become a skilled craftsman. He built two Mirror dinghies in which he taught his children to sail. Before retirement, he started working as a silversmith, becoming accomplished and accepted into the Suffolk Craft Society, selling his products in East Anglian Galleries.
He was married to Jill for 65 years and had three children, two of whom became doctors. His later years were marred by spinal arthritis which was a great handicap. Unfortunately, latterly, Jill suffered from loss of short-term memory and he became her devoted carer until he broke his hip and died from post-operative COVID-19 pneumonia. Jill sadly died aged 93 from old age on 23 September.
Their joint funeral was at Ipswich Crematorium on 30 October 2020.<br/>Resource Identifier RCS: E010263<br/>Collection Plarr's Lives of the Fellows<br/>Format Obituary<br/>Format Asset<br/>First Title value, for Searching Bass, Timothy Philip (1931 - 2023)ent://SD_ASSET/0/SD_ASSET:3873422024-05-10T08:30:45Z2024-05-10T08:30:45Zby Chris Stephens<br/>Publication Date 2023-09-20<br/>Asset Path Root/Lives of the Fellows/E010000-E010999/E010400-E010499<br/>Occupation Orthodontist<br/>Details Tim Bass was a consultant orthodontist in Exeter. He was born in Chigwell, Essex, the eldest of four children and was educated at St Edward’s, Oxford, a boarding school. A career in dentistry was suggested by his father and Tim qualified from Guy’s in 1954.
After National Service in the Royal Army Dental Corps at Colchester, he gained a senior house officer post at the Eastman. In 1959 he became a registrar in oral surgery at Stoke Mandeville but, deciding on a career in orthodontics, obtained his diploma in orthodontics while a registrar at the Royal Dental Hospital and took his FDSRCS a year later.
After a linked senior registrar post with John Hooper at Bournemouth, Tim became a lecturer in orthodontics at the Royal. An inspiring teacher, he was soon head-hunted for a senior lecturer post at the London Hospital dental school. From here he moved back to Guy’s in 1968, which on refection he felt was a mistake for he found he was unable to introduce the new teaching methods he had seen employed at the London. (It was unfortunate that shortly before he took up his appointment a review of the dental curriculum there had endorsed the continued use of the ‘block system’, which meant that students only had three months in the department of orthodontics and children’s dentistry.)
In 1970 Tim applied successfully for the vacant consultant senior lecturer appointment at Bristol. Here he was able to introduce a longitudinal curriculum for the school in which students had one session a week in the orthodontic department throughout the three years of the clinical course and so were able to treat their own orthodontics cases and present these as part of their final examination.
Now married with two daughters and always keen on dinghy sailing – he built his first boat in 1953 and was later invited to consider joining the UK Olympic solo team – in 1974 he applied successfully for the vacant regional consultant post at Exeter, which then included sessions at Axminster, Barnstaple and Torbay. A strong supporter of the British Dental Association and a past secretary of the local Exeter section, Tim was made president of the western counties branch in 1992.
Retiring in 1994, his several memorable retirement parties reflected the esteem in which all held their genial and hardworking colleague. In retirement Tim completed a master’s degree in maritime history at Exeter University, became a member of Salcombe Harbour board, commodore of the local yacht club and later chairman of Salcombe Maritime Museum.<br/>Resource Identifier RCS: E010464<br/>Collection Plarr's Lives of the Fellows<br/>Format Obituary<br/>Format Asset<br/>First Title value, for Searching Hooper, John David (1916 - 2008)ent://SD_ASSET/0/SD_ASSET:3870692024-05-10T08:30:45Z2024-05-10T08:30:45Zby SJ<br/>Publication Date 2023-08-09<br/>Asset Path Root/Lives of the Fellows/E010000-E010999/E010300-E010399<br/>Occupation Orthodontist<br/>Details John Hooper was the first Consultant Orthodontist in England to be appointed to a District General Hospital following the inception of the National Health Service. His example helped to determine the pattern for the future delivery of orthodontic services in this country. He died at the age of 92 on 12 December 2008.
John David Hooper was born on 7 April 1916 and was educated at Ardingly College. He qualified in dentistry at the Royal Dental Hospital and then joined the staff in the orthodontic department. Following the outbreak of the Second World War, he was captured in Belgium and spent five years as a prisoner of war. Following liberation he married Sybil (née Morrison), a farmer’s daughter from East Lothian; they celebrated their diamond wedding anniversary in 2005.
John Hooper was appointed in 1950 at the Royal Victoria Hospital in Bournemouth. Despite a legendary work rate it quickly became apparent that the only way to cope with the demand was to utilise the services of interested local general dental practitioners. He provided them with training courses, diagnosis and treatment planning and continuing support which became a model that was soon followed throughout the country.
He was President of the British Society for the Study of Orthodontics in 1967 and one of the founding members of the Consultant Orthodontists Group, becoming chairman in 1970. He also held the important post of advisor to the Dental Estimates Board which regulated the orthodontic treatment carried out as part of the General Dental Services.
In addition to his professional achievements John was a family man and proud of his children, grandchildren and great grandchildren. He was also a keen sailor and great rugby fan. Both he and Sybil were the most hospitable of hosts and enjoyed the company of their wide circle of friends. Sybil predeceased him in November 2007 and he is survived by his son David, daughter Sheila and their six children.
John ran an efficient, productive but happy department and was completely committed to the ethos of the NHS. He was an excellent clinician and an enthusiastic teacher providing a role model for those of us that had the privilege of working with him.<br/>Resource Identifier RCS: E010392<br/>Collection Plarr's Lives of the Fellows<br/>Format Obituary<br/>Format Asset<br/>First Title value, for Searching Parker, Charles David (1929 - 2022)ent://SD_ASSET/0/SD_ASSET:3869502024-05-10T08:30:45Z2024-05-10T08:30:45Zby Chris Stephens<br/>Publication Date 2023-07-18<br/>Asset Path Root/Lives of the Fellows/E010000-E010999/E010300-E010399<br/>Occupation Orthodontist<br/>Details Charlie Parker, a consultant orthodontist in Leicester, was a plain-speaking Yorkshire man. Born in Bradford, he and his brother both qualified from Leeds Dental School. Charlie was more interested in dental development than dental disease and so entered the Schools Dental Service in Bradford in 1952. In those early days of the NHS dental extraction of children’s grossly decayed deciduous teeth under general anaesthesia was commonplace and Charlie soon realised that he needed to know more about the effects these unplanned extractions had on the child’s developing occlusion. To this end he gained a place on the newly-established postgraduate orthodontic course run by Clifford Ballard at the Eastman Dental Institute in London, from where he achieved his postgraduate diploma in orthodontics in 1957. By then he had decided on a hospital career. He obtained his FDS the following year and, after registrar and senior registrar posts, was appointed to a newly-created consultant appointment at Leicester. Here he was given a disused ward of the former Groby Road Isolation Hospital to convert to an orthodontic outpatient department.
From this challenging beginning, by the time he retired in 2002 the unit he had built up comprised three full-time orthodontic consultants, a senior registrar, a consultant in restorative dentistry (one of the first to be appointed outside a teaching hospital) and eight clinical assistants. In the intervening years Charlie had been treasurer and then chairman of the Consultant Orthodontist Group (COG), as well as a member of the British Dental Association’s (BDA) general dental services committee and was co-opted on to the BDA working party on specialisation in dentistry. Through the latter, he added his voice to those pressing for the establishment of dental specialist lists and the introduction of orthodontic therapists to increase the availability and reduce the cost of UK orthodontic treatment. The latter had been first advocated by the COG in 1966 and was finally approved by the General Dental Council in 2002.
At the inception of the NHS its three dental divisions (the Schools Dental Service, General Dental Service and Hospital Service) operated independently and by 1976 each had its own specialist orthodontic society. Charlie, with his experience of the former and with a brother working in the General Dental Service, soon formed the view that as far as orthodontic treatment was concerned each had a role to play if only they could be persuaded to talk to each other. It was therefore appropriate that, in 1981, Charlie became president of the British Society for the Study of Orthodontics when the first British Orthodontic Conference was held. This highly successful meeting provided a forum in which all five specialist orthodontic societies took part and led to their unification 1994 to form the British Orthodontic Society.
Charlie made another major contribution as a member of the Dental Estimates Board, which at that time authorised payment for all dental treatment undertaken within the General Dental Service of the NHS. He was also its orthodontic adviser from 1981 to 1992, and during his time greatly improved its efficiency by streamlining its system of prior approval for orthodontic treatment.
He was a devoted husband to Margaret (née Goss) and their three children, Sarah, Richard and William, and well known in the local professional community where the couple’s parties and hospitality were legendary.<br/>Resource Identifier RCS: E010352<br/>Collection Plarr's Lives of the Fellows<br/>Format Obituary<br/>Format Asset<br/>First Title value, for Searching Seel, Derek (1932 - 2021)ent://SD_ASSET/0/SD_ASSET:3854152024-05-10T08:30:45Z2024-05-10T08:30:45Zby Chris Stephens<br/>Publication Date 2022-02-04 2022-03-03<br/>Asset Path Root/Lives of the Fellows/E010000-E010999/E010000-E010099<br/>Occupation Orthodontist<br/>Details Derek Seel was a consultant orthodontist in Cardiff and Swansea and postgraduate dean for south west of England based at Bristol University. He was born on 2 April 1932 in Stockport, the son of William Alfred Seel and Olive Seel née Greenwell. He was educated at Stockport School and graduated from the University of Manchester dental school in 1956.
After completing a house surgeon appointment in Manchester, he spent six years in general practice, part of which was in Bulawayo, Southern Rhodesia. In 1960 he married Gillian Henderson.
In 1962 he returned to the United Kingdom to begin specialist training in orthodontics, firstly as a postgraduate in the Institute of Dental Surgery at the Eastman Dental Hospital and then as a senior registrar in Bristol
On completing his training he was appointed as a lecturer in orthodontics at the University of Bristol’s dental school and in 1969 became the first NHS consultant orthodontist in Wales at the newly established Cardiff dental school. There he met Russell Hopkins, a like-minded and energetic oral surgeon, and they soon set up one of the earliest combined clinics.
Keen to improve his own clinical skills, Derek was one of the first to realise the merit of the Australian Begg technique, which offered the first cost effective multibanded fixed appliance system. He soon established a local Begg study group, where members presented their own treated cases for discussion and criticism.
Always an active member of the British Dental Association (BDA), Derek became a member of its central committee for hospital dental services and later president of the BDA hospitals group. This led to being elected to represent his colleagues as chairman of the consultant orthodontist group in 1976. At that time there seemed to be no centrally held information about consultant appointments and the Ministry would frequently phone him up to find who had been appointed where. It was Derek’s idea that the group should draw up a consultant directory and indeed he did most of the work involved. This was then sold to colleagues and health authorities to give the group its first income stream.
In 1981 he was persuaded to stand for election to the board of the Dental Faculty at the Royal College of Surgeons of England, which he would serve for 14 years, the latter half as a member of the council of the College. During this time he was instrumental in setting up the Faculty’s audit working groups jointly with dental specialist associations and became chairman of the joint committee for higher training in dentistry and of its specialist advisory committee on orthodontics and paediatric dentistry.
In 1987, by now vice dean of the Faculty, Derek had become concerned that the College’s diploma in orthodontics was outdated. Also it was not the only ‘additional dental qualification’ in orthodontics recognised by the General Dental Council (GDC) as universities were by now offering MSc courses, some of which did not match contemporary standards. His solution was to negotiate the intercollegiate membership in orthodontics introduced in 1988 and to encourage senior orthodontic colleagues who held the old DOrth diploma to submit themselves voluntarily to the new examination. By this strategy the MOrth, requiring as it did proof of both clinical and academic excellence, rapidly became the national standard and is now highly regarded internationally. Memberships in community clinical dentistry (1989) and restorative dentistry (1993) soon followed. The existence of these meant that, following the publication of the Mouatt Report on dental specialist training, Derek’s successor Ken Ray was able to negotiate the ‘accord’ between the College, the universities and the GDC, which permitted the successful introduction of dental specialist lists in the UK.
In his early years on the board of Faculty Derek had come to believe that the College should represent the interests and standards of postgraduate dentistry as a whole and not just those of hospital dentistry. With the establishment of vocational training for dental practice in the UK and the introduction of the membership in general dental surgery examination (MGDS) in 1979, it was felt by many, though by no means all, that general dental practice was no longer adequately represented by the Faculty of Dental Surgery. Derek, now as dean, led the protracted negotiations which brought into being the Faculty of General Dental Practice (UK) in the final year of his office.
As if this was not enough in 1987, whilst continuing as a maximum part time NHS consultant in Cardiff and Swansea, Derek had agreed to become postgraduate dean for south west England based at Bristol University. This challenge he took on with his usual enthusiasm and energy. He had soon set up the Bristol University open learning in dentistry (BUOLD) based on the modular structure adopted by the Open University. This could lead to the award of the diploma in postgraduate dental studies, which he negotiated with its board of dental studies. The programme is still running successfully 30 years later.
In 1990 Derek became president of the British Society for the Study of Orthodontics. In the same year the National Health Service and Community Care Act brought about the introduction of the internal market within the NHS and the purchaser/provider split. Derek, by now well known as an effective campaigner for high quality NHS dental services, was asked by the Secretary of State to join the clinical standards advisory group to assist in carrying out this transformation of UK healthcare provision.
When Derek retired his colleagues were greatly concerned that his outstanding contributions as dean had not been recognised with the customary civil honour. However, for Derek this notable omission was outweighed by his FRCS by election for, as eloquently expressed by a leader in another field: ‘…no greater honor can come to any man than the respect of his colleagues’ (Cary Grant Oscar acceptance speech 1970).
Highly regarded by all who knew and worked with him, the dental profession owes Derek Seel a debt of gratitude for his vision, energy and determination to deliver high standards of dental care through postgraduate and continuing education.<br/>Resource Identifier RCS: E010079<br/>Collection Plarr's Lives of the Fellows<br/>Format Obituary<br/>Format Asset<br/>First Title value, for Searching Kettler, Christopher John Rossiter (1939 - 2019)ent://SD_ASSET/0/SD_ASSET:3867842024-05-10T08:30:45Z2024-05-10T08:30:45Zby David Tidy<br/>Publication Date 2023-07-03<br/>Asset Path Root/Lives of the Fellows/E010000-E010999/E010200-E010299<br/>Occupation Orthodontist<br/>Details Chris Kettler’s defining achievement was his contribution to the formation of the British Orthodontic Society, but he is remembered for so much more. A specialist practitioner, he was Secretary of the British Orthodontic Society (BOS) three times, he was also an active British Dental Association member, an expert witness for Dental Protection, and among many other voluntary roles, Secretary to the Bedford-based Great Ouse Orthodontic Study group. He worked selflessly for orthodontics in innumerable ways.
His mastery of the Begg appliance was legendary and his ability to demonstrate it fondly remembered by colleagues he taught as a postgraduate clinical lecturer at the Eastman. He had the potential to become a consultant but he opted instead to open his own practice limited to orthodontics in Bedford. The new NHS orthodontic contract of April 2006 was based largely on the Bedfordshire Pilot evolved by Chris with Sue Gregory, although he always denied responsibility for the Unit of Orthodontic Activity! He was awarded the MBE in 2011 for services to orthodontics.
Chris was Secretary of the British Association of Orthodontists, and the British Society for the Study of Orthodontics, and the first Secretary of the newly formed BOS in 1994. Prior to this, he had the key role of Secretary of the unification working group, a committee of orthodontists set up to merge five orthodontic organisations into one. The formation of the BOS finally came about after 15 years of hard graft by Chris and colleagues.
Most specialist organisations are limited to specialists, but not the BOS. Chris passionately believed that everyone practising orthodontics should be part of the Society. He was equally determined to recognise the role of dental care professionals. He was instrumental in the establishment of the role of the Orthodontic Therapist (OT), serving on the GDC Working Group for the OT Curriculum. He served for a time as President of the Orthodontic National Group for Orthodontic Nurses and Therapists.
He was keen for the BOS to be influential in European affairs and for many years attended meetings of European societies. Latterly, he was an invaluable member of the BOS Archive and Museum Committee. Chris liked to avoid the limelight and work behind the scenes but his enormous contribution to the specialty ensures he rightly takes his place as a luminary in the history of UK orthodontics.
Ever proud of his family, he is survived by three sons and several grandchildren.<br/>Resource Identifier RCS: E010266<br/>Collection Plarr's Lives of the Fellows<br/>Format Obituary<br/>Format Asset<br/>First Title value, for Searching Profitt, William Robert (1936 - 2018)ent://SD_ASSET/0/SD_ASSET:3879512024-05-10T08:30:45Z2024-05-10T08:30:45Zby Chris Stephens<br/>Publication Date 2024-03-26<br/>Asset Path Root/Lives of the Fellows/E010000-E010999/E010400-E010499<br/>Occupation Orthodontist<br/>Details William Robert Profitt, known as ‘Bill’, was head of the department of orthodontics at the University of North Carolina (UNC) at Chapel Hill, USA, and probably the most influential orthodontist of his generation. He grew up in Buies Creek, North Carolina, the son of teachers. His remarkable thirst for learning was evidenced by the fact that he taught himself to read at the age of three and subsequently skipped first grade. His mother, Edna, chair of the chemistry department at Campbell College, encouraged him to study science.
He studied dentistry at UNC, gained a PhD in physiology at the Medical College of Virginia and completed his orthodontic residency program at the University of Washington. In 1965, he joined the faculty of the University of Kentucky and served as the first chairman of the orthodontic department. He then taught at the University of Florida for two years.
In 1975 he joined the orthodontic faculty at UNC. He served as professor and later became chair of the department of orthodontics, a post he held for 26 years. He was still actively involved in teaching and lecturing at UNC and worldwide up until his death. In 1992, the UNC board of trustees appointed him a W R Kenan Distinguished Professor, considered to be one of the university’s most prestigious honours.
An active researcher, Bill’s main interests were the aetiology of malocclusion and the effectiveness of combined orthodontic and orthognathic treatment. During his career, he published more than 200 scientific papers. He was one of the first orthodontists to adopt clinical trial methodology when his department carried out landmark studies into the early treatment of class II malocclusion. These provided models for the adoption of randomised controlled trial methodology in orthodontics throughout the world.
Bill was also an approachable and effective educator. His textbook *Contemporary orthodontics* (Elsevier, Philadelphia, 2018), the sixth edition of which was published just before his death, was probably the most widely used book on orthodontic specialty programmes and is now available in 12 languages. Known simply as ‘Proffit’, nearly all orthodontists now own a copy. He also contributed chapters to 20 other books.
Bill was a gifted and witty speaker whose lectures, delivered in his slow, southern drawl, were much in demand throughout the world for he had the ability of making the most complex subjects appear simple. Always keen to explore new teaching methods, in his later life he quickly adopted and pioneered online distance learning.
A great anglophile, he was a frequent and welcome visitor to Britain and received an honorary FDS of the Royal College of Surgeons of England in 1990. His other many accolades included the American Dental Association Norton M Ross Award (1994), the American Board of Orthodontics Albert H Ketcham Award (2005) and the inaugural Lifetime Achievement Award in Orthodontic Research made by American Association of Orthodontics in 2017.
Bill in his earlier days was a fit and fearsome tennis player. He was proud of his ability to grow disease-free English roses in the unfavourable North Carolina climate. The worldwide travel, which he greatly enjoyed with Sara, his wife of 65 years, was linked to his ambition of riding on all the world’s major railways. This he largely accomplished.
Bill died on 30 September 2018. He was 81. He was survived by Sara and their three children, Lola, Ed and Glenn, eight grandchildren, and nine great-grandchildren. His influence on orthodontics has been immeasurable and all orthodontists throughout the world sadly miss him, many of whom contributed to the endowed chair created in his honour at UNC.<br/>Resource Identifier RCS: E010605<br/>Collection Plarr's Lives of the Fellows<br/>Format Obituary<br/>Format Asset<br/>First Title value, for Searching Doherty, Una Bernadette (1963 - 2023)ent://SD_ASSET/0/SD_ASSET:3873492024-05-10T08:30:45Z2024-05-10T08:30:45Zby Derrick Willmot<br/>Publication Date 2023-10-06<br/>JPEG Image<br/>Asset Path Root/Lives of the Fellows/E010000-E010999/E010400-E010499<br/>URL for Files <a href="https://livesonline.rcseng.ac.uk/client/en_GB/search/asset/387349">https://livesonline.rcseng.ac.uk/client/en_GB/search/asset/387349</a>387349<br/>Occupation Dental surgeon Orthodontist<br/>Details Una Doherty was a dental surgeon and specialist orthodontist in Sheffield. She was born on 2 October 1963 in the Creggan, Derry, the sixth of nine children. Her father Patrick Doherty’s employment, he was a project manager in the construction industry, brought the family to Cheshire in August 1970. Her mother was Susan Doherty née Browne.
Una qualified as a dental surgery assistant in 1985 at Liverpool Dental Hospital, at the same time as studying for her A levels. She was accepted on the dental degree course at Liverpool University, commencing September 1986, however, she was already determined to follow her lifelong passion, orthodontics. In the summer holidays she observed and assisted Warren Jones, a consultant at Warrington Hospital, with the intention of making that her career.
She was awarded her BDS in December 1990 and she stayed on at the dental school as a junior house officer. She then spent 18 months as a resident house officer at Worcester Royal Infirmary, under maxillofacial consultant Tony Sears. Living on site, she performed a one-in-two days on-call, and she would find herself travelling to district hospitals in Droitwich, Redditch and Malvern in the middle of the night.
After Worcester, she worked in the community in Hanley, in the Potteries, before returning to Liverpool for an oral surgery post. All this time she was studying for her FDS parts one and two, which she obtained in 1995. She was then accepted as a registrar on the MOrth training programme at Liverpool. She was an orthodontic registrar to Stephen Rudge, who described her as a tremendous clinician who was caring, conscientious and had a great rapport with patients. She obtained her MOrth and specialist registration in 1999 and worked as an associate with several orthodontists, before, in 2003, becoming principal of her own practice in Sheffield.
Her practice was on Glossop Road, Sheffield, and was subsequently based in a Georgian town house on that road, which had been a dental practice for over a century. She was involved in all the details of a refurbishment, which reflected her own strong sense of style, colour and aesthetics. It was a time of change in NHS primary dental care, with the new contract bringing in the ‘UOA’ (units of orthodontic activity) and the introduction of the ‘IOTN’ (index of orthodontic treatment need) scale. The practice was well-situated to expand into private treatments, both children and adults, and she became a successful Invisalign provider.
Una was very much a hands-on principal and was enthusiastically involved in all aspects of running the practice. The success of the orthodontic clinic derived as much from her personality as from the excellent results she achieved. Una was pleasant, reassuring, attentive and ready to answer any question. Patients would often send in friends and other family members for treatment. Una’s good nature brought loyal, hard-working support staff, who she would encourage to take extra qualifications to advance their careers.
She travelled internationally, Buenos Aires and Tokyo were particular favourites, and she raised money for the dental charity Dentaid on a 2007 trek up Mount Sinai. Closer to home, she enjoyed visiting the ancient houses of Derbyshire, and sponsored the Yorkshire Sculpture Park. She always dressed in her own distinctive style, enjoyed concerts, good food and dining out, and, during lockdown, she finally perfected her favourite, Irish soda bread.
It was orthodontics that was her great motivation and, even when she was unwell, Una continued to treat patients. This, and her positive, optimistic nature, helped her through the often-challenging treatments. Her passing, still seeming so young and full of energy for life, affected all who knew her. She will be deeply missed and ever remembered by former patients, family, friends, colleagues, and especially her husband Alan Caton.<br/>Resource Identifier RCS: E010468<br/>Collection Plarr's Lives of the Fellows<br/>Format Obituary<br/>Format Asset<br/>First Title value, for Searching Gould, Maurice Stephen Elliot (1923 - 2014)ent://SD_ASSET/0/SD_ASSET:3868712024-05-10T08:30:45Z2024-05-10T08:30:45Zby Chris Stephens<br/>Publication Date 2023-07-06<br/>Asset Path Root/Lives of the Fellows/E010000-E010999/E010300-E010399<br/>Occupation Orthodontist<br/>Details Stephen Gould was a consultant orthodontist at the Eastman Dental Hospital, London. He was born in Southampton, the son of Arthur Gould, a printer and alderman, and Alice Gould née Elliott. The family later moved to Wolverhampton and Stephen attended the local grammar school. After school, in 1941, he volunteered for the Army and served in India and Burma, joining the headquarters of the Allied Land Forces South East Asia in 1944. Four years later he was discharged with tuberculosis, which led to the loss of his left kidney.
He moved to London and, after a period of convalescence, started studying dentistry at Guy’s Hospital Dental School in 1949. Despite having to take a year out to undergo a partial removal of his remaining kidney, he qualified in 1955. He then spent a short period in general dental practice, while also holding a part time post as a demonstrator in periodontology at Guy’s. He then joined one of the first postgraduate orthodontic courses at the Royal Dental Hospital, London and gained his diploma in orthodontics in 1956.
Deciding on a hospital career, he gained his FDS in 1960 and joined the Eastman Dental Hospital as a senior registrar, being promoted to an orthodontic consultant there in 1963. He also developed an interest in temporomandibular joint dysfunction and established a specialist treatment clinic.
He was a member of the board of governors of the Eastman and, in the 1970s, played a crucial role, with the dean, Ivor Kramer, in securing the future of the hospital. Stephen served on the Eastman’s rebuilding committee from 1980 to 1985.
He served as honorary secretary of the British Society for the Study of Orthodontics (BSSO) for six years until 1974, during which time he helped organise the Third International Orthodontic Congress, held in August 1973 in London’s Festival Hall. He was chairman of the consultant orthodontists group from 1979 to 1981 and chairman of BSSO from 1984 to 1987.
In 1975 he submitted his paper to the BSSO council advocating unification of the then five British orthodontic societies, which marked the beginning of the unification movement. Initial steps included the setting up of the first working party on orthodontic standards and the robust response made jointly by the five orthodontic societies to the Schanshieff enquiry into unnecessary dental treatment, which in 1986 had unexpectedly concentrated on orthodontic treatment.
The first meeting of the unified British Orthodontic Society (BOS) took place in 1994, and Stephen became its president the following year. In his retirement Stephen continued to keep abreast of the society’s affairs. He was a regular attender of the BOS past presidents’ dinners and made a major contribution to *A history of the British orthodontic societies 1907-1994* (London, British Orthodontic Society, 2002).<br/>Resource Identifier RCS: E010326<br/>Collection Plarr's Lives of the Fellows<br/>Format Obituary<br/>Format Asset<br/>First Title value, for Searching Holmes, Brian (1932 - 2015)ent://SD_ASSET/0/SD_ASSET:3868632024-05-10T08:30:45Z2024-05-10T08:30:45Zby Stephen Dixon<br/>Publication Date 2023-07-06<br/>Asset Path Root/Lives of the Fellows/E010000-E010999/E010300-E010399<br/>Occupation Orthodontist<br/>Details Brian Holmes died peacefully on 24 March 2015 after stoically enduring Parkinsonism in his later years.
Brian was born in Alvaston, Derby, where his father owned a successful butcher’s business. He went to Bemrose School in Derby, before studying dentistry at Guy’s Hospital, London, qualifying BDS in 1955. As a student, Brian played tennis, was a runner and a very useful fast bowler. National Service followed, when he was posted to Hildesheim (West Germany) where he first met Mary, a teacher with the British Armed Forces. They married in 1958.
After National Service, Brian worked in the school dental service in London. He spent his registrar years at the Charles Clifford Dental Hospital in Sheffield and then, with his friend and colleague John Muir, shared a senior registrar rotation between Bournemouth and the Royal Dental Hospital. In 1969, he was appointed consultant orthodontist to a large area in North Lincolnshire – initially covering Grimsby, Scunthorpe and Louth.
Brian was a man of strong principles and integrity, utterly committed to the NHS and to service to his patients. With long waits to see him, he declined to cancel his clinic when Princess Diana visited Grimsby in 1983 to open the new district hospital. Quietly unassuming and never seeking publicity, Brian’s aim was to ‘get the job done’.
He understood and completely empathised with the problems of his colleagues in general dental practice, which earned him their widespread respect. Many were very grateful for the experience gained as clinical assistants in his department, where they appreciated not only his understated (and often quirky) sense of humour, but also his very real and lasting enthusiasm for orthodontics. Brian was immensely touched by the large number of his colleagues – past and present – who attended his retirement 'do' in Grimsby in 1997. He continued to support his successor by working as an unpaid, honorary consultant for another ten years.
All this is more remarkable because, at home, he cared for Mary, who suffered early onset dementia from 1982 until her death in 1996. He had a strong Christian faith and studied scripture deeply. He was sometime church warden and church organist in the village outside Grimsby, where he lived for 45 years.
Brian was a keen gardener and a lifelong supporter of Derby County and Derbyshire County Cricket. He leaves two children: Stephen (a GP) and Elizabeth, and two grandchildren.<br/>Resource Identifier RCS: E010318<br/>Collection Plarr's Lives of the Fellows<br/>Format Obituary<br/>Format Asset<br/>First Title value, for Searching Williams, John Kay (1940 - 2004)ent://SD_ASSET/0/SD_ASSET:3871122024-05-10T08:30:45Z2024-05-10T08:30:45Zby C J R Kettler<br/>Publication Date 2023-08-11<br/>Asset Path Root/Lives of the Fellows/E010000-E010999/E010400-E010499<br/>Occupation Orthodontist<br/>Details John Williams, Consultant Orthodontist to Pinderfields Hospital in Wakefield and Leeds Dental Hospital, had nearly completed his term as President of the British Orthodontic Society at the time of his sudden death on 3 September 2004. The presidency is the highest honour the Society can bestow on a member, and one that John richly deserved and characteristically performed with all the zeal he brought to everything he did.
In the early 1990s John, with others, made a very great contribution to the unification of the five UK national orthodontic societies which existed at the time – leading to the founding of the British Orthodontic Society in 1994.
He was elected to the Board of the Faculty of Dental Surgery of the Royal College of Surgeons of England in 1989, serving the maximum period allowed, 14 years, and was elected Vice Dean in 1995-96. He was an examiner for the MOrth for many years.
John was born on 7 May 1940 in Leicester. His father was a dentist in the School Dental Service and his mother a primary school teacher. He attended Wyggeston Grammar School in Leicester and qualified BDS at the Royal Dental Hospital of London, School of Dental Surgery in 1962. He passed the DOrth and FDS in 1966 and the MOrth in 1988.
John was an expert and very productive clinician. His students and trainees greatly admired his very practical approach to clinical problems. He was the co-author of two popular orthodontic textbooks. He was part of a team which regularly lectured, gave hands-on courses in the Far East and was a visiting lecturer in Libya and visiting examiner in Sri Lanka.
John had the knack of making friends easily and was extremely generous with his time in helping them. In particular he loved machines and anything mechanical and was much in demand by his friends to mend anything from watches to cars.
He had an extraordinarily enquiring mind and delighted in posing conundrums to his friends. He had a very wry sense of humour and would have enjoyed the great amusement we shared when some of his wonderfully funny spoof letters from the past were read out at his memorial service.
John is survived by his wife, Sonia and two children.<br/>Resource Identifier RCS: E010413<br/>Collection Plarr's Lives of the Fellows<br/>Format Obituary<br/>Format Asset<br/>First Title value, for Searching Stirrups, David Robert (1948 -2016)ent://SD_ASSET/0/SD_ASSET:3868542024-05-10T08:30:45Z2024-05-10T08:30:45Zby Royal College of Surgeons of England<br/>Publication Date 2023-07-06<br/>Asset Path Root/Lives of the Fellows/E010000-E010999/E010300-E010399<br/>Occupation Orthodontist<br/>Details David Stirrups, who died on Friday 12 August following a short illness, was an inspirational clinician, teacher, educationalist and colleague. David qualified from Sheffield Dental School in 1970, winning the prize for orthodontics. He became a Fellow of The Royal College of Surgeons of England in 1974 and did his orthodontic training in the North of England before being appointed a consultant at Glasgow Dental Hospital. It was during his training that David realised he needed to know more about statistics in order to analyse research papers and so completed an Open University degree in mathematics, followed by a Master’s degree in applied statistics. This training underpinned his innate facility with data, and made him sought after as a statistician. David was a very talented clinical orthodontist and his ability to predict facial growth and dental development and apply this to interceptive orthodontics was second to none.
Appointed to the Chair of Orthodontics in Dundee in 1992 he immediately made a huge impact. He was the dental school’s first teaching Dean and galvanised us into activity to improve and develop the curriculum. He published widely in the field of orthodontics and co-edited a unique book on dental education, which sought to summarise the germane learning points in the dental curriculum. As well as training undergraduates David was a very committed postgraduate teacher who loved helping people, and he inspired a generation of high achieving orthodontists. He was a mentor as well as a friend and colleague to many, and had endless patience and generosity with his time. David was a man of tremendous integrity and sound judgement, and his advice on a wide range of clinical, academic and political matters was much sought after. He also had a tremendous sense of humour and fun that was infectious, and he could lighten any dire academic event with a witty quip. Following retirement from Dundee in 2007 he took up a consultant post in Middlesbrough before he and his wife Anne retired to Cambridgeshire.
David had many interests including gardening, camping, orienteering and stamp collecting. He became a Fellow of the Royal Philatelic Society and was a world-renowned expert on the postage stamps of Gibraltar.
We remember David as a thoroughly decent man, talented and generous, who helped many along the way. His death at such an early age is tragic for one who had so much still to offer.<br/>Resource Identifier RCS: E010309<br/>Collection Plarr's Lives of the Fellows<br/>Format Obituary<br/>Format Asset<br/>First Title value, for Searching Robinson, Stanley Iain MacLeod (1940 - 2023)ent://SD_ASSET/0/SD_ASSET:3869492024-05-10T08:30:45Z2024-05-10T08:30:45Zby Royal College of Surgeons of England<br/>Publication Date 2023-07-18<br/>Asset Path Root/Lives of the Fellows/E010000-E010999/E010300-E010399<br/>Occupation Orthodontist<br/>Details Iain Robinson was a consultant orthodontist at Addenbrooke’s Hospital in Cambridge. The son of Stanley and Moira Robinson, he was born in Edinburgh on 22 January1940, shortly after the Second World War broke out. After the end of the war, his family moved south to Tadworth in Surrey, but, at the age of 13, Iain was sent back to boarding school in Edinburgh. At school he played rugby and joined the Combined Cadet Force, which led him to learn to fly at an early age. He entered Guy’s in 1958 and soon joined the sailing and rugby clubs. He qualified with the LDS in 1962, by which time he had decided on a career in hospital dentistry.
On the primary FDS course at the Royal College of Surgeons of England, he met his future wife Ann Peters, then an oral surgery senior house officer at the London Hospital. Perhaps inevitably, with the distraction of sailing and now playing rugby for the London Scottish, Iain needed a re-sit, while Ann passed the primary first time!
Iain then joined the one-year Eastman orthodontic course and achieved his DOrth in 1965, at which point he and Ann married. She was by this time a demonstrator in oral surgery at Guy’s and, three years later, Iain joined her there when he became a senior registrar in orthodontics in Jack Tulley’s department, where he made many lifelong friends. During his appointment, he and Ann were given a 15-month leave of absence to assist in the setting up of the Rangoon Dental School’s BDS course, which was being supported by the UK’s Ministry of Overseas Development under the post-war Colombo Plan. While there he was able to attend the Begg course on orthodontics in Melbourne and was therefore the ideal person to fill the consultant vacancy at Cambridge when Peter Burke left to take up a chair at Sheffield University in 1972. Peter had been an early convert to the Begg technique and on occasions required his patients to hold the first edition of Begg’s book open at the relevant page for guidance!
Iain addressed his new appointment with customary energy and enthusiasm and was soon being called upon to run practitioner courses outside his immediate area. One of Iain’s early patients, who he inspired to take up a career in dentistry, has recently retired from a consultant post in the specialty.
The 3rd International Orthodontic Congress held in London in 1973 demonstrated to many of the younger members of the specialty that its postgraduate training and UK NHS treatment did not meet contemporary international standards. This led to Iain becoming a founder member of the treatment study group of the British Society for the Study of Orthodontics, which produced the first of its demonstrations of exceptionally well treated, fully documented cases at the 1977 British Orthodontic Conference. This contributed to the pressure which brought about the establishment of the British Orthodontic Standards Working Party (1980) and ultimately to the introduction of the three-year specialist training programme in orthodontics.
On their arrival in Cambridge, Iain and Ann bought a house in Haslingfield, Cambridgeshire, with no mains water or electricity and a leaking roof; described by his four daughters as a ‘complete wreck’. This he and Ann set about restoring. As soon as it was reasonably habitable, the house became a centre for convivial gatherings of neighbours and colleagues, with an inexhaustible supply of home-grown vegetables. Many skiing and golf trips were planned in the kitchen and skiing remained a large part of Ian’s life until his later years.
Iain retired from Addenbrooke’s in 2002, but when Ann died tragically in 2012 he moved to Pampisford, also in Cambridgeshire, where he was immediately accepted and made welcome. Despite recovering from a fractured femur and a ruptured appendix (on his 80th birthday!), he remained positive and cheerful and, with the help of good neighbours, was able to stay in his own house and to accommodate Ukrainian refugees. He was planning a reunion of former colleagues at the time of his unexpected death. He will be greatly missed by all, especially his four daughters (who include a consultant radiologist and a consultant respiratory physician) and his seven grandchildren.<br/>Resource Identifier RCS: E010351<br/>Collection Plarr's Lives of the Fellows<br/>Format Obituary<br/>Format Asset<br/>