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First Title value, for Searching Nath, Narindra ( - 2003)

2025-07-06T06:56:54Z

by Sarah Gillam
Publication Date 2023-12-01
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Occupation Orthodontist Dental surgeon
Details Narindra Nath was an orthodontist from Croydon. He gained his FDS RCS in 1963. He died in 2003.
Resource Identifier RCS: E010566
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First Title value, for Searching Thomson, Hamish ( - 2003)

2025-07-06T06:56:54Z

by Sarah Gillam
Publication Date 2023-08-16
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Occupation Orthodontist Dental surgeon
Details Hamish Thomson was a dental surgeon in private practice in Portland Place, London, an honorary senior lecturer in the department of prosthetics at the Institute of Dental Surgery and a consultant at Eastman Dental Hospital. He qualified in Glasgow in 1940 and gained his FDS from the faculty of dentistry of the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh and a doctorate of dental surgery. In 1980 he was awarded an FDS from the faculty of dentistry at the Royal College of Surgeons of England ad eundem. He was president of the section of odontology of the Royal Society of Medicine in 1981. He wrote the textbook *Occlusion* (1975, John Wright and Sons Limited, Bristol). The College was notified of his death in 2003.
Resource Identifier RCS: E010444
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First Title value, for Searching Friend, Dorothy Jean (1917 - 2006)

2025-07-06T06:56:54Z

by Sarah Gillam
Publication Date 2023-12-01
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Occupation Orthodontist Dental surgeon
Details Dorothy Jean Friend was a consultant orthodontist whose last known address was in Cambridge. She was born Dorothy Jean Brown on 6 April 1917 in Stone, Staffordshire, the daughter of Ethel May Brown née Billington and Richard Brown. She studied dentistry in London and qualified in 1941. She gained her fellowship of the Royal College of Surgeons of England in 1948 and a diploma in orthodontics in 1954. She married John Henry Friend in 1952. Friend died on 27 July 2006. She was 89.
Resource Identifier RCS: E010555
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First Title value, for Searching Dockrell, Rodney Beresford (1921 - 2007)

2025-07-06T06:56:54Z

by Sarah Gillam
Publication Date 2023-08-02
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Occupation Orthodontist Dental surgeon
Details Professor Rodney Beresford Dockrell was the first dean of the Faculty of Dentistry at the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland. He was born on 1 July 1921 in Dublin. His father, Henry Morgan Dockrell, was managing director and chairman of the family firm Thomas Dockrell, Sons and Co, a hardware store and builders’ merchants in central Dublin, and a prominent Fine Gael politician. His mother was Alice Evelyn Dockrell née Hayes. Dockrell’s siblings included Percy and Maurice, who also became Fine Gael politicians, and Marguerite, a champion swimmer who competed in the 1928 Olympics. His grandfather Sir Maurice Edward Dockrell was a Unionist MP; his grandmother Margaret Dockrell née Shannon was a suffragist, philanthropist and councillor. Dockrell attended Kingsdown Grammar School and then Trinity College Dublin, where he studied dentistry and medicine. He qualified with his MB BCh in 1948 and by 1954 had achieved a masters degree in dental science. He spent a postgraduate year at Harvard, where he learnt the latest American research on cranial-facial growth development. Back in Ireland, he trained in orthodontics with the pioneering orthodontist Sheldon Friel, later opening consulting rooms in the same house as Friel in Fitzwilliam Place and building up a successful private practice. In 1964 Dockrell was appointed to the chair of orthodontics at Trintiy College Dublin and gave up his private practice, becoming chief consultant at Dublin Dental Hospital. From 1965 to 1980 he was also director of Trinity’s school of dental science. When the new faculty of dentistry was established at the Royal College of Surgeon in Ireland, he was appointed as the first dean. He was also president of the metropolitan branch of the Irish Dental Association and Ireland’s representative on the General Dental Council in the UK. Through the European Orthodontic Society, he maintained contact with colleagues abroad, especially in Norway and Sweden. In 1965 he became a fellow of the Faculty of Dental Surgery at the Royal College of Surgeons of England. He enjoyed gardening, modern Irish art, music and chess, as a member of the Dublin-based Rathmines Chess Club. He and his wife Adrienne (née Forde), whom he married in 1951, had a holiday home at Ballyconneely, Connemara, where he fished for trout. Dockrell died on 11 June 2007 at St James’s Hospital, Dublin. He was 85. He was survived by Adrienne, their four children Hazel, Hayes, Derek and David, and grandchildren Vicky, Simon, Lucy, George, Ben and Killiant.
Resource Identifier RCS: E010383
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First Title value, for Searching Doherty, Una Bernadette (1963 - 2023)

2025-07-06T06:56:54Z

by Derrick Willmot
Publication Date 2023-10-06
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Occupation Dental surgeon Orthodontist
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.
Resource Identifier RCS: E010468
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First Title value, for Searching Ballard, Clifford Frederick (1910 - 1997)

2025-07-06T06:56:54Z

by Chris Stephens
Publication Date 2025-03-06
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Occupation Orthodontist Dental surgeon
Details There can be no doubt that Clifford Ballard was the most important figure in British orthodontics during the 20th century and a significant influence in orthodontic thought throughout the world during the post war period. In his upbringing he had the advantage of being the eldest son of Frederick Ballard. The latter, although holding no dental qualification, was by 1948 regarded as ‘the voice of British dentistry’ by Aneurin Bevan, minister of health in the post-war Labour Government and chief architect of the UK National Health Service. It was because of Frederick Ballard’s influence that dentistry was included in the NHS. Clifford Ballard was born on 26 June 1910 in Willesden, Middlesex. His mother was Eliza Susannah Ballard née Wilkinson. He attended Kilburn Grammar School and entered the Royal Dental Hospital School of Dental Surgery in 1930. This was the same year the remarkable Corisande Smyth was appointed there as its first demonstrator in orthodontics and which led to the introduction of its first course of undergraduate lectures in the subject the following year. After gaining his LDS in 1934, Clifford joined his father’s practice before attending Charing Cross Hospital to achieve medical qualifications. In 1940, he returned to the Royal to become a full-time member of its teaching staff and where he spent the next 12 years teaching undergraduates and formulating his ideas on orthodontics. During the Second World War, as well as having medical responsibility for a number of aircraft factories, he became orthodontist to Middlesex County Council. It was during this time that he started working as a clinical assistant at the upper respiratory clinic of the Victoria Hospital for Children, which would be merged with St George’s Hospital in 1948. Here he worked with the ENT surgeon Eric Gwynne-Evans, and it was Ballard’s experiences in the management of children with respiratory problems which focused his attention on the activities of the orofacial musculature and their importance in determining the form of the dental arches. In 1936 Ballard’s father, later to be awarded an OBE for services to dentistry, had been elected as one of two members who served on the dental board of the General Medical Council to represent dentists registered under the terms of the 1921 Dentists Act. By 1947 Frederick was chairman of the dental board’s postgraduate education committee as well as a member of the boards of both University College Hospital and the Eastman Dental Hospital. It was therefore not surprising that, in 1948, Clifford Ballard was appointed head of the orthodontic department of the newly created Institute of Dental Surgery at the Eastman, where he remained until his retirement in 1972. He immediately established the first UK postgraduate course in orthodontics. In the same year he published his seminal paper ‘Some bases for aetiology and diagnosis in orthodontics’ (*Dental Record* 68: 133-145 [June] 1948), the first of a series which over the next 10 years would place orthodontic treatment on a sound scientific basis. Thereafter a World Health Organization travelling fellowship led to him lecturing extensively throughout the world including Europe, the United States, Canada and Australia. In the mid-1950s, with several of his former postgraduates established in NHS consultant orthodontist posts, he and John Hovell of the Royal Dental Hospital instituted an annual postgraduate meeting at the Eastman, which led in 1962 to the founding of the Consultant Orthodontist Group (COG). Originally intended to bring colleagues up to date with the latest orthodontic research and techniques, the COG soon provided an important influence on consultant training via the specialist advisory committee of the Joint Committee for Higher Training in Dentistry when this was established in 1969. Ballard was a civil consultant to the Royal Air Force for many years. He served as editor of the British Society for the Study of Orthodontics’ *Transactions* for seven years before becoming its president in 1957. Amongst many honours, he received both the fellowship of the Faculty of Dental Surgery and the diploma in orthodontics at the Royal College of Surgeons of England without examination when they were established. He gave the 1967 Northcroft Memorial lecture of the British Society for the Study of Orthodontics and received the Royal College of Surgeons of England’s Colyer gold medal. Despite his somewhat stern exterior, Clifford Ballard had a keen sense of humour, was a kindly and caring man, hospitable, loyal and tolerant towards his staff and students. Married to Muriel Mable (née Burling) with a son and daughter, he and his wife retired to Salisbury in 1972, and it was only with great reluctance that Ballard was persuaded to return to London in 1990 to be the first recipient of the medal of the Consultant Orthodontist Group, which bears his name. Ballard died on 16 July 1997. He was 87.
Resource Identifier RCS: E010716
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