Dr.
W. A. Barry Brown
Barry
Brown was born 1927 at Lee-on-the-Solent and educated
at St. Georges College, Weybridge. He studied dentistry
at Guy's Hospital 1944-50 and qualified with an LDSRCS.
He spent his National Service in the Royal Army Dental
Corps (1951-53), serving in England and Nigeria.
While working as the Orthodontic House Surgeon at King's
College Hospital Dental School, London, he obtained
a D'OrthRCS and went on to be the Orthodontic Registrar
at the London Hospital Dental School.
From
1957-59 he worked at the University of Illinois, Chicago,
as a research assistant where he obtained an MSc degree
for determining the chronology of tooth development
in cattle, under the guidance of Maury
Massler.
Returning
to England 1959, he became a lecturer in Orthodontics
at Queen's University where, under the guidance of James
Henderson Scott, he analysed cranial
similarities in families for a PhD, awarded in 1970.
From
1964, he was Head of the Division of Orthodontics at
the newly founded Cardiff Dental School.
In 1971, he left clinical dentistry and was appointed
as a lecturer in Basic Sciences in the Anatomy Department
at King's College, London. Here he worked on a variety
of projects and retired as a reader in 1987. He has
continued to work on the assessment of age from dentitions
for different species of deer.
He
passes his time writing and socialising.
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