James Cargill Kinniburgh

After a short illness, Jimmy Kinniburgh died on December 16 1998. He was 57.

Jimmy was born in Glasgow and attended the High School of Glasgow for his secondary education. He qualified BDS from Glasgow University in 1964 and started work in Greig Hart's practice in Paisley Road West. In 1966 he joined David Thompson in Grangemouth and became a partner in 1968. David Thompson's death a few months later left Jimmy in sole charge. Over the next thirty years, with the help of partners Ian Herd and Alastair Bryden, who joined in 1978 and 1984 respectively, he built the business into the thriving and respected family practice that it is today. In 1994 Jimmy's daughter, Jane, qualified BDS at Glasgow, becoming the third dentist in the family, joining her father and aunt, Margaret Carruthers (née Muirhead).

Jimmy was a professional in every sense of the word. An assiduous attender at postgraduate courses throughout his career, his clinical skills and obvious concern for his patients' welfare earned him a well deserved reputation for excellence and integrity among his patients and his colleagues. An active member of the BDA at Branch and Section level since a student, and a former president of the Stirling Section, it was typical of Jimmy that, only a few days before his death, he made a special trip to Glasgow to support a former colleague who was speaking at the Branch meeting.

In 1969 Jimmy married Janet Muirhead. Their mutual love and support and their four children produced a happy family home in which Jimmy's unfailing good humour and kindness flourished. His and Janet's hospitality to their many friends was generous and unstinting, and Jimmy's obvious delight in seeing his friends enjoying themselves round his table was a pleasure in itself. His work for the Scouting movement, The Rotary Club and his childrens' schools was done with modesty and commitment and the large turnout at his funeral was evidence of how greatly his loss was felt in the wider local community.

Jimmy Kinniburgh was a gentle man whose life was based on his sincere Christian beliefs and whose deeds, both private and public, brought nothing but credit on himself, his family and his profession. His genial company and kind counsel are greatly missed by all his many friends and colleagues, and his family have lost a devoted husband, father and brother. Our deepest sympathies go to Janet, their children Jane, Robin, David and Nicholas, and Jimmy's sister Irene.

JWC

Granger McCallin

Granger McCallin died on August 14 1998, following a long and courageous battle with cancer. He was a distinguished orthodontist who made a significant contribution to the development of British orthodontics in the post war years.

Born in Chicago on March 13 1911, Granger was brought to England in 1913 when his father, Sydney McCallin, came from the USA to set up a general dental practice in Grosvenor Street, London. He was educated at Stowe School and in 1928 returned to the USA to enter Cornell University to undertake a general arts degree, but following the 1929 Wall Street financial crash he returned to the UK. Back in London, he established a sports shop specialising in fishing tackle and repairs but gave this up when in 1935 he was admitted to Guy's to study dentistry.

Granger qualified in 1939 and became an assistant to Mr R LeCron in the West End of London and subsequently, in 1940, to Mr Pritchard in Farnham, Surrey. In 1942 he joined the staff, on a part-time basis, of the Eastman Dental Clinic and also held a part-time appointment in the children's department of the Westminster Hospital. He was appointed a part-time Consultant to the Orthodontic department when the Eastman Dental Hospital came into being at the start of the NHS in 1948 — a post he held until his retirement.

In 1952 he joined Hamish Thomson, David Downton and Len Morley in setting up the prestigious group practice at 57 Portland Place W1. At the same address he subsequently developed his own exclusively orthodontic practice which took on a strong international flavour with the arrival of Maurice Berman from South Africa and Malcolm Munday from Australia.

He was president of the BSSO from 1960-61 and was elected the first chairman of the Consultant Orthodontists Group at its inception, also in 1961. He was president of the American Dental Society of London in 1967-68. He retired from the Eastman (and the NHS) in 1972 and from the practice in 1981.

He had become a British citizen in 1975 and was married twice, firstly to Joan Addison with whom he had two children, Charles and Judith. After Joan died in 1970 he married Pat Addison in 1972, previously his widowed sister-in-law, and thereby gained a stepdaughter, Anne. After his retirement from the Eastman they moved from London to Hampshire where he was able to deploy his talent for gardening and to indulge his passion for classical music, fishing and golf. When Pat died in 1984 he moved back to London to be near his children who have survived him.

MSEG