Gwilym Ieuan (GI) Davies died on 23 February 2007, ten days after his eighty-fourth birthday. A very bright, intelligent young man, he commenced university aged 16 and remains the youngest dental graduate from Manchester. He joined the RAF on graduation in 1945 and this is where he met his wife Jeanne who sadly died last year. GI set up practice at 3 High Street Bethesda in December 1948. He worked full time until he was 72, single handed for many years until he was joined by his daughter Judi in 1973. GI has four children and all three of his daughters followed him into dentistry. He would have carried on working longer but was afflicted by Parkinson's disease which gradually stilled his cheerful voice and rendered his expressive face immobile.

Quality was his trademark and people beat a path to his door.

Quality was his trademark and people beat a path to his door. He was a member of many committees, a past president of his branch of the BDA and a life member of the Association. In 1979 he became one of the first cohort to achieve the MGDS. He was also a life member of this Association. He was awarded an FFGDP (UK) in March 2001 in recognition of his service to dentistry.

With a camera in his hand he had the uncanny knack of producing a smile from his subject and he developed and printed his own work late in the evenings after closing the surgery and at weekends when he was not on the golf course. He gained many qualifications from the Royal Photographic Society for portraits, aerial photography and medical work. His slides and films of maxillofacial surgery were used around the world by Gordon Hardman for whom he was an associate specialist at the old C&A hospital in Bangor. When Dame Margaret Seward was the editor of the BDJ he photographed many of the BDA conferences for her. Photographic contributions to BSGDS functions have been used in many of their publications over the years. Two books have been published of his aerial photography of North Wales. His aerial photographs have also been used in historical videos of the area and have been archived.