1929–2013

Bill Maden died on 14 October 2013 at the age of 84.

He was born on 7 June 1929 and lived his early life in Bacup, Lancashire, attending the Bacup and Rawtenstall Grammar School. He attended Manchester University, qualifying as a dentist in 1951. He then served in the army as a captain in the Royal Army Dental Corps, mainly in Hong Kong.

After army service, he settled on the Isle of Wight as the school dentist in Newport, working at Nine Acres School. He was promoted to Chief Dental Officer and in 1974 he was appointed Area Dental Officer. When the area was removed in 1982, he went into general practice with Ian Poplett and Roy Burrows in Ventnor, also working at Whitecroft Hospital and HM Prison, Albany. He was also the Postgraduate Dental Tutor at St Mary's Hospital.

He was a keen member of the British Dental Association and served as chairman and secretary of the local section. He became Chairman of the Wessex Community Dental Service Group and President of the Wessex Branch and was appointed as a Life Member.

He practised hypnosis and was a Fellow of the British Society of Medical and Dental Hypnosis and the Royal Society of Medicine.

He was a former Master of Ryde Masonic Lodge (698) and a Past President and Paul Harris Fellow of the Rotary Club of Newport. He was a former member of the Board of Visitors at HM Prison, Albany and a former chairman of the Friends of the Isle of Wight Ambulance Service.

He leaves his wife, Jean, four children and six grandchildren.