1923–2013.

Denys Goose died in April 2013 after a short illness at the age of 90.

He was the Director of Postgraduate Dentistry at Liverpool University when he retired in 1982.

After attending King Edward's School in Birmingham he went on to study dentistry at Birmingham University, following the earlier example of his sister Muriel Davis.1

Denys carried out his national service in 1946 as part of the Army Dental Corps, serving mainly in Egypt. He decided to join the School Dental Service and was appointed Chief Dental Officer for Northamptonshire in the late 1950s. During this period he determined to pursue research into the causes of dental disease.

He was appointed as Lecturer in Preventive Dentistry at Liverpool University in 1963 and moved to Chester with his wife, Janet, a museum curator, and their three children Paul, Barbara and Leslie. After becoming a senior lecturer Denys published extensively on his subject, producing over 100 research papers, and was responsible for authoring and co-authoring a series of books for Pergamon Press. These included Principles of preventive dentistry (1964) and Human dentofacial growth (1982). His reputation grew internationally and he travelled to a variety of countries, such as America, Scandinavia, Italy and Russia to lecture and further his research. In 1973 he became a reader of the university.

Denys actively pursued a number of outside interests, was a committed Quaker, and a member of the Campaign to Protect Rural England, as well as having a lifelong love of cricket. Following retirement, which he enjoyed with Janet, he held influential positions in a number of environmental and transport groups in both Chester and Shrewsbury, where he moved in 1989. He leaves a son, daughter and two grandsons.