Stuart Tucker, who served the community of Southwold as a dental surgeon with great skill, integrity and kindness for over 30 years, died after a short illness on 7 September 2014.

Stuart attended Westcliff High School for Boys and qualified in dentistry from the Royal Dental Hospital in 1968. He was an excellent student who won the Prize in Oral Medicine & Oral Pathology in 1967.

He had a great affinity with East Anglia. When the practice in Southwold was presented for sale in 1976, he purchased it immediately, moved into Portland House with his family and served the community to the highest standards.

Stuart was a dental surgeon who always did his best for his patients. He spent a great deal of time on postgraduate study to ensure that he kept abreast of the latest developments in dental surgery. He was a founder member of the Norwich Dental Study Group, and completed the MGDS in Advanced Dentistry from the Royal College of Surgeons in Edinburgh in 1994.

Stuart was a loving husband to Melanie and father to Nicholas. He was intelligent, kind, unassuming and unfailingly honest. He loved books and was extremely well read, having collected the entire Everyman's Library. Not content with starting an ordinary book club, he founded a reading group based on European literature. He was a member of 'The Entertainers', the most successful quiz team in the area, and was one of those people who seemed to know the answer to almost everything. His kindness, wit, intelligence and compassion will be sorely missed by family, friends, colleagues and patients alike.