Thomas Berdmore was dentist to King George III. He was born around 1740 and died in 1785. He may have been apprenticed to Mark Skelton of Sheffield, Surgeon, in 1755 for the sum of £85. In due course he became renowned as the King's Dentist. A marble plaque in the church of St Mary the Virgin, Nottingham, records how he "acquired a liberal and ample fortune by the profession of dentist. He died the 7th Novr 1785, aged 45 years". His will had directed that his epitaph show his fortune had been acquired "by tooth drawing", but the family had found that too indelicate...