Thursday 5 February 2026, 11am-12.30pm (registration from 10.30am), London
l-r: Lilian Lindsay (1871-1960); the emblem of the Lindsay Society, which has celebrated her legacy with an annual lecture since 1995; Margaret Wilson, who will deliver the 2026 Lilian Lindsay memorial lecture
The Court Room, Cutlers’ Hall, Warwick Lane, London EC4M 7BR
The College will be hosting the Lindsay Society for the History of Dentistry for the delivery of the 31st annual Lilian Lindsay memorial lecture.
The lecture, entitled ‘Movers and shakers: remembered and forgotten‘, will be delivered by Margaret Wilson, former Editor of the Dental Historian (the journal of the Lindsay Society).
After graduating from the University of Liverpool Dental School in 1972, Lady Wilson worked in hospital and in Community Dental Services, later becoming a consultant in restorative dentistry and then clinical head of division at Central Manchester University Hospital NHS Trust, as well as an honorary senior lecturer in restorative dentistry at the University of Manchester and Honorary Curator of the city’s Dental Hospital Museum. She completed a PhD in biomaterial sciences, held a number of visiting professorships in the UK and the United States, and became Director of the National Advice Centre for Postgraduate Dental Education. After retiring in 2013, she served as President of the East Lancashire & East Cheshire branch of the British Dental Association (BDA) in 2015-2016, became Honorary Curator of the BDA Museum in 2016 and received Life Membership of the BDA in 2023. In 2024 she was awarded the Lindsay Memorial Medal for services to the history of dentistry.
The Lindsay Society for the History of Dentistry promotes interest, study and research into the history of dentistry and aims to bring together people who share these interests.
The Society is named after Lilian Lindsay (1871-1960), a leading dental historian and the first woman to be educated and trained as a dentist in the UK. After qualifying from Edinburgh in 1895, she went on to become the first female member, first librarian and first female president of the British Dental Association; President of the British Society for the Study of Orthodontics; and President of both the Odontological Section and History of Medicine Society at the Royal Society of Medicine. She was also the author of A Short History of Dentistry and published the first English language translation of Pierre Fauchard’s Le Chirurgien Dentiste (The Surgeon Dentist).
Tea and coffee will be provided.
This event will be free of charge and open to all but prior booking will be required (a link will be added here shortly).
Please note that this event will be followed in the same venue at 3pm by a reception to mark 20 years of Training Standards in Implant Dentistry and then at 6pm by the College’s Fellows’ Winter Reception, including the Presentations of Associate Fellows and Fellows, upstairs in the Livery Hall. These are ticketed events.
