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 take place on Thursday 5 February 2026 at the historic Cutlers’ Hall in London.
It 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).
The Lilian Lindsay Memorial Lectures have taken place annually since 1995, delivered around the UK by prominent members of the profession and other notable individuals.
The event is free of charge, with refreshments provided. Registration will open at 10.30am, with the lecture and post-lecture discussion taking place from 11am – 12.30pm.
The lecture will take place as part of a series of College events that day in the same venue. These include a forum, 20 years after the first publication of training standards, to discuss the College’s plans for structured career progression in implant dentistry; and the College’s Fellows’ Winter Reception, including the Presentations of Associate Fellows and Fellows. These are ticketed events, with further details and booking available on our Events page.
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