Dame Margaret Seward, a former Secretary of Richmond Hill St Andrew's United Reformed Church in Dorset, and pioneer in the British dental sector, has died aged 86.
She was the first Dame within the profession, the first female resident dental house surgeon at The London Hospital, the first woman to be elected to the dentists’ governing body the General Dental Council, its first female president, and the first female to be named Chief Dental Officer for England, and the second woman to be elected President of the British Dental Association.