Frank Colyer

Sir James Frank Colyer (25 September 1866 to 30 March 1954) was a British dental surgeon and dental historian. He trained at Charing Cross Hospital and the Royal Dental Hospital, took the Licentiate in Dental Surgery of the Royal College of Surgeons of England in 1887, and two years later also qualified as a physician. He served as house officer, demonstrator of operative dentistry and then full surgeon at the Royal Dental Hospital, where he was dean from 1904 to 1909, and in 1893 he became dental surgeon to Charing Cross Hospital. In the First World War he was consulting dental surgeon to the Croydon War Hospital and the Ministry of Pensions and was made Knight Commander of the Order of the British Empire in 1920. In 1922 he became first president of the British Society of Dental Surgeons, which he helped found to oppose the admission of unqualified dentists to the British Dental Association. He was also honorary curator of the odontological museum from 1900 and wrote Dental Surgery and Pathology and John Hunter and Odontology.