The Anguilla Day Lecture was named in memory of Mr. Walter Griffith Hodge by the Anguilla Day Committee established by the Government of Anguilla to plan the Official Anguilla Day activities.  Mr. Hodge (November 2, 1920 – May 13, 1989) was a distinguished Anguillian who was at the forefront of the Anguilla Revolution and was selected as Chairman of the Peace-Keeping Committee on that first Anguilla Day.  

The Walter G. Hodge Memorial Anguilla Day Lecture is intended to keep alive the memory of the Anguilla Revolution, the resolve of the Anguillian people to overcome and to accomplish, and the will to control their own economic and political destinies.

The first Walter G. Hodge Memorial Lecture was delivered by Mr. Fabian M. Fahie, Permanent Secretary Economic Development of the Government of Anguilla who had served as the first Chairman of the Social Security Board. The second was delivered by Mr. David Carty, Historian and Chairman of the Constitutional and Electoral Reform Committee, while the third was delivered on June 2^nd, 2003 by Dr. Lincoln V. Lewis, an Anguillian who is Professor Emeritus and an administrator at the University of Virginia, U.S.A. 

The other annual lecture sponsored by the Social Security Board is known for the time-being as the Social Security Lecture, held during Social Security Week in November of each year in commemoration of the passage of the Social Security Act 1980 on November 3^rd, 1980.   Its focus is on the economic and social development of Anguilla. 

The inaugural Social Security Lecture was delivered by Director of Social Security Mr. Timothy Hodge in November 2000, while Dr. Aubrey Armstrong, noted Caribbean Management Consultant, delivered the second in 2001.  The third Social Security Lecture was delivered by Governor of the Eastern Caribbean Central Bank Sir K. Dwight Venner in 2002 as part of the Anguilla Social Security Board’s 20^th Anniversary Celebrations.