# List of presidents of the Royal College of Physicians of Ireland

The president of the Royal College of Physicians of Ireland (RCPI) is the elected head of the Royal College of Physicians of Ireland.

## Presidents of the Royal College of Physicians of Ireland

* 1667–1669 John Stearne
* 1672–1674 Sir Abraham Yarner
* 1674-1675, 1695-1696, 1701-1702, 1707-1708 Ralph Howard
* 1675-1677 Charles Willoughby
* 1677-1681 Robert Waller
* 1681-1686, 1690-1693, 1696-1697, 1698-1699, 1706-1707 Sir Patrick Dun
* 1687-1690 (election not confirmed) John Crosby
* 1694-1695, 1697-1698, 1700-1701 John Madden
* 1699-1700 Duncan Cumings
* 1702-1703, 1709-1710, 1713-1714, 1720-1721 Sir Thomas Molyneux, 1st Baronet
* 1703-1704, 1710 Richard Steevens
* 1704-1705, 1708-1709, 1710-1711, 1719-1720, 1721-1722 William Smyth
* 1705-1706, 1711-1712 Robert Griffith
* 1712-1713, 1723-1724 Patrick Mitchell
* 1714-1715, 1722-1723, 1738-1739 James Grattan
* 1715-1716, 1724-1725 Richard Hoyle
* 1728-1729 Richard Helsham
* 1717-1718, 1726-1727 Samuel Jemmat
* 1718-1719, 1727-1728, 1739-1740 Bryan Robinson
* 1728-1729, 1740-1741 Henry Cope
* 1729-1730, 1741-1742 Francis LeHunte
* 1730-1731 Samuel Arnoldi
* 1731-1732 Thomas Madden
* 1732-1733 Alexander McNaughten
* 1733-1734, 1742-1743, 1759-1760 William Stephens
* 1734-1735 John Van Lewen
* 1735-1736, 1743-1744 John Hemsworth
* 1736-1737, 1744-1745 Thomas Kingsbury
* 1737-1738 Francis Foreside
* 1745-1746, 1761-1762 Patrick Hewetson
* 1746-1747 Edward Aston
* 1747-1748 Edward Smyth
* 1748-1749, 1760-1761 Robert Robinson
* 1749-1750 Sir Edward Barry, 1st Baronet
* 1750-1751 Thomas Lloyd
* 1751-1752 John Anderson
* 1752-1753, 1762-1763, 1770-1771, 1773-1774, 1778-1779 John Ferrall
* 1753-1754, 1763-1764 Ezekiel Nesbitt
* 1754-1755, 1764-1765, 1769-1770 Constantine Barbor
* 1755-1756 Anthony Relhan
* 1756-1757, 1765-1766 Richard Wood
* 1757-1758 Adam Humble
* 1758-1759, 1766-1767, 1771-1772, 1774-1775, 1779-1780, 1781-1782 Henry Quin
* 1767-1768, 1772-1773, 1775-1776 Sir Nathaniel Barry, 2nd Baronet
* 1768-1769, 1776-1777 Clement Archer
* 1777-1778, 1780-1781 Francis Hutcheson
* 1782-1783, 1789-1790, 1795-1796, 1801-1802, 1808-1809, 1813-1814 Edward Hill
* 1783-1784, 1790-1791, 1796-1797 Arthur Saunders
* 1784-1785, 1791-1792, 1797-1798, 1800, 1802-1803, 1809-1810, 1814-1815 William Harvey
* 1785-1786, 1792-1793, 1798-1799, 1803-1804, 1810-1811, 1815-1816 Francis Hopkins
* 1786-1787, 1793-1794, 1800-1801 Patrick Plunket
* 1787-1788, 1794-1795, 1799 (resigned) Edmund Cullen
* 1788-1789 Charles William Quin
* 1799–1800 Robert Perceval
* 1804-1805 Alexander Pelissier
* 1805-1806, 1806-1807, 1811-1812, 1816-1817 James Cleghorn
* 1807-1808 Daniel Mills
* 1812-1813, 1818-1819 Thomas Herbert Orpen
* 1817-1818 Anthony Gilholy
* 1819-1820, 1827-1828, 1831-1834 Hugh Ferguson
* 1820-1821 James Callanan
* 1821-1822 George Francis Todderick
* 1822-1823 Robert Bredin
* 1823-1824, 1829-1831 Samuel Litton
* 1824-1825 John O'Brien
* 1825-1826 James John Leahy
* 1826-1827 William Brooke
* 1828-1829 Charles Richard Alexander Lendrick
* 1834-1836 Jonathan Osborne
* 1836-1838 Charles Philips Croker
* 1838-1841 George Alexander Kennedy
* 1841-1843, 1845-1847, 1857-1859 Sir Henry Marsh, 1st Baronet
* 1843-1845 Robert James Graves
* 1847-1849 Robert Collins
* 1849-1851, 1866-1867 William Stokes
* 1851-1853 William Fetherston-Haugh Montgomery
* 1853-1855 Evory Kennedy
* 1855-1857 John Mollan
* 1859-1864 Sir Dominic Corrigan
* 1864-1866 Thomas Edward Beatty
* 1867-1869 Fleetwood Churchill
* 1869-1871 Sir John Thomas Banks
* 1871-1873 Alfred Hudson
* 1873-1875 James Foulis Duncan
* 1875-1878 Samuel Gordon
* 1878-1880 Henry Haswell Head
* 1880-1882 George Johnston
* 1882-1883 William Moore
* 1884-1886 Sir Francis Richard Cruise
* 1886-1888 James Little
* 1888-1890 Lombe Atthill
* 1890-1892 John Magee Finny
* 1892-1895 Walter George Smith
* 1895-1896 Thomas Wrigley Grimshaw
* 1896-1898 Sir George Frederick Duffey
* 1898-1900 Sir John William Moore
* 1900-1902 Sir Christopher Nixon
* 1902-1904 Sir Arthur Vernon Macan
* 1904-1906 Sir William Smyly
* 1906-1908 Sir Joseph Michael Redmond
* 1908-1910 Sir Andrew Horne
* 1910-1912 Sir John Hawtrey Benson
* 1912-1914 Charles Edward Fitzgerald
* 1914-1916 Ephraim MacDowel Cosgrave
* 1916-1919 Joseph O'Carroll
* 1919-1922 Sir James Craig
* 1922-1924 Michael Francis Cox
* 1924-1925 Sir William Thompson
* 1925-1927 Thomas Wilson
* 1927-1930 William Winter
* 1930-1933, 1934 Thomas Gillman Moorhead
* 1933-1934 Francis Purser
* 1934-1937 John Agar Matson
* 1937-1940 William Boxwell
* 1940-1943 Robert James Rowlette
* 1943-1946 William Geoffrey Harvey
* 1946-1949 Bethel Solomons
* 1949-1952 Leonard Abrahamson
* 1952-1955 Edward Freeman
* 1955-1958 Francis O'Donnell
* 1958-1960 Patrick O'Farrell
* 1960-1963 Robert Elsworth Steen
* 1963-1966 Robert Brian Pringle
* 1966-1969 Albert Thompson
* 1969-1972 David Mitchell
* 1972-1974 William J. E. Jessop
* 1974-1977 Bryan Alton
* 1977-1980 Alan Proctor Grant
* 1980-1983 Dermot Holland
* 1983-1986, 1989 John Kirker
* 1986-1988 Ivo Drury
* 1989-1991 Ciaran Barry
* 1991-1994 John Stephen Doyle
* 1994-1997 Stanley Roberts
* 1997-2000 Brian Keogh
* 2000-2003 Desmond Canavan
* 2003-2006 T J McKenna
* 2006-2007 John F. Murphy
* July 2007-2011 John Donohoe
* 2011-2014 John Crowe
* 2014-2017 Frank Murray
* 2017-2023 Mary Horgan
* 2023- Diarmuid O'Shea