# List of presidents of the Osler Club of London

The presidents of the Osler Club of London have been:

## 1950-1961

| Years | Name | Comments |
| 1950-1952 | Sir Zachary Cope | |
| 1952-1954 | Alfred White Franklin (1905 – 1984) | Franklin co-founded the Osler Club of London while he was a medical student at St Bartholomew's Hospital, London and later wrote a biography of Sir William Osler. |
| 1954-1956 | Vivian Green-Armytage (1882 - 1961 | Green-Armytage was a gynecologist, noted for his progressive views, his service to Indian gynaecology and obstetrics, and his distinguished service in the Royal Army Medical Corps during the First World War. |
| 1956-1958 | W. S. C. Copeman (1900 - 1970) | Copeman was a rheumatologist and a medical historian, best remembered for his contributions to the study of arthritic disease. |
| 1958-1961 | Arthur Dickson Wright (1897–1976) | |

## 1961-1971

| Years | Name | Comments |
| 1961-1963 | Harold Avery | |
| 1963-1965 | Charles Edward Newman | |
| 1965-1967 | Noël Poynter (1908-1979) | Librarian then Director of the Wellcome Institute for the History of Medicine. |
| 1967-1969 | Jessie Dobson (1906 - 1984) | Between 1954 and 1971, Dobson was the curator of the Hunterian Museum at the Royal College of Surgeons of England. |
| 1969-1971 | Kenneth Bryn Thomas (1915-1978) | |

## 1971-1981

| Years | Name | Comments |
| 1971-1972 | D. Geraint James (2 January 1922 – 20 October 2010) | James was a Welsh physician known for his work on sarcoidosis. He set up a specialist clinic for the condition and earned the nickname of the "King of Sarcoid". |
| 1972-1974 | John Cule | Cule was a Welsh general practitioner and later psychiatrist. |
| 1975-1976 | Henry R. Rollin | |
| 1976-1978 | Neil McIntyre | |
| 1978-1980 | P. M. Daniel | |
| 1980-1981 | L. G. Matthews | |

## 1981-1991

| Years | Name | Comments |
| 1981-1982 | Victor Cornelius Medvei | |
| 1982-1983 | B. T. Davis | |
| 1983-1984 | Arthur Hollman | |
| 1984-1985 | Alex Sakula | |
| 1985-1986 | Theodore T. Macadam | |
| 1986-1987 | Harvey White | In 1976, White became consultant surgeon at the Royal Marsden Hospital. Subsequently, he held posts at King Edward VII Hospital for Officers, St Luke's Hospital for the Clergy and The London Clinic. He is a past president of the Medical Society of London and vice president of the British Association of Surgical Oncology and Royal Society of Medicine. In 2012, he was the first recipient of the Royal Society of Medicine Medal. |
| 1987-1988 | Ruth Bowden | |
| 1988-1989 | Dame Josephine Barnes (1912 - 1999) | Barnes was a leading obstetrician and gynaecologist and the first female president of the British Medical Association, 1979. She was also active in the Women's National Cancer Control Campaign with cancer screening. |
| 1989-1990 | Sir Gordon Wolstenholme | |
| 1990-1991 | Sir Harold Ellis | |

## 1991-2001

| Years | Name | Comments |
| 1991-1992 | Sydney Selwyn | |
| 1992-1993 | John Garrett | |
| 1993-1995 | Gordon Cook | |
| 1995-1997 | William Dinning | |
| 1997-1999 | Edward Howard (Ted Howard) | |
| 1999-2001 | John W. K. Ward | Ward is a general practitioner, fellow of both the Royal College of Physicians Edinburgh and Royal College of General Practitioners. He is a past president of the British Society for the History of Medicine and was chairman at the annual meeting of the American Osler Society in Oxford in 2014. |

## 2001-2011

| Years | Name | Comments |
| 2001-2003 | James Heron | |
| 2003-2005 | Raymond Hunt | |
| 2005-2007 | David Green | |
| 2007-2009 | John Walker-Smith | |
| 2009-2011 | Adrian Thomas | Thomas is a retired radiologist, and visiting professor at Canterbury Christ Church University. He is a past president of the British Society for the History of Medicine. |

## 2011-2019

| Years | Name | Comments |
| 2011-2013 | Peter Simpson | |
| 2013-2015 | Andrew Hilson | |
| 2015-2017 | Richard Osborn | In 2017, Osborn retired from leadership roles in library services, in which he worked for 32 years. |
| 2017-2019 | Sarah Peart | |
| 2019- | Graham Kyle | Kyle is a retired ophthalmic surgeon who, after obtaining the Diploma in the History of Medicine of the Society of Apothecaries of London in 2014, lectures on history of medicine and medical ethics and law. |
| 2023- | Daniel Sokol | |