# Presidents of the Hunterian Society

This is a list of presidents of the Hunterian Society, based in London.

## 1819-1838

| Nº | Name (Birth–Death) | Term | Oration/notes |
| 1 | Sir William Blizard (1743 – 1835) | 1819 – 1822 | Founding member Having been a pupil of Hunter, he suggested the title of the "Hunterian Society" rather than the initially proposed "London and Medical Physical" Elected president for three consecutive years |
| 2 | Benjamin Robinson (d. 1828) | 1822 – 1824 | During his presidency, the annual dinner was established, combined with the annual report and oration Died a fortnight after he delivered the Hunterian oration in 1828 |
| 3 | William Babington | 1824 – 1826 | Founding member Elected president for three consecutive years |
| 4 | Sir Benjamin Travers | 1826 – 1828 | |
| 5 | Archibald Billing | 1828 – 1830 | "An essay on auscultation of the heart" (1932) |
| 6 | Thomas Calloway | 1830 – 1832 | |
| 7 | Charles Aston Key | 1832 – 1834 | |
| 8 | Benjamin Guy Babington | 1834 – 1836 | |
| 9 | Bransby Blake Cooper | 1836 – 1838 | |

## 1838-1851

| Nº | Name (Birth–Death) | Term | Oration/notes |
| 10 | John Whiting | 1838 – 1838 | |
| 11 | John Scott | 1822 – 1841 | |
| 12 | William Cooke | 1841 – 1843 | |
| 13 | James Luke | 1843 – 1845 | Joined the society in 1827 |
| 14 | Richard Bright FRS | 1845 – 1847 | |
| 15 | Gilbert Wakefield Macmurdo | 1847 – 1848 | |
| 16 | Francis Henry Ramsbotham | 1848 – 1849 | |
| 17 | Edward Cock | 1849 – 1850 | |
| 18 | H. Marshall Hughes | 1850 – 1851 | |

## 1851-1863

| Nº | Name (Birth–Death) | Term |
| 19 | John Adams | 1851–52 |
| 20 | Henry Greenwood | 1852–53 |
| 21 | John Hilton | 1853–54 |
| 22 | John Charles Weaver Leve | 1854–55 |
| 23 | Thomas Blizard Curling | 1855–56 |
| 24 | George Hilary Barlow | 1856–57 |
| 25 | Samuel Solly | 1857–58 |
| 26 | William James Little | 1858–59 |
| 27 | D. Henry Walne | 1859–60 |
| 28 | Sir James Risdon Bennett | 1860–61 |
| 29 | George Critchett | 1861–63 |

## 1863-1872

| Name (Birth–Death) | Term |
| Thomas Mee Dalby | 1863–65 |
| Alfred Smee | 1865–66 |
| Stephen Henry Ward | 1866–67 |
| John Jackson | 1867–68 |
| Thomas Bevill Peacock | 1868–69 |
| Jonathan Hutchinson | 1869–71 |
| Dennis De Berdt Hovell | 1871–72 |

## 1896-1907

| Name (Birth–Death) | Term |
| George Ernest Herman | 1896–98 |
| John Sell Edmund Cotman | 1898–1900 |
| James Dundas-Grant | 1900–03 |
| Alfred Lewis Galabin | 1902–04 |
| Stephen Herbert Appleford | 1903–04 |
| Frederick John Smith | 1904–06 |
| John Poland | 1906-07 |

## Others

* 1894-96 Charters James Symonds
* 1892–94 Frederick Gordon Brown
* 1890–92 Sir Stephen Mackenzie
* 1888–90 Richard Clement Lucas
* 1887–88 Henry Gervis
* 1886–87 Francis Mead Corner
* 1885–86 Philip Henry Pye-Smith
* 1884–85 Robert Fowler
* 1883–84 Walter Rivington
* 1882–83 John Hughlings Jackson
* 1881–82 Peter Lodwick Burchell
* 1880–81 John Couper
* 1879–80 John Braxton Hicks
* 1878–79 Sir Thomas Boor Crosby
* 1877–78 Arthur Edward Durham
* 1876–77 Henry Isaac Fotherby
* 1875–76 William Sedgwick Saunders
* 1874–75 Robert Barnes
* 1873–74 Thomas Bryant
* 1872–73 Herbert Davies

## Presidents

Source for 1819-1906: Hunterian Society
* 2019-21 Susan Standring
* 2018-19 Stephen Challacombe
* 2017-18 John Skipper
* 2015-17 Nigel Thomas
* 2013-15 Sue Weir
* 2012-13 Prokar Dasgupta
* 2011-12 Ian Stephen
* 2009-11 Nicholas Cambridge
* 2008-09 Richard Cory-Pearce
* 2007-08 Neil Weir
* 2006-07 Stephen Challacombe
* 2005-06 John Maynard
* 2004-05 Harvey White
* 2003-04 Brian Gibberd
* 2002-03 Michael Laurence
* 2001-02 James P.S. Thomson
* 2000-01 Barbara Ansell CBE
* 1999-2000 Brian Owen-Smith
* 1998-99 Jeffrey Rosenberg
* 1997-98 Sir Montague Levine
* 1996-97 Ravi Kunzru
* 1995-96 R.M. Kirk
* 1994-95 M Dulake
* 1993-94 D.W. Zutshi
* 1992-93 A.E. Fyfe
* 1991-92 Basil Helal
* 1990-91 Prof Christopher Wastell
* 1989-90 Elliot Philipp
* 1988-89 David W. Findlay
* 1987-88 C.H. Flood
* 1986-87 Georges Jantet
* 1985-86 Anne M. Jepson
* 1984-85 W.J.C. Currie
* 1983-84 N.F.E. Burrows
* 1982-83 David T.D. Hughes
* 1981-82 G.W.E. Little
* 1980-81 David Morris
* 1979–80 Douglas Langton Woolf
* 1978-79 A. Kingsley Brown
* 1976-78 Henry Thompson
* 1975-76 Kenneth Heathfield
* 1974-75 Kenneth Owen
* 1973-74 Oliver Garrod
* 1972-73 T.V.L. Cricholw
* 1971-72 F. Wrigley
* 1970-71 Reginald S Murley
* 1969-70 C.W.Kesson
* 1968-69 Sir Eric Riches
* 1967-68 Clement C. CHesterman
* 1966-67 George Qvist
* 1965-66 N. Asherson
* 1964-65 W. Gordon Sears
* 1963-64 A. Lawrence Abel
* 1962-63 John Henderson Hunt
* 1961-62 Sir Cecil Wakeley KBE
* 1960-61 Gordon B. Mitchell-Heggs OBE
* 1959-60 Alec W. Badenoch
* 1958-59 Francis Leslie
* 1957-58 John Ainsworth-Davis
* 1956-57 Cecil D. Coyle
* 1955-56 A. Dickson Wright
* 1954-55 W.S.C. Copeman CBE
* 1953-54 Sir Heneage Oglivie KBE
* 1952-53 Basil T. Parsons-Smith
* 1950-52 Arthur Espie Porritt Porritt, Baron Porritt Abreast of the Times KCMG, CBE
* 1949-50 W. Thompson Brown MC
* 1948-49 G.R. Mather Cordiner
* 1947-48 Alexander Ernest Roche
* 1946-47 J. Basil Cook
* 1945–46 Albert Edward Mortimer Woolf
* 1940-45 No president
* 1939-40 John Eyre FRS
* 1938-39 Andrew McAllister
* 1937-38 D.C. Norris
* 1936-37 H.L. Attwater
* 1935-36 W. Brander
* 1934-35 W.H.F. Oxley
* 1933-34 W.E. Tanner
* 1932-33 Nathan Raw
* 1931-32 David Ross
* 1930-31 A.W. Sheen CBE
* 1929-30 Ernest Young
* 1928-29 A. Westerman
* 1926–1928 Albert Edward Mortimer Woolf
* 1925-26 F. Howard Humphris
* 1924-25 H.W. Carson
* 1923-24 Sir Bruce Bruce-Porter
* 1922-23 R. Fortescue Fox
* 1921-22 Russell Howard
* 1920-21 A.C. Jordan
* 1918-20 W. Langdon Brown
* 1917-18 Hugh Lett CBE
* 1916-17 A.S. Currie
* 1915-16 William Henry Kelson
* 1914-15 Thomas Glover Lyon
* 1913-14 William J. McCulloch Ettles
* 1912-13 Alfred Herbert Tubby
* 1911-12 Richard Hingston Fox
* 1910-11 John Adams
* 1909-10 Thomas Horrocks Openshaw
* 1908-09 Arthur Templer Davies
* 1907-08 Francis Rowland Humphris