Presidents of the Hunterian Society explained

This is a list of presidents of the Hunterian Society, based in London.^{[1] [2]}

1819-1838

	Portrait	Name	Term	Oration/notes
1		Sir William Blizard ^[3]	–	Founding member^[4] Having been a pupil of Hunter, he suggested the title of the "Hunterian Society" rather than the initially proposed "London and Medical Physical"^[5] Elected president for three consecutive years
2		Benjamin Robinson (d. 1828)	–	During his presidency, the annual dinner was established, combined with the annual report and oration^[6] Died a fortnight after he delivered the Hunterian oration in 1828^[7]
3			–	Founding member^[8] Elected president for three consecutive years
4			–	^[9]
5		Archibald Billing	–	"An essay on auscultation of the heart" (1932)
6		Thomas Calloway	–	^[10]
7		Charles Aston Key	–	^[11]
8		Benjamin Guy Babington	–
9			–

1838-1851

	Portrait	Name	Term	Oration/notes
10		John Whiting	–
11		John Scott	–
12		William Cooke	–
13		James Luke	–	Joined the society in 1827
14		Richard Bright FRS	–
15		Gilbert Wakefield Macmurdo	–	^[12]
16		Francis Henry Ramsbotham	–	^[13]
17		Edward Cock	–
18		H. Marshall Hughes	–

1851-1863

	Portrait	Name	Term	Oration/notes
19		John Adams	1851–52
20		Henry Greenwood	1852–53
21		John Hilton	1853–54
22		John Charles Weaver Leve	1854–55
23			1855–56
24		George Hilary Barlow	1856–57
25			1857–58
26		William James Little	1858–59
27		D. Henry Walne	1859–60
28			1860–61
29			1861–63

1863-1872

	Portrait	Name	Term	Oration/notes
		Thomas Mee Dalby	1863–65
		Alfred Smee	1865–66
		Stephen Henry Ward	1866–67
		John Jackson	1867–68
		Thomas Bevill Peacock	1868–69
			1869–71
		Dennis De Berdt Hovell	1871–72	^[14]

Others

• 1906-07 John Poland
• 1904–06 Frederick John Smith
• 1903–04 Stephen Herbert Appleford
• 1902–04 Alfred Lewis Galabin
• 1900–03 James Dundas Grant
• 1898–1900 John Sell Edmund Cotman
• 1896–98 George Ernest Herman
• 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^[15]
• 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^[16]

Notes and References

1. Web site: Presidents of the Society. Hunterian Society. 2012-10-24. 5 September 2014. https://web.archive.org/web/20140905144248/http://scans.library.utoronto.ca/pdf/7/36/transactions1905hunt/transactions1905hunt.pdf. dead.
2. Book: Fowler . Robert . The Attributes, Professional and Social, of the So-Called "Family Doctor." Being the Annual Oration Delivered Wednesday, February 8, 1882 before the Hunterian Society, at the London Institution, Finsbury Circus . 2024 . BoD – Books on Demand . 978-3-385-39190-1 . en. 28–29.
3. Auden . RR . A hunterian pupil. Sir William Blizard and The London Hospital. . Annals of the Royal College of Surgeons of England . July 1978 . 60 . 4 . 345–9 . 352234 . 2492111 .
4. Web site: Sir William Blizard - Blizard Institute - Faculty of Medicine and Dentistry . www.qmul.ac.uk . Queen Mary's University London . 22 October 2024.
5. Fotherby, pp.24-28
6. Web site: Benjamin Robinson . history.rcp.ac.uk . 22 October 2024.
7. Fotherby, pp.29-33
8. Dr. William Babington, F.R.S., 1756–1833 . Nature . 1 April 1933 . 131 . 3313 . 613 . 10.1038/131613a0 . 1933Natur.131Q.613. . en . 1476-4687.
9. Web site: Details of Cultural Legacy Legacies of British Slavery . www.ucl.ac.uk . 22 October 2024.
10. Web site: Callaway, Thomas (1791 - 1848) . livesonline.rcseng.ac.uk . 25 October 2024.
11. Fotherby, pp.65-67
12. Web site: Macmurdo, Gilbert Wakefield (1799 - 1869) . livesonline.rcseng.ac.uk . 27 October 2024.
13. Web site: Francis Henry Ramsbotham RCP Museum . history.rcp.ac.uk . 27 October 2024.
14. Web site: Hovell, Dennis De Berdt (1818 - 1888) . livesonline.rcseng.ac.uk . 18 November 2024.
15. Web site: Plarr's Lives of the Fellows Online. Royal College of Surgeons. 2012-10-24.
16. Web site: Presidents of the Society. Hunterian Society. 2012-10-24. 5 September 2014. https://web.archive.org/web/20140905144248/http://scans.library.utoronto.ca/pdf/7/36/transactions1905hunt/transactions1905hunt.pdf. dead.