List of Presidents of the Royal Society of Medicine

The President of the Royal Society of Medicine is the head of the Royal Society of Medicine, elected biennially by the Fellows of the Society.

The President oversees the running of the Society and chairs its council meetings. Almost all presidents have been nominated following many years' service to the Society.

List of Presidents

• 2014–present Babulal Sethia^[1]
• 2012–2014 Sir Michael Rawlins
• 2010–2012 Parveen Kumar
• 2008–2010 Robin C. N. Williamson
• 2006–2008 Ilora Finlay, Baroness Finlay of Llandaff
• 2004–2006 Sir John Lilleyman
• 2002–2004 Sir Barry Jackson
• 2000–2002 Deirdre Hine
• 1998–2000 Lord Soulsby of Swaffham
• 1996–1998 Sir Christopher Paine
• 1994–1996 Donald Harrison
• 1992–1994 Sir George Pinker
• 1990–1992 Sir David Innes Williams
• 1988–1990 Sir Christopher Booth
• 1986–1988 Sir Gordon Robson
• 1984–1986 John Walton, Baron Walton of Detchant
• 1982–1984 Sir James Watt
• 1980–1981 Sir John Stallworthy
• 1978–1980 Sir Rodney Smith, Baron Smith
• 1977–1978 Sir John Vivian Dacie
• 1975–1977, 1978 (acting) Sir Gordon Wolstenholme
• 1973–1975 Sir John Stallworthy
• 1971–1973 Sir Hedley Atkins
• 1969–1971 Sir John Samuel Richardson
• 1967–1968 Sir Hector MacLennan
• 1966–1967 Arthur Porritt, Baron Porritt
• 1964–1966 Henry Cohen, 1st Baron Cohen of Birkenhead
• 1962–1964 Sir Terence Cawthorne
• 1960–1962 Edgar Adrian, 1st Baron Adrian
• ?1958–?1960 Sir Geoffrey Marshall
• 1956–1958 Sir Clifford Price Thomas
• 1954–1956 Sir William Gilliatt
• 1952–1954 Sir Francis Walshe
• 1950–1952 Alfred Webb-Johnson, 1st Baron Webb-Johnson
• 1948–1950 Sir Henry Hallett Dale
• 1946–1948 Sir Maurice Cassidy
• 1944–1946 Sir Gordon Gordon-Taylor
• 1940–1943 Sir Archibald Montague Henry Gray
• 1936–1938 Sir Thomas Clifford Allbutt
• 1934–1936 Sir Robert Hutchison, 1st Baronet
• 1932–1934 Vincent Warren Low
• 1931–1932 Sir Harry Platt, 1st Baronet
• 1930–1931 Thomas Watts-Eden
• 1928–1930 Bertrand Dawson, 1st Viscount Dawson of Penn
• 1926–1928 Sir James Berry
• 1924–1926 St Clair Thomson
• 1922–1924 Sir William Hale-White
• 1920–1922 John Bland-Sutton
• 1918–1920 Sir Humphry Rolleston
• 1916–1918 Sir Rickman Godlee
• 1912–1914 Sir Francis Champneys
• 1910–1912 Sir Henry Morris, 1st Baronet
• 1908–1910 Sir William Selby Church, 1st Baronet

References

1. "Royal Society of Medicine appoints new President" Royal Society of Medicine Media Releases