List of Presidents of the Royal College of Physicians
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The president of the Royal College of Physicians (RCP) is the elected head of the Royal College of Physicians
of England, which was founded by letters patent from King Henry VIII in 1518. The president is elected annually late in the year.
Royal College of Physicians
The Royal College of Physicians of London was founded in 1518 as the College of Physicians by royal charter of King Henry VIII in 1518 - the first medical institution in England to receive a royal charter...
of England, which was founded by letters patent from King Henry VIII in 1518. The president is elected annually late in the year.
Presidents of the Royal College of Physicians
- 1518-1524 Thomas LinacreThomas LinacreThomas Linacre was a humanist scholar and physician, after whom Linacre College, Oxford and Linacre House The King's School, Canterbury are named....
- 1526 Thomas BentleyThomas BentleyThomas Bentley was a British film director. He directed 68 films between 1912 and 1941. He directed three films in the early DeForest Phonofilm sound-on-film process, The Man in the Street , The Antidote , and Acci-Dental Treatment .Bentley was born in London and originally trained as an engineer,...
- 1527-1528 Richard BartlotRichard BartlotRichard Bartlot , was an English physician.Bartlot was a fellow of All Souls' College, Oxford and took the degree of M.B. at Oxford in 1501, and supplicated for that of M.D. in 1508. He was the first fellow admitted into the College of Physicians after its foundation in 1518, and he was president...
- 1529-1530 Thomas BentleyThomas BentleyThomas Bentley was a British film director. He directed 68 films between 1912 and 1941. He directed three films in the early DeForest Phonofilm sound-on-film process, The Man in the Street , The Antidote , and Acci-Dental Treatment .Bentley was born in London and originally trained as an engineer,...
- 1531 Richard BartlotRichard BartlotRichard Bartlot , was an English physician.Bartlot was a fellow of All Souls' College, Oxford and took the degree of M.B. at Oxford in 1501, and supplicated for that of M.D. in 1508. He was the first fellow admitted into the College of Physicians after its foundation in 1518, and he was president...
- 1541-1543 Edward Wotton
- 1544 John ClementJohn ClementJohn Twining Clement was a politician in Ontario, Canada. He was a Progressive Conservative Member of Provincial Parliament in the 1970s for the riding of Niagara Falls, and served a brief stint as Attorney General and Solicitor General of Ontario in 1975 in the cabinet of Premier William G...
- 1545-1546 William FreemanWilliam FreemanWilliam Freeman was an English Roman Catholic priest. He is a Catholic martyr, beatified in 1929.-Life:...
- 1547 John Burgess
- 1548 Richard BartlotRichard BartlotRichard Bartlot , was an English physician.Bartlot was a fellow of All Souls' College, Oxford and took the degree of M.B. at Oxford in 1501, and supplicated for that of M.D. in 1508. He was the first fellow admitted into the College of Physicians after its foundation in 1518, and he was president...
- 1549-1550 John FryerJohn Fryer (physician)John Fryer, M.D. was an English physician, humanist and early reformer.-Life:Fryer, born at Balsham, Cambridgeshire, was educated at Eton College and went to King's College, Cambridge in 1517. He graduated B.A. in 1521 and M.A. in 1525...
- 1551-1552 Robert Huicke
- 1553-1554 George OwenGeorge Owen (physician)George Owen was the royal physician to several members of the Tudor dynasty: Henry VIII, Edward VI, and Mary I. He served alongside Thomas Wendy and Edmund Harman.-References:...
- 1555-1560 John CaiusJohn CaiusJohn Caius , also known as Johannes Caius, was an English physician, and second founder of the present Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge.-Early years:...
- 1561 Richard Masters
- 1562-1563 John CaiusJohn CaiusJohn Caius , also known as Johannes Caius, was an English physician, and second founder of the present Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge.-Early years:...
- 1564-1567 Robert Huicke
- 1568 Thomas Francis
- 1569 John Symings
- 1570 Richard Caldwell
- 1571 John CaiusJohn CaiusJohn Caius , also known as Johannes Caius, was an English physician, and second founder of the present Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge.-Early years:...
- 1572 John Symings
- 1581-1584 Roger Giffard
- 1585-1588 Richard Smith
- 1589-1600 William BaronsdaleWilliam BaronsdaleWilliam Baronsdale , was an English physician.Baronsdale was born in Gloucestershire, probably about 1530–40. He was educated at St. John's College, Cambridge, being admitted a scholar 5 Nov. 1551, and took his first degree B.A. in 1554–5, that of M.A. 1556, and that of M.D. in 1568...
(died in office) - 1600 William Gilbert
- 1601-1603 Richard ForsterRichard Forster-Life:He was son of Laurence Forster, and was born at Coventry about 1546, and was educated at All Souls' College, Oxford. He graduated at Oxford, M.B. and M.D., both in 1573....
- 1604-1606 Thomas LangtonThomas LangtonThomas Langton was chaplain to King Edward IV, a Bishop of St David's, a Bishop of Salisbury, a Bishop of Winchester and Archbishop of Canterbury elect....
(died in office) - 1606-1608 Henry AtkinsHenry Atkins (physician)Henry Atkins , was an English physician.Atkins was the son of Richard Atkins of Great Berkhamstead, Hertfordshire. Matriculating at Trinity College, Oxford, in 1574, he graduated there and afterwards proceeded M.D. at Nantes. In 1588 he became fellow of the College of Physicians, and in 1606...
- 1609-1611 Sir William Paddy
- 1612-1614 Thomas Moundeford
- 1615 Richard ForsterRichard Forster-Life:He was son of Laurence Forster, and was born at Coventry about 1546, and was educated at All Souls' College, Oxford. He graduated at Oxford, M.B. and M.D., both in 1573....
(died in office) - 1616-1617 Henry AtkinsHenry Atkins (physician)Henry Atkins , was an English physician.Atkins was the son of Richard Atkins of Great Berkhamstead, Hertfordshire. Matriculating at Trinity College, Oxford, in 1574, he graduated there and afterwards proceeded M.D. at Nantes. In 1588 he became fellow of the College of Physicians, and in 1606...
- 1618 Sir William Paddy
- 1619 Thomas Moundeford
- 1620 Richard Palmer
- 1621-1623 Thomas Moundeford
- 1624 Henry AtkinsHenry Atkins (physician)Henry Atkins , was an English physician.Atkins was the son of Richard Atkins of Great Berkhamstead, Hertfordshire. Matriculating at Trinity College, Oxford, in 1574, he graduated there and afterwards proceeded M.D. at Nantes. In 1588 he became fellow of the College of Physicians, and in 1606...
- 1625-1627 John Argent
- 1628 John GiffardJohn GiffardJohn Giffard , baron Giffard of Brimsfield, was an English nobleman prominent in the Second Barons' War and in Wales. His initial gift of land in Oxford led to the foundation of Gloucester College, Oxford.-Involvement in military actions:...
- 1629-1633 John Argent
- 1634-1640 Simeon FoxSimeon FoxSimeon Fox , M.D. was an English physician, who became President of the College of Physicians.-Life:He was the youngest son of John Foxe, and was born in the house of the Duke of Norfolk. He was educated at Eton College, and on 24 August 1583 was elected a scholar of King's College, Cambridge,...
- 1641-1644 Othewell Meverall
- 1645-1650 John Clark
- 1650-1654 Sir Francis Prujean
- 1655-1666 Edward AlstonEdward AlstonSir Edward Alston , was the president of the College of Physicians.Alston was born in Suffolk, and was educated at St. John's College, Cambridge. He graduated B.A. 1615, M.D. 1626. In 1631 he was elected a fellow of the College of Physicians, and was president from 1655 until 1666. At the...
- 1667-1669 Francis GlissonFrancis GlissonFrancis Glisson was a British physician, anatomist, and writer on medical subjects. He did important work on the anatomy of the liver, and he wrote an early pediatric text on rickets...
- 1670-1675 Sir George EntGeorge EntGeorge Ent was an English scientist in the seventeenth century who focused on the study of anatomy. He was a member of the Royal Society and the Royal College of Physicians...
- 1676-1681 Sir John MicklethwaiteJohn MicklethwaiteSir John Micklethwaite M.D. was an English physician, who attended Charles II. He was President of the Royal College of Physicians.-Life:...
- 1682 Thomas Coxe
- 1683 Daniel WhistlerDaniel Whistler-Life:The son of William Whistler of Elvington, Oxfordshire, he was born at Walthamstow in Essex in 1619. He was educated at the school of Thame, Oxfordshire, and entered Merton College, Oxford, in January 1639. He graduated B.A. in 1642. On 8 August 1642 he began the study of physic at the...
- 1684-1687 Sir Thomas WitherleyThomas WitherleySir Thomas Witherley MD was Physician in Ordinary to King Charles II, Second Physician to King James II, and President of the Royal College of Physicians from 1684 to 1687.He was present at the birth of James Francis Edward Stuart in 1688....
- 1688 George Rogers
- 1689 Walter CharletonWalter CharletonWalter Charleton was an English writer. According to Jon Parkin, he was "the main conduit for the transmission of Epicurean ideas to England".-Life:...
- 1690 Thomas Burwell
- 1691 Walter CharletonWalter CharletonWalter Charleton was an English writer. According to Jon Parkin, he was "the main conduit for the transmission of Epicurean ideas to England".-Life:...
- 1692-1693 Thomas Burwell
- 1694 John Lawson
- 1695 Samuel Collins
- 1696-1703 Sir Thomas MillingtonThomas MillingtonThomas Millington was a London publisher of the Elizabethan era, who published first editions of three Shakespearean plays...
(died in office) - 1704-1707 Edward Browne (died in office)
- 1708-1711 Charles GoodallCharles GoodallCharles Goodall was an English cricketer who played for Nottingham Cricket Club from 1813 to 1827. He made one first-class appearance for Nottingham in 1826.-Further reading:...
- 1712-1716 William DawesWilliam DawesWilliam Dawes, Jr. was one of several men and a woman who alerted colonial minutemen of the approach of British army troops prior to the Battle of Lexington and Concord at the outset of the American Revolution....
- 1716-1718 John Bateman
- 1719-1735 Sir Hans Sloane Bt
- 1735-1739 Thomas Pellett
- 1740-1745 Henry Plumptre
- 1746-1749 Richard TysonRichard TysonRichard Martin Tyson is an American actor.-Biography:His most prominent role was as the villain Cullen Crisp, Sr. in Kindergarten Cop co-starring alongside Arnold Schwarzenegger. He also starred as high school bully Buddy Revell in the 1987 comedy Three O'Clock High...
- 1750 James JurinJames JurinJames Jurin FRS MA FRCP MD was an English scientist and physician, particularly remembered for his early work in capillary action and in the epidemiology of smallpox vaccination...
- 1750-1753 William Wasey
- 1754-1763 Thomas ReeveThomas ReeveSir Thomas Reeve KC SL PC was a British justice. He was the son of Richard Reeve, and was matriculated to Trinity College, Oxford in 1688 at the age of 15, joining Inner Temple in 1690. In 1698 he was called to the Bar, migrating to Middle Temple in 1713. He was called to the Inn bench in 1720,...
- 1764 William BattieWilliam BattieWilliam Battie , 1 September 1703–13 June 1776, was an English physician who published in 1758 the first lengthy book on the treatment of mental illness, A Treatise on Madness, and by extending methods of treatment to the poor as well as the affluent, helped raise psychiatry to a respectable...
- 1765-1766 Sir William BrowneWilliam Browne (physician)-Life:Browne was born in County Durham, and was educated in Durham and at Peterhouse, Cambridge. After graduating, he worked as a doctor in King's Lynn, Norfolk, for more than thirty years before moving to Bloomsbury, London, in 1749...
- 1767-1774 Thomas LawrenceThomas LawrenceThomas Lawrence may refer to:*Sir Thomas Lawrence, British artist, President of Royal Academy*Thomas Lawrence , mayor of colonial Philadelphia*T. E. Lawrence, "Lawrence of Arabia"*Thomas Lawrence , U.S. politician...
- 1775-1784 William PitcairnWilliam PitcairnWilliam Pitcairn was a British physician.He was President of the Royal College of Physicians from 1775 to 1784.-References:...
- 1785-1790 Sir George Baker, Bart.George Baker, 1st BaronetSir George Baker, Bt, MD, FRS, FSA was an English physician.He was born in Modbury, Devon, the son of George Baker, vicar of Modbury, and his wife Bridget Harris. He was educated at Eton and King's College, Cambridge. In 1749 he went to Leyden University to study physic, becoming MD in 1756...
- 1791 Thomas Gisborne
- 1792-1793 Sir George Baker, Bart.George Baker, 1st BaronetSir George Baker, Bt, MD, FRS, FSA was an English physician.He was born in Modbury, Devon, the son of George Baker, vicar of Modbury, and his wife Bridget Harris. He was educated at Eton and King's College, Cambridge. In 1749 he went to Leyden University to study physic, becoming MD in 1756...
- 1794 Thomas Gisborne
- 1795 Sir George Baker, Bart.George Baker, 1st BaronetSir George Baker, Bt, MD, FRS, FSA was an English physician.He was born in Modbury, Devon, the son of George Baker, vicar of Modbury, and his wife Bridget Harris. He was educated at Eton and King's College, Cambridge. In 1749 he went to Leyden University to study physic, becoming MD in 1756...
- 1796-1803 Thomas Gisborne
- 1804-1810 Sir Lucas Pepys Bt
- 1811-1812 Sir Francis Milman Bt
- 1813-1819 John Latham
- 1820-1843 Sir Henry Halford, Bart.
- 1844-1856 John Ayrton ParisJohn Ayrton ParisJohn Ayrton Paris, FRS was a British physician. He is most widely remembered as the probable inventor of the thaumatrope, which he used to demonstrate persistence of vision to the Royal College of Physicians in London in 1824; at about this time he wrote a book entitled Philosophy in sport made...
- 1857-1861 Thomas MayoThomas MayoThomas Mayo was a British physician.He was born in London, the son of John Mayo, MD. After three years of private tuition and eighteen months at Westminster School, he was again privately tutored for Oriel College, Oxford, where he qualified MB in 1815 and MD in 1818...
- 1862-1866 Sir Thomas Watson, Bart.Thomas Watson (physician)Sir Thomas Watson, 1st Baronet, was a British physician who is primarily known for describing the water hammer pulse found in aortic regurgitation in 1844...
- 1867-1870 Sir James AldersonJames AldersonSir James Alderson MD, FRS was an English physician born and based in Kingston upon Hull. He was President of the Royal College of Physicians.-Biography:...
- 1871-1875 Sir George Burrows, 1st Baronet
- 1876-1880 Sir James Risdon Bennet
- 1881-1887 Sir William Jenner, Bart.William JennerWilliam Jenner may refer to* William Jenner, 1st Baronet, English physician who discovered the distinction between typhus and typhoid* William E. Jenner, U.S. Senator from Indiana...
- 1888-1892 Sir Andrew Clark, 1st Baronet
- 1893-1895 Sir John Russell Reynolds, 1st Baronet
- 1896-1898 Sir Samuel Wilks, Bart.Samuel WilksSir Samuel Wilks, 1st Baronet , was a British physician and biographer.-Early life:Samuel Wilks was born on 2 June 1824 in Camberwell, London, the second son of Joseph Barber Wilks, a cashier at the East India House...
- 1899-1904 Sir William Selby Church Bart.
- 1905-1909 Sir Richard Douglas Powell Bart.
- 1910-1914 Sir Thomas Barlow, 1st Baronet
- 1915-1917 Sir Frederick Taylor, Bart.
- 1918-1921 Sir Norman Moore, 1st Baronet
- 1922-1925 Sir Humphry Davy Rolleston, Bart. GCVO KCB
- 1926-1930 Sir John Rose BradfordJohn Bradford, 1st BaronetSir John Rose Bradford, 1st Baronet Bradford, KCMG, CB, CBE, FRS, FRCP was a British physician.- Early life :John Rose Bradford was born in London, the son of Abraham Rose and Ellen Bradford. His father was a Deputy Inspector-General of Hospitals in the Royal Navy...
Bart. KCMG CB CBE - 1931-1937 Viscount Dawson of PennBertrand Dawson, 1st Viscount Dawson of PennBertrand Edward Dawson, 1st Viscount Dawson of Penn, GCVO, KCB, KCMG, PC, FRCP was a physician to the British Royal Family and President of the Royal College of Physicians.-Early life and education:...
PC GCVO KCB KCMG - 1938-1940 Sir Robert Hutchison, Bart.
- 1941-1949 Lord Moran of Manton
- 1950-1956 Sir Walter Russell Brain, Bart.
- 1957-1961 Sir Robert Platt, Bart.Robert Platt, Baron PlattRobert Platt, Baron Platt , was a British physician.His research was on kidney diseases, but he is remembered for the 1940-1950s Platt vs. Pickering debate with George Pickering over the nature of hypertension...
(later Lord Platt) - 1962-1965 Sir Edward Charles Dodds, Bart.Charles DoddsSir Edward Charles Dodds, 1st Baronet FRS was a British biochemist.He was born in Liverpool in 1899, the only child of Ralph Edward and Jane Dodds. The family shortly moved to Leeds, then to Darlington and then to Chesham, Bucks, where he attended Harrow County School...
- 1966-1971 Lord Rosenheim of CamdenMax Rosenheim, Baron RosenheimMax Leonard Rosenheim, Baron Rosenheim KBE FRCP FRS was a British physician and academic.He was born in London and educated at Shrewsbury School. He then went up to St John's College, Cambridge and University College Hospital Medical School...
- 1972-1976 Sir Cyril Astley ClarkeCyril ClarkeSir Cyril Astley Clarke KBE, FRCP, FRCOG, FRC Path, FRS was a British physician, geneticist and lepidopterist...
- 1977-1982 Sir Douglas Andrew Kilgour BlackDouglas BlackSir Douglas Andrew Kilgour Black, was a physician in the United Kingdom, famous as the author of the Black Report.He was born in Shetland in 1913, and studied medicine at the Bute Medical School, University of St Andrews, graduating with MB ChB in 1933.He conducted research into water loss and...
- 1983-1988 Sir Raymond HoffenbergRaymond HoffenbergSir Raymond Hoffenberg KBE was an endocrinologist who specialised in the study of the thyroid. Born in South Africa, he was forced to leave in 1968, and settled in the United Kingdom, where he was President of the Royal College of Physicians from 1983 to 1989, and President of Wolfson College,...
- 1989-1991 Dame Margaret Turner-WarwickMargaret Turner-WarwickDame Margaret Turner-Warwick, DBE is a retired British medical doctor and thoracic specialist. She was the first woman president of the Royal College of Physicians and, later, chairman of the Royal Devon and Exeter Health Care NHS Trust .-Background:Born in 1924 as Margaret Elizabeth Harvey in...
- 1992-1996 Sir Leslie Arnold TurnbergLeslie Turnberg, Baron TurnbergLeslie Arnold Turnberg, Baron Turnberg, Kt, is British medical professional and an author of many publications and books related to the medical and health services fields. His experience extends to areas of research in these fields, and maintaining a clinical practice...
(later Lord Turnberg) - 1997-2002 Sir Kurt George AlbertiGeorge AlbertiSir Kurt George Matthew Mayer Alberti was the British Government's National Clinical Director for Emergency Access...
- 2002-2005 Dame Carol M. BlackCarol M. BlackProfessor Dame Carol Black DBE MD FRCP MACP FMedSci is the UK National Director for Health and Work, Chairman of the Nuffield Trust, Chairman of the Governance Board of the new Centre for Workforce Intelligence, President of the British Lung Foundation, and Pro-Chancellor of the University of Bristol...
- 2006-2010 Sir Ian GilmoreIan GilmoreSir Ian Thomas Gilmore is a professor of hepatology and past president of the Royal College of Physicians of London ....
- 2010-date Sir Richard ThompsonRichard Thompson (physician)Richard Paul Hepworth Thompson, KCVO is a British physician and the current president of the Royal College of Physicians in London....