Lecturers (incomplete list)
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1656–1700
- 1656 Edward Emily [2]
- 1657 Edmund Wilson [3]
- 1659 Daniel Whistler [4]
- 1660 Thomas Coxe [5]
- 1661 Edward Greaves [5]
- 1662 Charles Scarburgh [6]
- 1663 Christopher Terne [7]
- 1664 Nathan Paget [8]
- 1665 Samuel Collins [3]
- 1666-1678 No Orations due to rebuilding following Great Fire of London [9]
- 1679 Thomas Millington [10]
- 1680 Walter Charleton [11] [12]
- 1681 George Rogers [13] [14]
- 1682 Samuel Collins [3]
- 1683 Nathaniel Hodges [15]
- 1684 Thomas Alvey [16]
- 1685-1687 No Oration [9]
- 1688 Henry Paman [17]
- 1689-1693 No Oration [9]
- 1694 Charles Goodall [5]
- 1695-1696 No Oration [9]
- 1697 Samuel Garth [5]
- 1698 No Oration [9]
- 1699 Walter Harris [3]
- 1700 No Oration [9]
1701–1800
- 1701 Walter Charleton [12]
- 1702 Walter Charleton [12]
- 1703 No Oration [9]
- 1704 Edward Hulse [18]
- 1705 Walter Charleton [12]
- 1706 Walter Charleton [12]
- 1707 Walter Harris [3]
- 1708 Josiah Clerk [19]
- 1709 Charles Goodall [5]
- 1710 No Oration [9]
- 1711 George Colebrook [20]
- 1712 No Oration [9]
- 1713 Walter Harris [3]
- 1714-1718 No Oration [9]
- 1719 Thomas Pellett [5]
- 1720 John Freind [21]
- 1721 John Hawys [22]
- 1722 Henry Plumptre [23]
- 1723 Richard Mead, Status of Greek and Roman physicians [24] [25]
- 1724 Richard Hale [26]
- 1725 Richard Tyson [27] [28]
- 1726 Walter Harris [3]
- 1727 John Arbuthnot [29] [30]
- 1728 Charles Bale [31]
- 1729 Pierce Dod [32]
- 1730 No Oration
- 1731 Noel Broxholme [33]
- 1732 Ralph Bouchier [34]
- 1733 William Wood [35]
- 1734 John Hollings, Status Humanæ Naturæ expositus in Oratione coram Medicis Londinensibus habita [36]
- 1735 Edward Wilmot [37] [38]
- 1736 Matthew Lee [5]
- 1737 James Monro [3]
- 1738 John Newington [38]
- 1739 Frank Nicholls [39]
- 1740 Simon Burton [40]
- 1741 Robert Hopwood [41]
- 1742 Benjamin Hoadly [5]
- 1743 Robert Bankes [38]
- 1744 Ambrose Dawson [5]
- 1745 Charles Cotes [42]
- 1746 William Battie [5]
- 1747 James Hawley [43]
- 1748 Thomas Lawrence [38]
- 1749 Charles Feake [44]
- 1750 William Heberden [5]
- 1751 William Browne [5]
- 1752 Edward Milward [31]
- 1753 William Coxe [31]
- 1754 John Thomas Batt [45]
- 1755 Robert Taylor, smallpox inoculation [3]
- 1756 Richard Conyers [46]
- 1757 John Monro [47]
- 1758 Anthony Askew [3]
- 1759 Mark Akenside [48]
- 1760 Richard Brocklesby [5]
- 1761 George Baker [49]
- 1762 Anthony Askew [3]
- 1763 Charlton Wollaston [3]
- 1764 William Cadogan [5]
- 1765 Thomas Heald [5]
- 1766 Wilkinson Blanshard [31]
- 1767 No Oration (Licentiate rebellion)
- 1768 Richard Warren [50]
- 1769 Swithen Adee [51]
- 1770 Anthony Relhan
- 1771 John Green [31]
- 1772 John Lewis Petit [31]
- 1773 John Turton [31]
- 1774 Richard Jebb [5] [52]
- 1775 Donald Monro [5]
- 1776 Henry Revell Reynolds [5]
- 1777 Richard Wright [31]
- 1778 Lucas Pepys
- 1779 John Burges
- 1780 John Rawlinson
- 1781 Richard Budd [5]
- 1782 Francis Milman [5]
- 1783 Isaac Pennington [5]
- 1784 John Parsons [5]
- 1785 James Hervey [5]
- 1786 David Pitcairn [31]
- 1787 Francis Riollay [31]
- 1788 Martin Wall [53]
- 1789 James Robertson Barclay [54]
- 1790 John Ash [5]
- 1791 George Fordyce [55]
- 1792 William Cadogan [3] [5]
- 1793 John Carmichael Smyth [56]
- 1794 John Latham [57]
- 1795 John Mayo [5]
- 1796 William Saunders [5]
- 1797 Robert Bourne [58]
- 1798 Matthew Baillie [59]
- 1799 Thomas Monro [5]
- 1800 Henry Halford [60]
1801–1900
- 1801 Edward Roberts [61]
- 1802 Henry Ainslie [62]
- 1803 George Paulet Morris [63]
- 1804 Arthur Daniel Stone [31]
- 1805 Sir Christopher Pegge [31]
- 1806 Christopher Robert Pemberton [5]
- 1807 Paggen William Mayo [64]
- 1808 Richard Powell [5]
- 1809 William Heberden the Younger [5]
- 1810 Robert Willis
- 1811
- 1812 Dr Ash [65]
- 1813
- 1814 Charles Gower [31]
- 1815 William George Maton [5]
- 1816 James Haworth [31]
- 1817 George Smith Gibbes [5]
- 1818 William Lambe [31]
- 1819 John Johnstone [5]
- 1820 Charles Price [31]
- 1821 George Gilbert Currey [31]
- 1822 Thomas Turner [31]
- 1823
- 1824
- 1825 Henry Halford [60]
- 1826 Pelham Warren [31] [5] [66]
- 1827 Robert Bree [67]
- 1828 John Cooke [31]
- 1829 Clement Hue [31]
- 1830 John Bright [68]
- 1831 No Oration due to illness [9]
- 1832 James Tattersall [31]
- 1833 John Ayrton Paris [5] [69]
- 1834 Edward Thomas Monro [70]
- 1835 Henry Halford [60]
- 1836 John Kidd [5]
- 1837 John Haviland [5]
- 1838 William Newbigging
- 1839 Peter Mere Latham [71]
- 1840 Charles Badham [5]
- 1841 Thomas Mayo [5]
- 1842 No Oration [9]
- 1843 William King [5]
- 1844 James Adey Ogle [5]
- 1845 Charles Daubeny [31]
- 1846 John Elliotson, on hypnotism [5] [72] [73]
- 1847 Henry Herbert Southey,Dr. Ramadge and the Harveian Oration [5]
- 1848 Francis Hawkins [74]
- 1849 John Carr Badeley [31]
- 1850 James Arthur Wilson [3]
- 1851 John Spurgin [3]
- 1852 Richard Formby [75]
- 1853 No Oration [9]
- 1854 James Alderson [5]
- 1856 George Hamilton Roe [5]
- 1857 James Copland [5]
- 1858 George Edward Wilmot Wood [3]
- 1859 Charles James Berridge Aldis [5]
- 1860 William Emmanuel Page [76]
- 1861 Richard Henry Goolden [77]
- 1862 No Oration [9]
- 1863 A. J. Sutherland [9]
- 1864 Robert Lee [5] (Last in Latin)
- 1865 Henry Wentworth Acland [78]
- 1866 George Edward Paget [79]
- 1867 James Alderson [5]
- 1868 No Oration [9]
- 1869 George Owen Rees [80]
- 1870 William Withey Gull [5] Attack on the Theory of Vitality
- 1871 Thomas King Chambers "Restorative Medicine." [81]
- 1872 Arthur Farre [82] "Analysis of Harvey's Exercises on generation."/>
- 1873 George Rolleston [5]
- 1874 Charles West [83]
- 1875 William Guy [5]
- 1876 William Jenner [84]
- 1877 Edward Henry Sieveking [85]
- 1878 John Scott Burdon-Sanderson [86]
- 1879 Samuel Wilks [87]
- 1880 John William Ogle [88]
- 1881 Andrew Whyte Barclay [88]
- 1882 George Johnson, "Cesalpino and Harvey" [5]
- 1883 Samuel Osborne Habershon "The advancement of science by experimental research." [5]
- 1884 John Russell Reynolds [89]
- 1885 Richard Quain, History and Progress of Medicine [90]
- 1886 Frederick William Pavy [91]
- 1887 William H. Stone [92]
- 1888 Peter Wallwork Latham, Blood Changes in Disease [93]
- 1889 James Edward Pollock, Progress of Science and Sanitation [94]
- 1890 James Andrew, Conditions of the Pulmonary Circulation [95]
- 1891 William Howship Dickinson, Harvey in Ancient and Modern Medicine [96]
- 1892 John Henry Bridges, "Harvey and his successors" [88]
- 1893 Philip Henry Pye-Smith, Pathology as the Basis of Rational Medicine [88]
- 1894 Thomas Lauder Brunton, Modern Developments of Harvey's Work [88]
- 1895 William Selby Church, The Rise of Physiology in England [88]
- 1896 Joseph Frank Payne, Harvey and Galen [97]
- 1897 William Roberts, On Science and Modern Civilisation [98]
- 1898 Dyce Duckworth, The Influence of Character and Right Judgment in Medicine [99]
- 1899 George Vivian Poore [88]
- 1900 Thomas Clifford Allbutt, Science and Medieval Thought [100]
1901–2000
- 1901 Norman Moore [101]
- 1902 David Ferrier, The Heart and Nervous System [102]
- 1903 William Henry Allchin, On the Study of Structure in Relation to Function [103] [104]
- 1904 Richard Caton, I-Em-Hotep and Ancient Egyptian Medicine: Prevention of Valvular Disease
- 1905 Frederick T. Roberts [88]
- 1906 William Osler, The Growth of Truth as Illustrated in the Discovery of the Circulation of the Blood [105]
- 1907 Frederick Taylor, "The need of research in medicine " [106]
- 1908 Joseph Arderne Ormerod, On Heredity in relation to Disease [107]
- 1909 George Henry Savage, On Experimental Psychology and Hypnotism [108]
- 1910 Horatio Bryan Donkin, On Inheritance of Mental Characters
- 1911 C. Theodore Williams, On Old and New Views on the Treatment of Consumption [109]
- 1912 Sir James Goodhart, 1st Baronet, The Passing of Morbid Anatomy [110]
- 1913 John Mitchell Bruce, The Influence of Harvey's Work in the Development of the Doctrine of Infection and Immunity [111] [112]
- 1914 Sir Richard Powell,Advances in Knowledge Regarding the Circulation and Attributes of the Blood Since Harvey's time [113]
- 1915 Sidney Coupland, Observations on the Statistics in Regard to Mental Disorders and their Occurrence
- 1916 Thomas Barlow, Harvey, The Man and The Physician [114]
- 1917 Robert Saundby, Harvey's Work Considered in Relation to Scientific Knowledge and University Education in his Time [115]
- 1918 Percy Kidd, On the Doctrine of Consumption in Harvey's Time and Today [116]
- 1919 Raymond Crawfurd, On Forerunners of Harvey in Antiquity [117]
- 1920 Frederick Andrewes, On the Birth and Growth of Science in Medicine [118]
- 1921 Herbert R. Spencer, On William Harvey, Obstetric Physician and Gynaecologist [119]
- 1922 Thomas Hancock Arnold Chaplin, On Medicine in the Century before Harvey [120]
- 1923 Ernest Henry Starling, The Wisdom of the Body [121] [122]
- 1924 Archibald Edward Garrod, The Debt of Science to Medicine [123] [124]
- 1925 Frederick Mott, On Heredity in Relation to Mental Disease [125]
- 1926 John Bradford, On the Debt of Medicine to the Experimental Method of Harvey [126] [127]
- 1927 William Hale-White, Bacon, Gilbert and Harvey
- 1928 Sir Humphry Rolleston, Bt, Cardio-Vascular Diseases Since Harvey's Discovery [128]
- 1929 Wilmot Herringham, The England of Harvey [129]
- 1930 John Beresford Leathes, The Birth of Chemical Biology [130]
- 1931 Robert Hutchison, Harvey: The Man, his Method, and his Message for us today [131] [132]
- 1932 George Newman, The Debt of Preventative Medicine to Harvey and the College of Physicians [133]
- 1933 Thomas Lewis, Clinical Science
- 1934 James Collier, Inventions and the Outlook in Neurology [134]
- 1935 Henry Hallett Dale, Some Epochs in Medical Research [135]
- 1936 Walter Langdon-Brown, The Background to Harvey [136] [137]
- 1937 Arthur Frederick Hurst, The Time Has Come
- 1938 Edward Mellanby, The State and Medical Research
- 1939 Robert Arthur Young, The Pulmonary Circulation—Before and After Harvey [138]
- 1940 No Oration due to bombing [9]
- 1941 Farquhar Buzzard, Reconstruction in the practice of medicine (Oration not delivered but published only). [9]
- 1942 William Wilson Jameson, War and the Advancement of Social Medicine
- 1943 William Hume, The Physician in War - In Harvey's Time and After
- 1944 Edmund Spriggs, Harveian Method in Literature (Delivered in Manchester) [9]
- 1945 John Parkinson, Rheumatic Fever and Heart Disease
- 1946 Maurice Cassidy, Coronary Disease [139]
- 1947 Charles Ernest Lakin, Our founders and benefactors [140]
- 1948 Francis Martin Rouse Walshe, The Structure of Medicine and its Place amongst the Sciences [141]
- 1949 Geoffrey Marshall, Individuality in Medicine [142]
- 1950 Leonard Parsons, The Influence of Harvey and his Contemporaries on Paediatrics
- 1951 Archibald Gray, Dermatology from the Time of Harvey
- 1952 Charles McMoran Wilson, On Credulity [143]
- 1953 George Graham, The Value of Physiology in Medicine [137]
- 1954 Charles Symonds, The Circle of Willis [137]
- 1955 John Charles, The Contrivance of Collegiation [144]
- 1956 J. Crighton Bramwell, Practice, Teaching and Research
- 1957 Donald Hunter, Harvey and his Contemporaries [144]
- 1958 Geoffrey Keynes, Harvey through John Aubrey's eyes [144]
- 1959 Russell Brain, William Harvey, Neurologist [137]
- 1960 Francis Richard Fraser, The Challenge to the Medical Profession [137]
- 1961 Arthur Peregrine Thomson, The Consummation of William Harvey [137]
- 1962 Harold Himsworth, Society and the Advancement of Natural Knowledge [137]
- 1963 Aubrey Lewis, Medicine and the Affections of the Mind [137]
- 1964 George Pickering, Physician and Scientist [137]
- 1965 Theodore Fox, Purposes of Medicine
- 1966 MacDonald Critchley, The Divine Banquet of the Brain
- 1967 Robert Platt, Medical Science: Master or Servant? [137] [145]
- 1968 Davis Evan Bedford, Harvey's Third Circulation. De Circulo Sanguinis in Corde [137] [146]
- 1969 Ronald V. Christie, Medical Education and the State [137]
- 1970 Henry Cohen, 1st Baron Cohen of Birkenhead, On the Motion of Blood in the Veins [47] [137]
- 1971 Leslie J. Witts, The Medical Professorial Unit [137]
- 1972 Thomas C. Hunt, Digestive Disease - the Changing Scene [137]
- 1973 Charles Edward Newman, The Art of De Motu Cordis [137] [147]
- 1974 Charles Stuart-Harris, The Contribution of Virology to Contemporary Medicine
- 1975 John McMichael, A Transition in Cardiology: the Mackenzie Lewis Era [148]
- 1976 Ronald Bodley Scott, The Admirable Faculties of the Blood [148]
- 1977 Douglas Black, Cui Bono? [148]
- 1978 John Richardson, Harvey's Exhortation [148]
- 1979 Cyril Clarke, Nature the Old Nurse
- 1980 Francis Avery Jones, The Emergence of Gastroenterology [148]
- 1981 John Stokes, Foreign Affairs [148]
- 1982 Sir Richard Doll, Prospects for Prevention
- 1983 Richard Bayliss, Thyroid Disease as the Expression of Autoimmune Disorder [148]
- 1984 Anthony Clifford Dornhorst, Sharing the Secrets [148]
- 1985 Dame Sheila Sherlock, Virus Hepatitis [149]
- 1986 Allan George Williams Whitfield, Royal Physicians [148]
- 1987 Sir James Gowans, Prospects for Medical Research [148]
- 1988 Paul E. Polani, The Impact of Genetics on Medicine
- 1989 Sir Christopher Booth, A Clinician in Search of the Soluble
- 1990 Lord John Nicholas Walton, Method in Medicine [150]
- 1991 Sir Raymond Hoffenberg, The science and cunning of physick: physicians, patients and politics in the 1990s
- 1992 Sir J. D. Wetherall, The role of nature and nurture in common diseases: Garrod's legacy
- 1993 Sir Colin Dollery, Medicine and the Pharmacological Revolution
- 1994 Dame Margaret Turner-Warwick, The Marvel of the Lung and Human Responsibility - A Great Contempt of God's Good Gifts?
- 1995 John D. Swales, The Growth of Medical Science: The Lessons of Malthus
- 1996 Sir Walter Bodmer, The Somatic Evolution Of Cancer
- 1997 Sir John Grimley Evans, A Correct Compassion: the Medical Response to an Ageing Society [75]
- 1998 Sir Donald Acheson, Equality of Health: Dream or Reality
- 1999 Sir Brian Jarman, The Quality of Care in Hospitals
- 2000 Leslie Turnberg, Baron Turnberg,Science, Society and the Perplexed Physician [151]
2001–present
- 2001 David Warrell, "To search and Studdy out the secrett of Tropical Diseases by way of Experiment" [152]
- 2002 Sir Cyril Chantler The Second Greatest benefit to Mankind? [153]
- 2003 Sir Paul Nurse, The Great Ideas of Biology [47]
- 2004 Sir Keith Peters, Exceptional Matters
- 2005 Sir Colin Blakemore, In Celebration of Cerebration [154]
- 2006 Sir Michael Marmot, Health in an unequal world – social circumstances, biology and disease [155]
- 2007 Sir Mark Brian Pepys, Science and Serendipity [156]
- 2008 Sir Michael David Rawlins, De Testimonio: On the evidence for decisions about the use of therapeutic interventions [157]
- 2009 Sir Leszek Borysiewicz, Prevention is better than cure [158]
- 2010 Sir John Bell, Redefining Disease [159]
- 2011 Iona Heath, Divided we fail [160]
- 2012 Sir Richard Peto, Halving premature death [161]
- 2013 Dame Kay Davies, The era of genomic medicine [162]
- 2014 Sir John Gurdon, Stem cells and cell replacement [163]
- 2015 Sir Mark Walport, Medicine, science and values [164] [165]
- 2016 Sir Stephen O'Rahilly, Some observations on the causes and consequences of obesity [166]
- 2017 Chris Whitty Triumphs and challenges in a world shaped by medicine
- 2018 Mary Dixon-Woods Improving quality and safety in health care [167]
- 2019 Sir John Burn Prediction and prevention in the genomic era
- 2020 Peter J. Ratcliffe, Elucidation of molecular oxygen-sensing mechanisms in human cells: implications for medicine
- 2021 Jonathan Van-Tam Moving forwards, understanding backwards: respiratory virus vaccines, therapeutics, and public health policy
- 2022 Dame Anne Johnson Pandemic HIV and its legacy for medicine and global health [168]
