List of presidents of the Osler Club of London

Sir William Osler, 1st Baronet coat of arms

The presidents of the Osler Club of London ^[1] have been:

1950-1961

Years	Name	Comments	Image
1950-1952	Sir Zachary Cope [2]
1952-1954	Alfred White Franklin (1905 – 1984)	Franklin co-founded the Osler Club of London while he was a medical student at St Bartholomew's Hospital, London and later wrote a biography of Sir William Osler. [3]
1954-1956	Vivian Green-Armytage (1882 - 1961 [4]	Green-Armytage was a gynecologist, noted for his progressive views, his service to Indian gynaecology and obstetrics, and his distinguished service in the Royal Army Medical Corps during the First World War. [5]
1956-1958	W. S. C. Copeman (1900 - 1970) [4]	Copeman was a rheumatologist and a medical historian, best remembered for his contributions to the study of arthritic disease. [6]
1958-1961	Arthur Dickson Wright (1897–1976) [7]

1961-1971

Years	Name	Comments	Image
1961-1963	Harold Avery [8]
1963-1965	Charles Edward Newman
1965-1967	Noël Poynter (1908-1979)	Librarian then Director of the Wellcome Institute for the History of Medicine. [9] [10]
1967-1969	Jessie Dobson (1906 - 1984)	Between 1954 and 1971, Dobson was the curator of the Hunterian Museum at the Royal College of Surgeons of England. [11]
1969-1971	Kenneth Bryn Thomas (1915-1978) [12]

1971-1981

Years	Name	Comments	Image
1971-1972	D. Geraint James (2 January 1922 – 20 October 2010)	James was a Welsh physician known for his work on sarcoidosis. He set up a specialist clinic for the condition and earned the nickname of the "King of Sarcoid". [13]
1972-1974	John Cule	Cule was a Welsh general practitioner and later psychiatrist. [14]
1975-1976	Henry R. Rollin
1976-1978	Neil McIntyre
1978-1980	P. M. Daniel
1980-1981	L. G. Matthews

1981-1991

Years	Name	Comments	Image
1981-1982	Victor Cornelius Medvei
1982-1983	B. T. Davis
1983-1984	Arthur Hollman
1984-1985	Alex Sakula
1985-1986	Theodore T. Macadam
1986-1987	Harvey White	In 1976, White became consultant surgeon at the Royal Marsden Hospital. Subsequently, he held posts at King Edward VII Hospital for Officers, St Luke's Hospital for the Clergy and The London Clinic. He is a past president of the Medical Society of London and vice president of the British Association of Surgical Oncology and Royal Society of Medicine. In 2012, he was the first recipient of the Royal Society of Medicine Medal. [15]
1987-1988	Ruth Bowden
1988-1989	Dame Josephine Barnes (1912 - 1999)	Barnes was a leading obstetrician and gynaecologist and the first female president of the British Medical Association, 1979. She was also active in the Women's National Cancer Control Campaign with cancer screening. [16]
1989-1990	Sir Gordon Wolstenholme
1990-1991	Sir Harold Ellis

1991-2001

Years	Name	Comments	Image
1991-1992	Sydney Selwyn
1992-1993	John Garrett
1993-1995	Gordon Cook
1995-1997	William Dinning
1997-1999	Edward Howard (Ted Howard)
1999-2001	John W. K. Ward	Ward is a general practitioner, fellow of both the Royal College of Physicians Edinburgh and Royal College of General Practitioners. He is a past president of the British Society for the History of Medicine [17] and was chairman at the annual meeting of the American Osler Society in Oxford in 2014. [18]

2001-2011

Years	Name	Comments	Image
2001-2003	James Heron
2003-2005	Raymond Hunt
2005-2007	David Green	[19]
2007-2009	John Walker-Smith
2009-2011	Adrian Thomas	Thomas is a retired radiologist, and visiting professor at Canterbury Christ Church University. He is a past president of the British Society for the History of Medicine. [20] [21]

2011-2019

Years	Name	Comments	Image
2011-2013	Peter Simpson
2013-2015	Andrew Hilson
2015-2017	Richard Osborn	In 2017, Osborn retired from leadership roles in library services, in which he worked for 32 years. [22]
2017-2019	Sarah Peart
2019-	Graham Kyle	Kyle is a retired ophthalmic surgeon who, after obtaining the Diploma in the History of Medicine of the Society of Apothecaries of London in 2014, lectures on history of medicine and medical ethics and law. [23]
2023-	Daniel Sokol	[24]

See also

• Osler Club of London

References

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