Past Presidents

An archive of the profiles of all the past presidents, including photographs and short biographies is available in PDF format by clicking here.

Here is a list of past presidents in reverse date order:

2022-23: Professor Sir Kent Woods

2021-22: Dr Bridget Towle

2019-20: Mrs Gillian Johnston

2018-19: Professor Nigel Wood

2017-18: Professor Sir Kent Woods

2016-17: Prof Alison Yarrington

2015-16: Mrs Joan Beeson

2014-15: Mrs Ann Fuchs

2013-14: Mr Michael Taylor

2012-13: Mr Kanti Chhapi DipArch

2011-12: Prof John Fothergill

2010-11: Prof Martin Stannard

2009-10: Mrs KJ Humphreys MA

2008-09: Mr Richard Gill MA

2007-08: Mrs Alwyne Dean BA

2006-07: Mr B D Beeson

2005-06: Dr Michael G F Crowe MA MB B Chir FRCGP

2004-05: Mr Davinder PS Sandhu MB BS MD FRCS (Ed Urol) FRCS (Eng & Glas)

2003-04: Mr.Michael Kirk OBE FCA

2002-03: Dr David Bethel CBE LLD D Litt D ED

2001-02: Canon Michael Wilson MA MBA

2000-01: Mrs Hilary A E Lewis JP MA

1999-2000: Richard, Lord Attenborough CBE

1998-99: Mr John Martin BSc AMA

1997-98: Grant Pitches MA ARIBA

1996-97: Professor John H Holloway BSc PhD DSc C Chem FRSC

1995-96: Ormond K Smyth JP MA MIPR

1994-95: The Venerable Thomas Hughie Jones MA BD LL M

1993-94: John Eagle Higginbotham MA

1992-93: M H Bailey MA

1991-92: John Florance BA PhD

1990-91: Edmund Kendall Clark OBE BSc

1989-90: Peter Henry Andrews Sneath FRS MA MD MRCS LRCP

1988-89: David Geoffrey Lewis MA MD B Chir FFARCS

1987-88: M Aftab Khan BSc PhD FGS FRAS

1986-87: Archibald F Orton, BA

1985-86: Leonard Lloyd-Smith JP Dip Arch FRIBA

1984-85: M A Baatz MA FSA

1983-84: Mrs R R Williams FRGS

1982-83: Dr Trevor David Ford, BSc PhD FGS

1981-82.: Patrick John Boylan Esq B Sc FGS FMA MBIM

1980-81: F Ivan Tarratt Esq TD FGA

1979-80: B A Fisher MA L-es-L PhD

1978-79: Mrs Jennie B Cameron BEM

1977-78: Rev Canon Dudley William Gundry BD MTh

1976-77: Conal P Alexander MB BS FRCP

1975-76: Miss K M Stanton JP MA

1974-75: Professor P C Sylvester Bradley B Sc FRGS

1973-74: Howard N T Staunton MA

1972-73: L C Hamer Esq

1971-72: The Very Reverend John Chester Hughes MA

1970-71: E J F Fortune

1969-70: Dr E Thomas B Sc

1968-69: Mrs F Russell LRAM

1967-68: Dr Maurice L Millard MB ChB

1966-67: R Paine BA

1965-66: Arthur R Humphreys MA AM

1964-65: Rev Arthur H Kirkby MA BD PhD

1963-64: Lt Col J B Potter TD

1962-63.: R M Evans

1961-62: J N Pickard JP BA

1960-61: Miss N Waddington BA

1959-60: Trevor A Walden FMA

1958-59: H Holmes

1957-58: Clement C Ogden FRIBA

1956-57: E Tyler

1955-56: C Gimson

1954-55: Richard L Ager MA

1953-54: J Milne

1952-53: Arthur E L Vial FRPS

1951-52: K Holmes OBE ARCA

1950-51: C R Frears MA JP

1949-50: Reverend H A Jones BSc

1948-49: Selwyn E Tanner MD

1947-48: H A Buckler

1946-47: George Tarratt

1939-46: Frederick L Attenborough

1938-39: Reverend A S Hurn MA D Litt

1937-38: P W Bryan BSc PhD

1936-37: A L Macleod/Mcleod MA MB

1935-36: Charles John Bond CMG FRCS

1934-35: Colin D B Ellis MC MA

1933-34: Neville I Spriggs MD FRCS

1932-33: H Percy Gee, JP

1931-32: E Lewis Lilley, MB BS FRCS

1930-31: Waller K Bedingfield FRIBA

1929-30: Thomas Kingdom MA

1928-29: Charles Squire

1927-28: William Keay FRIBA FSI M Inst C E

1926-27: Arthur Thomas Kerslake OBE BA

1925-26: Rev’d Canon J H Jacques MA

1924-25: Robert F Rattray MA PhD

1923-24: Miss Margaret Gimson

1922-23: E E Lowe B Sc

1921-22: Robert Wallace Henry MD

1920-21: Harry Hardy Peach

1919-20: Benjamin J Fletcher

1918-19: John Alfred Hopps

1917-18: Charles Killick Millard MD D Sc

1916-17: Bernard Ellis

1915-16: George Cresswell Turner FLS

1914-15: William Arthur Evans

1913-14: Agnes Archer Evans (Mrs William Evans) (née Kilgour)

1912-13: Astley Vavsour Clarke BA MD Catab

1911-12: Frederick Barnes Lott MA

1910-11: Rev Walte r Godfrey Whittingham MA

1909-10: William Alport Brockington MA

1908-09: Rev T W Hodge MA

1907-08: George Cooper Franklin LLD FRCS

1906-07: Herbert Ellis

1905-06: Samuel Perkins Pick FRIBA

1904-05: Frederick William Bennett MD BSc

1903-04: Reginald Pratt, MD

1902-03: Rev J Hilton Molesworth MA

1901-02: Charles John Bond

1900-91: Josiah Mentor Gimson

1899-1900: Rev Canon Samuel Johnson Woodhouse Sanders LL D

1898-99: Alfred Colson M Inst C E

1897-98: Reverend Henry Gow BA

1896-97: Rev Arthur Medland Rendall MA

1895-96: William Simpson, Esq

1894-95: Rev Canon Stocks MA

1893-94: Charles James Billson MA

1892-93: Rev Peter Taylor Forsyth MA

1891-92: Robert Harvey LL B

1889-90: John Dennis Paul FGS

1888-89: Rev Ambrose Pudsey Dawson MA

1887-88: Alfred Henry Paget

1886-87: Rev John Page Hopps

1885-86: Reverend James Went MA

1883-84: Reverend E Atkins B Sc

1881-82: Rev Hugh John Fortescue MA

1880-81: Rev Joseph Wood

1879-80: Charles Packe FLS

1878-79: Alderman George Stevenson

1877-78: Rev Lewis M Clayton MA

1876-77: Rev Alexander Mackennal BA

1875-76: Reverend Leonard Addison BA

1890-91: 1874-75

1873-74: Rev John F Halford MA

1872-73: Reverend Nathaniel Haycroft DD

1871-72: Reverend William Romanis MA

1870-71: Reverend Robert Harley FRS FRAS

1869-70: Reverend John Spittal MA

: 1868-69

1867-68: John Buck MRCS

1866-67: Reverend Johnson Barker LL B

1865-66: Rev David James Vaughan MA

1864-65: George Barton Franklin

1863-64: Rev John Noble Bennie LL B

1862-63: Rev Charles Clement Coe

1861-62: Richard Luck

1860-61: Rev John Owen Picton

: 1859-60

1857-58: John Barclay MD

1856-57: Rev William Williamson

1855-56: Mons Charles Camille Caillard

1854-55, 1882-83: William Napier Reeve FSA

1852-53: Dr Joshua Harrison Stallard

1849-50: William Briggs (Biggs)

1847-48, 1848-49: Colin Campbell Macaulay

1846-47, 1853-54, 1858-59: James Francis Hollings

1843/46, 1851/52: Rev C Berry

1842-43: Thomas Smith

1840-42: John Riley (Ryley)

1839-40: The Reverend, The Honourable H D Erskine

1835-6,1838-39, 1844-45,1850-51, 1884-85 (Acting Chairman): George Shaw, MD

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