Harveian Oration
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The Harveian Oration is a yearly lecture held at the Royal College of Physicians of London
. It was instituted in 1656 by William Harvey
, discoverer of the systemic circulation. Harvey made financial provision for the college to hold an annual feast on St. Luke's Day (October 18) at which an oration would be delivered in Latin to praise the college's benefactors and to exhort the Fellows and Members of this college to search and study out the secrets of nature by way of experiment. Until 1865, the Oration was given in Latin, as Harvey had specified, and known as the Oratio anniversaria; but it was thereafter spoken in English. Many of the lectures were published in book form.
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...
. It was instituted in 1656 by William Harvey
William Harvey
William Harvey was an English physician who was the first person to describe completely and in detail the systemic circulation and properties of blood being pumped to the body by the heart...
, discoverer of the systemic circulation. Harvey made financial provision for the college to hold an annual feast on St. Luke's Day (October 18) at which an oration would be delivered in Latin to praise the college's benefactors and to exhort the Fellows and Members of this college to search and study out the secrets of nature by way of experiment. Until 1865, the Oration was given in Latin, as Harvey had specified, and known as the Oratio anniversaria; but it was thereafter spoken in English. Many of the lectures were published in book form.
1656-1700
- 1656 Edward EmilyEdward Emily-Life:He was the third son of Maximilian Emily of Helmdon, Northamptonshire, and Elizabeth, daughter and coheiress of John Waleston of Ruislip, Middlesex, and was baptised on 20 April 1617. He was entered on the books at the university of Leyden on 8 October 1640, and he graduated M.D. on 10 November...
- 1657 Edmund Wilson
- 1659 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...
- 1660 Thomas Coxe
- 1661 Edward GreavesEdward Greaves (physician)Sir Edward Greaves, 1st Baronet , was an English physician.Greaves was the son of John Greaves, rector of Colemore, Hampshire. He was born at Croydon, Surrey, in 1608. His brothers were John Greaves, Nicholas Greaves and Thomas Greaves. He studied at Oxford University, and was elected a fellow of...
- 1662 Charles Scarburgh
- 1663 Christopher TerneChristopher Terne-Life:He was born in Cambridgeshire, entered the University of Leyden on 22 July 1647, and there graduated M.D. In May 1650 he was incorporated first at Cambridge and then at Oxford. He was examined as a candidate at the College of Physicians on 10 May 1650, and was elected a fellow on 15 November...
- 1664 Nathan PagetNathan Paget-Life:He was the son of Thomas Paget, rector of Stockport, Cheshire, and nephew of John Paget, and was born at Manchester in 1615. He graduated M.A. at Edinburgh, and on 25 November 1638 entered as a student of medicine at the University of Leyden, where he graduated M.D...
- 1665 Samuel Collins
- 1666-1678 No Orations due to rebuilding following Great Fire of London
- 1679 Thomas MillingtonThomas MillingtonThomas Millington was a London publisher of the Elizabethan era, who published first editions of three Shakespearean plays...
- 1680 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:...
- 1681 George Rogers
- 1682 Samuel Collins
- 1683 Nathaniel HodgesNathaniel HodgesNathaniel Hodges M.D. was an English physician, known for his work during the Great Plague of London and his written account Loimologia of it.-Early life:...
- 1684 Thomas AlveyThomas AlveyThomas Alvey M.D. was an English physician.Son of Thomas Alvey, merchant-taylor, of London, he was born in St. Faith's parish on 4 May 1645, and educated at Merchant Taylors' School and at Merton College, Oxford...
- 1685-1687 No Oration
- 1688 Henry PamanHenry Paman-Life:Son of Robert Paman, he was born at his father's estate of Chevington, Suffolk. He entered as a sizar at Emmanuel College, Cambridge, on 22 June 1643, where William Sancroft was his tutor. They became friends for life. He migrated to St. John's College, on 22 July 1646, graduated B.A. the...
- 1689-1693 No Oration
- 1694 Charles Goodall
- 1695-1696 No Oration
- 1697 Samuel GarthSamuel GarthSir Samuel Garth FRS was an English physician and poet.Garth was born in Bolam in County Durham and matriculated at Peterhouse, Cambridge in 1676, graduating B.A. in 1679 and...
- 1698 No Oration
- 1699 Walter Harris
- 1700 No Oration
1701-1800
- 1701 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:...
- 1702 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:...
- 1703 No Oration
- 1704 Edward Hulse
- 1705 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:...
- 1706 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:...
- 1707 Walter Harris
- 1708 Josiah Clerk
- 1709 Charles Goodall
- 1710 No Oration
- 1711 George Colebrook
- 1712 No Oration
- 1713 Walter Harris
- 1714-1718 No Oration
- 1719 Thomas Pellett
- 1720 John FreindJohn FreindJohn Freind , FRS, was an English physician.-Life:He was younger brother of Robert Freind , headmaster of Westminster School, and was born at Croton in Northamptonshire...
- 1721 John Hawys
- 1722 Henry Plumptre
- 1723 Richard MeadRichard MeadRichard Mead was an English physician. His work, A Short Discourse concerning Pestilential Contagion, and the Method to be used to prevent it , was of historic importance in the understanding of transmissible diseases.-Life:The eleventh child of Matthew Mead , Independent divine, Richard was born...
, Status of Greek and Roman physicians - 1724 Richard Hale
- 1725 Richard Tyson
- 1726 Walter Harris
- 1727 John ArbuthnotJohn ArbuthnotJohn Arbuthnot, often known simply as Dr. Arbuthnot, , was a physician, satirist and polymath in London...
- 1729 Pierce DodPierce DodPierce Dod was a British physician and opponent of smallpox inoculation. He graduated from Brasenose College, Oxford in 1701, received his MA in 1705, MD in 1714 and was elected a fellow of the Royal College of Physicians in 1720. He was made a physician to St...
- 1731 Noel BroxholmeNoel Broxholme-Early life:Broxholme was, according to Dr. Stukeley, a native of Stamford, Lincolnshire, of humble origin. Born in or about 1689, he was admitted on the foundation at Westminster School in 1700, and in 1704 was elected to Trinity College, Cambridge. He proceeded, however, to Christ Church, Oxford,...
- 1734 John HollingsJohn HollingsJohn Hollings or Hollins, M.D. was an English physician.Hollings was born about 1683, the son of John Hollings, M.D., of Shrewsbury, and formerly fellow of Magdalene College, Cambridge. After attending Shrewsbury School, he entered Emmanuel College, Cambridge in 1700, shortly afterwards migrating...
, Status Humanæ Naturæ expositus in Oratione coram Medicis Londinensibus habita - 1735 Edward Wilmot
- 1736 Matthew LeeMatthew LeeMatthew Lee is a public interest lawyer, author, and founder of two non-profit organizations, Inner City Press and Fair Finance Watch.Both are known for their investigations of the banking industry's treatment of low-income communities of color around the world...
- 1737 James MonroMonro Family (Physicians)The Monro of Fyrish family were a Scottish family and branch of the ancient highland Clan Munro. The family produced a notable dynasty of doctors to London in the 18th and 19th century where they were involved in early work on curing 'insanity'. Four generations occupied successively the position...
- 1738 John Newington
- 1739 Frank NichollsFrank NichollsFrank Nicholls was a physician. He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1728. He was made reader of anatomy at Oxford University when young and moved to London in the 1730s.-Life:...
- 1741 Robert Hopwood
- 1742 Benjamin Hoadly
- 1743 Robert Bankes
- 1744 Ambrose Dawson
- 1746 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...
- 1748 Thomas Lawrence
- 1750 William Heberden
- 1751 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...
- 1755 Robert Taylor, smallpox inoculation
- 1757 John MonroJohn Monro (physician)John Monro was a physician and specialist in insanity who was the physician at the primary English mental hospital Bethlem Hospital, better known as Bedlam.-Family:...
- 1758 Anthony AskewAnthony AskewAnthony Askew was an English physician and book collector.-Life and work:Askew was born in Kendal, Westmorland, the son of Dr. Adam Askew, a well-known physician of Newcastle. His early education was at Sedbergh School and The Royal Free Grammar School in Newcastle upon Tyne, where by all accounts...
- 1759 Mark AkensideMark AkensideMark Akenside was an English poet and physician.Akenside was born at Newcastle upon Tyne, England, the son of a butcher. He was slightly lame all his life from a wound he received as a child from his father's cleaver...
- 1760 Richard BrocklesbyRichard BrocklesbyRichard Brocklesby , an English physician, was born at Minehead, Somerset.He was educated at Ballitore, in Ireland, where Edmund Burke was one of his school fellows, studied medicine at Edinburgh, and finally graduated at Leiden in 1745...
- 1761 George BakerGeorge 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...
- 1762 Anthony AskewAnthony AskewAnthony Askew was an English physician and book collector.-Life and work:Askew was born in Kendal, Westmorland, the son of Dr. Adam Askew, a well-known physician of Newcastle. His early education was at Sedbergh School and The Royal Free Grammar School in Newcastle upon Tyne, where by all accounts...
- 1762 Edward Milward
- 1763 Charlton WollastonCharlton WollastonCharlton Wollaston was an English medical doctor, physician to the Queen's Household.He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1756. He was a son of Francis Wollaston . He married in 1758 Phillis Byam and their son was Charlton Byam Wollaston , Assistant Judge Advocate. He was Harveian...
- 1764 William CadoganWilliam Cadogan (childcare)William Cadogan was a 18th century British physician and writer on childcare and nursing.-Career:Codogan was probably born at Cowbridge in Wales in 1711, He was educated at Oriel College, Oxford, graduating as MA in 1727. He then studied Physic at Leyden University from 1732, matriculating as MD...
- 1765 Thomas Heald
- 1767 No Oration (Licentiate rebellion)
- 1768 Richard Warren
- 1770 Anthony RelhanAnthony RelhanDr. Anthony Relhan was a medical doctor and fellow of the King and Queen's College of Physicians of Ireland, notable for writing a history of Brighton, and for promoting the drinking of mineral water.-Life:...
- 1774 Richard JebbRichard JebbRichard Jebb was an English journalist and author in the field of Empire and colonial nationalism. He was the nephew of the classical scholar and politician, Sir Richard Claverhouse Jebb...
- 1775 Donald Monro
- 1776 Henry Revell Reynolds
- 1778 Lucas Pepys
- 1781 Richard Budd
- 1782 Francis Milman
- 1783 Isaac PenningtonIsaac PenningtonSir Isaac Pennington was an English physician, of whom there are two portraits in the National Portrait Gallery.Isaac Pennington was educated at Sedbergh School and St John's College, Cambridge. From 1773 to 1817 he was physician to Addenbrooke's Hospital in Cambridge.-External links:...
- 1784 John Parsons
- 1785 James HerveyJames HerveyJames Hervey was an English clergyman and writer.-Life:He was born at Hardingstone, near Northampton, and was educated at the grammar school of Northampton, and at Lincoln College, Oxford. Here he came under the influence of John Wesley and the Oxford Methodists, especially since he was a member...
- 1788 Martin WallMartin WallMartin Wall FRS FRCP , was an English physician and educator.Wall was the son of John Wall and was baptised at Worcester on 24 June 1747. He was educated at Winchester College, and entered at New College, Oxford, on 21 November 1763. He graduated B.A. on 17 June 1770, M.A. on 2 July 1771, M.D. on 9...
- 1790 John AshJohn Ash (physician)-Life:Ash was born in Warwickshire, and educated at Trinity College, Oxford; was B.A. in 1743, M. A. in 1746, M.B. in 1750, and M.D. in 1754. He settled at Birmingham, and soon acquired a large practice. The general hospital at Birmingham was founded chiefly through his influence, and he was its...
- 1791 George FordyceGeorge FordyceGeorge Fordyce was a distinguished Scottish physician, lecturer on medicine, and chemist, who was a Fellow of the Royal Society and a Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians.-Early life:...
- 1792 William CadoganWilliam Cadogan (childcare)William Cadogan was a 18th century British physician and writer on childcare and nursing.-Career:Codogan was probably born at Cowbridge in Wales in 1711, He was educated at Oriel College, Oxford, graduating as MA in 1727. He then studied Physic at Leyden University from 1732, matriculating as MD...
- 1793 John Carmichael Smyth
- 1794 John Latham
- 1795 John Mayo
- 1796 William Saunders
- 1797 Robert BourneRobert Bourne (doctor)-Life:Bourne was born at Shrawley, Worcestershire, and educated at Bromsgrove. He was elected a scholar of Worcester College, Oxford, and became a Fellow of the college. He proceeded B.A. in 1781, M.A. in 1784, M.B. in 1786, and in 1787 took the degree of M.D. and was elected physician to the...
- 1798 Matthew BaillieMatthew BaillieMatthew Baillie was a Scottish physician and pathologist.-Life:...
- 1799 Thomas MonroThomas MonroThomas Monro was a British art collector and patron as well as Physician to George III. He was Principal Physician of the Bethlem Royal Hospital in London but resigned in June 1816 as a result of scandal when he was accused of ‘wanting in humanity’ towards his patients.Monro was best known as a...
- 1800 Henry HalfordHenry HalfordSir Henry Halford, 1st Baronet, GCH , born Henry Vaughan, royal and society physician, was physician extraordinary to King George III from 1793 to 1820, then as physician in ordinary to his three successors - George IV, William IV and the young Victoria...
1801-1900
- 1802 Henry AinslieHenry AinslieHenry Ainslie was a physician. Educated at Hawkshead Grammar School and then Pembroke College, Cambridge , he became a fellow of Pembroke in 1782, and a Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians in 1795...
- 1806 Christopher Robert Pemberton
- 1807 Paggen William MayoPaggen William Mayo-Life:He was elected to a medical fellowship at St John's College, Oxford, 6 July 1792, and graduated D.M. in 1795. Elected physician to the Middlesex Hospital 23 August 1793, he was admitted F.R.C.P. 30 September 1796, and was censor 1797, Gulstonian lecturer 1798, and Harveian orator 1807...
- 1808 Richard Powell
- 1809 William Heberden the YoungerWilliam Heberden the YoungerWilliam Heberden the Younger was a British physician.He was born in London the son of the medical doctor William Heberden the Elder and his wife Mary Wollaston...
- 1810 Robert Willis
- 1811
- 1812
- 1813
- 1815 William George Maton
- 1817 George Smith Gibbes
- 1819 John Johnstone
- 1826 Pelham Warren
- 1827 Robert BreeRobert BreeRobert Bree, MD was an English physician-Biography:Bree was born at Solihull, Warwickshire, in 1759. He was educated at Coventry and at University College, Oxford, where he graduated on 6 April 1775, and took his B.A. degree on 10 Nov. 1778, and, having studied medicine at Edinburgh, proceeded...
- 1829 Andrew DuncanAndrew Duncan (doctor)Andrew Duncan FRSE FRCPE FSA was a Scottish physician. He was born at Pinkerton, by St Andrews, in Fife, and educated nearby at the University of St Andrews...
- 1830 John BrightJohn Bright (physician)-Life:Bright was born in Derbyshire, and educated at Wadham College, Oxford, where he graduated B.A. 1801, and M.D. 1808.He at first practised in Birmingham, and was appointed physician to the General Hospital in 1810; but before long he moved to London. He was elected fellow of the Royal College...
- 1831 No Oration due to illness
- 1832 John Cooke
- 1833 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...
- 1834 Edward Thomas MonroMonro Family (Physicians)The Monro of Fyrish family were a Scottish family and branch of the ancient highland Clan Munro. The family produced a notable dynasty of doctors to London in the 18th and 19th century where they were involved in early work on curing 'insanity'. Four generations occupied successively the position...
- 1835 Henry HalfordHenry HalfordSir Henry Halford, 1st Baronet, GCH , born Henry Vaughan, royal and society physician, was physician extraordinary to King George III from 1793 to 1820, then as physician in ordinary to his three successors - George IV, William IV and the young Victoria...
- 1836 John Kidd
- 1837 John Haviland
- 1838 No Oration
- 1839 Peter Mere Latham
- 1840 Charles BadhamCharles BadhamCharles Badham was an English university professor, active in Australia.-Early life:Badham was born at Ludlow, Shropshire, the fourth son of Charles Badham senior, a classical scholar and regius professor of physic at Glasgow; and Margaret Campbell, a cousin of Thomas Campbell, the poet. His elder...
- 1841 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...
- 1842 No Oration
- 1843 William KingWilliam King (doctor)Dr. William King was a British physician and philanthropist from Brighton. He is best known as an early supporter of the Cooperative Movement....
- 1844 James Adey Ogle
- 1846 John ElliotsonJohn ElliotsonJohn Elliotson was an English physician, born in Southwark, London.He studied medicine first at the University of Edinburgh , where he was influenced by Thomas Brown, M.D...
, on hypnotism - 1847 Henry Herbert SoutheyHenry Herbert Southey-Life:The son of Robert Southey by his wife, Margaret Hill, and younger brother of Robert Southey, the poet, he was born at Bristol in 1783. After education at private schools in and near Great Yarmouth, his brother Robert proposed to establish him in his house in London in order that he might...
- 1848 Francis Hawkins
- 1850 James Arthur Wilson
- 1851 John Spurgin
- 1852 Richard Formby
- 1853 No Oration
- 1854 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:...
- 1856 George Hamilton Roe
- 1857 James Copland
- 1858 George Edward Wilmot Wood
- 1859 Charles James Berridge AldisCharles James Berridge AldisCharles James Berridge Aldis was an English physician, son of Sir Charles Aldis.-Biography:He was born in London on 16 January 1808, and was educated at St Paul's School and Trinity College, Cambridge, graduating B.A. in January 1831. He studied medicine at Addenbrooke's Hospital, Cambridge, and...
- 1860 James Arthur Wilson
- 1861 John Spurgin
- 1862 No Oration
- 1863 A.J.Sutherland
- 1864 Robert Lee (Last in Latin)
- 1865 Henry Wentworth Acland
- 1866 George Edward Paget
- 1867 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:...
- 1868 No Oration
- 1869 George Owen Rees
- 1870 William Withey Gull Attack on the Theory of Vitality
- 1871 Thomas King Chambers "Restorative Medicine."
- 1872 Arthur FarreArthur FarreArthur Farre , was an English obstetric physician.-Life:Farre was the younger son of Dr. John Richard Farre of Charterhouse Square, London. He was born in London on 6 March 1811. He was educated at Charterhouse School and at Caius College, Cambridge. After studying medicine at St. Bartholomew's...
- 1873 George RollestonGeorge RollestonGeorge Rolleston MA MD FRCP FRS was an English physician and zoologist. He was the first Linacre Professor of Anatomy and Physiology to be appointed at the University of Oxford, a post he held from 1860 until his death in 1881...
- 1874 Charles West
- 1875 William GuyWilliam GuyWilliam Augustus Guy was a British physician and medical statistician.-Life:He was born in Chichester and educated at Christ's Hospital and Guy's Hospital; he then studied at the University of Heidelberg and the University of Paris before getting a Bachelor of Medicine degree from the University...
- 1876 William Jenner
- 1877 Edward Henry SievekingEdward Henry SievekingEdward Henry Sieveking was an English physician born in Bishopsgate, London. He studied medicine at the University of Berlin under eminent physiologist Johannes Peter Muller, and also at University College London and the University of Edinburgh, where he received his doctorate in 1841.For much of...
- 1878 John Scott Burdon-SandersonJohn Scott Burdon-SandersonSir John Scott Burdon-Sanderson, Bt., F.R.S. was an English physiologist born near Newcastle upon Tyne. A member of a well known Northumbrian family, he received his medical education at the University of Edinburgh and at Paris...
- 1879 Samuel WilksSamuel 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...
- 1880 John William Ogle
- 1881 Andrew Whyte Barclay
- 1882 George Johnson
- 1883 Samuel Osborne HabershonSamuel Osborne HabershonSamuel Osborne Habershon , was an English physician.Habershon was born at Rotherham in 1825, and studied medicine at Guy's Hospital, London. He gained numerous scholarships at the university of London, where he graduated M.B. in 1848 and M.D. in 1851...
- 1884 John Russell Reynolds
- 1885 Richard QuainRichard QuainSir Richard Quain, 1st Baronet , was an Irish physician.He was born at Mallow-on-the-Blackwater, County Cork, and died in Harley Street, London....
, History and Progress of Medicine - 1886 George Edward Paget
- 1887 William H.Stone
- 1888 Peter Wallwork Latham, Blood Changes in Disease
- 1889 James Edward Pollock, Progress of Science and Sanitation
- 1890 James Andrew, Conditions of the Pulmonary Circulation
- 1891 William Howship DickinsonWilliam Howship DickinsonWilliam Howship Dickinson was a British doctor.He was involved in the early characterization of what came to be known as Alport syndrome.He worked at Great Ormond Street Hospital.-Further reading:...
, Harvey in Ancient and Modern Medicine - 1892 John Henry Bridges
- 1893 Philip Henry Pye-SmithPhilip Henry Pye-SmithPhilip Henry Pye-Smith was a physician, medical scientist and educator. His interest was physiology, specialising in skin diseases....
, Pathology as the Basis of Rational Medicine - 1894 Thomas Lauder Brunton, Modern Developments of Harvey's Work
- 1895 William Selby Church, The Rise of Physiology in England
- 1896 Joseph Frank Payne, Harvey and Galen
- 1897 William Roberts
- 1898 Dyce Duckworth, The Influence of Character and Right Judgment in Medicine
- 1899 Alexander Crum BrownAlexander Crum BrownAlexander Crum Brown FRSE FRS was a Scottish organic chemist.-Biography:Born in Edinburgh, the half-brother of the physician and essayist John Brown, he studied for five years at the Royal High School, succeeded by one year at Mill Hill School in London...
, John Mayow - 1900 Thomas Clifford Allbutt, Science and Medieval Thought
1901-2000
- 1901 Norman MooreNorman Moore (medical historian)Sir Norman Moore, 1st Baronet FRCP was a British doctor and historian of medicine.-Early life:Moore was born in Higher Broughton, Manchester, in 1847. He was the only child of noted Irish political economist Robert Ross Rowan Moore, and his wife Rebecca...
- 1902 David FerrierDavid FerrierSir David Ferrier, FRS was a pioneering Scottish neurologist and psychologist.-Life:Ferrier was born in Woodside, Aberdeen and educated at Aberdeen Grammar School before studying for an MA at Aberdeen University...
, The Heart and Nervous System - 1903 William Henry Allchin, On the Study of Structure in Relation to Function
- 1904 Richard CatonRichard CatonRichard Caton , of Liverpool, England, was a scientist who was crucial in discovering the electrical nature of the brain and laid the groundwork for Hans Berger to discover Alpha wave activity in the human brain....
, I-Em-Hotep and Ancient Egyptian Medicine: Prevention of Valvular Disease - 1905 Frederick T. Roberts
- 1906 William OslerWilliam OslerSir William Osler, 1st Baronet was a physician. He was one of the "Big Four" founding professors at Johns Hopkins Hospital as the first Professor of Medicine and founder of the Medical Service there. Sir William Osler, 1st Baronet (July 12, 1849 – December 29, 1919) was a physician. He was...
, The Growth of Truth as Illustrated in the Discovery of the Circulation of the Blood - 1907 Frederick Taylor
- 1908 Joseph Arderne Ormerod, On Heredity in relation to Disease
- 1909 George Henry Savage, On Experimental Psychology and Hypnotism
- 1910 Horatio Bryan Donkin, On Inheritance of Mental Characters
- 1911 C. Theodore Williams, On Old and New Views on the Treatment of Consumption
- 1912 James F. Goodhart, Passing of Morbid Anatomy
- 1913 John Mitchell Bruce, The Influence of Harvey's Work in the Development of the Doctrine of Infection and Immunity
- 1914 Advances in Knowledge Regarding the Circulation and Attributes of the Blood Since Harvey's time
- 1915 Sidney Coupland, Observations on the Statistics in Regard to Mental Disorders and their Occurrence
- 1916 Thomas Barlow, Harvey, The Man and The Physician
- 1917 Robert Saundby, Harvey's Work Considered in Relation to Scientific Knowledge and University Education in his Time
- 1918 Percy KiddPercy KiddPercy Marmaduke Kidd was an English doctor. He was born in Blackheath and died in Chalfont St. Giles....
, On the Doctrine of Consumption in Harvey's Time and Today - 1919 Raymond Crawford, On Forerunners of Harvey in Antiquity
- 1920 Frederick Andrewes, On the Birth and Growth of Science in Medicine
- 1921 Herbert R. Spencer, On William Harvey, Obstetric Physician and Gynaecologist
- 1922 Thomas Hancock Arnold Chaplin, On Medicine in the Century before Harvey
- 1923 Ernest Henry Starling, The Wisdom of the Body
- 1924 Archibald Edward Garrod, The Debt of Science to Medicine
- 1925 Frederick Mott, On Heredity in Relation to Mental Disease
- 1926 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...
, On the Debt of Medicine to the Experimental Method of Harvey - 1927 William Hale-WhiteWilliam Hale-WhiteSir William Hale-White , was a distinguished British physician and medical biographer. He was the son of writer Mark Rutherford. During the First World War he was a colonel in the RAMC and was created KBE in 1919...
, Bacon, Gilbert and Harvey - 1928 Humphry Davy Rolleston, Cardio-Vascular Diseases Since Harvey's Discovery
- 1929 Wilmot HerringhamWilmot HerringhamSir Wilmot Parker Herringham KCMG CB was a British medical doctor, academic and author. He was one of the first doctors to investigate the effect and treatment of poison gas in World War I.-Life:...
, The England of Harvey - 1930 John Beresford Leathes, The Birth of Chemical Biology
- 1931 Robert Hutchison, Harvey: The Man, his Method, and his Message for us today
- 1932 George NewmanGeorge Newman (doctor)Sir George Newman GBE, KCB was an English public health physician, Quaker, the first Chief Medical Officer to the Ministry of Health in England, and wrote a seminal treatise on the social problems causing infant mortality.-Introduction:George Newman was educated at Sidcot School in North Somerset ...
, The Debt of Preventative Medicine to Harvey and the College of Physicians - 1933 Thomas LewisThomas Lewis (cardiologist)Sir Thomas Lewis, CBE, FRS was a British cardiologist. He qualified as a doctor and worked as a physiologist and clinical scientist, carrying out fundamental research on the heart...
, Clinical Science - 1934 James Collier, Inventions and the Outlook in Neurology
- 1935 Henry Hallett DaleHenry Hallett DaleSir Henry Hallett Dale, OM, GBE, PRS was an English pharmacologist and physiologist. For his study of acetylcholine as agent in the chemical transmission of nerve impulses he shared the 1936 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine with Otto Loewi.-Biography:Henry Hallett Dale was born in Islington,...
, Some Epochs in Medical Research - 1936 Walter Langdon-BrownWalter Langdon-BrownSir Walter Langdon-Brown was a British medical doctor.He was the son of the Rev. John Brown of Bunyan's Chapel, Bedford of and his wife Ada. His mother was a niece of John Langdon Down, describer of Down's syndrome...
, The Background to Harvey - 1937 Arthur Hurst, The Time Has Come
- 1938 Edward Mellanby, The State and Medical Research
- 1939 R. A. Young, The Pulmonary Circulation—Before and After Harvey
- 1940 No Oration due to bombing
- 1941 Farquhar BuzzardFarquhar BuzzardSir Edward Farquhar Buzzard, 1st Baronet KCVO, FRCP , was a prominent British physician and Regius Professor of Medicine at the University of Oxford ....
, Reconstruction in the practice of medicine (Oration not delivered but published only). - 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)
- 1945 John ParkinsonJohn Parkinson (physician)Sir John Parkinson was an English cardiologist remembered for describing Wolff-Parkinson-White syndrome.- Biography :...
, Rheumatic Fever and Heart Disease - 1946 Maurice Cassidy, Coronary Disease
- 1947 Charles Ernest Lakin, Our founders and benefactors
- 1948 F. M. R. Walshe, The Structure of Medicine and its Place amongst the Sciences
- 1949 Geoffrey Marshall, Individuality in Medicine
- 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
- 1953 George Graham, The Value of Physiology in Medicine
- 1954 Charles SymondsCharles SymondsSir Charles Putnam Symonds KBE CB was an English neurologist.His initial medical training was at Guy's Hospital, followed by specialised training at the National Hospital for Neurology and Neurosurgery...
, The Circle of Willis - 1955 John CharlesJohn CharlesWilliam John Charles, CBE , commonly known as John Charles, was a Welsh international footballer best remembered for spells with Leeds United and Juventus. Rated by many as the greatest all-round footballer ever to come from Wales, he was equally adept at centre-forward or centre-back...
, The Contrivance of Collegiation - 1956 J. Crighton Bramwell, Practice, Teaching and Research
- 1957 Donald HunterDonald HunterDonald Hunter was a professional footballer, who played for Huddersfield Town, Halifax Town & Southport. He was born in Thorne, Doncaster.-References:*99 Years & Counting - Stats & Stories - Huddersfield Town History*...
, Harvey and his Contemporaries - 1958 Geoffrey KeynesGeoffrey KeynesSir Geoffrey Langdon Keynes was an English biographer, surgeon, physician, scholar and bibliophile...
, Harvey through John Aubrey's eyes - 1959 Russell Brain, William Harvey, Neurologist
- 1960 Francis Richard FraserFrancis Richard FraserSir Francis Richard Fraser was born in Edinburgh, Scotland, to Sir Thomas Richard Fraser, the Professor of Materia Medica at the University of Edinburgh and member of the Royal Society, and Susanna Margaret Duncan...
, The Challenge to the Medical Profession - 1961 Arthur Peregrine ThomsonArthur Thomson (physician)Sir Arthur Peregrine Thomson MC, LLD, MD, FRCP was a British physician.Born in British Guiana the son of Arthur Henry Thomson, a colonial civil servant, he was educated at Dulwich College and Birmingham University, where he graduated in 1915 with first class honours in medicine, surgery and...
, The Consummation of William Harvey - 1962 Harold Himsworth, Society and the Advancement of Natural Knowledge
- 1963 Aubrey LewisAubrey LewisSir Aubrey Julian Lewis, FRCP, FRCPsych , was the first Professor of Psychiatry at the Institute of Psychiatry, London, and is credited with being a driving force behind the flowering of British psychiatry after World War II as well as raising the profile of the profession worldwide.-Early...
, Medicine and the Affections of the Mind - 1964 George Pickering, Physician and Scientist
- 1965 Theodore Fox, Purposes of Medicine
- 1966 MacDonald CritchleyMacDonald CritchleyMacdonald Critchley CBE was a British neurologist. He was former president of the World Federation of Neurology, and the author of over 200 published articles on neurology and 20 books, including The Parietal Lobes , Aphasiology, and biographies of James Parkinson and Sir William Gowers.Macdonald...
, The Divine Banquet of the Brain - 1967 Robert PlattRobert 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...
, Medical Science: Master or Servant? - 1968 Davis Evan Bedford, Harvey’s Third Circulation. De Circulo Sanguinis in Corde
- 1969 Ronald V. Christie, Medical Education and the State
- 1970 Henry Cohen, 1st Baron Cohen of BirkenheadHenry Cohen, 1st Baron Cohen of BirkenheadHenry Cohen, 1st Baron Cohen of Birkenhead CH, FRCP was a British physician, doctor and lecturer. He was famous for his Harveian Oration at the Royal College of Physicians in 1970, on the motion of blood in the veins....
, On the Motion of Blood in the Veins - 1971 Leslie J. Witts, The Medical Professorial Unit
- 1972 Thomas C. Hunt, Digestive Disease - the Changing Scene
- 1973 C. E. Newman, The Art of De Motu Cordis
- 1974 Charles Stuart-Harris, The Contribition of Virology to Contemporary Medicine
- 1975 John McMichaelJohn McMichaelJohn "Big John" McMichael was a leading Northern Irish loyalist who rose to become the most prominent figure within the Ulster Defence Association as the Deputy Commander and leader of its South Belfast Brigade. He was also commander of the organisation's cover name, the "Ulster Freedom Fighters"...
, A Transition in Cardiology: the Mackenzie Lewis Era - 1976 Ronald Bodley Scott, The Admirable Faculties of the Blood
- 1977 Douglas 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...
, Cui Bono? - 1978 John Richardson, Harvey’s Exhortation
- 1979 Cyril ClarkeCyril ClarkeSir Cyril Astley Clarke KBE, FRCP, FRCOG, FRC Path, FRS was a British physician, geneticist and lepidopterist...
, Nature the Old Nurse - 1980 Francis Avery JonesFrancis Avery JonesSir Francis Avery Jones was a British physician and gastroenterologist.He was born in Briton Ferry, Carmarthenshire, Wales but educated at the Sir John Leman High School, Beccles, Suffolk and at St Bartholomew's Hospital Medical School, where he qualified in medicine in 1934.As a house physician...
, The Emergence of Gastroenterology - 1981 John Stokes, Foreign Affairs
- 1982 Richard DollRichard DollSir William Richard Shaboe Doll CH OBE FRS was a British physiologist who became the foremost epidemiologist of the 20th century, turning the subject into a rigorous science. He was a pioneer in research linking smoking to health problems...
, Prospects for Prevention - 1983 Richard Bayliss, Thyroid Disease as the Expression of Autoimmune Disorder
- 1984 Anthony Clifford Dornhorst, Sharing the Secrets
- 1985 Sheila SherlockSheila SherlockProfessor Dame Sheila Patricia Violet Sherlock, Mrs. James, DBE, MD, FRCP, FRCP Ed, FRS was a British physician, hepatologist and teacher.-Early life:...
, Virus Hepatitis - 1986 Allan George Williams Whitfield, Royal Physicians
- 1987 James Gowans, Prospects for Medical Research
- 1988 Paul E. Polani, The Impact of Genetics on Medicine
- 1989 Christopher Booth, A Clinician in Search of the Soluble
- 1990 John Nicholas Walton, Method in Medicine
- 1991 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,...
, The science and cunning of physick: physicians, patients and politics in the 1990s - 1992 J.D.Wetherall, The role of nature and nurture in common diseases: Garrod's legacy
- 1993 Colin Dollery, Medicine and the Pharmacological Revolution
- 1994 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...
, 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 Walter BodmerWalter BodmerSir Walter Bodmer is a German-born British human geneticist. His father being Jewish, the family left Germany in 1938 and settled in Manchester. Bodmer has developed models for population genetics and done work on the human leukocyte antigen system and the use of somatic cell hybrids for human...
, The Somatic Evolution Of Cancer - 1997 John Grimley Evans, A Correct Compassion: the Medical Response to an Ageing Society
- 1998 Donald AchesonDonald AchesonSir Donald Acheson KBE was a British physician and epidemiologist who served as Chief Medical Officer of the United Kingdom from 1983–91...
, Equality of Health:Dream or Reality - 1999 Brian Jarman, The Quality of Care in Hospitals
- 2000 Leslie Turnberg, Baron 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...
,Science, Society and the Perplexed Physician
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- 2001 David Warrell, “To search and Studdy out the secrett of Tropical Diseases by way of Experiment”
- 2002 Cyril Chantler The Second Greatest benefit to Mankind?
- 2003 Paul NursePaul NurseSir Paul Maxime Nurse, PRS is a British geneticist and cell biologist. He was awarded the 2001 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine with Leland H. Hartwell and R...
, The Great Ideas of Biology - 2004 Keith PetersKeith Peters (medicine)Sir David Keith Peters FRS FMedSci FRCP FRCPE FRCPath FLSW was Regius Professor of Physic at the University of Cambridge from 1987 to 2005, where he was also head of the School of Clinical Medicine.- Career :...
, Exceptional Matters - 2005 Colin BlakemoreColin BlakemoreProfessor Colin Blakemore, Ph.D., FRS, FMedSci, HonFSB, HonFRCP, is a British neurobiologist who is Professor of Neuroscience at the University of Oxford and University of Warwick specialising in vision and the development of the brain. He was formerly Chief Executive of the British Medical...
, In Celebration of Cerebration - 2006 Michael MarmotMichael MarmotSir Michael Gideon Marmot is professor of Epidemiology and Public Health at University College London.- Career :Michael Marmot was born in London, England. He moved to Australia as a young child and graduated in Medicine from the University of Sydney, Australia, in 1968. He earned a MPH in 1972...
, Health in an unequal world – social circumstances, biology and disease - 2007 Mark Brian PepysMark PepysMark Brian Pepys FRS is Professor of Medicine at University College London and English Head of Medicine at the Hampstead Campus and the Royal Free Hospital...
, Science and Serendipity - 2008 Michael David Rawlins, De Testimonio: On the evidence for decisions about the use of therapeutic interventions
- 2009 Leszek BorysiewiczLeszek BorysiewiczSir Leszek Krzysztof Borysiewicz, FRS is a Polish British physician, immunologist and scientific administrator. He is currently the 345th Vice-Chancellor of the University of Cambridge, his term of office started on 1 October 2010...
, Prevention is better than cure