The Harveian Oration is a yearly lecture held at the

Royal College of Physicians of London The Royal College of Physicians (RCP) is a British professional membership body dedicated to improving the practice of medicine, chiefly through the accreditation of physicians by examination. Founded by royal charter from King Henry VIII in 1 ...

. It was instituted in 1656 by

William Harvey William Harvey (1 April 1578 – 3 June 1657) was an English physician who made influential contributions in anatomy and physiology. He was the first known physician to describe completely, and in detail, the systemic circulation and proper ...

, discoverer of the systemic circulation. Harvey made financial provision for the college to hold an annual feast on St. Luke's Day (18 October) 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.

Lecturers (incomplete list)

1656–1700

*1656 Edward Emily *1657

Edmund Wilson Edmund Wilson Jr. (May 8, 1895 – June 12, 1972) was an American writer and literary critic who explored Freudian and Marxist themes. He influenced many American authors, including F. Scott Fitzgerald, whose unfinished work he edited for publi ...

*1659 Daniel Whistler *1660

Thomas Coxe Thomas Coxe (1615–1685) was an English physician. He studied at Emmanuel College, Cambridge, graduating with a BA in 1635 and an MA in 1638. He was among the initial fellows of the Royal Society, but ran into money difficulties in old age. L ...

*1661 Edward Greaves *1662

Charles Scarburgh Sir Charles Scarborough or Scarburgh MP FRS FRCP (29 December 1615 – 26 February 1694) was an English physician and mathematician.Robert L. Martensen, "Scarburgh, Sir Charles (1615–1694)", ''Oxford Dictionary of National Biography'' (Oxfor ...

*1663

Christopher Terne Christopher Terne M.D. (also Tearne) (1620–1673) was an English physician. 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 ...

*1664 Nathan Paget *1665 Samuel Collins *1666-1678 No Orations due to rebuilding following Great Fire of London *1679 Thomas Millington *1680

Walter Charleton Walter Charleton (2 February 1619 – 24 April 1707) was a natural philosopher and English writer. According to Jon Parkin, he was "the main conduit for the transmission of Epicurean ideas to England".Jon Parkin, ''Science, Religion and Politics ...

*1681 George Rogers *1682 Samuel Collins *1683

Nathaniel Hodges Nathaniel Hodges M.D. (1629–1688) was an English physician, known for his work during the Great Plague of London and his written account ''Loimologia'' of it. Early life The son of Dr. Thomas Hodges, vicar of Kensington, he was born there on ...

*1684 Thomas Alvey *1685-1687 No Oration *1688 Henry Paman *1689-1693 No Oration *1694 Charles Goodall *1695-1696 No Oration *1697

Samuel Garth Sir Samuel Garth FRS (1661 – 18 January 1719) was an English physician and poet. Life Garth was born in Bolam in County Durham and matriculated at Peterhouse, Cambridge in 1676, graduating B.A. in 1679 and M.A. in 1684. He took his M.D. an ...

*1698 No Oration *1699 Walter Harris *1700 No Oration

1701–1800

*1701

*1702

*1703 ''No Oration'' *1704 Edward Hulse *1705

*1706

*1707 Walter Harris *1708

Josiah Clerk Josiah Clerk, M.D. (1639–1714) was an English physician, briefly president of the College of Physicians. Life Clerk was matriculated as a pensioner of Peterhouse, Cambridge, in December 1656, and took the two degrees in medicine, M.B. in 1661, M ...

*1709 Charles Goodall *1710 ''No Oration'' *1711 George Colebrook *1712 ''No Oration'' *1713 Walter Harris *1714-1718 ''No Oration'' *1719

Thomas Pellett Thomas may refer to: People * List of people with given name Thomas * Thomas (name) * Thomas (surname) * Saint Thomas (disambiguation) * Thomas Aquinas (1225–1274) Italian Dominican friar, philosopher, and Doctor of the Church * Thomas the A ...

*1720

John Freind John Freind may refer to: *Sir John Freind (conspirator) or John Friend (died 1696), English civil servant; executed *John Freind (physician) (1675–1728), English physician *Sir John Freind Robinson, 1st Baronet John Freind Robinson, 1st Baro ...

*1721 John Hawys *1722

Henry Plumptre Henry may refer to: People * Henry (given name) *Henry (surname) * Henry Lau, Canadian singer and musician who performs under the mononym Henry Royalty * Portuguese royalty ** King-Cardinal Henry, King of Portugal ** Henry, Count of Portugal ...

*1723

Richard Mead Richard is a male given name. It originates, via Old French, from Old Frankish and is a compound of the words descending from Proto-Germanic ''*rīk-'' 'ruler, leader, king' and ''*hardu-'' 'strong, brave, hardy', and it therefore means 'strong ...

, Status of Greek and Roman physicians *1724

Richard Hale Richard Hale (born James Richards Hale; November 16, 1892 – May 18, 1981) was an American opera and concert singer and later a character actor of film, stage and television. Hale's appearance usually landed him roles as either Middle Ea ...

*1725

Richard Tyson Richard Tyson is an American actor. He is best known as Kaz in ''Hardball'' (1989–1990) as well as his film roles in ''Three O'Clock High'' (1987), ''Two Moon Junction'' (1988), ''Kindergarten Cop'' (1990), ''Bound to Vengeance'' (2015), and '' ...

*1726 Walter Harris *1727

John Arbuthnot John Arbuthnot FRS (''baptised'' 29 April 1667 – 27 February 1735), often known simply as Dr Arbuthnot, was a Scottish physician, satirist and polymath in London. He is best remembered for his contributions to mathematics, his membersh ...

*1728 Charles Bale *1729

Pierce Dod Pierce Dod FRS, FRCP (1683–1754) 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 ...

*1730 ''No Oration'' *1731

Noel Broxholme Noel Broxholme, M.D. (1686–1748), was an English physician. Early life Broxholme was, according to Dr. Stukeley, a native of Stamford, Lincolnshire, of humble origin. He was admitted on the foundation at Westminster School in 1700, and in 1704 ...

*1732 Ralph Bouchier *1733 William Wood *1734

John Hollings John Hollings or Hollins, FRS M.D. (1683?–1739) 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 ...

, ''Status Humanæ Naturæ expositus in Oratione coram Medicis Londinensibus habita'' *1735 Edward WilmotBook. *1736 Matthew Lee *1737

James Monro James Monro (1838 – 28 January 1920) was a lawyer who became the first Assistant Commissioner (Crime) of the London Metropolitan Police and also served as Commissioner of Police of the Metropolis from 1888 to 1890. Early career Monro was ...

*1738 John Newington *1739

Frank Nicholls Frank Nicholls (1699 – 7 January 1778) 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 The second son of John Nicholl ...

*1740 Simon Burton *1741 Robert Hopwood *1742

Benjamin Hoadly Benjamin Hoadly (14 November 1676 – 17 April 1761) was an English clergyman, who was successively Bishop of Bangor, of Hereford, of Salisbury, and finally of Winchester. He is best known as the initiator of the Bangorian Controversy. Li ...

*1743 Robert Bankes *1744 Ambrose Dawson *1745 Charles Cotes *1746

William Battie William Battie (sometimes spelt Batty;) 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 ...

*1747 James Hawley *1748

Thomas Lawrence Sir Thomas Lawrence (13 April 1769 – 7 January 1830) was an English portrait painter and the fourth president of the Royal Academy. A child prodigy, he was born in Bristol and began drawing in Devizes, where his father was an innkeeper at t ...

*1749

Charles Feake Charles Feake (c.1716–1762) was an English physician and Fellow of the Royal Society. Life He was the son of Samuel Feake (died 1757) of Durrington Hall in Essex from 1720. He was born in Cossimbazar, West Bengal, where his father was governo ...

*1750

William Heberden William Heberden FRS (13 August 171017 May 1801) was an English physician. Life He was born in London, where he received the early part of his education at St Saviour's Grammar School. Full text at Internet Archive (archive.org) At the end of ...

*1751 William Browne *1752 Edward Milward *1753 William Coxe *1754 John Thomas Batt *1755 Robert Taylor, ''smallpox inoculation'' *1756 Richard Conyers *1757 John Monro *1758

Anthony Askew Anthony Askew (1722–1774) was an English physician and is best known for having been a book collector Book collecting is the collecting of books, including seeking, locating, acquiring, organizing, cataloging, displaying, storing, and maint ...

*1759

Mark Akenside Mark Akenside (9 November 1721 – 23 June 1770) was an English poet and physician. Biography 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 f ...

*1760

Richard Brocklesby Richard Brocklesby (11 August 1722 – 11 December 1797), 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 f ...

*1761 George Baker *1762

*1763

Charlton Wollaston Charlton Wollaston (1733–1764) was an English medical doctor, physician to Guy's Hospital from 1762. He was also physician to the Queen's Household. He was a son of Francis Wollaston (1694–1774), and entered Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge i ...

*1764 William Cadogan *1765 Thomas Heald *1766 Wilkinson Blanshard *1767 ''No Oration (Licentiate rebellion)'' *1768

Richard Warren Richard Warren (c. 1585c.1628) was one of the passengers on the Pilgrim ship ''Mayflower'' and a signer of the Mayflower Compact. Early life Richard Warren married Elizabeth Walker, at Great Amwell, Hertfordshire, on 14 April 1610. Elizabeth ...

*1769 Swithen Adee *1770

Anthony Relhan Anthony Relhan (c. 1715–1776) was a physician 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 Born in Munster, Ireland, he was ...

*1771 John Green *1772

John Lewis Petit John Lewis Petit (1736–1780) was an English physician and Fellow of the Royal Society. Life The son of John Petit of Little Aston, Staffordshire, he was born in the parish of Shenstone, Staffordshire. Admitted in 1752 to Queens' College, Cam ...

*1773 John Turton *1774 Richard Jebb *1775 Donald Monro *1776

Henry Revell Reynolds Henry Revell Reynolds (26 September 1745 – 22 October 1811) was an English physician. Life He was born in Laxton, Nottinghamshire, the son of John Reynolds, one month after the death of his father, and was brought up by his maternal great-un ...

*1777 Richard Wright *1778 Lucas Pepys *1779 John Burges *1780 John Rawlinson *1781 Richard Budd *1782 Francis Milman *1783

Isaac Pennington :''See Isaac Penington (disambiguation) for other people with a similar name.'' Sir Isaac Pennington (1745–1817) was an English physician, of whom there are two portraits in the National Portrait Gallery. Isaac Pennington was educated at Sed ...

*1784 John Parsons *1785

James Hervey James Hervey (26 February 1714 – 25 December 1758) 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 ...

*1786

David Pitcairn David Pitcairn M.D. (1749–1809) was a Scottish physician. Life Born on 1 May 1749 in Fife, he was eldest son of Major John Pitcairn, who was killed at the battle of Bunker's Hill; Robert Pitcairn (1752–) was his brother. He was sent to Edi ...

*1787 Francis Riollay *1788

Martin Wall Martin Wall FRS FRCP (1747– 21 Jun 1824), 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 No ...

*1789 James Robertson Barclay *1790 John Ash *1791

George Fordyce George Fordyce (18 November 1736 – 25 May 1802) 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 George Fordyce was ...

*1792 William Cadogan *1793 John Carmichael Smyth *1794 John Latham *1795 John Mayo *1796 William Saunders *1797 Robert Bourne *1798

Matthew Baillie Matthew Baillie FRS (27 October 1761 – 23 September 1823) was a British physician and pathologist, credited with first identifying transposition of the great vessels (TGV) and situs inversus. Early life and education He was born in the manse ...

*1799 Thomas Monro *1800

Henry Halford Sir Henry Halford, 1st Baronet, Royal Guelphic Order, GCH (2 October 1766 – 1844), born Henry Vaughan, was president of the Royal College of Physicians for 24 years. As the royal and society physician, he was physician extraordinary to George ...

1801–1900

*1801 Edward Roberts *1802

Henry Ainslie Henry Ainslie (21 March 1760 – 1834) was a physician. He was the son of the Kendal physician James Ainslie. Educated at Hawkshead Grammar School and then Pembroke College, Cambridge (where he graduated Senior Wrangler and was second in the Sm ...

*1803 George Paulet Morris *1804 Arthur Daniel Stone *1805

Sir Christopher Pegge Sir Christopher Pegge M.D. (1765–1822) was an English physician. Life The son of Samuel Pegge the younger, by his first wife, he was born in London. He entered Christ Church, Oxford, as a commoner on 18 April 1782, and graduated B.A. on 23 Fe ...

*1806 Christopher Robert Pemberton *1807 Paggen William Mayo *1808 Richard Powell *1809

William Heberden the Younger William Heberden the Younger (23 March 1767 – 19 February 1845) was a British physician. He was born in London the son of the medical doctor William Heberden the Elder and his wife Mary Wollaston. He was educated at Charterhouse School and S ...

*1810 Robert Willis *1811 *1812 Dr Ash *1813 *1814 Charles Gower *1815

William George Maton William George Maton M.D. (31 January 1774 – 30 March 1835) was an English physician, a society doctor who became associated with the British royal family. He published on natural history and antiquarian topics. Life The son of George Maton, ...

*1816 James Haworth *1817 George Smith Gibbes *1818 William Lambe *1819 John Johnstone *1820 Charles Price *1821 George Gilbert Currey *1822 Thomas Turner *1823 *1824 *1825

*1826 Pelham Warren *1827 Robert Bree *1828 John Cooke *1829 Clement Hue *1830

John Bright John Bright (16 November 1811 – 27 March 1889) was a British Radical and Liberal statesman, one of the greatest orators of his generation and a promoter of free trade policies. A Quaker, Bright is most famous for battling the Corn Laws ...

*1831 ''No Oration due to illness'' *1832 James Tattersall *1833

John Ayrton Paris John Ayrton Paris, FRS (178524December 1856) was a British physician. He is most widely remembered as a possible inventor of the thaumatrope, which he published with W. Phillips in April 1825. Life Paris was a medical researcher of distinctio ...

*1834 Edward Thomas Monro *1835

*1836 John Kidd *1837

John Haviland John Haviland (15 December 1792 – 28 March 1852) was an English-born American architect who was a major figure in American Neo-Classical architecture, and one of the most notable architects working from Philadelphia in the 19th century. Biog ...

*1838 William Newbigging *1839

Peter Mere Latham Peter Mere Latham (1789–1875) was an English physician and "a great medical educator". Life The son of John Latham (1761–1843), he was born on 1 July 1789 in London. Described as "a very delicate child", he attended Sandbach School where he r ...

*1840

Charles Badham Reverend Charles Badham (18 July 1813 – 27 February 1884) was an English classical philologist, textual critic, headmaster, and university professor, active in England and even more so in Australia. Early life Badham was born at Ludlow, Shro ...

*1841 Thomas Mayo *1842 ''No Oration'' *1843 William King *1844

James Adey Ogle James Adey Ogle (1792–1857) was an English physician. Life He was born on 22 October 1792 in Great Russell Street, London, where his father Richard Ogle had a good practice as a general practitioner. In 1808 he was sent to Eton College, under ...

*1845 Charles Daubeny *1846

John Elliotson John Elliotson (29 October 1791 – 29 July 1868), M.D. (Edinburgh, 1810), M.D.(Oxford, 1821), F.R.C.P.(London, 1822), F.R.S. (1829), professor of the principles and practice of medicine at University College London (1832), senior physician to ...

, on hypnotism *1847

Henry Herbert Southey Henry Herbert Southey M.D. (1784–1865) was an English physician. Life The son of Robert Southey (1745–1792) by his wife, Margaret Hill (1752–1802), and younger brother of Robert Southey, the poet, he was born in Bristol on 18 January 1784. ...

,''Dr. Ramadge and the Harveian Oration'' *1848 Francis Hawkins *1849 John Carr Badeley *1850

James Arthur Wilson Dr James Arthur Wilson FRCP (1795 – 29 December 1882) was a British physician. He was born in Lincoln's Inn Fields, London, the son of James Wilson, the surgeon and teacher of anatomy at the Hunterian School of Medicine in Great Windmill Str ...

*1851 John Spurgin *1852

Richard Formby Richard Formby is a British musician, engineer and producer. As well as releasing his own solo music, he has been a member of various bands. Formby produced the albums ''Two Dancers'' (2009) and ''Smother'' (2011) by Wild Beasts, as well as ''Some ...

*1853 ''No Oration'' *1854

James Alderson Sir James Alderson Fellow of the Royal Society, FRS (30 December 1794 – 13 September 1882) was an English physician born and based in Kingston upon Hull. He was President of the Royal College of Physicians. Biography Alderson was the younger s ...

*1856 George Hamilton Roe *1857

James Copland James Copland (3 February 1834 – 9 November 1902) was a New Zealand presbyterian minister, doctor and writer. He was born in Edinburgh, Midlothian, Scotland on 3 February 1834 and emigrated to New Zealand in 1864. He was active as a minister ...

*1858 George Edward Wilmot Wood *1859

Charles James Berridge Aldis Charles James Berridge Aldis (16 January 1808 – 26 July 1872) 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 (London), St Paul's School and Trinity ...

*1860 William Emmanuel Page *1861 Charles Bell *1862 ''No Oration'' *1863 A. J. Sutherland *1864 Robert Lee (Last in Latin) *1865

Henry Wentworth Acland Sir Henry Wentworth Dyke Acland, 1st Baronet, (23 August 181516 October 1900) was an English physician and educator. Life Henry Acland was born in Killerton, Exeter, the fourth son of Sir Thomas Acland and Lydia Elizabeth Hoare, and educate ...

*1866

George Edward Paget Sir George Edward Paget, (22 December 1809 – 16 January 1892) was an English physician and academic. Life The seventh son of Samuel Paget and his wife, Sarah Elizabeth Tolver, he was born at Great Yarmouth, Norfolk. After schooling there, he ...

*1867

*1868 ''No Oration'' *1869

George Owen Rees George Owen Rees (November 1813 – 27 May 1889) was a Welsh-Italian physician. Life Born at Smyrna in November 1813, he was son of Josiah Rees, a Levantine merchant and British consul there. His mother was born in Newfoundland, Canada. Thomas ...

*1870

William Withey Gull Sir William Withey Gull, 1st Baronet (31 December 181629 January 1890) was an English physician. Of modest family origins, he established a lucrative private practice and served as Governor of Guy's Hospital, Fullerian Professor of Physiology ...

Attack on the Theory of Vitality *1871 Thomas King Chambers "Restorative Medicine." *1872

Arthur Farre Arthur Farre FRS (6 March 1811, in London – 17 December 1887, in London) 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 and wa ...

"Analysis of Harvey’s Exercises on generation."/> *1873

George Rolleston George Rolleston MA MD FRCP FRS (30 July 1829 – 16 June 1881) 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 ...

*1874 Charles West *1875

William Guy William Augustus Guy (13 June 1810 – 10 September 1885) 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 an ...

*1876 William Jenner *1877

Edward Henry Sieveking Sir Edward Henry Sieveking (24 August 1816 – 24 February 1904) was an English physician. Life Sieveking was born in Bishopsgate, London. He studied medicine at the University of Berlin under eminent physiologist Johannes Peter Muller, and als ...

*1878

John Scott Burdon-Sanderson Sir John Scott Burdon-Sanderson, 1st Baronet, FRS, HFRSE D.Sc. (21 December 182823 November 1905) was an English physiologist born near Newcastle upon Tyne, and a member of a well known Northumbrian family. Biography He was born at Jesmond ...

*1879

Samuel Wilks Sir Samuel Wilks, 1st Baronet, (2 June 1824 – 8 November 1911) 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 H ...

*1880 John William Ogle *1881

Andrew Whyte Barclay Andrew Whyte Barclay MD (1817–1884), was a Scottish physician. Biography Barclay was born at Dysart, Fife, and educated at the High School of Edinburgh. He studied medicine at the University of Edinburgh, and after visiting Berlin and Paris ...

*1882 George Johnson, "Cesalpino and Harvey" *1883

Samuel Osborne Habershon Samuel Osborne Habershon (1825 – 22 August 1889) was an English physician. Habershon was born at Rotherham in 1825, and studied medicine (from 1842) at Guy's Hospital, London. He gained numerous scholarships at the university of London, wher ...

"The advancement of science by experimental research." *1884

John Russell Reynolds Sir John Russell Reynolds, 1st Baronet (22 May 1828 – 29 May 1896) was a British neurologist and physician. Reynolds was born in Romsey, Hampshire, as son of John Reynolds, an independent minister, and grandson of Dr. Henry Revell Reynolds. ...

*1885 Richard Quain, ''History and Progress of Medicine'' *1886

Frederick William Pavy Frederick William Pavy (29 May 1829 – 19 September 1911) was a British physician and physiologist and the discoverer of Pavy disease, a cyclic or recurrent physiologic albuminuria. Life Pavy was born in Wroughton and educated at Merch ...

*1887 William H. Stone *1888

Peter Wallwork Latham Peter Wallwork Latham (1832–1923) was an English physician and professor of medicine at the University of Cambridge. Biography Peter Latham served as an apprentice to this father, who was a physician, and then studied at the University of Gla ...

, ''Blood Changes in Disease'' *1889 James Edward Pollock, ''Progress of Science and Sanitation'' *1890 James Andrew, ''Conditions of the Pulmonary Circulation'' *1891

William Howship Dickinson William Howship Dickinson (9 June 1832 – 9 January 1913) was a British doctor. He was educated at Cambridge and later trained at St George's Hospital. He wrote one of the first accounts of familial kidney disease. Affected family members had p ...

, ''Harvey in Ancient and Modern Medicine'' *1892

John Henry Bridges John is a common English name and surname: * John (given name) * John (surname) John may also refer to: New Testament Works * Gospel of John, a title often shortened to John * First Epistle of John, often shortened to 1 John * Second E ...

, "Harvey and his successors" *1893

Philip Henry Pye-Smith Philip Henry Pye-Smith FRS FRCP (30 August 1839 – 23 May 1914) was an English physician, medical scientist and educator. His interest was physiology, specialising in skin diseases. Life Philip Pye-Smith was born in 1839 at Billiter Square, L ...

, ''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 Joseph Frank Payne (1840–1910) was an English physician, known also as a historian of medicine. Life The son of Joseph Payne, a schoolmaster, and his wife Eliza Dyer who was also a teacher, he was born in the parish of St. Giles, Camberwell, ...

, ''Harvey and Galen'' *1897 William Roberts, ''On Science and Modern Civilisation'' *1898 Dyce Duckworth, ''The Influence of Character and Right Judgment in Medicine'' *1899 George Vivian Poore *1900

Thomas Clifford Allbutt Sir Thomas Clifford Allbutt (20 July 183622 February 1925) was an English physician best known for his role as president of the British Medical Association 1920, for inventing the clinical thermometer, and for supporting Sir William Osler in fou ...

, ''Science and Medieval Thought''

1901–2000

*1901 Norman Moore *1902

David Ferrier Sir David Ferrier FRS (13 January 1843 – 19 March 1928) was a pioneering Scottish neurologist and psychologist. Ferrier conducted experiments on the brains of animals such as monkeys and in 1881 became the first scientist to be prosecuted u ...

, ''The Heart and Nervous System'' *1903 William Henry Allchin, ''On the Study of Structure in Relation to Function'' *1904

Richard Caton Richard Caton (1842, Bradford – 1926), of Liverpool, England, was a British physician, physiologist and Lord Mayor of Liverpool who was crucial in discovering the electrical nature of the brain and laid the groundwork for Hans Berger to disco ...

, ''I-Em-Hotep and Ancient Egyptian Medicine: Prevention of Valvular Disease'' *1905 Frederick T. Roberts *1906

William Osler Sir William Osler, 1st Baronet, (; July 12, 1849 – December 29, 1919) was a Canadian physician and one of the "Big Four" founding professors of Johns Hopkins Hospital. Osler created the first Residency (medicine), residency program for spec ...

, ''The Growth of Truth as Illustrated in the Discovery of the Circulation of the Blood'' *1907 Frederick Taylor, "The need of research in medicine " *1908

Joseph Arderne Ormerod Joseph Arderne Ormerod (7 April 1848, Starston, Norfolk – 5 March 1925) was an English physician, neurologist, and psychiatrist. After education at Rugby School, Joseph Ormerod matriculated at Corpus Christi College, Oxford, graduating there B. ...

, ''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

Sir James Goodhart, 1st Baronet James Goodhart (1845–1916) was an English physician whose work extended into various medical fields, including morbid pathology and paediatrics. He held positions in a number of London hospitals and institutions, including Guy's Hospital and t ...

, ''The 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 Sir Richard Powell,''Advances in Knowledge Regarding the Circulation and Attributes of the Blood Since Harvey's time'' *1915

Sidney Coupland Sidney Coupland (3 December 1849 – 29 April 1930, in Boars Hill near Oxford) was an English physician, specializing in pathological anatomy. Life He was the son of William Newton Coupland, a merchant of Streatham. After education at Hove House ...

, ''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 Kidd, ''On the Doctrine of Consumption in Harvey's Time and Today'' *1919 Raymond Crawfurd, ''On Forerunners of Harvey in Antiquity'' *1920 Frederick Andrewes, ''On the Birth and Growth of Science in Medicine'' *1921

Herbert R. Spencer Herbert Ritchie Spencer (16 January 1860 – 28 August 1941) was professor of obstetrics at University College London. Spencer wrote numerous articles and books on gynaecological and obstetric topics, as well as on the history of midwifery and ...

, ''On William Harvey, Obstetric Physician and Gynaecologist'' *1922 Thomas Hancock Arnold Chaplin, ''On Medicine in the Century before Harvey'' *1923

Ernest Henry Starling Ernest Henry Starling (17 April 1866 – 2 May 1927) was a British physiologist who contributed many fundamental ideas to this subject. These ideas were important parts of the British contribution to physiology, which at that time led the world. ...

, ''The Wisdom of the Body'' *1924

Archibald Edward Garrod Sir Archibald Edward Garrod (25 November 1857 – 28 March 1936) was an English physician who pioneered the field of inborn errors of metabolism. He also discovered alkaptonuria, understanding its inheritance. He served as Regius Professor of Me ...

, ''The Debt of Science to Medicine'' *1925

Frederick Mott Frederick may refer to: People * Frederick (given name), the name Nobility Anhalt-Harzgerode *Frederick, Prince of Anhalt-Harzgerode (1613–1670) Austria * Frederick I, Duke of Austria (Babenberg), Duke of Austria from 1195 to 1198 * Frederick ...

,'' On Heredity in Relation to Mental Disease'' *1926

John Bradford John Bradford (1510–1555) was an English Reformer, prebendary of St. Paul's, and martyr. He was imprisoned in the Tower of London for alleged crimes against Queen Mary I. He was burned at the stake on 1 July 1555. Life Bradford was born i ...

, ''On the Debt of Medicine to the Experimental Method of Harvey'' *1927

William Hale-White Sir William Hale-White (7 November 1857 – 26 February 1949) was a British physician and medical biographer. He was the son of writer Mark Rutherford. Career Hale-White was appointed an assistant physician at Guy's Hospital in 1886, a physi ...

, ''Bacon, Gilbert and Harvey'' *1928 Sir Humphry Rolleston, Bt, ''Cardio-Vascular Diseases Since Harvey's Discovery'' *1929

Wilmot Herringham Sir Wilmot Parker Herringham (17 April 1855 – 23 April 1936) 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 Wilmot Parker Herringha ...

, ''The England of Harvey'' *1930

John Beresford Leathes John Beresford Leathes DSc, MA, FRS, FRCS, FRCP (5 November 1864 – 14 September 1956) was a British physiologist and an early biochemist. He was the son of Hebrew scholar Stanley Leathes, and the brother of the poet, historian and First C ...

, ''The Birth of Chemical Biology'' *1931 Robert Hutchison, ''Harvey: The Man, his Method, and his Message for us today'' *1932 George Newman, ''The Debt of Preventative Medicine to Harvey and the College of Physicians'' *1933 Thomas Lewis, ''Clinical Science'' *1934

James Collier James William Collier (September 28, 1872 – September 28, 1933) was a politician from the U.S. state of Mississippi. Born on the Glenwood Plantation near Vicksburg in 1872, he graduated from the University of Mississippi at Oxford in 1894 ...

, Inventions and the Outlook in Neurology *1935

Henry Hallett Dale Sir Henry Hallett Dale (9 June 1875 – 23 July 1968) was an English pharmacologist and physiologist. For his study of acetylcholine as agent in the chemical transmission of nerve pulses (neurotransmission) he shared the 1936 Nobel Prize in Ph ...

, ''Some Epochs in Medical Research'' *1936

Walter Langdon-Brown Sir Walter Langdon-Brown (13 August 1870 – 3 October 1946) was a British medical doctor and writer. Biography He was born in Bedford, the son of the Rev. John Brown of Bunyan's Chapel, Bedford and his wife, Ada Haydon Ford (1837–1929). His ...

, ''The Background to Harvey''BMA book. *1937

Arthur Frederick Hurst Sir Arthur Frederick Hurst, aka Arthur Frederick Hertz FRCP (23 July 1879 – 17 August 1944) was a British physician, and a cofounder of the British Society of Gastroenterology. The society's annual lecture is named for him. Biography Aurt ...

, ''The Time Has Come'' *1938

Edward Mellanby Sir Edward Mellanby (8 April 1884 – 30 January 1955) was a British biochemist and nutritionist who discovered vitamin D and its role in preventing rickets in 1919. Education Mellanby was born in West Hartlepool, the son of a shipyard owner, a ...

, ''The State and Medical Research'' *1939 Robert Arthur Young, ''The Pulmonary Circulation—Before and After Harvey'' *1940 No Oration due to bombing *1941

Farquhar Buzzard Sir Edward Farquhar Buzzard, 1st Baronet, (20 December 187117 December 1945) was a prominent British physician and Regius Professor of Medicine at the University of Oxford (1928–1943). Career Farquhar Buzzard was born on 20 December 1871, ...

, ''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 Parkinson, ''Rheumatic Fever and Heart Disease'' *1946 Maurice Cassidy, ''Coronary Disease'' *1947 Charles Ernest Lakin, ''Our founders and benefactors'' *1948 Francis Martin Rouse 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 Reverend Archibald Gray (died 1831) was an influential Presbyterian minister in Halifax, Nova Scotia. He served in the St. Matthew's United Church (Halifax) for 30 years (1795–1826). Gray was a native of Morayshire and a graduate of King's Co ...

, ''Dermatology from the Time of Harvey'' *1952 Charles McMoran Wilson, ''On Credulity'' *1953

George Graham George Graham (born 30 November 1944), nicknamed "Stroller", is a Scottish former football player and manager. In his successful playing career, he made 455 appearances in England's Football League as a midfielder or forward for Aston Villa, Ch ...

, ''The Value of Physiology in Medicine'' *1954

Charles Symonds Air Vice Marshal Sir Charles Putnam Symonds (11 April 1890 – 7 December 1978) was an English neurologist and a senior medical officer in the Royal Air Force. His initial medical training was at Guy's Hospital, followed by specialised training ...

, ''The Circle of Willis'' *1955

John Charles William John Charles (27 December 1931 – 21 February 2004) was a Welsh footballer who played as a centre-forward or as a centre-back. Best known for his first stint at Leeds United and Juventus, he was rated by many as the greatest all-round ...

, ''The Contrivance of Collegiation''Book reprinted from ''The Lancet''. *1956 J. Crighton Bramwell, ''Practice, Teaching and Research'' *1957 Donald Hunter, ''Harvey and his Contemporaries'' *1958

Geoffrey Keynes Sir Geoffrey Langdon Keynes ( ; 25 March 1887, Cambridge – 5 July 1982, Cambridge) was a British surgeon and author. He began his career as a physician in World War I, before becoming a doctor at St Bartholomew's Hospital in London, where he ...

, ''Harvey through John Aubrey's eyes'' *1959

Russell Brain Walter Russell Brain, 1st Baron Brain (23 October 1895 – 29 December 1966) was a British neurologist. He was principal author of the standard work of neurology, ''Brain's Diseases of the Nervous System'', and longtime editor of the homonymo ...

, ''William Harvey, Neurologist'' *1960

Francis Richard Fraser Sir Francis Richard Fraser (14 February 1885 – 2 October 1964) 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 Du ...

, ''The Challenge to the Medical Profession'' *1961 Arthur Peregrine Thomson, ''The Consummation of William Harvey'' *1962

Harold Himsworth Sir Harold Percival (Harry) Himsworth, KCB, FRS (19 May 1905 – 1 November 1993) was a British scientist, best known for his medical research on diabetes mellitus. Early life He was born in Huddersfield, West Yorkshire, the son of Joseph ...

, ''Society and the Advancement of Natural Knowledge'' *1963

Aubrey Lewis Sir Aubrey Julian Lewis, FRCP, FRCPsych (8 November 1900 – 21 January 1975), was the first Professor of Psychiatry at the Institute of Psychiatry, London (now part of King's College London), and is credited with being a driving force behind ...

, ''Medicine and the Affections of the Mind'' *1964

George Pickering George Pickering (1758–1826) was an 18th-century poet and songwriter, born in Simonburn. His most famous work is probably Donocht Head. Early life George Pickering was born in Simonburn, Northumberland in January 1758. His baptism register ...

, ''Physician and Scientist'' *1965 Theodore Fox, ''Purposes of Medicine'' *1966

MacDonald Critchley Macdonald Critchley CBE (2 February 1900 – 15 October 1997) 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 Pariet ...

, ''The Divine Banquet of the Brain'' *1967 Robert Platt, ''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 Birkenhead Henry Cohen, 1st Baron Cohen of Birkenhead (21 February 1900 – 7 August 1977) 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 v ...

, ''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

Charles Edward Newman Charles Edward Kingsley Newman (1900–1989) was a British physician and medical school dean. Biography After education at Mill Mead School in Shrewsbury and then at Shrewsbury School, Newman spent the summer of 1918 in the Oxford University ...

, ''The Art of De Motu Cordis'' *1974 Charles Stuart-Harris, ''The Contribution of Virology to Contemporary Medicine'' *1975

John McMichael John McMichael (9 January 1948 – 22 December 1987) was a Northern Irish loyalist who rose to become the most prominent and charismatic figure within the Ulster Defence Association (UDA) as the Deputy Commander and leader of its South Belf ...

, ''A Transition in Cardiology: the Mackenzie Lewis Era''RCP book. *1976 Ronald Bodley Scott, ''The Admirable Faculties of the Blood'' *1977 Douglas Black, ''Cui Bono?'' *1978 John Richardson, ''Harvey’s Exhortation'' *1979

Cyril Clarke Sir Cyril Astley Clarke, KBE, FRCP, FRCOG, (Hon) FRC Path, FRS (22 August 1907 – 21 November 2000) was a British physician, geneticist and lepidopterist. He was honoured for his pioneering work on prevention of Rh disease of the newborn, a ...

, ''Nature the Old Nurse'' *1980 Francis Avery Jones, ''The Emergence of Gastroenterology'' *1981 John Stokes, ''Foreign Affairs'' *1982 Sir

Richard Doll Sir William Richard Shaboe Doll (28 October 1912 – 24 July 2005) was a British physician who became an epidemiologist in the mid-20th century and made important contributions to that discipline. He was a pioneer in research linking smoking ...

, ''Prospects for Prevention'' *1983

Richard Bayliss Sir Richard Ian Samuel Bayliss (2 January 1917 – 21 April 2006) was an English physician specialising in endocrinology. He became Physician to the Queen and head of the Medical Household. Early life and training Richard Bayliss was born in ...

, ''Thyroid Disease as the Expression of Autoimmune Disorder'' *1984 Anthony Clifford Dornhorst, ''Sharing the Secrets'' *1985 Dame

Sheila Sherlock Dame Sheila Patricia Violet Sherlock DBE, FRCP FRCPE FRS HFRSE FMGA FCRGA (31 March 1918 – 30 December 2001) was a British physician and medical educator who is considered the major 20th-century contributor to the field of hepatology (the ...

, ''Virus Hepatitis'' *1986 Allan George Williams Whitfield, ''Royal Physicians'' *1987 Sir James Gowans, ''Prospects for Medical Research'' *1988 Paul E. Polani, ''The Impact of Genetics on Medicine'' *1989 Sir

Christopher Booth Sir Christopher Charles Booth (22 June 1924 – 13 July 2012) was an English clinician and medical historian, characterised as "one of the great characters of British medicine". Booth was born in 1924 in Farnham, Surrey. His father Lionel ...

, ''A Clinician in Search of the Soluble'' *1990 Lord John Nicholas Walton, ''Method in Medicine'' *1991 Sir

Raymond Hoffenberg Sir Raymond Hoffenberg KBE GCOB (16 March 1923 – 22 April 2007) 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 Presi ...

, ''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 Dame Margaret Elizabeth Turner-Warwick (; 19 November 1924 – 21 August 2017) was a British medical doctor and thoracic specialist. She was the first woman president of the Royal College of Physicians (1989–1992) and, later, chairman of t ...

, ''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 Sir Walter Fred Bodmer (born 10 January 1936) is a German-born British human geneticist. Early life Bodmer was born in Frankfurt, Germany. He was educated at Manchester Grammar School and went on to study the Mathematical Tripos at the Univ ...

, ''The Somatic Evolution Of Cancer'' *1997 Sir

John Grimley Evans Sir John Grimley Evans (17 September 1936 – 26 March 2018) was a British gerontologist. Early life and education Grimley Evans was born in Birmingham to Harry Walter Grimley Evans and Violet Prenter Walker on 17 September 1936. He attended Kin ...

, ''A Correct Compassion: the Medical Response to an Ageing Society'' *1998 Sir

Donald Acheson Sir Ernest Donald Acheson (17 September 1926 – 10 January 2010) was a British physician and epidemiologist who served as Chief Medical Officer of the United Kingdom from 1983 to 1991. He was born in Belfast, Northern Ireland. Early life Er ...

, ''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''

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*2001 David Warrell, ''“To search and Studdy out the secrett of Tropical Diseases by way of Experiment”'' *2002 Sir

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''The Second Greatest benefit to Mankind?'' *2003 Sir

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, ''The Great Ideas of Biology'' *2004 Sir Keith Peters, ''Exceptional Matters'' *2005 Sir

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,'' In Celebration of Cerebration'' *2006 Sir

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, ''Health in an unequal world – social circumstances, biology and disease'' *2007 Sir Mark Brian Pepys, ''Science and Serendipity'' *2008 Sir Michael David Rawlins, ''De Testimonio: On the evidence for decisions about the use of therapeutic interventions'' *2009 Sir

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, ''Prevention is better than cure'' *2010 Sir John Bell, ''Redefining Disease'' *2011 Iona Heath, ''Divided we fail'' *2012 Sir

Richard Peto Sir Richard Peto (born 14 May 1943) is an English statistician and epidemiologist who is Professor of Medical Statistics and Epidemiology at the University of Oxford, England. Education He attended Taunton's School in Southampton and subsequ ...

, ''Halving premature death'' *2013 Dame

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, ''The era of genomic medicine'' *2014 Sir

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, ''Stem cells and cell replacement'' *2015

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, ''Medicine, science and values'' *2016 Sir

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, ''Some observations on the causes and consequences of obesity'' *2017

Chris Whitty Sir Christopher John MacRae Whitty (born 21 April 1966) is a British epidemiologist serving as Chief Medical Officer for England (CMO) and Chief Medical Adviser to the UK Government since 2019. He has also been Gresham Professor of Physic sinc ...

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Peter J. Ratcliffe Sir Peter John Ratcliffe, FRS, FMedSci (born 14 May 1954) is a British Nobel Laureate physician-scientist who is trained as a nephrologist. He was a practising clinician at the John Radcliffe Hospital, Oxford and Nuffield Professor of Clinical ...

, ''Elucidation of molecular oxygen-sensing mechanisms in human cells: implications for medicine'' * 2021

Jonathan Van-Tam Sir Jonathan Stafford Nguyen-Van-Tam (born 2 February 1964) is a British healthcare professional specialising in influenza, including its epidemiology, transmission, vaccinology, antiviral drugs and pandemic preparedness. After hospital wor ...

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''Pandemic HIV and its legacy for medicine and global health''

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