Hunterian Oration
{{short description|Lecture of the Royal College of Surgeons of England}}
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The Hunterian Oration is a lecture of the Royal College of Surgeons of England, named in honour of pioneering surgeon John Hunter and held on his birthday, 14 February, each year.
History
The oration was founded in 1813 by the executors of the will of surgeon John Hunter, his nephew Dr Matthew Baillie, and his brother-in-law Sir Everard Home, who made a gift to the Royal College of Surgeons of England to provide an annual oration and a dinner for Members of the Court of Assistants and others.{{cn|date= March 2023}}
In 1853, the oration and dinner became biennial; it is held on alternate years in rotation with the Bradshaw Lecture. Delivered by a Fellow or Member of the college on 14 February, Hunter's birthday, "such oration to be expressive of the merits in comparative anatomy, physiology, and surgery, not only of John Hunter, but also of all persons, as should be from time to time deceased, whose labours have contributed to the improvement or extension of surgical science".{{cn|date= March 2023}}
The RCS Oration is not to be confused with the Hunterian Society Oration given at the Hunterian Society.{{cn|date= March 2023}}
Orators
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= 19th century =
- 1813 Sir William Blizard
- 1814 Everard Home
- 1815 John Percival Pott{{Who|Percivall Pott or Percivall Pott (politician)|date=May 2021}}
- 1816 Henry Cline
- 1817 William Norris
- 1818 Sir David Dundas, 1st Baronet
- 1819 John Abernethy
- 1820 Sir Anthony Carlisle
- 1821 Thomas Chevalier
- 1822 Everard Home In Honour of Surgery
- 1823 Sir William Blizard
- 1824 Henry Cline
- 1825 William Norris
- 1826 Sir Anthony Carlisle on Oysters
- 1827 Honoratus Leigh Thomas
- 1828 Sir William Blizard
- 1829 John Painter Vincent, Observations on Some Parts of Surgical Practice
- 1830 George James Guthrie
- 1831 Anthony White{{cite book|title = The Lancet London: A Journal of British and Foreign Medicine ..., Volume 1}} Google books
- 1832 Samuel Cooper
- 1833 John Howship
- 1834 Sir William Lawrence
- 1835
- 1837 Sir Benjamin Collins Brodie
- 1838 Benjamin Travers{{cite web|url=http://www.kcl.ac.uk/depsta/iss/archives/collect/10tr15-1.html|title= TRAVERS, Benjamin (1783-1858)|publisher=King's College London Archives Services |access-date = 30 August 2010}}
- 1839 Edward Stanley
- 1840 Joseph Henry Green, Vital Dynamics {{cite web |url = https://archive.org/stream/vitaldynamicshun00gree#page/n5/mode/2up| title = Vital Dynamics: The Hunterian Oroation 14 February 1940|access-date= 2012-10-25}}
- 1841 Richard Dugard Grainger
- 1842 George Gisborne Babington{{cite web |title=Babington, George Gisborne (1795 - 1856) |url=https://livesonline.rcseng.ac.uk/client/en_GB/lives/search/detailnonmodal/ent:$002f$002fSD_ASSET$002f0$002fSD_ASSET:372580/one?qu=%22rcs%3A+E000396%22&rt=false%7C%7C%7CIDENTIFIER%7C%7C%7CResource+Identifier |website=livesonline.rcseng.ac.uk |access-date=8 August 2024}}
- 1843 James Moncrieff Arnott{{Cite journal | doi = 10.1016/S0140-6736(02)77267-X | title = Royal College of Surgeons | journal = The Lancet | volume = 39 | issue = 1016 | pages = 766–770 | year = 1843 }}
- 1844 John Flint South on the History of Medicine
- 1845 Jordan Roche Lynch{{Cite journal | doi = 10.1016/S0140-6736(02)65187-6 | title = Dr. Lynch's Hunterian Oration, and the College of Surgeons | journal = The Lancet | volume = 45 | issue = 1130 | page = 482| year = 1845 }}
- 1846 Sir William Lawrence
- 1847 Joseph Henry Green, Mental Dynamics, or Groundwork of a professional education{{cite web|url=http://www.kcl.ac.uk/depsta/iss/archives/collect/10gr50-1.html|title=GREEN, Joseph Henry (1791-1863)|publisher=King's College London Archives Services|access-date=24 August 2010|archive-date=7 October 2010|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101007220804/http://www.kcl.ac.uk/depsta/iss/archives/collect/10gr50-1.html|url-status=dead}}
- 1848 Richard Dugard Grainger, The Cultivation of Organic Science
- 1849 Caesar Hawkins{{Cite journal | doi = 10.1016/S0140-6736(02)88494-X | title = Abstract of the Hunterian Oration | journal = The Lancet | volume = 53 | issue = 1330 | pages = 196–198 | year = 1849 | url = https://zenodo.org/record/1785755 }}
- 1850 Frederic Carpenter Skey
- 1851 Richard Anthony Stafford (not delivered due to illness)
- 1852 James Luke
- 1853 Bransby Blake Cooper{{cite web|url=http://livesonline.rcseng.ac.uk/biogs/E001262b.htm|title=Cooper, Bransby Blake (1792 - 1853) |publisher= Royal College of Surgeons|access-date=23 November 2019 }}
- 1855 Joseph Hodgson{{Cite journal | doi = 10.1016/S0140-6736(00)33247-0 | title = The Hunterian Oration at the Royal College of Surgeons.february 14Th, 1855 | journal = The Lancet | volume = 65 | issue = 1642 | page = 191| year = 1855 }}
- 1857 Thomas Wormald
- 1859 John Bishop
- 1861 William Coulson
- 1863 George Gulliver on William Hewson and John Quekett as discoverers.{{cite web|url = http://livesonline.rcseng.ac.uk/biogs/E002073b.htm|title= Gulliver, George (1804 - 1882) |publisher= Royal College of Surgeons|access-date = 24 July 2013}}
- 1865 Richard Partridge
- 1867 John Hilton
- 1869 Richard Quain, On some Defects in General Education {{cite web|url=https://archive.org/stream/cu31924031759040#page/n5/mode/2up|title= Hunterian Lecture|year= 1870|publisher= Internet Archive|access-date= 26 August 2010}}
- 1871 Sir William Fergusson{{cite journal|jstor=25228935|title= The Hunterian Oration|journal = BMJ|doi=10.1136/bmj.1.529.159 |pmid= 20746117|pmc= 2260065|volume=1|issue=529|pages=159–162|last1= Fergusson|first1= William|year= 1871}}
- 1873 Henry Hancock{{cite journal|title= The Royal Westminster Ophthalmic Hospital and its Staff in the Past|journal = The British Journal of Ophthalmology|pmc=511338|pmid=18168977|doi=10.1136/bjo.15.9.498|volume=15|issue=9|date=September 1931|author=Caddy A|pages=498–511}}
- 1875 Frederick Le Gros Clark
- 1877 Sir James Paget, Science in Surgery
- 1879 Sir George Murray Humphry{{Cite journal | doi = 10.1016/S0140-6736(02)42453-1 | title = Abstract OF THE HUNTERIAN ORATION | journal = The Lancet | volume = 113 | issue = 2895 | pages = 253–256 | year = 1879 | url = https://zenodo.org/record/1785755 }}
- 1881 Luther Holden
- 1883 Thomas Spencer Wells{{cite journal|url= |title =The Hunterian Oration|journal = BMJ|doi=10.1136/bmj.1.1155.291|pmid =20750502|pmc =2372002|volume=1|issue =1155|pages=291–294|year =1883|last1 =Wells|first1 =T. S.}}
- 1885 John Marshall{{Cite journal | last1 = Marshall | first1 = J. | title = The Hunterian Oration | doi = 10.1016/S0140-6736(02)17815-9 | journal = The Lancet | volume = 125 | issue = 3208 | pages = 325–331 | year = 1885 | pmid = 20751170| pmc = 2255827}}
- 1887 William Scovell Savory, Surgery in its Relation to Science {{cite journal|url= |title= The Hunterian Oration|journal = BMJ|doi=10.1136/bmj.1.1364.365|pmid= 20751802|pmc= 2534169|volume=1|issue= 1364|pages=365–370|year= 1887|last1= Savory|first1= W. S.}}
- 1889 Henry Power
- 1891 Sir Jonathan Hutchinson{{Cite journal | doi = 10.1016/S0140-6736(02)17931-1 | title = ABSTRACT OF THE Hunterian Oration | journal = The Lancet | volume = 137 | issue = 3521 | pages = 411–414 | year = 1891 | url = https://zenodo.org/record/1785755 }}
- 1893 Thomas Bryant, 100th Anniversary of John Hunter's Death {{Cite journal | last1 = Holmes | first1 = T. | title = The Hunterian Oration | doi = 10.1016/S0140-6736(02)05537-X | journal = The Lancet | volume = 141 | issue = 3627 | pages = 497–689 | year = 1893 | url = https://zenodo.org/record/1991149 }}
- 1895 John Whitaker Hulke. John Hunter, The Biologist {{Cite journal | doi = 10.1016/S0140-6736(01)62084-1 | title = The Hunterian Oration | journal = The Lancet | volume = 145 | issue = 3730 | pages = 461–465 | year = 1895 }}
- 1897 Christopher Heath, John Hunter Considered as a Great Surgeon
- 1899 Sir William MacCormac{{Cite journal | doi = 10.1016/S0140-6736(00)65598-8 | title = The Hunterian Oration | journal = The Lancet | volume = 153 | issue = 3938 | pages = 421–428 | year = 1899 }}
= 20th century =
- 1901 Nottidge Charles MacNamara, The Human Skull in Relation to Brain Growth {{cite journal|title = Obituary|journal=BMJ|pmc=2342183|doi=10.1136/bmj.2.3022.619|volume=2|pages=619|issue=3022|year=1918}}
- 1903 Sir Henry Howse{{cite journal|title= The Hunterian Oration|journal = BMJ|pmc=2513120|pmid=20760723|volume=1|issue=2199|date=February 1903|pages=438–9|doi=10.1136/bmj.1.2199.438 }}
- 1905 Sir John Tweedy{{cite web|url=http://livesonline.rcseng.ac.uk/biogs/E000218b.htm|title= Tweedy, Sir John (1849 - 1924)|publisher= Plarr's Lives of the Fellows Online |access-date= 23 August 2010}}
- 1907 Sir Henry T. Butlin, Objects of Hunter's Life and the Manner in which he Accomplished them {{cite journal|title= The Hunterian Oration|journal = BMJ|pmc=2356750|pmid=20763071|volume=1|issue=2407|date=February 1907|author=Butlin HT|pages=357–62|doi=10.1136/bmj.1.2407.357}}
- 1909 Sir Henry Morris, John Hunter as a Philosopher {{cite journal|jstor=25280983|title = The Hunterian Oration|journal=BMJ|doi=10.1136/bmj.1.2512.445|pmc = 2318280|volume=1|issue = 2512|pages=445–451|last1 = Morris|first1 = Henry|year = 1909}}
- 1911 Edmund Owen, John Hunter and his Museum {{Cite journal | doi = 10.1016/S0140-6736(01)60366-0 | title = The Hunterian Oration ON JOHN HUNTER AND HIS MUSEUM | journal = The Lancet | volume = 177 | issue = 4564 | pages = 417–422 | year = 1911 }}
- 1913 Sir Rickman Godlee, On Hunter and Lister, and on the Museum of the Royal College of Surgeons of England {{Cite journal | doi = 10.1016/S0140-6736(00)51373-7 | title = The Hunterian Oration | journal = The Lancet | volume = 181 | issue = 4669 | pages = 507–512 | year = 1913 }}
- 1915 Sir William Watson Cheyne, The Treatment of Wounds in War {{cite web|url=http://www.watson-cheyne.com/the-hunterian-oration-on-the-treatment-of-wounds-in-war.pdf|title = The Hunterian Oration 1915|access-date= 30 September 2010}}
- 1917 Sir George Henry Makins, The Influence Exerted by the Military Experience of John Hunter on himself and the Military Surgeon of Today {{cite journal|title=Hunterian Oration 1917|journal = BMJ|pmc=2348053|pmid=20768476|volume=1|issue=2929|date=February 1917|author=Makins GH|pages=213–9|doi=10.1136/bmj.1.2929.213}}
- 1919 Sir Anthony Bowlby, British Military Surgery in the time of Hunter and in the Great War {{Cite journal | doi = 10.1016/S0140-6736(00)45939-8 | title = The Hunterian Oration ON BRITISH MILITARY SURGERY IN THE TIME OF HUNTER AND IN THE GREAT WAR | journal = The Lancet | volume = 193 | issue = 4982 | pages = 285–290 | year = 1919 }}
- 1921 Sir Charters J. Symonds, On Astley Cooper and Hunterian Principles {{Cite journal | doi = 10.1016/S0140-6736(00)78484-4 | title = The Hunterian Oration ON ASTLEY COOPER AND HUNTERIAN PRINCIPLES | journal = The Lancet | volume = 197 | issue = 5086 | pages = 359–364 | year = 1921 }}
- 1923 Sir John Bland-Sutton, John Hunter, his affairs, habits and opinions {{cite web|url=http://www.aim25.ac.uk/cats/9/10223.htm|title=Bland-Sutton, Sir John: Papers|publisher=Royal College of Surgeons|access-date=24 August 2010|archive-date=27 August 2011|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110827135836/http://www.aim25.ac.uk/cats/9/10223.htm|url-status=dead}}
- 1925 D'Arcy Power, John Hunter as a Man
- 1927 Berkeley Moynihan, Hunter’s ideals and Lister’s practice {{cite web|url=http://livesonline.rcseng.ac.uk/biogs/E000226b.htm|title=Moynihan, Sir Berkeley George Andrew, Lord Moynihan of Leeds (1865 - 1936)|publisher=Plarr's Lives of the Fellows Online|access-date= 24 August 2010}}
- 1928 Sir Holburt Waring, The Progress of Surgery from Hunter's day to ours {{cite journal|jstor=25327910|title =The Hunterian Oration|journal = BMJ|doi=10.1136/bmj.1.3502.245|pmid =20773695|volume=1|issue =3502|pages=245–251|last1 =Waring|first1 =Holburt|year =1928|pmc =2455325}}
- 1929 A. W. Sheen, Some Aspects of the Surgery of the Spleen {{Cite journal | last1 = Sheen | first1 = A. W. | title = Some Aspects of the Surgery of the Spleen | doi = 10.1016/S0140-6736(01)37857-1 | journal = The Lancet | volume = 213 | issue = 5506 | pages = 497–499 | year = 1929 }}
- 1930 Ernest W. Hey Groves, Hero Worship in Surgery {{cite journal|jstor=25335294|title = Hunterian Oration|journal = BMJ|doi=10.1136/bmj.1.3607.321|pmid = 20775282|pmc = 2312809|volume=1|issue = 3607|pages=321–326|last1 = Groves|first1 = Ernest W. Hey|year = 1930}}
- 1932 Wilfred Trotter, The Commemoration of Great Men {{cite journal|url= |title=The Hunterian Oration|journal = BMJ|volume=1|issue=3711|pages=317–20|doi=10.1136/bmj.1.3711.317|pmid=20776680|pmc=2520387|year=1932|last1=Trotter|first1=W.}}
- 1934 Cuthert Sidney Wallace, Medical Education, 1760-1934 {{Cite journal | last1 = Wallace | first1 = C. | title = Medical Education, 1760-1934 | doi = 10.1016/S0140-6736(01)03675-3 | journal = The Lancet | volume = 223 | issue = 5765 | pages = 385–389 | year = 1934 }}
- 1936 Charles Herbert Fagge, John Hunter to John Hilton {{cite web|url=http://www.aim25.ac.uk/cats/9/9810.htm|title=Fagge, Charles Herbert (1873-1939)|publisher=Royal College of Surgeons|access-date=1 September 2010|archive-date=15 March 2012|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120315183313/http://www.aim25.ac.uk/cats/9/9810.htm|url-status=dead}}
- 1938 Eric Riches{{cn|date= March 2023}}
- 1939 Sampson Handley, Makers of John Hunter {{cite journal | title = Makers of John Hunter | journal = The Lancet |volume =233 |issue =6025 |date=18 February 1939 |pages= 369–374 |doi=10.1016/S0140-6736(00)60257-X| last1 = Handley | first1 = W. | pmid = 20782123 | pmc = 2208939 }}
- 1941 Arthur Henry Burgess, Development of Provincial Medical Education Illustrated in the Life and Work of Charles White of Manchester {{cite journal | title = Development of Provincial Medical Education Illustrated in the Life and Work of Charles White of Manchester|journal =The Lancet |volume= 237| issue =6130|date= 22 February 1941| pages= 235–240| doi = 10.1016/S0140-6736(00)60622-0 | last1 = Burgess| first1 = Arthurh.}}
- 1942 Eric Riches{{cn|date= March 2023}}
- 1943 William Francis Victor Bonney, The Forces behind Specialism in Surgery {{cite journal|title = Obituary|journal= BMJ|pmc=2028496|doi=10.1136/bmj.2.4827.99-c|pmid=13051597|volume=2|issue=4827|date=Jul 1953|pages=99–100}}
- 1945 George Grey Turner, The Hunterian Museum, yesterday and to-morrow
- 1949 Henry S. Souttar, John Hunter the Observer {{cite journal|title=The Hunterian Oration for 1949|journal= Annals of the Royal College of Surgeons of England|pmc=2238306|pmid=19309852|volume=4|issue=3|date=March 1949|author=Souttar HS|pages=127–41}}
- 1951 Sir Max Page, The Hunterian Heritage {{cite journal|title=The Hunterian Heritage|journal = BMJ|pmc=2068470|pmid=14821457|volume=1|issue=4705|date=March 1951|author=PAGE M|pages=489–96|doi=10.1136/bmj.1.4705.489}}
- 1953 Lionel E. C. Norbury, The Hunterian Era: Its Influence on the Art and Science of Surgery {{cite journal|pmc=2377576|title = The Hunterian Era: Its Influence on the Art and Science of Surgery|publisher = Royal College of Surgeons | pmid=13041104|volume=12|issue=5|date=May 1953|author=NORBURY LE|journal=Annals of the Royal College of Surgeons of England|pages=303–27}}
- 1956 Sir Henry Cohen, Reflections on the Hunterian Method {{cite journal|jstor=20334843|title=Reflections on the Hunterian Method|journal = BMJ|doi=10.1136/bmj.1.4968.645|pmid=20788514|pmc=1979293|volume=1|issue=4968|pages=645–650|year=1956|last1=Cohen|first1=H.}}
- 1957 Ernest Finch, The influence of the Hunters on medical education{{cn|date= March 2023}}
- 1959 Sir Reginald Watson-Jones, Surgery is Destined to the Practice of Medicine{{cn|date= March 2023}}
- 1961 Russell Brock, Baron Brock on the Museum, Research and Inspiration of Hunter {{cite journal|title= 91st Hunterian Oration|pmc=1953783|pages=584–585|volume=1|issue=5225|journal=British Medical Journal|doi=10.1136/bmj.1.5225.584|year = 1961}}
- 1963 Sir Stanford Cade, The Lasting Dynamism of John Hunter {{cite journal | title = Hunterian Festival|pmc=2311548|pmid=19310371|volume=32|issue=4|date=Apr 1963|journal=Ann R Coll Surg Engl|pages=247–51}}
- 1965 A. Dickson Wright, John Hunter's Private Practice{{cn|date= March 2023}}
- 1967 Arthur Porritt, Baron Porritt, John Hunter, Distant Echoes {{cite web|url=http://munksroll.rcplondon.ac.uk/Biography/Details/5017|title=(Arthur Espie), Baron Porritt of Wanganui, New Zealand and of Hampstead Porritt|publisher= Royal College of Physicians|access-date= 24 August 2010}}
- 1969 Leslie Norman Pyrah, John Hunter and After{{cn|date= March 2023}}
- 1971 Sir Hedley Atkins, The Attributes of Genius from Newton to Darwin {{cite journal|pmc=2387934|title=The Hunterian Festival 1971| pmid=4930138|volume=48|issue=4|date=April 1971|author=Atkins H|journal=Annals of the Royal College of Surgeons of England|pages=193–218}}
- 1973 Sir Thomas Holmes Sellors, Some Pupils of John Hunter {{cite journal|title=Some Pupils of John Hunter|journal= Annals of the Royal College of Surgeons of England|pmc=2388271|pmid=4583418|volume=53|issue=4|date=October 1973|author=Sellors TH|pages=205–17}}
- 1975 Sir Rodney Smith, The Hunters and the Arts{{cn|date= March 2023}}
- 1977 Richard Harrington Franklin, John Hunter and his relevance in 1977 {{cite journal|title= Hunterian Oration, 1977|journal = Annals of the Royal College of Surgeons of England|pmc=2492071|pmid=348022|volume=60|issue=3|date=May 1978|author=Franklin RH|pages=266–73}}
- 1978 (250th anniversary): John Wolfenden, Baron Wolfenden, Hunter, Hippocrates and Humanity {{cite journal|title= Anniversary Hunterian Oration,1978|journal = Annals of the Royal College of Surgeons of England| pmc=2492059|pmid=348008|volume=60| issue=3|date=March 1978|author=Lord Wolfenden|pages=175–81}}
- 1979 George Qvist, Some controversial aspects of John Hunter's life and work. {{cite journal|title= Hunterian Oration,1979|journal = Annals of the Royal College of Surgeons of England|pmc=2492794|pmid=373574|volume=61|issue=2|date=March 1979|author=Qvist G|pages=138–41}}
- 1981 Sir Reginald Sydney Murley, Peace and strife in Hunter's time {{cite journal|pmc =2494018|title= Peace and strife in Hunter's time|pmid=7034624|volume=64|issue=1|date=Jan 1982|journal=Ann R Coll Surg Engl|pages=20–8|last1= Murley|first1= R.}}
- 1983 Not given due to death of speaker (Sir Alan Parks){{cn|date= March 2023}}
- 1984 Anthony John Harding Rains, The continuing message{{cite journal|title= Hunterian Oration,1984|journal = Annals of the Royal College of Surgeons of England|pmc=2492521|pmid=6372627|volume=66|issue=3|date=May 1984|author=Harding Rains, A.J.|pages=151–58}}
- 1985 Donald Campbell{{cn|date= March 2023}}
- 1986 Peter John Ryan, Two Kinds of Diverticular Disease{{cite journal | title=Longer version: Peter John Ryan | journal=BMJ | first=Rowena| last=Ryan | issn=1756-1833 | url=https://www.bmj.com/content/suppl/2003/03/06/326.7388.554.b.DC1 | access-date=1 August 2022 | page=}}
- 1987 Sir Geoffrey Slaney{{cn|date= March 2023}}
- 1989 Sir Roy Calne{{cn|date= March 2023}}
- 1991 John Blandy{{cn|date= March 2023}}
- 1993 Sir Miles Horsfall Irving{{cn|date= March 2023}} (born 1935, professor of surgery at the University of Manchester{{cite web | title=Miles Irving | website=Royal College of Surgeons | date=13 December 2022 | url=https://scp.rcseng.ac.uk/client/en_GB/oralhistory/search/detailnonmodal/ent:$002f$002fSD_ASSET$002f0$002fSD_ASSET:386269/one?qu=%22RCS%3AOH000004%22&rt=false%7C%7C%7CIDENTIFIER%7C%7C%7CResource+Identifier | access-date=16 March 2023}}{{cite web | title=Sir Miles Horsfall Irving b.1935 - Manchester Medical Collection: Biographical Files H-Q | website=Archives Hub | date=6 November 2014 | url=https://archiveshub.jisc.ac.uk/search/archives/30ac920b-4c0f-3422-a80e-0e29e9a7e85c?component=fc17321c-dd56-37ee-afb7-a9a5ce5a918c | language=no | access-date=16 March 2023}})
- 1995 John Alexander-Williams{{cn|date= March 2023}}
- 1997 H. Brendan Devlin{{cn|date= March 2023}}
- 1999 Jack Hardcastle{{cn|date= March 2023}}
= 21st century =
- 2001 Bill Heald
- 2003 Charles S. B. Galasko, Hunter's Legacy and Surgical Training and Competence in the 21st Century {{cite web|url=http://docserver.ingentaconnect.com/deliver/connect/rcse/00358843/v87n3/s24.pdf?expires=1285682774&id=58830045&titleid=6330&accname=Guest+User&checksum=60F4AE853549B407152A36AC0C5DEC6F |archive-url=https://archive.today/20120708105855/http://docserver.ingentaconnect.com/deliver/connect/rcse/00358843/v87n3/s24.pdf?expires=1285682774&id=58830045&titleid=6330&accname=Guest+User&checksum=60F4AE853549B407152A36AC0C5DEC6F |url-status=dead |archive-date=8 July 2012 |title=Hunterian Oration |publisher=Royal College of Surgeons |access-date=28 September 2010 }}
- 2005 Sir Peter Morris
- 2007 Anthony Mundy
- 2009 Linda de Cossart
- 2010 Simon Chaplin
- 2011 Norman Stanley Williams
- 2013 Sir Bruce E. Keogh{{cite web|url=http://www.debretts.com/people/biographies/search/results/26905/Bruce%20E%20KEOGH.aspx |archive-url=https://archive.today/20130724114533/http://www.debretts.com/people/biographies/search/results/26905/Bruce%20E%20KEOGH.aspx |url-status=dead |archive-date=24 July 2013 |title=Prof Sir Bruce Keogh, KBE |publisher=Debrett's |access-date=24 July 2013 }}
- 2015 Martin Elliott {{cite web|url=https://www.theahc.co.uk/speakers/professor-martin-elliott|title=Professor Martin Elliott / Professor of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children|publisher=The AHC|access-date= 12 January 2017}}
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- 2017 Lord Ara Darzi
- 2019 Patrick Ronan O'Connell