Past Presidents
The society appoints a new president annually to join the historic list of names below that dates back to 1847. The presidential term runs from January for twelve months. During their term, the president is entitled to wear the presidential jewel. After the inaugural address, he or she has traditionally been photographed seated in the 19th century presidential chair in the lecture hall.
In order to maintain a diverse programme of lectures we welcome applicants from all clinical specialities. Doctors (including current non-members) wishing to be considered for the office of president should discuss with the secretary, president or other members of council.
We are always keen to learn more about the lives of our former presidents. If you are conducting family history research, do please contact us with any biographical information or photographs.
| Presidential Term | Name | Photo | Biography |
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| 1901 | Walter Samuel Simpson |
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| 1910 | Frank Hinds |
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| 2008 | Bruce K Mcleod (Ophthalmologist) |
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| 2022 | Chakravarthi Rajkumar (Consultant stroke physician and professor of geriatrics and stroke medicine) |
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| 1912 | Edmund Hobhouse |
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| 1930 | H. Nethersole Fletcher |
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| 1878 | Crawford John Pocock |
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| 1979 | N W A Harvey (General Practitioner) |
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| 1988 | David V Ingram (Ophthalmologist) |
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| 2016 | Margaret (Meg) Price (Dermatologist) |
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| 1982 | Frederick R. Ryle (General Practitioner) |
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| 1852 | John Lawrence (Junior) and John Lawrence |
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| 2020–2021 | Christopher Liu OBE (Ophthalmologist) (n.b. president re-elected due to covid-19 pandemic) |
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| 2011 | Mark Signy (Cardiologist Worthing hospital) |
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| 1848 | Benjamin Vallance |
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| 2023 | Mr Andrew Hobkirk (Consultant Oral and Maxillofacial Surgeon and OMFS) |
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| 1893 | Sir Joseph Ewart JP |
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| 1884 | Charles J Oldham |
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| 1868 | Charles Bryce |
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| 1902 | J.F. Gordon Dill (Physician) |
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| 1849 | George Samuel Jenks |
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| 1995 | Ian G Crossman (Orthodontics) |
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| 1957 | D Cumming |
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| 1934 | Florence M Edmonds |
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| 1932 | A. Helen Boyle (General Practitioner and first woman president of the Royal College of Psychiatrists) |
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| 1887 | F.W. Salzmann |
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| 1858 | James William Wilson |
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| 1962 | D C F L Williamson |
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| 1914 | Reginald John Ryle (Physician & Ophthalmologist) |
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| 2013 | J Quin (Endocrinologist) |
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| 1857 | Harry Mills Blaker |
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| 2010 | Robert Tranter (Ear, Nose and Throat surgeon) |
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| 1977 | Dr John K Wagstaff (General physician) |
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| 1873 | William Withers Moore |
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| 1997 | Douglas A Chamberlain CBE (Cardiologist) Douglas Chamberlain |
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| 1942 | Alexander Hislop Hall (1892-1968; GP in Hove from 1923-1965) |
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| 1863 | William Kebbell |
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| 2002 | N Evans (Paediatrician) |
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| 1882 | John Harris Ross |
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| 1998 | Anna C Haylett (General Practitioner) |
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| 1972 | Leslie W Lauste (Surgeon) |
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| 1978 | K Whittle Martin (Urologist) |
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| 2019 | Maxwell J F Cooper (General Practitioner) |
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| 1981 | Paul V Wadsworth (ENT) |
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| 1867 | Frederick Abell Humphry |
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| 1985 | Bernard Crymble (Neurosurgeon – Brighton and Haywards Heath) |
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| 1971 | Rex A Binning (Anaesthetist) |
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| 1865 | George Frederick Hodgson |
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| 1933 | A. Neville Cox |
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| 2015 | Ruth Barker (General Practitioner) |
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| 1880 | Nathaniel Paine Blaker |
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| 1875 | Athol Archibald Johnstone |
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| 1947 | J P S Walker |
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| 2014 | Alan Ireland (Gastroenterologist) |
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| 1994 | C Barry d'A Fearn (Orthopaedic surgeon) |
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| 1847 | William King |
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| 1976 | S. Patrick Hall-Smith (Dermatologist) |
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| 1850 | Thomas Bradbury Winter |
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| 1951 | Harold George Downer (Oto-rhino-laryngologist) |
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| 1908 | Reginald Francis Jowers |
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| 2001 | JRW (Bob) Gumpert (Vascular Surgeon) |
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| 1879 | Edward Francis Russell |
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| 1870 | Charles Izard Beard |
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| 1963 | D A Carew Hunt |
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| 1917 | Walter Robert Wood |
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| 1924 | Edward Forster Maynard |
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| 1872 | George Browne |
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| 2005 | Paul A Farrands (Surgeon) |
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| 1965 | R W Windle (Physician) |
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| 1897 | Douglas William Giffard |
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| 1869 | Henry Moon |
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| 1899 | Robert Sanderson |
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| 1892 | Willoughby Furner |
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| 1968 | F J Kerr |
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| 1990 | D F Dart (General Practitioner) |
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| 1894 | T. Jenner Verrall (Surgeon) |
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| 1926 | E. Rivaz Hunt |
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| 1921 | David William Livingstone |
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| 1920 | Hugh Stott |
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| 1956 | J H Crawford |
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| 1987 | R J Stuart Weir (General Practitioner) |
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| 1895 | John Caldwell Uhthoff |
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| 1900 | Frederick John Paley (General Practitioner) |
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| 1938 | J G Hayes (General Practitioner) and Douglas A Crow (n.b. at an extraordinary meeting of the council, Mr Douglas A. Crow was elected president to fill the vacancy by the death of Dr. J. G. Hayes) |
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| 1888 | W.H. Nicholls |
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| 1860 | George Lowdell |
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| 1903 | James Turton |
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| 1959 | C Barry Prowse (Physician) |
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| 1927 | Donald G Hall (Physician/GP) |
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| 1877 | Richard Patrick Burke Taaffe |
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| 1960 | K F Mackenzie (Obstetrics & gynaecology) |
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| 1954 | Gladys M Wauchope (Physician) |
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| 1891 | Edward George Whittle |
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| 1928 | A. Geoffrey Bate (Surgeon) |
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| 1986 | W Nicholas (Nick) Laurence (Orthopaedic surgeon) |
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| 1937 | F W M Cunningham |
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| 1862 | Samuel King Scott |
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| 1966 | F K Busterton |
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| 1936 | V R H Turton |
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| 2003 | Clive D Bach (General Practitioner) |
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| 1961 | S D Firth (Medical Superintendent, Brighton General Hospital) |
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| 1952 | C G Schurr (Ophthalmologist) |
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| 1949 | C Gibson |
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| 2024 | Miss Sonali Kaushik |
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| 2017 | Charles Zammit (Endocrine and Breast surgeon) |
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| 1859 | Sir John Cordy Burrows (former Mayor of Brighton) |
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| 1922 | Arthur Jaffray Hutchison |
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| 1989 | Nigel H Porter (Surgeon) |
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| 1907 | Henry Herbert Taylor |
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| 1919 | Theodore Henry Ionides |
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| 1916 | Henry Gervis |
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| 1866 | Alfred Hall |
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| 1983 | Euan C B Keat (Physician/Gastroentroenterologist) |
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| 2007 | Harry O Brunjes (GP Entrepreneur) |
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| 1905 | Sir Arthur Newsholme |
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| 1919 | Leonard A Parry |
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| 1996 | Ray H Harper (General Practitioner) Ray H Harper |
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| 1885 | Thomas Sprye Byass |
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| 1944 | F H Fuller |
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| 1950 | J H Le Brasseur (General Practitioner) |
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| 1881 | Joseph R Gasquet |
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| 1883 | William Ainslie Hollis (Physician) |
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| 1889 | E. Cresswell Baber |
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| 1955 | H C K Eccles |
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| 1855 | Edmund Joseph Furner |
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| 1984 | Joanna Sheldon (Endocrinologist) |
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| 1974 | Constance L Beynon (Obstetrics and Gynaecology) |
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| 1943 | J R Griffiths |
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| 1941 | G W Beresford |
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| 1861 | William Mellett Hollis |
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| 1948 | Lilias M Jeffries (general practitioner and gynaecologist at the New Sussex Hospital in Brighton) |
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| 2000 | Chistopher Davidson (Cardiologist) |
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| 1851 | James Annesley Hingleston |
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| 1999 | Luke Fernandes (Rheumatologist) |
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| 1958 | Vera E Claxton (General Practitioner) |
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| 1975 | R J Keith Elliott (Pathology) |
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| 1909 | Charles John Jacomb-Hood |
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| 2009 | Helen Smith (General Practitioner) |
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| 1918 | Samuel Bradley Figgis |
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| 2012 | Richard Vincent (Cardiologist) |
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| 1953 | G W Beresford |
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| 1853 | Edward Latham Ormerod |
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| 1906 | Wayland Charles Chaffey |
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| 1969 | D Archdale Smith (General Practitioner) |
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| 1964 | K Kemball Price (Physician at Brighton and Lewes) |
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| 1886 | E. Noble Edwards |
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| 1973 | Henry Park (Surgeon) |
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| 1871 | John Jardine Murray |
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| 1890 | Edward Mackey |
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| 1854 | James Oldham |
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| 1980 | Phillip G Somerville Surgeon (vascular) |
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| 1991 | Donald J Reid (Surgeon) |
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| 2006 | Varadarajan Kalidasan (Paediatric surgeon) |
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| 1993 | Alec J M Frank (General Practitioner) |
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| 1856 | George Tatham |
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| 1923 | Eliot Curwen |
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| 1904 | George Morgan |
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| 1939–1940 | C D Scott (n.b. president re-elected due to outbreak of second world war) |
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| 1864 | William Verrall |
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| 1945 | T S Allen |
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| 1967 | B A Fraser (Physician) |
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| 1931 | Duncan Forbes (Public Health) |
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| 1970 | L John Beynon (General Practitioner) |
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| 1946 | H J McCurrich |
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| 1874 | Richard Branwell |
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| 1898 | Robert Black |
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| 1913 | Walter Broadbent |
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| 1896 | Alfred Scott |
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| 1929 | W Barrington Prowse (Physician) |
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| 1876 | Henry Penfold |
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| 1935 | Harold F Seymour |
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| 1915 | Arthur Herbert Buck |
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| 1925 | Herbert J Walker |
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| 2004 | Stephan E Tchamouroff (Genitourinary medicine) |
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| 1992 | John E Rees (Neurologist) |
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| 2018 | Syed Waquar (Waquar Yusuf - Vascular surgeon) |
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