Hunterian Professorship
The Hunterian Professorship, named after John Hunter, is the title awarded to a surgeon who is elected to deliver the Hunterian lecture at the Royal College of Surgeons of England (RCSE).[1] According to British surgeon Harold Ellis, the list of Hunterian professors reflects the history of British surgery.[1]
History
On 13 June 1803, the trustees of the Hunterian Collection met for the first time at the then newly titled RCSE. Clause 2 stated:
That one course of lectures, not less than 24 in number, on comparative anatomy and other subjects, illustrated by the preparations, should be given every year by some Member of the Company.[1]
In 1894, the Clause was revised:
That one course of lectures, not less than 12 in number, on comparative anatomy and other subjects, illustrated by preparations from the Hungarian Collection and the other contents of the Museum, shall be given every year by the Fellows or Members of the College.[1]
The rules were altered in 1961 with the addition of:
Additional lectures, not exceeding three in number, on medical or dental subjects, may be given every year by the Fellows or members of the College, Fellows in Dental Surgery or Fellows in the Faculty of Anaesthetists.[1]
Notable Past Hunterian Professors
19th century
| Year | Image | Name | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1810 | Everard Home William Blizard |
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| 1819 | .jpg) |
John Abernethy | [3] |
| 1877 |  |
Thomas Spencer Wells | [4] |
| 1885 |  |
Sir Frederick Treves | [5] |
| 1888 |  |
John Bland-Sutton | [6] |
20th & 21st century
| Year | Image | Name | Notes | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1904 |  |
John Lockhart-Mummery | [7] | |
| 1913 |  |
Wilfred Trotter | [8] | |
| 1930s |  |
Berkeley Moynihan | [9] | |
| 1970 | Graham Stack | [10] | ||
| Lord Ara Darzi | [11] | |||
| 2024 | Rajarshi Mukherjee | [12] |
See also
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 Ellis, Harold (1979). "The Hunterian Professors and Arris and Gale Lecturers". Annals of the Royal College of Surgeons of England 6: 71–72. http://europepmc.org/backend/ptpmcrender.fcgi?accid=PMC2494492&blobtype=pdf.
- ↑ Ellis, Harold (1979). "The Hunterian Professors and Arris and Gale Lecturers". Annals of the Royal College of Surgeons of England 61 (1): 71–72. PMID 369448.
- ↑ "The Hunterian oration, for the year 1819 / [John Abernethy."]. https://wellcomecollection.org/works/qgrnguaa.
- ↑ "Wells, Thomas Spencer (1818 – 1897)". 27 January 2010. https://www.hahnemannhouse.org/thomas-spencer-wells-1818-1897/.
- ↑ "Treves". http://surgicat.rcseng.ac.uk/Details/archive/110004653.
- ↑ "Bland-Sutton, Sir John (1855 - 1936)". https://livesonline.rcseng.ac.uk.
- ↑ "Lockhart-Mummery, John Percy (1875 - 1957)". https://livesonline.rcseng.ac.uk.
- ↑ "Trotter, Wilfred Batten Lewis (1872 - 1939)". https://livesonline.rcseng.ac.uk.
- ↑ "Moynihan, Sir Berkeley George Andrew, Lord Moynihan of Leeds (1865 - 1936)". https://livesonline.rcseng.ac.uk.
- ↑ "Stack, Hugh Graham – Biographical entry – Plarr's Lives of the Fellows Online". 2 October 2015. https://livesonline.rcseng.ac.uk/biogs/E008339b.htm.
- ↑ "Appendix" (in en). https://www.nuffieldtrust.org.uk/chapter/appendix.
- ↑ "Surgeon scientist delivers prestigious Hunterian Lecture | Stories | Faculty of Health and Life Sciences | University of Liverpool". https://www.liverpool.ac.uk/health-and-life-sciences/news/stories/title,1519042,en.php.