ABOUT US
About Us
Our History
The title Hull Medical Society first appeared in a minute book dated 25th October 1847.
The title Hull Medical Society first appeared in a minute book dated 25th October 1847. It was setup as a society for the discussion of medical subjects and to device measures to be adopted in anticipation of the approach of an epidemic of Asiatic Cholera. It issued a Report on the Sanitary State of Hull, condemning the inactivity of the Town Council. It was described in the Lancet as ‘an excellent specimen of the industry, talent and scientific business-like accomplishment of its one and twenty members. Its meetings ceased nine years later.
The second and present Hull Medical Society held its first official meeting on 4th October 1889. Its objectives were to advance the progress and spread of Medicine and Surgery by meetings etc and to bring the Members of the Profession in this part of the Country into closer union with each other. Its meetings were held at the Infirmary in Prospect Street. Four years later it established its own Subscription library and Reading Room in the Church Institute in Albion Street.
In 1931 Dr MacKay, an Ophthalmic Surgeon, persuaded the members to contribute towards the purchase of a building in Park Street, named Quern House, conveniently located within easy reach of the Infirmary and the Victoria Children’s Hospital.
This provided accommodation for meetings, its growing library of books housed in a Reading Room and a spacious lecture hall.
In the late 1950’s Postgraduate Education became the new ‘buzz word’ and the society’s members led by Drs. Maurice Philpott, Mr Malcolm Campbell and later Alan Palmer set up a Development Fund to provide a Postgraduate Centre in Hull. Sufficient support from inside and outside the profession made it possible for the Hull ‘A’ Group Hospital Management Committee, led by their enthusiastic Chairperson, Mrs Henrietta Brocklehurst, to extract funding from the Leeds Regional Hospital Board.
Subsequently the Society made a major financial contribution towards the building and furnishing of the present Centre, in which is housed its library. Hopefully the society will last for another century or more carrying out the same aims as it still has today.
Our Officers
President:
Dr
Alexandra Abel
Vice President: Dr Umakanth Kempanna
Honorary Secretary: Dr Patrick Naughton-Doe
Honorary Treasurer: Dr Patrick Naughton-Doe
Honorary Librarian: David Horton
Bar Officer: Dr Uday Joshi
Our Past Presidents
2023 - A Abel
2022 - J Kastelik
2021 - D Roper
2020 - M Loubani
2019 - M Loubani
2018 - D Horton
2017 - D Horton
2016 - S Sebastian
2015 - S Besarovic
2014 - U Joshi
2013 - V Mathew
2012 - P Naughton-Doe
2011 - J Smithson
2010 - L Pearson
2009 - B Mathew
2008 - N H McDonald
2007 - B Johnson
2006 - J Balshaw
2005 - M E Holmes
2004 - M S Setiya
2003 - J Knox
2002 - N A Poulose
2001 - S L Mawer
2000 - J G Best
1999 - J K Gosnold
1998 - W G T Sande
1997 - A H Imrie
1996 - A P Knox
1995 - J D Goode
1994 - P F Newman
1993 - A R Wilkinson
1992 - G I Cameron
1991 - C M S Royston
1990 - J K Tanikal
1989 - A Palmer
1988 - M Exon
1987 - D M Piercy
1986 - P Leese
1985 - E H Wyatt
1984 - J S Miczynski
1983 - P Portal
1982 - S T Lunt
1981 - M J Imrie
1980 - P Arrowsmith
1979 - M D Rawson
1978 - I A Derham
1977 - R W Portal
1976 - G R Staley
1975 - S Madden
1974 - R L Luffingham
1973 - G H Carrick
1972 - G O Exon
1971 - J N Redfern
1970 - C Groves
1969 - D Metalfe
1968 - I D Innes
1967 - M G Philpott
1966 - K W Beetham
1965 - C Moncrieff-Fraser
1964 - J R Blackburne
1963 - A J Fouracre
1962 - M S Campbell
1961 - G Griffith
1960 - J C Coates
1959 - O G Prosser
1958 - E O Halliwell
1957 - C Simpson
1956 - H Standring
1955 - S D S Stewart
1954 - D R Ferens
1953 - N Gebbie
1952 - E M Dearn
1951 - L Bellman
1950 - P C McKinley
1949 - S F Fouracre
1948 - R C Tatham
1947 - M G Lucas
1946 - D C Muir
1945 - N T Whitehead
1944 - R J Barlee
1943 - T S Eddie
1942 - W T Micks
1941 - J N Young
1940 - R D Miller
1939 - D C Muir
1938 - D L M Todd
1937 - H Upcott
1936 - R R Simpson
1935 - T M Steward
1934 - J Bannen
1933 - I G Innes
1932 - E Townsend
1931 - J F Gill
1930 - W W Adamson
1929 - G S Brown
1928 - R B Blair
1927 - G H Davy
1926 - S E Denyer
1925 - W C F Harland
1924 - T Richie
1923 - A Gillespie
1922 - H L Evans
1921 - E L Martin
1920 - E Turton
1919 - E Baker
1918 - D R Moir
1917 - E E Laslett
1916 - D M Mackay
1915 - F C Eve
1914 - R Greave
1913 - H Upcott
1912 - J Divine
1911 - A H Johnson
1910 - W Murray
1909 - E H Howlett
1908 - E M Hainsworth
1907 - A G Francis
1906 - J MacNidder
1905 - J L Waters
1904 - T Camerson
1903 - H W Pigeon
1902 - E O Daly
1901 - R H B Nicholson
1900 - E M Evans
1899 - E Harrison
1898 - A Parkin
1897 - A Legge Roe
1896 - C H Milburn
1895 - E H Howlett
1894 - J Merson
1893 - J Merson
1892 - D Lowson
1891 - Sir R Craven
1890 - G F Elliot
1889 - J Dix
1888 - J Dix
The Hull Medical Society Centenary Monographs
The Hull Medical Society Centenary Monographs were a series short learned papers written by Dr Ray Luffingham, Honorary Librarian of the Society, that were circulated at each of the monthly meetings during the centenary year and beyond.
They were produced using archival material, books, contemporary journals and other the sources available in the present Hull Medical Society's Library including J.A.R and M.E. Bickford's The Medical Profession in Hull 1400 - 1900, Stephen Bryant's Health of Hull in 1847 and Bernard Foster's Living and Dying. Monographs numbers 15 and 16 are part of a series of reviews of books in the Hull Medical Society Library prepared as an aid to the use of the Library.
Copies of the Monographs are available in PDF format free of charge to members of the Society on request to the Honorary Librarian. Copyright currently prevents copies being provided to non-members.
Please email us on info@hullmedicalsociety
for requests and further information.
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