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 Umakanth Kempanna

   

Vice President: Dr Eman Shamsaee

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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