Hunterian Oration

19th Century

• 1813 Sir William Blizard
• 1814 Everard Home
• 1815 John Percival Pott
• 1816 Henry Cline
• 1817 William Norris
• 1818 Sir David Dundas
• 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 ^[1]
• 1832 Samuel Cooper
• 1833 John Howship
• 1834 Sir William Lawrence
• 1835
• 1837 Sir Benjamin Collins Brodie
• 1838 Benjamin Travers ^[2]
• 1839 Edward Stanley
• 1840 Joseph Henry Green, Vital Dynamics ^[3]
• 1841 Richard Dugard Grainger
• 1842 George Gisborne Babington
• 1843 James Moncrieff Arnott ^[4]
• 1844 John Flint South on the History of Medicine
• 1845 Jordan Roche Lynch ^[5]
• 1846 Sir William Lawrence
• 1847 Joseph Henry Green, Mental Dynamics, or Groundwork of a professional education^[6]
• 1848 Richard Dugard Grainger, The Cultivation of Organic Science
• 1849 Caesar Hawkins ^[7]
• 1850 Frederic Carpenter Skey
• 1851 Richard Anthony Stafford (not delivered due to illness)
• 1852 James Luke
• 1853 Bransby Blake Cooper ^[8]
• 1855 Joseph Hodgson ^[9]
• 1857 Thomas Wormald
• 1859 John Bishop
• 1861 William Coulson
• 1863 George Gulliver on William Hewson and John Quekett as discoverers.^[10]
• 1865 Richard Partridge
• 1867 John Hilton
• 1869 Richard Quain, On some Defects in General Education ^[11]
• 1871 Sir William Fergusson ^[12]
• 1873 Henry Hancock ^[13]
• 1875 Frederick Le Gros Clark
• 1877 Sir James Paget, Science in Surgery
• 1879 Sir George Murray Humphry ^[14]
• 1881 Luther Holden
• 1883 Thomas Spencer Wells ^[15]
• 1885 John Marshall ^[16]
• 1887 William Scovell Savory, Surgery in its Relation to Science ^[17]
• 1889 Henry Power
• 1891 Sir Jonathan Hutchinson ^[18]
• 1893 Thomas Bryant, 100th Anniversary of John Hunter's Death ^[19]
• 1895 John Whitaker Hulke. John Hunter, The Biologist ^[20]
• 1897 Christopher Heath, John Hunter Considered as a Great Surgeon
• 1899 Sir William MacCormac ^[21]

20th Century

• 1901 Nottidge Charles MacNamara, The Human Skull in Relation to Brain Growth ^[22]
• 1903 Sir Henry Howse ^[23]
• 1905 Sir John Tweedy ^[24]
• 1907 Sir Henry T. Butlin, Objects of Hunter's Life and the Manner in which he Accomplished them ^[25]
• 1909 Sir Henry Morris, John Hunter as a Philosopher ^[26]
• 1911 Edmund Owen, John Hunter and his Museum ^[27]
• 1913 Sir Rickman Godlee, On Hunter and Lister, and on the Museum of the Royal College of Surgeons of England ^[28]
• 1915 Sir William Watson Cheyne, The Treatment of Wounds in War ^[29]
• 1917 Sir George Henry Makins, The Influence Exerted by the Military Experience of John Hunter on himself and the Military Surgeon of Today ^[30]
• 1919 Sir Anthony Bowlby, British Military Surgery in the time of Hunter and in the Great War ^[31]
• 1921 Sir Charters J. Symonds, On Astley Cooper and Hunterian Principles ^[32]
• 1923 Sir John Bland-Sutton, John Hunter, his affairs, habits and opinions ^[33]
• 1925 D'Arcy Power, John Hunter as a Man
• 1927 Berkeley Moynihan, Hunter’s ideals and Lister’s practice ^[34]
• 1928 Sir Holburt Waring, The Progress of Surgery from Hunter's day to ours ^[35]
• 1929 A. W. Sheen, Some Aspects of the Surgery of the Spleen ^[36]
• 1930 Ernest W. Hey Groves, Hero Worship in Surgery ^[37]
• 1932 Wilfred Trotter, The Commemoration of Great Men ^[38]
• 1934 Cuthert Sidney Wallace, Medical Education, 1760-1934 ^[39]
• 1936 Charles Herbert Fagge, John Hunter to John Hilton ^[40]
• 1938 Eric Riches
• 1939 Sampson Handley, Makers of John Hunter ^[41]
• 1941 Arthur Henry Burgess, Development of Provincial Medical Education Illustrated in the Life and Work of Charles White of Manchester ^[42]
• 1942 Eric Riches
• 1943 William Francis Victor Bonney, The Forces behind Specialism in Surgery ^[43]
• 1945 George Grey Turner, The Hunterian Museum, yesterday and to-morrow
• 1949 Henry S. Souttar, John Hunter the Observer ^[44]
• 1951 Sir Max Page, The Hunterian Heritage ^[45]
• 1953 Lionel E. C. Norbury, The Hunterian Era: Its Influence on the Art and Science of Surgery ^[46]
• 1956 Sir Henry Cohen, Reflections on the Hunterian Method ^[47]
• 1957 Ernest Finch, The influence of the Hunters on medical education
• 1959 Sir Reginald Watson-Jones, Surgery is Destined to the Practice of Medicine
• 1961 Russell Brock, Baron Brock on the Museum, Research and Inspiration of Hunter ^[48]
• 1963 Sir Stanford Cade, The Lasting Dynamism of John Hunter ^[49]
• 1965 A. Dickson Wright, John Hunter's Private Practice
• 1967 Arthur Porritt, Baron Porritt, John Hunter, Distant Echoes ^[50]
• 1969 Leslie Norman Pyrah, John Hunter and After
• 1971 Sir Hedley Atkins, The Attributes of Genius from Newton to Darwin ^[51]
• 1973 Sir Thomas Holmes Sellors, Some Pupils of John Hunter ^[52]
• 1975 Sir Rodney Smith, The Hunters and the Arts
• 1977 Richard Harrington Franklin, John Hunter and his relevance in 1977 ^[53]
• 1978 (250th anniversary): John Wolfenden, Baron Wolfenden, Hunter, Hippocrates and Humanity ^[54]
• 1979 George Qvist, Some controversial aspects of John Hunter's life and work. ^[55]
• 1981 Sir Reginald Sydney Murley, Peace and strife in Hunter's time ^[56]
• 1983 Not given due to death of speaker (Sir Alan Parks)
• 1984 Anthony John Harding Rains, The continuing message^[57]
• 1985 Donald Campbell
• 1987 Sir Geoffrey Slaney
• 1989 Sir Roy Calne
• 1991 John Blandy
• 1993 Sir Miles Irving
• 1995 John Alexander-Williams
• 1997 H. Brendan Devlin
• 1999 Jack Hardcastle

21st Century

• 2001 Bill Heald
• 2003 Charles S. B. Galasko, Hunter's Legacy and Surgical Training and Competence in the 21st Century ^[58]
• 2005 Sir Peter Morris
• 2007 Anthony Mundy
• 2009 Linda de Cossart
• 2010 Simon Chaplin
• 2011 Norman Stanley Williams
• 2013 Sir Bruce E. Keogh ^[59]
• 2015 Martin Elliott ^[60]