The Bradshaw Lectures are lectureships given at the invitation of the Royal College of Physicians and the Royal College of Surgeons of England. It is held on alternate years in rotation with the Hunterian Oration.

List of past lecturers at Royal College of Physicians

List of past lecturers at Royal College of Surgeons of England

The lecture is biennial (annual until 1993) on a topic in the field of surgery, customarily given by a senior member of the Council on or about the day preceding the second Thursday of December. (Given in alternate years, with the Hunterian Oration given in the intervening years).

  • 2016 Nigel Hunt
  • 2014 Antony Narula
  • 2012 Irving Taylor on Surgical professionalism
  • 2010 Richard Collins
  • 2008 Anne Moore
  • 2006 Valerie Lund
  • 2004 David Dandy
  • 2002 Leela Kapila
  • 2000 Averil Mansfield
  • 1998 Sir Barry Jackson
  • 1996 H Brendan Devlin
  • 1994 Adrian Marston
  • 1992 Sir Rodney Sweetnam, Bone Tumour Surgery- yet another Sub-specialty?
  • 1991 John Alexander-Williams
  • 1990 Robert Owen
  • 1989 Terence Kennedy, Billroth to Black-A Century of Peptic Ulcer Surgery
  • 1988 William John Wells Sharrard
  • 1987 Phyllis George, Obstructive Jaundice – Whose problem?
  • 1986 Harold Ellis, The treatment of breast cancer: a study in evolution
  • 1985 Michael Tempest Reilly
  • 1984 Alan Graham Apley
  • 1983 Sir David Innes Williams, Paediatric urology in the evolution of surgery
  • 1982 Peter Gilroy Bevan
  • 1981 Sir Reginald Sydney Murley, Venous Thromboembolism – Challenge and Fulfilment?
  • 1980 Harry Hubert Grayson Eastcott, The Total Care of the Arteriosclerotic Patient
  • 1979 Desmond Gareth Julian, The significance and management of ventricular arrhythmias
  • 1978 John Cedric Goligher, Recent Trends in the Treatment of Carcinoma of the Rectum
  • 1977 Sir Rodney Smith, Tumours of the Liver
  • 1976 Selwyn Taylor, Thyroid medullary carcinoma: a new endocrine syndrome
  • 1975 Ronald W. Raven, Oncology : attainment and anticipation
  • 1974 Richard S. Handley, Carcinoma of the Breast
  • 1973 Richard H Franklin, Oesophogeal Cancer
  • 1972 Norman Capener, Vertebral Exploration
  • 1971 Henry Osmond-Clarke, Hip Joint Surgery in the 20th century
  • 1970 Robert V. Cooke, The Challenge and Fascination of Biliary Tract Surgery
  • 1969 Sir Thomas Holmes Sellors, Atrial Septal Defects
  • 1968 Harold Edwards, Crohn's Disease
  • 1967 R. Milnes Walker, Cancer in South-West England
  • 1966 Charles Wells, The Small Intestine
  • 1965 Sir Hedley Atkins, Cancer of the Breast
  • 1964 C. Naunton Morgan, Carcinoma of the Rectum
  • 1963 Sir Clement Price Thomas, Pulmonary Tuberculosis in Retrospect and Prospect
  • 1962 Eric Riches, Carcinoma of the Kidney
  • 1961 Digby Chamberlain, The Spleen and its Removal
  • 1960 Stanford Cade, Malignant Melanoma
  • 1959 A. Dickson Wright, Surgery of the Biliary Tract
  • 1958 Archibald McIndoe, Reconstruction of the Burned Face
  • 1957 Sir Russell Brock, The Present Position of Cardiac Surgery
  • 1956 A. Lawrence Abel (replacing R.P.Scott Mason, deceased), Diagnosis and Treatment of Disease of the Large Intestine
  • 1955 Sir Cecil Wakeley, Hunter and Surgical Research
  • 1954 Lambert C. Rogers, Tumours Involving the Spinal Cord and its Nerve Roots
  • 1953 Sir Reginald Watson-Jones, Fracture treatment in the next half century
  • 1952 (delivered June 1953) Sir James Paterson Ross, Some Unsolved Problems in the Surgery of the Sympathetic Nervous System
  • 1951 Sir Ernest Frederick Finch, The Approach to Specialism
  • 1950 Harry Platt, Diagnosis and Prognosis in Sarcomas of Bone
  • 1949 V. Zachary Cope, Visceral Actinomycosis
  • 1948 Lionel E.C. Norbury, Proctology throughout the Ages
  • 1947 Sir Cecil Wakeley, Vogue and Fashion in Abdominal Surgery
  • 1946 Sir Heneage Ogilvie, Surgical Handicraft
  • 1945 C. Max Page, Survey of Fracture Treatment
  • 1944 Sir William Girling Ball
  • 1943 Henry S.Souttar, Physics and the Surgeon
  • 1942 Leonard Ralph Braithwaite, The Role of Bile in Duodenal Regurgitation
  • 1941 Sir Gordon Gordon-Taylor, Abdominal Injuries of Modern warfare
  • 1940 Sir Alfred Webb-Johnson, Pride and Prejudice in the Treatment of Cancer
  • 1939 James Walton, Surgery of the Common Bileduct
  • 1938 Sir Robert Ernest Kelly, Recurrent peptic ulceration, causes of, and design for second operation on stomach
  • 1937 Sir Charles Gordon-Watson, The Origin and Spread of Cancer of the Rectum in Relation to Surgical Treatment
  • 1936 Hugh Lett, The Early Diagnosis and Treatment of Renal Tuberculosis
  • 1935 George Grey Turner on carcinoma of the oesophagus
  • 1934 William Francis Victor Bonney, The Functional Derangement of the Intestine that follows Abdominal Operations
  • 1933 Arthur H. Burgess, Electrosurgery
  • 1932 George Edward Gask, The Surgery of the Sympathetic Nervous System
  • 1931 Sampson Handley, Chronic Mastitis
  • 1930 J. Herbert Fisher, Ocular Muscles, Movements and Judgements
  • 1929 Robert Pugh Rowlands, On the Surgery of the Gall Bladder and Bile Ducts
  • 1928 Charles Herbert Fagge, Axial Rotation
  • 1927 Cuthbert Sidney Wallace, A review of prostatic enlargement
  • 1926 Ernest W. Hey Groves, Some Contributions to the Reconstructive Surgery of the Hip
  • 1925 James Sherren, Gastrojejunostomy
  • 1924 Raymond Johnson, Simple and malignant tumours of the breast
  • 1923 Walter George Spencer, Melanosis (Melanin; Melanoma; Melanotic Cancer)
  • 1922 William Thorburn, On the Surgery of the Spinal Cord 146
  • 1921 Sir Holburt Jacob Waring, Operative Treatment of Malignant Disease
  • 1920 Berkeley Moynihan, The Spleen and some of its Diseases
  • 1919 Sir Charles Alfred Ballance, The Surgery of the Heart
  • 1918 D'Arcy Power, Cancer of the Tongue
  • 1917 Sir John Bland-Sutton, Misplaced and Missing Organs.
  • 1916 Charters James Symonds, Laminectomy in Gunshot Injuries of the Spinal Cord
  • 1915 Sir Anthony Bowlby, Wounds in War
  • 1914 Sir Frederic Eve, Acute Haemorrhagic Pancreatitis
  • 1913 Sir George Henry Makins,Gunshot Injuries of the Arteries
  • 1912 Charles Mansell Moullin, The Biology of Tumours
  • 1911 Richard Clement Lucas, Some Points in Heredity
  • 1910 Alfred Pearce Gould, Cancer
  • 1909 Francis Richardson Cross, The Brain Structures concerned in Vision
  • 1908 Sir William Watson Cheyne, The Treatment of Wounds
  • 1907 Sir Rickman J Godlee, Prognosis in Relation to Treatment of Tuberculosis of the Genito-urinary Organs
  • 1906 Edmund Owen, Cancer, its Treatment by Modern Methods
  • 1905 Henry Trentham Butlin, Carcinoma is a Parasitic Disease
  • 1904 Arthur William Mayo Robson, Cancer and Its Treatment
  • 1903 Sir Henry Morris, On Cancer and its Origin
  • 1902 Howard Marsh, Septic Arthritis
  • 1901 Thomas R. Jessop, Nephrectomy, Nephrolithotomy, and Lithotomy
  • 1900 John Langton, The association of inguinal hernia with the descent of the testis
  • 1899 Henry Greenway Howse, A Review of Surgery during the past 100 Years
  • 1898 Thomas Pickering Pick, The Union of Wounds
  • 1897 Alfred Willett, The Correction of Certain Deformities by Operative Measures upon Bones
  • 1896 Reginald Harrison, Vesical Stone and Prostatic Disorders
  • 1895 Nottidge Charles MacNamara, Osteitis
  • 1894 Sir Oliver Pemberton, James Syme, Regius Professor of Surgery in the University of Edinburgh 1833-1869: A Study of His influence and Authority on the, Art and Science of Surgery during that Period
  • 1893 Sir William MacCormac, Sir Astley Cooper and his Surgical Work
  • 1892 Christopher Heath, The Surgery of the Nose and Accessory Cavities
  • 1891 John Whittaker Hulke, On Fractures and Dislocations of the Vertebral Column
  • 1890 Sir Thomas Spencer Wells, Modern Abdominal Surgery
  • 1889 Thomas Bryant, Colostomy: Lumbar and Iliac
  • 1888 Sir Jonathan Hutchinson, Museums in their Relation to Medical Education and the Progress of Knowledge
  • 1886 Henry Power, Bacteriology and its Relations to Surgery
  • 1885 John Wood, Antiseptics in Surgery
  • 1884 William Scovell Savory, The Pathology of Cancer
  • 1883 John Marshall, Nerve Stretching for the Relief or Cure of Pain
  • 1882 Sir James Paget - Some New and Rare Diseases (Inaugural lecture)

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