Honorary Fellowships
The origins of the Society's Honorary Fellowship may be traced back to the first meeting in 1805 of the Medical and Chirurgical Society of London, when the following resolution was passed: 'That Gentlemen who have eminently distinguished themselves in Sciences connected with Medicine, but who are not of the Medical Profession, or do not practise therein, be admissible as Honorary Members'. A further resolution elected the following inaugural Honorary Members:
- Sir Joseph Banks Bt KB,
- Sir Charles Blagden,
- Dr Aikin
- Humphry Davy Esq,
- Charles Hatchett Esq,
- Edward Charles Howard Esq,
- Smithson Tennant Esq,
- Dr Wollaston
Later Honorary Follows have included:
- Charles Daubeny
- Thomas Huxley
- Richard Owen
- Charles Darwin
- Louis Pasteur
- Sir William Jenner
- Samuel Wilks
- Sigmund Freud
- Sir MacFarlane Burnet: Nobel Prize Winner for Medicine & Physiology
- Sir Richard Doll: Globally recognised authority on smoking and cancer
- Sir Donald Acheson: CMO and spearhead of UN medical relief envoy in Sarajevo
- Prof Jerry Morris: Expert on exercise and cardio-vascular disease
- Sir George Godber: CMO and leading light in health planning & education
- Sir Kenneth Calman: CMO and fundamental restructuring of medical education
- Michael Shepherd CBE – eminent psychiatrist and driving force behind the increased role played by NHS general practitioner in the treatment of patients with psychiatric illness.
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