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Honorary Members

Honorary Members 1932-2023

Honorary Membership was created in 1932 when the Association was founded. This is awarded to eminent anaesthetists and other individuals who have made a sustained and exceptional contribution the Association over a number of years. The honour is to recognise their significant contribution to the development of the Association, the wider specialty of anaesthesia, the membership and the patients they serve.

Key: (P) = Past President; (V-P) = Past Vice-President 

2023: Mike Nathanson (P) | Dr Adrian Padfield

2022: William Harrop-Griffiths (P) | Neil McGuire | Tom Pierce

2021: Isabeau Walker (V-P) | Steve Yentis (V-P)

2020: Richard Griffiths (V-P) |  David Bogod (V-P)

2019: Paul Clyburn (P) | Patricia Willis | Henrik Kehlet

2018: Ravi Dravid | Jannicke Mellin-Olsen

2015: Dame Sally Davies | Jean-Pierre van Besouw 

2014: David Whitaker (P) | Harrie Cooke 

2013: Venkata Ramana Alladi | Valerie Bythell | Professor Stanley Feldman | Leslie Gemmell (V-P) |Alexander Hannenberg | Professor Alan Merry | Pauline Philip | Stephen Ttendo | Iain Wilson (P)

2012: Angela Enright | Maurice Freeman | Atul Gawande | Ian Johnston | Douglas Justins | Jeanne Moriarty | Peter Nightingale | David Zideman 

2011: Richard Birks (P) | Professor Robert Sneyd 

2009: Judith Hulf | John McAdoo | Professor Rajinder Mirakhur 

2008: Richard Clarke | Anna-Maria Rollin 

2007: Professor Orin Guidry | Mike Harmer (P) | Sir Peter Simpson 

2006: Stephanie Greenwell (V-P) | Professor John Anthony Winston Wildsmith 

2005: Peter Wallace (P) | David Wilkinson (V-P) | Michael Ward (V-P) | Anneke Meursing 

2004: Roger Eltringham | John Edwards | David Saunders (V-P) | Ruth Hutchinson 

2003: Leo Strunin (P) | Richard E Atkinson | John Balance | Robert Buckland | Robin Weller |David Zuck 

2002: David Hatch | Sheila Willatts | Patrick Keane | Stuart Ingram 

2001: Maldwyn Morgan (P) | Ralph S Vaughan | Felicity Reynolds

2000: Gordon Bush | Edmund Charlton | S Morrell Lyons (P)

1999: W Leslie J Baird (P) | Margaret L Heath | John B Glen | John F Searle OBE 

1998: P J F Baskett (P) | J Cooper | Professor PD Wall 

1997: William R MacRae (P) | Margaret A Branthwaite 

1996: Jean M Horton | Professor Michael D A Vickers (P) | William S Wren | John S M Zorab 

1995: Peter Morris 

1994: Professor Richard S J Clarke | John N Lunn | Michael E Tunstall 

1993: Professor Sir Donald Campbell | Andrew Doughty | Professor Michael DA Rosen | Dr Barbara MQ Weaver 

1992: Richard S Atkinson | Sir Keith Sykes | Miss Ann Muir 

1991: Maurice M Burrows (P) | Douglas Chamberlain | Professor WW Mapleson | John F Nunn 

1990: Thomas B Boulton OBE (P) | RJ Maxwell | Professor O Mayrhofer | Professor H Ruben 

1989: Professor James Payne | Carlos Parsloe | Michael W Johnstone | Michael P Coplans 

1988: The Right Honourable Lord Smith of Marlow KBE | Aileen Kirkpatrick Adams CBE | Professor John Wharry Dundee 

1987: Sir Cecil Montacute Clothier KCB | Professor Kenneth Rawnsley CBE | Professor MH Holmdahl 

1986: Cecil F Scurr (P) | Douglas DC Howat | Sir Gordon Robson CBE | O Peter Dinnick 

1985: Gordon Jackson Rees 

1984: W Derek Wylie (P)

1983: Professor R Doreen Vermeulen-Cranch CBE | Professor H Lehmann | Stanley A Mason (P)

1982: Professor Quintin Gomez | George Edwards 

1981: Ernest Warburton Esq | Geoffrey Wood-Smith 

1980: Victor Goldman | Professor Andrew Hunter | Sir William Paton | Professor MT Jenkins | Professor Rudolph Frey 

1979: Philip J Helliwell (P)

1978: Professor Pritam Singh | John Lundy 

1977: Professor T Cecil Gray (P) | Professor Jean Lassner | Professor John J Bonica | Professor Alexander Clarkson Forrester 

1976: Professor T J Gilmartin (P) | J Alfred Lee (P) | S Cullen | Professor Torsten Gordh | Professor EM Papper | Professor Francis F Foldes 

1975: Professor WW Mushin (V-P) | Major General Keith F Stephens CBE, OBE

1974: Professor Sir Geoffrey Organe (P) | John Beard (P)

1973: CJ Massey Dawkins

1972: Philip Ayre | HJV Morton | R Patrick | W Shackleton 

1971: Herbert Harvey Pinkerton 

1969: Vernon F Hall (P) 

1968: Frankis Tilney Evans | Michael D Nosworthy 

1967: Katherine G Lloyd-Williams 

1966: C Langton Hewer | Ronald Jarman 

1962: GA Vandervell Esq 

1961: Edward Falkner Hill | Richard J Minnitt 

1960: Edgar Stanley Rowbotham  | Harry J Shields 

1959: John Gillies | Sir Robert Macintosh | Archibald D Marston 

1957: Henry W Featherstone (P)

1956: Ashley Daly | Ivan W Magill 

1955: Wesley Bourne 

1953: Harold R Griffith 

1945: Sir Alfred Webb-Johnson 

1943: Bellamy Gardner | Lieutenant Colonel Beverley Leech | Ralph Tovell 

1942: Sir Francis Shipway 

1939: Hugh Edmond Gaskin Boyle 

1936: The Right Honourable The Viscount Nuffield | RM Waters 

1932: CC Braine | FH McMechan | JF Silk | RJ Probyn-Williams | Richard Gill