Presidents of RCSI

RCSI Presidents since its foundation in 1784.

* please note some presidents served more than one term in office.

• 1784-85: Samuel Croker King
• 1786: John Whiteway
• 1787: Robert Bowes
• 1788: Philip Woodroffe
• 1789: William Dease
• 1790: Ralph Smyth O'Bré
• 1791: Francis M'Evoy (1804, 1807)
• 1792: George Stewart (1799)
• 1793: George Renny
• 1794: Solomon Richards (1803, 1808, 1818)
• 1795: Gustavus Hume; Clement Archer
• 1796: Francis L'Estrange
• 1797: William Hartigan
• 1798: Robert Moore Peile (1816)
• 1799: George Stewart (1792)
• 1800: Sir Henry Jebb
• 1801: James Rivers
• 1802: Abraham Colles (1830)
• 1803: Solomon Richards (1794, 1808, 1818)
• 1804: Francis M'Evoy (1791, 1807)
• 1805: Robery Hamilton
• 1806: Gerald Macklin
• 1807: Francis M'Evoy (1791, 1804)
• 1808: Solomon Richard (1794, 1803, 1818)
• 1809: Richard Dease
• 1810: John Armstrong Garnett     
• 1811: Philip Crampton (1820, 1844, 1855)
• 1812: John Creighton (1824)
• 1813: Richard Carmichael (1826, 1845)
• 1814: Cusack Roney (1828)
• 1815: Samuel Wilmot (1832, 1846)
• 1816: Robert Moore Peile (1792)
• 1817: Andrew Johnston     
• 1818: Solomon Richard (1794, 1803, 1808)
• 1819: Thomas Hewson
• 1820: Philip Crampton (1811, 1844, 1855)
• 1821: Charles Hawkes Todd
• 1822: James Henthorn
• 1823: John Kirby (1834)
• 1824: John Creighton (1812)
• 1825: Alexander Read (1835)
• 1826: Richard Carmichael (1813, 1845)
• 1827: James William Cusack (1847, 1858)
• 1828: Cusack Roney (1814)
• 1829: WIlliam Auchinleck
• 1830: Abraham Colles (1802)
• 1831: Rawdon Macnamara primus
• 1832: Samuel Wilmot (1815, 1846)
• 1833: James Kerin
• 1834: John Kirby (1823)
• 1835: Alexander Read (1825)
• 1836: Francis White
• 1837: Arthur Jacob (1864)
• 1838: William Henry Porter
• 1839: Maurice Collis
• 1840: Robert Adams (1860, 1867)
• 1841: Thomas Rumley
• 1842: William Tagert
• 1843: James O'Beirne
• 1844: Philip Crampton (1811, 1820, 1855)
• 1845: Richard Carmichael (1813, 1826)
• 1846: Samuel Wilmot (1815, 1832)
• 1847: James William Cusack (1827, 1858)
• 1848: Robert Harrison
• 1849: Andrew Ellis
• 1850: Thomas Edward Beatty     
• 1851: Leonard Trant
• 1852: Edward Hutton
• 1853: William Hargrave     
• 1854: Charles Benson     
• 1855: Philip Crampton (1811, 1820, 1844)
• 1856: Robert Carlisle Williams
• 1857: Hans Irvine
• 1858: James William Cusack (1827, 1847)
• 1859: Christopher Fleming
• 1860: Robert Adams (1840, 1867)
• 1861: William Jameson
• 1862: Thomas Lewis Mackesy
• 1863: William Colles
• 1864: Arthur Jacob (1837)
• 1865: Samuel George Wilmot
• 1866: Richard George Herbert Butcher
• 1867: Robert Adams (1840, 1860)
• 1868: George Hornidge Porter
• 1869: Rawdon Macnamara secundus
• 1870: Albert Jasper Walsh
• 1871: James Henry Wharton
• 1872: Frederick Kirkpatrick
• 1873: John Denham
• 1874: Jolliffe Tufnell
• 1875: Edward Hamilton (1892-94)
• 1876: George Hugh Kidd     
• 1877: Robert M'Donnell     
• 1878: Philip Crampton Smyly     
• 1879: Edward Dillon Mapother
• 1880: Alfred H. M'Clintock
• 1881: Samuel Chaplin
• 1882: John Kellock Barton
• 1883: William Ireland Wheeler
• 1884: Edward Hallaran Bennett
• 1885: Sir Charles Alexander Cameron
• 1886: Sir William Stokes
• 1887: Anthony Hagerty Corley
• 1888: Henry Fitzgibbon
• 1889: Austin Meldon
• 1890-92: Henry Gray Croly
• 1892-94: Edward Hamilton (1875)
• 1894-96: Sir William Thornley Stoker
• 1896-98: Sir William Thomson
• 1898-1900: Robert Lafayette Swan
• 1900-02: Sir Thomas Myles
• 1902-04: Sir Lambert Hempenstall Ormsby
• 1904-06: Sir Arthur Chance
• 1906-08: Sir Henry Rosborough Swanzy
• 1908-10: Sir John Lentaigne
• 1910-12: Sir Robert Henry Woods
• 1912-14: Richard Dancer Purefoy
• 1914-16: Sir Frederick Conway Dwyer
• 1916-18: Sir William Taylor
• 1918-20: John Benjamin Story
• 1920-22: Edward H. Taylor
• 1922-24: Sir William Ireland de Courcy Wheeler
• 1924-26: R. Charles B. Maunsell     
• 1926-28: Andrew Fullerton     
• 1928-29: Thomas Eagleson Gordon     
• 1930-32: Richard Atkinson Stoney
• 1932-34: Frank Crawley
• 1934-36: Seton Pringle
• 1936-38: Adams Andrew McConnell
• 1938-40: William Doolin     
• 1940-42: Henry Stokes
• 1942-44: Thomas Ottiwell Graham
• 1944-46: Edward Leo Sheridan     
• 1946-48: Frederick Gill
• 1948-50: Henry Sords Meade
• 1950-52: William Pearson
• 1952-54: Michael Plunkett Burke
• 1954-56: Sir Ian Fraser
• 1956-58: Anthony Burton Clery 
• 1958-61: Thomas George Wilson 
• 1961-63: Nigel Alexander Kinnear
• 1963-66: Terrence Millin 
• 1966-68: Edward Neale McDermott     
• 1968-70: Douglas Montgomery 
• 1970-72: John Paul Lanigan 
• 1972-74: Francis Arthur Joseph Mary Duff
• 1974-76: John McAuliffe Curtin
• 1976-78: Stanley Thomas McCollum 
• 1978-80: Keith Shaw 
• 1980-82: J.A. O’Connell 
• 1982-84: Eoin O'Malley 
• 1984-86: Victor Lane 
• 1986-88: Reginald A.E. Magee 
• 1988-90: Desmond V. Kneafsey
• 1990-92: William P. Hederman 
• 1992-94: J. Dermot O'Flynn 
• 1994-96: Thomas PJ Hennessy    
• 1996-98: Peter McLean 
• 1998-2000: Barry O'Donnell
• 2000-02: George Parks
• 2002-04: Michael R. Butler 
• 2004-06: Niall J. O'Higgins 
• 2006-08: Gerald C. O'Sullivan
• 2008-10: Frank BV. Keane 
• 2010-12: Eilis McGovern 
• 2012-14: Patrick J. Broe
• 2014-16: Declan Magee 
• 2016-18: John Hyland 
• 2018-20: Kenneth Mealy 
• 2020-2022: Ronan O'Connell 
• 2022-Present: Laura Viani