Presidents of RCSI

RCSI Presidents since its foundation in 1784.

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

2022-2024: Laura Viani
2020-2022: Ronan O'Connell
2018-20: Kenneth Mealy
2016-18: John Hyland
2014-16: Declan Magee
2012-14: Patrick J. Broe
2010-12: Eilis McGovern
2008-10: Frank B.V. Keane
2006-08: Gerald C. O'Sullivan
2004-06: Niall J. O'Higgins
2002-04: Michael R. Butler
2000-02: George Parks
1998-2000: Barry O'Donnell
1996-98: Peter McLean
1994-96: Thomas P.J. Hennessy
1992-94: J. Dermot O'Flynn
1990-92: William P. Hederman
1988-90: Desmond V. Kneafsey
1986-88: Reginald A.E. Magee
1984-86: Victor Lane
1982-84: Eoin O'Malley
1980-82: J.A. O’Connell
1978-80: Keith Shaw
1976-78: Stanley Thomas McCollum
1974-76: John McAuliffe Curtin
1972-74: Francis Arthur Joseph Mary Duff
1970-72: John Paul Lanigan
1968-70: Douglas Montgomery
1966-68: Edward Neale McDermott
1963-66: Terrence Millin
1961-63: Nigel Alexander Kinnear
1958-61: Thomas George Wilson
1956-58: Anthony Burton Clery
1954-56: Sir Ian Fraser
1952-54: Michael Plunkett Burke
1950-52: William Pearson
1948-50: Henry Sords Meade
1946-48: Frederick Gill
1944-46: Edward Leo Sheridan
1942-44: Thomas Ottiwell Graham
1940-42: Henry Stokes
1938-40: William Doolin
1936-38: Adams Andrew McConnell
1934-36: Seton Pringle
1932-34: Frank Crawley
1930-32: Richard Atkinson Stoney
1928-29: Thomas Eagleson Gordon
1926-28: Andrew Fullerton
1924-26: R. Charles B. Maunsell
1922-24: Sir William Ireland de Courcy Wheeler
1920-22: Edward H. Taylor
1918-20: John Benjamin Story
1916-18: Sir William Taylor
1914-16: Sir Frederick Conway Dwyer
1912-14: Richard Dancer Purefoy
1910-12: Sir Robert Henry Woods
1908-10: Sir John Lentaigne
1906-08: Sir Henry Rosborough Swanzy
1904-06: Sir Arthur Chance
1902-04: Sir Lambert Hempenstall Ormsby
1900-02: Sir Thomas Myles
1898-1900: Robert Lafayette Swan
1896-98: Sir William Thomson
1894-96: Sir William Thornley Stoker
1892-94: Edward Hamilton (1875)
1890-92: Henry Gray Croly
1889: Austin Meldon
1888: Henry Fitzgibbon
1887: Anthony Hagerty Corley
1886: Sir William Stokes
1885: Sir Charles Alexander Cameron
1884: Edward Hallaran Bennett
1883: William Ireland Wheeler
1882: John Kellock Barton
1881: Samuel Chaplin
1880: Alfred H. M'Clintock
1879: Edward Dillon Mapother
1878: Philip Crampton Smyly
1877: Robert McDonnell
1876: George Hugh Kidd
1875: Edward Hamilton (1892-94)
1874: Jolliffe Tufnell
1873: John Denham
1872: Frederick Kirkpatrick
1871: James Henry Wharton
1870: Albert Jasper Walsh
1869: Rawdon Macnamara secundus
1868: George Hornidge Porter
1867: Robert Adams (1840, 1860)
1866: Richard George Herbert Butcher
1865: Samuel George Wilmot
1864: Arthur Jacob (1837)
1863: William Colles
1862: Thomas Lewis Mackesy
1861: William Jameson
1860: Robert Adams (1840, 1867)
1859: Christopher Fleming
1858: James William Cusack (1827, 1847)
1857: Hans Irvine
1856: Robert Carlisle Williams
1855: Philip Crampton (1811, 1820, 1844)
1854: Charles Benson
1853: William Hargrave
1852: Edward Hutton
1851: Leonard Trant
1850: Thomas Edward Beatty
1849: Andrew Ellis
1848: Robert Harrison
1847: James William Cusack (1827, 1858)
1846: Samuel Wilmot (1815, 1832)
1845: Richard Carmichael (1813, 1826)
1844: Philip Crampton (1811, 1820, 1855)
1843: James O'Beirne
1842: William Tagert
1841: Thomas Rumley
1840: Robert Adams (1860, 1867)
1839: Maurice Collis
1838: William Henry Porter
1837: Arthur Jacob (1864)
1836: Francis White
1835: Alexander Read (1825)
1834: John Kirby (1823)
1833: James Kerin
1832: Samuel Wilmot (1815, 1846)
1831: Rawdon Macnamara primus
1830: Abraham Colles (1802)
1829: WIlliam Auchinleck
1828: Cusack Roney (1814)
1827: James William Cusack (1847, 1858)
1826: Richard Carmichael (1813, 1845)
1825: Alexander Read (1835)
1824: John Creighton (1812)
1823: John Kirby (1834)
1822: James Henthorn
1821: Charles Hawkes Todd
1820: Philip Crampton (1811, 1844, 1855)
1819: Thomas Hewson
1818: Solomon Richard (1794, 1803, 1808)
1817: Andrew Johnston
1816: Robert Moore Peile (1792)
1815: Samuel Wilmot (1832, 1846)
1814: Cusack Roney (1828)
1813: Richard Carmichael (1826, 1845)
1812: John Creighton (1824)
1811: Philip Crampton (1820, 1844, 1855)
1810: John Armstrong Garnett
1809: Richard Dease
1808: Solomon Richard (1794, 1803, 1818)
1807: Francis M'Evoy (1791, 1804)
1806: Gerald Macklin
1805: Robery Hamilton
1804: Francis M'Evoy (1791, 1807)
1803: Solomon Richards (1794, 1808, 1818)
1802: Abraham Colles (1830)
1801: James Rivers
1800: Sir Henry Jebb
1799: George Stewart (1792)
1798: Robert Moore Peile (1816)
1797: William Hartigan
1796: Francis L'Estrange
1795: Gustavus Hume; Clement Archer
1794: Solomon Richards (1803, 1808, 1818)
1793: George Renny
1792: George Stewart (1799)
1791: Francis M'Evoy (1804, 1807)
1790: Ralph Smyth O'Bré
1789: William Dease
1788: Philip Woodroffe
1787: Robert Bowes
1786: John Whiteway
1784-85: Samuel Croker King