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Presidents of the RCOG

The current President of the RCOG is Miss Ranee Thakar. Miss Thakar took up office in December 2022.

Previous Presidents of the RCOG

2019–2022 Mr Edward Morris

2016–2019 Professor Dame Lesley Regan

2013–2016 Dr David Richmond

2010–2013 Dr Anthony Falconer

2007–2010 Sir Sabaratnam Arulkumaran

2004–2007 Professor Allan Templeton

2001–2004 Professor William Dunlop

1998–2001 Professor Robert Shaw

1995–1998 Lord Naren Patel

1993–1994 Professor Geoffrey Chamberlain (1930–2014)

1990–1993 Sir Stanley Simmons

1987–1990 Sir George Pinker (1924–2007)

1984–1987 Sir Malcolm MacNaughton (1925–2016)

1981–1984 Sir Rustam Feroze (1920–2010)

1978–1981 Sir Anthony Alment (1922–2002)

1975–1978 Sir John Dewhurst (1920–2007)

1972–1975 Sir Stanley Clayton (1911–1986)

1969–1972 Sir Norman Jeffcoate (1907–1992)

1966–1969 Sir John Peel (1904–2005)

1963–1966 Sir Hector Maclennan (1905–1978)

1960–1963 Sir Arthur Bell (1904–1977)

1957–1960 Sir Andrew Claye (1896–1977)

1955–1957 Sir Charles Read (1902–1957)

1952–1955 Sir Arthur Gemmell (1892–1960)

1949–1952 Dame Hilda Lloyd (1891–1982)

1946–1949 Sir William Gilliatt (1884–1956)

1943–1946 Sir Eardley Lancelot Holland (1879–1967)

1938–1943 Sir William Fletcher Shaw (1878–1961)

1935–1938 Sir Ewen Maclean (1865–1953)

1932–1935 John Shields Fairbairn (1865–1944)

1929–1932 Professor William Blair-Bell (1871–1936)