He witnessed "three wars and contested five general elections".[18] 1933–1935 Sir St Clair Thomson[19] Wrote book Diseases of the Nose and Throat and was president of the Royal Society of Medicine between 1925 and 1927.[19] St Clair Thomson 1935–1937 Edwin Goodall[20] 1937–1939 Alexander Polycleitos Cawadias[21] 1941–1942 John Frederick Halls Dally[22] Chest physician[23] 1942–1944 Sir Walter Langdon-Brown[8] 1944–1945 John Frederick Halls Dally, (Died 1944)[9] 1945–1947 Sir Arthur MacNalty[12] 1947–1948 Hubert James Norman, MB (Died 1948)[24] 1948–1950 Edgar Ashworth Underwood Married Singer's daughter, director of the Wellcome Institute for the History of Medicine, (1946-1964) & influenced Sir Henry Wellcome's collection. Revised Singer's short history of medicine (1962).[25][26] Edgar Underwood 1950–1952 Lilian Lindsay[27] Lilian Lindsay 1952–1954 Lord Webb-Johnson[12] 1954–1956 Sir Zachary Cope[28] Physician and surgeon who wrote a textbook on surgery and the history of medicine. At the jubilee meeting of the section, he pleaded for younger professionals to be involved.[1] Zachary Cope 1956–1957 Douglas Guthrie Guthrie, an ENT surgeon,[12] wrote A History of Medicine (1945), which gained fame following a review by George Bernard Shaw.[29] He gave his presidential address in 1957 when he stated "…it is obvious that history supplies an essential basis of medicine.