Welcome

to the website of the Brighton Medico-Chirurgical Society. The Society was founded in 1847 by Dr William King and is one of the older medical societies in the UK. It was set up to enable members of the medical profession to meet regularly for educational and social purposes.

Read more about its history and organisation.

The 2010 programme is available on the meetings page and there is information about the speakers on the speakers page.

 

The Current President

The President for the year 2010 is Mr Bob Tranter.

"It is a great honour and privilege to be the president of the Brighton and Sussex Medico-Chirurgical Society for the year 2010. I have invited a selection of talented speakers and they are either friends, colleagues, or patients and some of them all three! As well as medical speakers I have invited a well known politician, Bob Marshall-Andrews, international opera singer Dame Felicity Lott and Victor Spinetti, National Treasure of the English Stage. We have been fortunate to obtain support from many local and national organisations. Some of our meetings will be held jointly with organisations such as the Brighton and Hove Hospital Friends, the Sussex Association of Consultants and the BMA. I look forward to your support in the year 2010 and if you are not already a member of this ancient society why not join immediately and enjoy the 2010 programme."

Visit recent events to see a collection of images giving a flavour of some recent meetings and the archive page for reminders of previous years.

Meetings

The Society's meetings are usually held on the first Thursday of each month. As has been the tradition since 1847, speakers from all walks of life are invited to address the Society. The meetings are held in the Education Centre in the new Audrey Emerton Building on the Royal Sussex County Hospital site or in the Brighton and Sussex Medical School at the University of Sussex at Falmer. Maps for both venues are available. The Society is grateful to the Brighton and Sussex University Hospitals Trust for providing us with office space and a meeting venue.

Next Meeting:

"Political Lamentations "

Thursday 7th October 2010 at 7.45pm.

Bob Marshall-Andrews QC MP Labour MP for Medway,
Novelist and After Dinner Speaker. Supported by DMH Stallard

Robert Marshall-Andrews was born in 1944 and attended Mill Hill School and then the University of Bristol to study law and won the Observer Mace. He was called to the Bar in 1970, was Crown Court Recorder, became a Queen’s Counsel and a Bencher, at Grays Inn and prosecuted and defended most forms of serious crime and serious criminals, specialising in commercial fraud. He entered Parliament in the 1997 general election. He has rebelled against the government on 134 occasions since 2001 (20 of those rebellions being in the 2005 parliament), mainly on legal issues and foreign policy. He is often mentioned as a candidate for Backbencher Of The Year and is a founder of the “Old Testament Prophets” dining group. He is an occasional novelist with the publication of “Palace of Wisdom”, “A Man Without Guilt” and produces regular articles in the Daily Telegraph, Guardian, Independent, Sunday Times and some periodicals (New Statesman, House Magazine, Tribune). He is a Founder and Trustee of the George Adamson Wildlife Trust, presently operating in the Mkomazi Game Reserve, Tanzania, he is a Trustee of the Geffrye Museum, London and was the Chair of Governors, Grey Court School. He is an Honorary Associate of the National Secular Society.