British Homeopathic Associations and Journals
There have been many British homeopathic Societies and Associations, and many British homeopathic journals in the past, ancestors to our present day organisations.
The following is a work in progress, listing them all.
The Annals and Transactions of the British Homeopathic Society and the London Homeopathic Hospital
Editors: Hugh Cameron, Richard Hughes, Frederick Hervey Foster Quin, John Rutherford Russell, Stephen Yeldham
The Association for the Protection of Homeopathic Practitioners and Students
Founded in 1851, members included Francis Black, John Chapman, Paul Francois Curie, John James Drysdale, Robert Ellis Dudgeon, Fearon, Edward Hamilton, Hering, Kerr, Joseph Laurie, John Ozanne, John Rutherford Russell, David Wilson and many others.
- That immediate steps to enlist members to the friends of Homeopathy be made.
- That a circular be issued to enlist support for homeopathy.
- That a committee be formed.
- That tracts and pamphlets be issued to inform the public of the practices of allopaths to defame homeopathy.
- That other measures be taken to protect homeopathy.
- That local committees be formed in every town where there is a homeopath.
- That Robert Ellis Dudgeon be appointed to the committe to oversee events.
- That a secretary be appointed.
Members: John Chapman, John James Drysdale, Joseph Laurie, Thomas Robinson Leadam
Association of Registered Homeopaths
The Blackie Foundation Trust
Founded by Margery Blackie to promote homeopathic education and research, and to support the annual Margery Blackie memorial Lecture.
The British Homeopathic Association
The British Homeopathic Association was originally founded in 1847 by Richard Walter Heurtley, John Epps, Marmaduke Blake Sampson and Thomas Uwins.
President: The Duke of Beaufort
Vice President: The Marquis of Anglesea
Chairman: Marmaduke Blake Sampson
Treasurers: Matthew Marshall, John Dean Paul
Honorary Secretary: Richard Walter Heurtley, George Henry Burford
Committee: Lord Aylmer, Colonel Disbrowe, the Earl of Essex, Francis Gordon, Lord Grey, Richard Walter Heurtley, Augustus Henry Moreton, John Ozanne, Alfred Paget, Charles Culling Smith, Thomas Uwins, the Marquis of Worcester and many more.
Members: John Ozanne,
The members of the British Homeopathic Society were made honorary members of the BHA.
The British Homeopathic Association is still based at 27a Devonshire Street, London W1. The BHA published its own quarterly journal also called Homeopathy for many years, and this was replaced by Health and Homeopathy following its merger with the Faculty of Homeopathy in 2001.
Founders: Paul Francois Curie, Harris P Dunsford, John Epps, Heurtley, Highley
Patrons: The Queen Mother was the Patron of the British Homeopathic Association until her death in 2002.
Chairman: Marmaduke Blake Sampson
Fellows: John Rutherford Russell
Members: Francis Black, Edward Charles Chepmell, Thomas Engall, Thomas Robinson Leadam, Henry Reynolds, Harold Fergie Woods, Stephen Yeldham,
British Homeopathic Congress
Presidents: James Johnstone, John Weir
The British Homeopathic Review
Editors: Richard Hughes
The British Homeopathic Society
Founded by Frederick Hervey Foster Quin, who after an abortive attempt in 1837, finally managed to found this Society in 1844 at a dinner at his house to celebrate the anniversary of Samuel Hahnemann’s death.
The Liverpool Homeopathic Society was a branch of the British Homeopathic Society.
The conditions of the Society were:
- That membership was only open to Medical Practitioners and Medical Students.
- That new members would prepare a dissertation or a paper to present to the Society.
- That London members who live within five miles of the Society’s rooms would be fined a shilling for being absent at any meeting at which a quorum was not formed.
Founders: Paul Francois Curie, Frederick Hervey Foster Quin
Patrons: William Leaf, Thomas Roupell Everest
Presidents: John Galley Blackley, James Johnstone, Frederick Hervey Foster Quin, Wynne Thomas, George Henry Burford
Vice Presidents: John Chapman, George Wyld, Stephen Yeldham
Treasurers: John Galley Blackley, Edward Hamilton
Honorary Secretaries: Thomas Robinson Leadam, John Weir, John Galley Blackley
Fellows: Samuel Thomas Partridge, Stephen Yeldham
Members: William Bayes, Charles Harrison Blackley, David Dyce Brown, Hugh Cameron, Edward Charles Chepmell, John Henry Clarke, John James Drysdale, Thomas Engall, Arthur Guinness, James Manby Gully, Alfred Edward Hawkes, Richard Hughes, C. B. Kerr, Joseph Kidd, Joseph Laurie, Thomas Robinson Leadam, Octavia Margaret Sophia Lewin, David MacNish, Victor Massol, J Bell Metcalfe, Herbert Nankiveli, John Ozanne, Alfred C. Pope, Henry Reynolds, Thomas Skinner, Charles LLoyd Tuckey, Dionysius Wielobycki, Severin Wielobycki, David Wilson
In 1943, the British Homeopathic Society became The Faculty of Homeopathy and was incorporated under the Company’s Act 1929, and the Faculty of Homeopathy Act 1950.
In 1860, the Society began to issue a record of its proceedings, The Annals and Transactions of the British Homeopathic Society and the London Homeopathic Hospital . In 1893, it became known as the Journal of the British Homeopathic Society, and in 1913, it took over the British Homeopathic Journal. In 1920, this journal became quarterly, in which form it is still published today under the simple title Homeopathy.
The British Homeopathic Society published The British Homeopathic Pharmacopœia in 1876
The British Journal of Homeopathy
Editors: Francis Black, John James Drysdale, Robert Ellis Dudgeon, Richard Hughes, James Douglas Kenyon, John Rutherford Russell, Russell Reynolds
The British and Foreign Homeopathic Medical Directory and Record
Founded 1843 by John Chapman, George Atkin, Frederick Hervey Foster Quin and Robert Ellis Dudgeon, John Rutherford Russell, James W Metcalfe
The English Homeopathy Society
Honorary Secretary: Richard Walter Heurtley
Members: Arthur Guinness
The Faculty of Homeopathy
Members: Erich Kurt Ledermann, Octavia Margaret Sophia Lewin
The Hahnemann Medical Society
Members: Francis Black, James Dore Blake, Edward Charles Chepmell, Amos Henriques, Thomas Engall, Joseph Laurie, John Hodgson Ramsbotham, Severin Wielobycki
The Hahnemann Publishing Society
Treasurers: Francis Black
Members: Edward Charles Chepmell, Thomas Engall, George Calvert Holland, John Hodgson Ramsbotham
Health and Homeopathy
Homeopathy
The Homeopathic Medical Directory of Great Britain and Ireland
The Homeopathic Medical Association
Founded in 1958 as the Hahnemann Society, and it merged with the Homeopathic Trust in 1990, and with the British Homeopathic Association in 1999.
Members: Henry Victor Malan, David Wilson
The Homeopathic Times 1843 -
The Homeopathic Trust
Was a Charity to pursue homeopathic Education and to fund research. It merged with the British Homeopathic Association in 2000.
Patron the Duke of Gloucester
Editor: Charles Edwin Wheeler
The International Homeopathic Congress
President: George Henry Burford
Vice Presidents: George Henry Burford
International Hahnemannian Association
Founder: Edward William Berridge
Liga Medicorum Homeopathica Internationalis
Presidents: Charles Edwin Wheeler
Permanent Secretary: John Henry Clarke
The London and Provincial Homœopathic Medical Directory
Editors: William Bayes
The Medical Observer
The Monthly Homeopathic Review 1856 -
The Northern Homeopathic Medical Association
President: John Hodgson Ramsbotham
General Secretary: Atkin
Local Secretary: Charles Caulfield Tuckey
Members: Alshorn, Booth, Hugh Cameron, Samuel Cockburn, John James Drysdale, Dunn, Grey, Craig, Hayle, Hilbers, George Calvert Holland, Irvine, Joseph Laurie, Adam Lyschinski, MacDowal, George MacLeod, Moore, Pearce, Phillips, Pope, Charles Ransford, John Rutherford Russell, Scholefield, Sharp, Sutherland, Walker, Wright,
Founded in 1978 and it is the largest organisation in the United Kingdom. Its members carry the qualification RSHom and they are non medically qualified homeopaths, subject to registration, a Code of Ethics and complaints and disciplinary procedures.
Founders: John DaMonte, Thomas Maughan, Edwin Tomkins
Chairman: Martin Miles
Members: Julian Carlyon, Peter Chappell, Robert Davidson, Patrick Derham, Michael Haggiag, Barbara Harwood, Margaret Koolman, Lynn Lovell, Jennifer Maughan (wife of Thomas Maughan), Martin Miles, Misha Norland, Sarah Richardson, Ernest Roberts, Kaye Samuel, Mary Titchmarsh, Jerome Whitney, Kaaren Whitney, Bob Withers,
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