York Medical Society

The York Medical Society is a medical society founded in York, England, in 1832. It is located in a Grade II* listed building at 23 Stonegate, York. The first president, Baldwin Wake, addressed the society at its first meeting in March 1832. Early meetings were held at the York Dispensary, a house in Market Town, and later in the Board Room at York County Hospital, and then at 9 Ousegate. It then met at the De Grey Rooms and then until 1915, it rented rooms at 1 Low Ousegate, when the society moved to the current location of 23 Stonegate, the previous home of Tempest Anderson and his father W.C. Anderson. The building is a late 16th-century house, which incorporates the remains of several earlier structures on the site, and which has been altered and extended at various times in the centuries following its construction. It was first listed in 1954, and was upgraded to Grade II* in 1997. It houses a library consisting of books from its own collection as well as those from the York County Hospital and the York Dispensary. It holds an annual oration.