The Fitzpatrick Lecture is given annually at the Royal College of Physicians on a subject related to history of medicine.

[1] The lecturer, who must be a fellow of the college, is selected by the president and may be chosen to speak for two years successively.

[3][4][5] Agnes was influenced by her husband's close friend, Sir Norman Moore, who persuaded her to choose history of medicine as a subject.

[6] The first two Fitzpatrick lectures were given by Joseph Frank Payne,[6] whose request instigated history of medicine lectures at the Royal Society of Medicine and with whose support Sir William Osler established the History of Medicine Section.

[7] He was succeeded by Sir Norman Moore, Leonard Guthrie and Clifford Allbutt and Raymond Crawfurd.