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Past Presidents

Our Presidents since the Society's inauguration in 1807

1807 - 1813 George Bellas Greenough
1813 - 1815 Hon Henry Grey Bennet
1815 - 1816 William Blake
1816 - 1818 Dr John MacCulloch
1818 - 1820 George Bellas Greenough
1820 - 1822 Rt Hon Earl Compton, afterwards 2nd Marquess of Northampton
1822 - 1824 Dr William Babington
1824 - 1826 Rev William Buckland
1826 - 1827 Dr John Bostock
1827 - 1829 Dr William Henry Fitton
1829 - 1831 Rev Adam Sedgwick
1831 - 1833 Roderick Impey Murchison
1833 - 1835 George Bellas Greenough
1835 - 1837 Charles Lyell
1837 - 1839 Rev William Whewell
1839 - 1841 Rev William Buckland
1841 - 1843 Roderick Impey Murchison
1843 - 1845 Henry Warburton
1845 - 1847 Leonard Horner
1847 - 1849 Sir Henry Thomas De la Beche
1849 - 1851 Charles Lyell
1851 - 1853 William Hopkins
1853 - 1854 Edward Forbes
1854 - 1856 William John Hamilton
1856 - 1856 Daniel Sharpe
1856 - 1858 Col Joseph Elliston Portlock, RE
1858 - 1860 John Phillips
1860 - 1862 Leonard Horner
1862 - 1864 Andrew Crombie Ramsay
1864 - 1866 William John Hamilton
1866 - 1868 Warrington Wilkinson Smyth
1868 - 1870 Thomas Henry Huxley
1870 - 1872 Joseph Prestwich
1872 - 1874 George Douglas Campbell, 8th Duke of Argyll
1874 - 1876 John Evans
1876 - 1878 Peter Martin Duncan
1878 - 1880 Henry Clifton Sorby
1880 - 1882 Robert Etheridge
1882 - 1884 John Whitaker Hulke
1884 - 1886 Rev Thomas George Bonney
1886 - 1888 John Wesley Judd
1888 - 1890 William Thomas Blanford
1890 - 1892 Sir Archibald Geikie
1892 - 1894 Wilfrid Hudleston Hudleston
1894 - 1896 Henry Woodward
1896 - 1898 Dr Henry Hicks
1898 - 1900 William Whitaker
1900 - 1902 Jethro Justinian Harris Teall
1902 - 1904 Charles Lapworth
1904 - 1906 John Edward Marr
1906 - 1908 Sir Archibald Geikie
1908 - 1910 William Johnson Sollas
1910 - 1912 William Whitehead Watts
1912 - 1914 Aubrey Strahan
1914 - 1916 Arthur Smith Woodward
1916 - 1918 Alfred Harker
1918 - 1920 George William Lamplugh
1920 - 1922 Richard Dixon Oldham
1922 - 1924 Albert Charles Seward
1924 - 1926 John William Evans
1926 - 1928 Francis Arthur Bather
1928 - 1930 John Walter Gregory
1930 - 1932 Edmund Johnston Garwood
1932 - 1934 Thomas Henry Holland
1934 - 1936 John Frederick Norman Green
1936 - 1938 Owen Thomas Jones
1938 - 1940 Henry Hurd Swinnerton
1940 - 1941 Percy George Hamnall Boswell
1941 - 1943 Herbert Leader Hawkins
1943 - 1945 William George Fearnsides
1945 - 1947 Arthur Elijah Trueman
1947 - 1949 Herbert Harold Read
1949 - 1950 Cecil Edgar Tilley
1950 - 1951 Owen Thomas Jones
1951 - 1953 George Martin Lees
1953 - 1955 William Bernard Robinson King
1955 - 1956 Walter Campbell Smith
1956 - 1958 Leonard Hawkes
1958 - 1960 Cyril James Stubblefield
1960 - 1962 Sydney Ewart Hollingworth
1962 - 1964 Oliver Meredith Boone Bulman
1964 - 1966 Frederick William Shotton
1966 - 1968 Kingsley Charles Dunham
1968 - 1970 Thomas Neville George
1970 - 1972 William Alexander Deer
1972 - 1974 Thomas Stanley Westoll
1974 - 1976 Percy Edward Kent
1976 - 1978 Wallace Spencer Pitcher
1978 - 1980 Percival Allen
1980 - 1982 Edward Howel Francis
1982 - 1984 Janet Vida Watson
1984 - 1986 Charles Hepworth Holland
1986 - 1988 Bernard Elgey Leake
1988 - 1990 Derek John Blundell
1990 - 1992 Anthony Leonard Harris
1992 - 1994 Charles David Curtis
1994 - 1996 (Robert) Stephen (John) Sparks
1996 - 1998 Richard Frederick Paynter Hardman
1998 - 2000 Robin (Leonard Robert Morrison) Cocks
2000 - 2002 Ronald Oxburgh (Lord Oxburgh of Liverpool)
2002 - 2004 Sir Mark Moody-Stuart
2004 - 2006 Peter Styles
2006 - 2008 Richard Allen Fortey
2008 - 2010 Lynne Elizabeth Frostick
2010 - 2012 Julian Patrick Bryan Lovell
2012 - 2014 David Thomas Shilston
2014 - 2016 David Andrew Charles Manning
2016 - 2018 Malcolm Archibald Halliday Brown
2018 - 2020 Nick Rogers
2020 - 2022 Michael Daly
2022 - 2024 Ruth Allington