Chairs
Previous chairs of the British Council have been:
- 1934–1937 Lord Tyrrell
- 1937–1941 Lord Lloyd
- 1941–1945 Sir Malcolm Robertson
- 1946–1955 Sir Ronald Adam
- 1955–1959 Sir David Kelly
- 1959–1967 Lord Bridges
- 1968–1971 Lord Fulton
- 1971–1972 Sir Leslie Rowan
- 1972–1976 Lord Ballantrae
- 1977–1984 Sir Charles Troughton
- 1985–1992 Sir David Orr
- 1992–1998 Sir Martin Jacomb
- 1998–2004 Baroness Kennedy of The Shaws
- 2004–2009 Lord Kinnock
- 2010–present Sir Vernon Ellis
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Famous quotes containing the word chairs:
“From one casual of mine he picked this sentence. “After dinner, the men moved into the living room.” I explained to the professor that this was Ross’s way of giving the men time to push back their chairs and stand up. There must, as we know, be a comma after every move, made by men, on this earth.”
—James Thurber (1894–1961)
“My verse has brought me no roubles to spare:
no craftsmen have made mahogany chairs for my house.”
—Vladimir Mayakovsky (1893–1930)
“I had but three chairs in my house; one for solitude, two for friendship; three for society. When visitors came in larger and unexpected numbers there was but the third chair for them all, but they generally economized the room by standing up.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)