1940s
- 1941: The Viscountess Craigavon, Myra Hess, The Marchioness of Reading, Reniera Stanley, Irene Vanbrugh
- 1942: Katharine Jones
- 1943: Emily Blair, Lilian Braithwaite, Anne Loughlin, Ethel Walker
- 1944: Lilian Barker, Doris Beale, Jane Trefusis Forbes
- 1945: Joan Marsham, Vera Laughton Mathews, Katherine Watt
- 1946: Edith Evans, The Countess of Limerick, The Duchess of Richmond, Mary Welsh, Leslie Whateley
- 1947: Madeline Brock, Gertrude Cosgrove, Evelyn Fox, Matilda Goodrich, Caroline Haslett, Emmeline Tanner, Eileen Walwyn
- 1948: The Baroness Sharp, Louisa Wilkinson
- 1949: Harriette Chick, Myra Curtis, Anne Curwen, Alix Kilroy, Dehra Parker, Felicity Peake, Mary Smieton, Gladys Taylor, Mary Tyrwhitt
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