1970s
- 1970: Dorothy Ackroyd, Mary Anderson, Te Atairangikaahu, Sara Barker, Bessie Bottomley, Margaret Cole, Marion Kettlewell, Margaret Miles, Peggy van Praagh
- 1971: Kate Campbell, Agatha Christie, Mary Cramer, Adelaide Doughty, Kathleen Ollerenshaw
- 1972: Nancy Buttfield, Cicely Courtneidge, Muriel Harris, Unity Lister, The Baroness Plowden, Freya Stark, Susan Walker
- 1973: Sylvia Crowe, Kathleen Kenyon, Sister Mary Leo, Marjorie Williamson
- 1974: Josephine Barnes, Emma Clode, The Baroness Denington of Stevenage, Phyllis Frost, Joan Hammond, Rose Heilbron, Albertha Isaacs, The Viscountess Macmillan of Ovenden, Margot Smith
- 1975: Jacobena Angliss, Helen Blaxland, Bridget D'Oyly Carte, Joyce Daws, Frances Gardner, Wendy Hiller, Margaret Kidd, Ruth Kirk, Vera Lynn, Dorothy Rees, Betty Ridley
- 1976: Janet Baker, Edith Burnside, Joan Evans, Violet Dickson, Monica Gallagher, Elizabeth Hill, Ada Norris
- 1977: Moyra Browne, Patricia Mackinnon, Rosemary Murray, Iris Origo, Marjorie Parker, Cecily Pickerill, Winifred Prentice, Frances Yates
- 1978: Isobel Baillie, Mary Durack, Audrey Reader, Sheila Sherlock
- 1979: Mary Austin, Margaret Booth, Sister Philippa Brazill, Elizabeth Butler-Sloss, Elizabeth Coker, Gracie Fields, Judith Hart, Naomi James, Doris Johnson, Daphne Purves, Joan Sutherland, Margaret Weston
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