1990s
- 1990: Josephine Abaijah, Venetia Blaize, Joyanne Bracewell, The Baroness Hylton-Foster, The Baroness Lloyd of Highbury, Maggie Smith, Miraka Szászy, Rachel Waterhouse, Dorothy Winstone
- 1991: Barbara Cartland, Stella Casey, Eugenia Charles, The Baroness Digby, Gwen Ffrangcon-Davies, Jane Gow, Malvina Major, Shirley Porter, Paddy Ridsdale, Lucie Rie, Sue Tinson, Margaret Turner-Warwick
- 1992: Jocelyn Barrow, Ann Ebsworth, Rangimarie Hetet, Edna Lewis, Moura Lympany, Wendy Mitchell, Shirley Oxenbury, Anne Poole, Norma Restieaux, Angela Rumbold, Elisabeth Schwarzkopf, The Baroness Serota, Janet Smith
- 1993: Mary Arden, Reubina Ballin, Patricia Bergquist, Catherine Cookson, Mary Corsar, Pat Evison, Mary Glen-Haig, Phyllis Guthardt, Louise Henderson, Thora Hird, Dawn Lamb, Anne McLaren, Thea Muldoon, Annette Penhaligon, Margaret Price, Muriel Spark, Heather Steel, Augusta Wallace
- 1994: Margaret Brain, The Baroness Byford, The Baroness Hale of Richmond, Marea Hartman, Georgina Kirby, Eileen Mayo, Diana Rigg, Gillian Wagner
- 1995: The Baroness Anelay of St. Johns, Elizabeth Anson, Josephine Barstow, Marjorie Bean, June Clark, Sister Pauline Engel, Elizabeth Esteve-Coll, Elizabeth Harper, Rosalyn Higgins, Mary Hogg, Rosalina Kekedo, Anne Salmond, The Baroness Thorneycroft
- 1996: Fiona Caldicott, The 18th Baroness Darcy de Knayth, Jane Drew, The Baroness Fritchie, Felicity Lott, The Baroness Noakes, Antoinette Sibley, Gillian Weir
- 1997: Rachael Dyche, Deirdre Hine, Cleo Laine, Barbara Mills, Bridget Ogilvie, Joan Sawyer, Rosanna Wong Yick-ming
- 1998: Gillian Beer, Lorna Boreland-Kelly, Patricia Collarbone, Tamsyn Imison, Betty Kershaw, Helen Metcalf, Gillian Oliver, Ruth Runciman, Veronica Sutherland, Mary Uprichard
- 1999: Jill Black, Lois Browne-Evans, A. S. Byatt, Diana Collins, Pauline Fielding, Mavis Grant, Heather Hallett, Norma Major, Yvonne Moores, Helen Reeves, Margaret Seward, Helena Shovelton, Lesley Southgate
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