1980s
- 1980: Hugh Beach, Ronald Gardner-Thorpe
- 1981: Michael Cardew, Robert Freer, Christopher Leaver
- 1982: Francis Vallat, Anthony Farrar-Hockley, Anthony Morton, Anthony Jolliffe
- 1984: Alan Traill, John Gingell
- 1985: Frank Kitson
- 1986: David Rowe-Ham
- 1987: Faisal Alhegelan, Greville Spratt, Kenneth Newman, The Lord Plowden
- 1988: Kenneth Berrill, Christopher Collett, Taher Nashat Masri, Caspar Weinberger
- 1989: Hugh Bidwell, Chung Sze Yuen, Thomas Eichelbaum, David Harcourt-Smith, Sandy Woodward, David Alliance
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