Presidents
After the somewhat autocratic 22-year presidency of James Sims a motion was passed in 1805 that :"'No gentlemen be eligible to the office of President or Vice-president for more than two years in succession." The Presidents are listed below with their year of election to the position.
- president elect for 2013 - Peter Keir
- 2012 Roy Palmer
- 2011 Stuart Blackie
- 2010 Margaret Spittle
- 2009 Lt-Gen Louis Lillywhite
- 2004 Cicely Pearl Blair
- 1999 Roy Davies
- 1988 Raymond Kirk
- 1987 Peter Maxwell Daniel
- 1984 Frank Clifford-Rose
- 1980 Sir James Watt
- 1977 Sir Francis Avery-Jones
- 1975 Alan Woodruff
- 1974 D. Geraint James
- 1964 John Hunt
- 1958 Sir Cecil Wakeley
- 1956 Douglas Guthrie
- 1941 Sir Gordon Gordon-Taylor
- 1933 Sir John William Thomson-Walker
- 1926 Sir Humphry Rolleston, Bt
- 1916 D'Arcy Power
- 1914 Sir John Bland-Sutton
- 1913 Sir David Ferrier
- 1892 Sir Jonathan Hutchinson
- 1890 Reginald Harrison
- 1880 Sir William MacCormac
- 1879 John Cockle
- 1878 Erasmus Wilson
- 1873 Samuel Osborne Habershon
- 1872 Thomas Bryant
- 1871 Sir Andrew Clark
- 1869 Peter Marshall
- 1868 Sir Benjamin Ward Richardson
- 1865 Isaac Baker Brown
- 1862 Francis Sibson
- 1860 Sir Alfred Baring Garrod
- 1858 William Hughes Willshire
- 1857 Francis Hird
- 1855 John Snow
- 1854 Edward Headland
- 1851 Edward W. Murphy
- 1850 J. Risdon Bennett
- 1846 Walter Cooper Dendy
- 1844 Theophilus Thompson
- 1842 George Pilcher
- 1839 Leonard Stewart
- 1837 Thomas Egerton Bryant
- 1835 John Whiting
- 1831 John Burne
- 1825 Henry Clutterbuck
- 1823 William Shearman
- 1821 David Unwins
- 1817 Thomas Waishman
- 1813 John Lettsome
- 1811 George Pinckard
- 1808 John Lettsome
- 1786 James Sims
- 1784 John Lettsome
- 1779 George Edwards
- 1775 John Lettsome
- 1773 John Millar (first president)
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Famous quotes containing the word presidents:
“Governments can err, Presidents do make mistakes, but the immortal Dante tells us that divine justice weighs the sins of the cold-blooded and the sins of the warm-hearted in different scales. Better the occasional faults of a Government that lives in a spirit of charity than the constant omission of a Government frozen in the ice of its own indifference.”
—Franklin D. Roosevelt (1882–1945)
“A president, however, must stand somewhat apart, as all great presidents have known instinctively. Then the language which has the power to survive its own utterance is the most likely to move those to whom it is immediately spoken.”
—J.R. Pole (b. 1922)
“Our presidents have been getting to be synthetic monsters, the work of a hundred ghost- writers and press agents so that it is getting harder and harder to discover the line between the man and the institution.”
—John Dos Passos (1896–1970)