Presidents
- Charles Bradlaugh (1866–1890) (A. Trevelyan held the Presidency, 1871–1872)
- GW Foote (1890–died 17 October 1915)
- Chapman Cohen (1915–1949)
- R.H. Rosetti (1949–died 2 December 1951)
- F.A. Ridley (18 December 1951–1963)
- David Tribe (1963–June 1971)
- Ethel Venton (June 1971–?)
- Barbara Smoker (1971?–1996)
- Daniel O'Hara (1996–1997)
- Denis Cobell (1997–2006)
- Terry Sanderson (2006–)
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Famous quotes containing the word presidents:
“All Presidents start out to run a crusade but after a couple of years they find they are running something less heroic and much more intractable: namely the presidency. The people are well cured by then of election fever, during which they think they are choosing Moses. In the third year, they look on the man as a sinner and a bumbler and begin to poke around for rumours of another Messiah.”
—Alistair Cooke (b. 1908)
“You must drop all your democracy. You must not believe in “the people.” One class is no better than another. It must be a case of Wisdom, or Truth. Let the working classes be working classes. That is the truth. There must be an aristocracy of people who have wisdom, and there must be a Ruler: a Kaiser: no Presidents and democracies.”
—D.H. (David Herbert)
“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)