British Academy/presidents of The British Academy 1902-present

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    “Gorgonised me from head to foot,
    With a stony British stare.”
    —Alfred Tennyson (1809–1892)

    “When the State wishes to endow an academy or university, it grants it a tract of forest land: one saw represents an academy, a gang, a university.”
    —Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

    “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)