Chairs
Previous chairs of the British Council have been:
- 1934–1937 Lord Tyrrell
- 1937–1941 Lord Lloyd
- 1941–1945 Sir Malcolm Robertson
- 1946–1955 Sir Ronald Adam
- 1955–1959 Sir David Kelly
- 1959–1967 Lord Bridges
- 1968–1971 Lord Fulton
- 1971–1972 Sir Leslie Rowan
- 1972–1976 Lord Ballantrae
- 1977–1984 Sir Charles Troughton
- 1985–1992 Sir David Orr
- 1992–1998 Sir Martin Jacomb
- 1998–2004 Baroness Kennedy of The Shaws
- 2004–2009 Lord Kinnock
- 2010–present Sir Vernon Ellis
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Famous quotes containing the word chairs:
“Behind her was confusion in the room,
Of chairs turned upside down to sit like people
In other chairs, and something, come to look,
For every room a house has parlor, bedroom,
And dining room thrown pell-mell in the kitchen.”
—Robert Frost (1874–1963)
“My verse has brought me no roubles to spare:
no craftsmen have made mahogany chairs for my house.”
—Vladimir Mayakovsky (1893–1930)
“From one casual of mine he picked this sentence. “After dinner, the men moved into the living room.” I explained to the professor that this was Ross’s way of giving the men time to push back their chairs and stand up. There must, as we know, be a comma after every move, made by men, on this earth.”
—James Thurber (1894–1961)