English
- William Paton Ker (1889-1920)
- Raymond Wilson Chambers (1922-1949)
- Albert Hugh Smith (1949-1963)
- Randolph Quirk (1968-1981)
- Sidney Greenbaum (1983–1990)
- Rosemary Ashton
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