Presidents
- 1820–1832 Bishop Thomas Burgess
- 1832–1833 The Lord Dover
- 1834–1845 The Earl of Ripon
- 1845–1849 Henry Hallam
- 1849–1851 The Marquess of Northampton
- 1851–1856 The Earl of Carlisle
- 1856–1876 The Rt Revd Connop Thirlwall (Bishop of St David's until 1874)
- 1876–1885 The Prince Leopold (The Duke of Albany from 1881)
- 1885–1893 Sir Patrick Colquhoun
- 1893–1920 The Earl of Halsbury
- 1921–1946 The Marquess of Crewe
- 1946–1947 The Earl of Lytton
- 1947–1982 The Lord Butler of Saffron Walden
- 1983–1988 Sir Angus Wilson
- 1988–2003 The Lord Jenkins of Hillhead
- 2003–2008 Sir Michael Holroyd
- 2008–present Colin Thubron
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Famous quotes containing the word presidents:
“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)
“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)
“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)