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:
“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)
“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)
“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)