Presidents
The Presidency is a voluntary position, with the role of leading the Council. The following is a list of the Society's Presidents.
- Sir Stamford Raffles (1826)
- The Marquess of Lansdowne (1827–1831)
- The Earl of Derby (1831–1851)
- Prince Albert, Prince Consort (1851–1862)
- Sir George Clerk, Bt (1862–1868)
- The Marquess of Tweeddale (1868–1878)
- Sir William H. Flower (1879–1899)
- The Duke of Bedford (1899–1936)
- The Earl of Onslow (1936–1942)
- Henry Gascoyne Maurice (1942–1948)
- The Duke of Devonshire (1948–1950)
- The Viscount Alanbrooke (1950–1954)
- Sir Landsborough Thomson (1954–1960)
- Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh (1960–1977)
- Lord Zuckerman (1977–1984)
- Sir William MacGregor Henderson (1984–1989)
- Avrion Mitchison (1989–1992)
- Field Marshal Sir John Chapple (1992–1994)
- Sir Martin Holdgate (1994–2004)
- Professor Sir Patrick Bateson (2004–present)
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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)
“A president, however, must stand somewhat apart, as all great presidents have known instinctively. Then the language which has the power to survive its own utterance is the most likely to move those to whom it is immediately spoken.”
—J.R. Pole (b. 1922)
“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)