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:
“Ever since I was a little girl, I’ve, I’ve dreamed of havin’ my own things about me. My spinet over there and a table here. My own chairs to rest upon and a dresser over there in that corner, and my own china and pewter shinin’ about me.”
—Frank S. Nugent (1908–1965)
“I had but three chairs in my house; one for solitude, two for friendship; three for society. When visitors came in larger and unexpected numbers there was but the third chair for them all, but they generally economized the room by standing up.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“My verse has brought me no roubles to spare:
no craftsmen have made mahogany chairs for my house.”
—Vladimir Mayakovsky (1893–1930)