Presidents
A full list of those who have served as president of the society is included in the society's web site. A partial list is presented below:
- 2012-2014: Joanna Haigh
- 2010–2012: Tim Palmer FRS
- 2008–2010: Professor Julia Slingo OBE
- 2006–2008: Professor Geraint Vaughan
- 2004–2006: Professor Chris Collier
- 2002–2004: Dr Howard Cattle
- 2000–2002: Dr David Burridge
- 1998–2000: Professor Sir Brian Hoskins CBE FRS
- 1996–1998: David J. Carson
- 1994–1996: John E. Harries
- 1992–1994: Paul James Mason FRS
- 1990–1992: Stephen Austen Thorpe FRS
- 1988–1990: Professor Keith Anthony Browning
- 1986–1998: Richard S. Scorer
- 1984–1986: Andrew Gilchrist
- 1982–1984: Henry Charnock CBE FRS
- 1980–1982: Philip Goldsmith
- 1978–1980: Professor John Monteith FRS
- 1976–1978: Sir John T. Houghton FRS
- 1974–1976: Raymond Hide FRS
- 1972–1974: Robert B. Pearce FRSE
- 1970–1972: Frank Pasquill FRS
- 1968–1970: Sir John Mason FRS
- 1967–1968: F. Kenneth Hare FRSC
- 1965–1967: G.D. Robinson
- 1963–1965: John Stanley Sawyer FRS
- 1961–1963: Howard Latimer Penman
- 1959–1961: James Martin Stagg CB OBE
- 1957–1959: Percival Albert Sheppard FRS
- 1955-1957: Reginald Sutcliffe
- 1953–1955: Sir Graham Sutton CBE FRS
- 1951–1953: Sir Charles Normand CIE
- 1949–1951: Sir Robert Alexander Watson-Watt CB FRS
- 1947–1949: Gordon Miller Bourne Dobson CBE FRS
- 1945–1946: Gordon Manley
- 1942–1944: David Brunt FRS
- 1940–1941: Sir George Clarke Simpson KCB FRS
- 1938–1939: Sir Bernard A. Keen FRS
- 1936–1937: Francis John Welsh Whipple
- 1934–1935: Ernest Gold DSO FRS
- 1932–1933: Sydney Chapman FRS
- 1930–1931: Rudolf Gustav Karl Lempfert CBE
- 1928–1929: Sir Richard Gregory
- 1926–1927: Sir Gilbert Walker FRS
- 1924–1915: Charles John Philip Cave
- 1922–1923: Charles Chree FRS
- 1920–1921: Reginald Hawthorn Hooker
- 1918–1919: Sir Napier Shaw FRS
- 1915–1917: Sir Henry George Lyons FRS
- 1913–1914: Charles John Philip Cave
- 1911–1912: Henry Newton Dickson DSc FRSE
- 1910–1911: Henry Mellish CB
- 1907-1908: Hugh Robert Mill FRSE
- 1905–1906: Richard Bentley
- 1903–1904: Captain David W. Barker Kt RNR
- 1901–1902: William Henry Dines FRS
- 1900: C Theodore Williams & George James Symons FRS
- 1898–1899: Francis Campbell Bayard
- 1896–1897: Edward Mawley
- 1894–1895: Richard Inwards
- 1892–1893: C. Theodore Williams
- 1890–1891: Baldwin Latham
- 1888–1889: William Marcet FRS
- 1886–1887: William Ellis FRS
- 1884–1885: Robert Henry Scott FRS
- 1882–1883: Sir John Knox Laughton
- 1880–1881: George James Symons FRS
- 1878–1879: Charles Greaves
- 1876–1877: Henry Storks Eaton
- 1873–1875: Robert James Mann
- 1871–1872: John William Tripe
- 1869–1870: Charles Vincent Walker FRS
- 1867–1868: James Glaisher FRS
- 1865–1866: Charles Brooke FRS
- 1863–1864: Robert Dundas Thomson
- 1861–1862: Nathaniel Beardmore
- 1859–1860: Thomas Sopwith FRS
- 1857–1858: Robert Stephenson MP FRS
- 1855–1857: Dr John Lee FRS
- 1853–1855: George Leach
- 1850–1853 & 1864: Samuel Charles Whitbread FRS
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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)
“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)
“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)