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:
“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)
“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)