| Professor Sylvia Richardson CBE FMedSci |
2021-22 |
| Professor Deborah Ashby OBE FMedSci |
2019-20 |
| Professor Sir David Spiegelhalter, OBE, FRS |
2017-18 |
| Professor Peter Diggle |
2014-16 |
| John Pullinger CB |
2013 |
| Professor Valerie Isham |
2011-2012 |
| Professor David J Hand, FBA (later OBE) |
2010 |
| Professor Bernard Silverman, FRS |
2010 |
| Professor David J Hand, FBA (later OBE) |
2008-2009 |
| Professor Tim Holt, CB |
2005-2007 |
| Professor A P Grieve |
2003-2005 |
| Professor P J Green, FRS |
2001-2003 |
| Professor D Lievesley CBE, FAcSS |
1999-2001 |
| Professor R N Curnow |
1997-1999 |
| Professor Adrian F M Smith, FRS (later Sir Adrian Smith) |
1995-1997 |
| Professor D J Bartholomew, FBA |
1993-1995 |
| Professor T M F Smith |
1991-1993 |
| Professor P G Moore |
1989-1991 |
| Sir John Kingman, FRS |
1987-1989 |
| Professor J Durbin |
1986-1987 |
| John A Nelder, FRS |
1985-1986 |
| Walter F Bodmer, FRS (later Sir Walter Bodmer) |
1984-1985 |
| Professor P Armitage, CBE |
1982-1984 |
| Professor D R Cox, FRS (later Sir David Cox, FRS, FBA (Hon) FRSE) |
1980-1982 |
| Sir Claus Moser, KCB, CBE, FBA (later Lord Moser) |
1978-1980 |
| Henry Philip Wynn |
1977-1978 |
| Stella V Cunliffe |
1975-1977 |
| Professor H E Daniels (later FRS) |
1974-1975 |
| Professor D J Finney, FRS |
1973-1974 |
| The Rt Hon Harold Wilson, OBE, FRS (later Lord Wilson) |
1972-1973 |
| Professor G A Barnard |
1971-1972 |
| Bernard Benjamin |
1970-1971 |
| Professor Sir Roy Allen, CBE |
1969-1970 |
| Francis Arthur Cockfield (later Lord Cockfield) |
1968-1969 |
| Frank Yates, CBE, FRS |
1967-1968 |
| Professor M S Bartlett, FRS |
1966-1967 |
| Leonard Henry Caleb Tippett |
1965-1966 |
| Stanley Paul Chambers, CB, CIE (later Sir Paul Chambers) |
1964-1965 |
| Joseph Oscar Irwin |
1962-1964 |
| Professor M G Kendall (later Sir Maurice Kendall) |
1960-1962 |
| Sir Hugh Beaver, KBE |
1959-1960 |
| H Campion, CB, CBE (later Sir Harry Campion) |
1957-1959 |
| Professor E S Pearson, CBE |
1955-1957 |
| The Lord Piercy of Burford, CBE |
1954-1955 |
| Professor Sir Ronald Fisher, FRS |
1952-1954 |
| Professor A Bradford Hill, CBE (later Sir Austin Bradford Hill, CBE, FRS) |
1950-1952 |
| Sir Geoffery Heyworth (later Lord Heyworth) |
1949-50 |
| David Heron |
1947-1949 |
| The Rt Hon The Lord Woolton, PC, CH (later Earl of Woolton) |
1945-1947 |
| Charles Ernest Snow, CBE |
1943-1945 |
| Sir William Beveridge, KCB, FBA (later Lord Beveridge) |
1941-1943 |
| Hector Leak |
1941 |
| Henry William Macrosty, OBE |
1940-1941 |
| Professor A L Bowley, CBE, FBA (later Sir Arthur Bowley) |
1938-1940 |
| The Rt Hon The Lord Kennet of the Dene, PC, GBE, DSO, DSC |
1936-1938 |
| Professor Major Greenwood, FRS |
1934-1936 |
| The Rt Hon The Lord Meston of Agra and Dunottar, KCSI |
1932-1934 |
| Sir Josiah C Stamp, GBE, FBA (later Lord Stamp) |
1930-1932 |
| A W Flux, CB (later Sir Alfred Flux) |
1928-1930 |
| The Rt Hon The Viscount Di’Abernon, GCB, GCMG |
1926-1928 |
| The Rt Hon The Lord Emmott, GCMG, GBE |
1922-1924 |
| Sir R Henry Rew, KCB |
1920-1922 |
| The Rt Hon Sir Herbert Samuel, GCB, GBE (later Viscount Samuel) |
1918-1920 |
| Sir Bernard Mallet, KCB |
1916-1918 |
| The Rt Hon The Lord George Hamilton, GCSI |
1915-1916 |
| The Rt Hon The Lord Welbey, GCB |
1914-1915 |
| Professor F Y Edgeworth, FBA |
1912-1914 |
| The Rt Hon The Lord George Hamilton, GCSI |
1910-1912 |
| Sir Jervoise Athelstane Baines, CSI |
1909-1910 |
| The Rt Hon Sir Charles W Dilke, Bart, MP |
1907-1909 |
| Sir Richard Biddulph Martin, Bart |
1906-1907 |
| The Rt Hon The Earl of Onslow, GCMG |
1905-1906 |
| Sir Francis Sharp Powell, Bart, MP |
1904-1905 |
| Major Patrick George Craigie, CB |
1902-1904 |
| The Rt Hon The Lord Avebury, FRS |
1900-1902 |
| The Rt Hon Sir Henry H Fowler, GCSI, MP (later Viscount Wolverhampton) |
1899-1900 |
| The Rt Hon Leonard H Courtney, MP (later Lord Courtney) |
1897-1899 |
| Sir Alfred Edmund Bateman, KCMG |
1897 |
| John Biddulph Martin |
1896-1897 |
| The Rt Hon The Lord Farrer |
1894-1896 |
| The Rt Hon Charles Booth |
1892-1894 |
| Frederic J Mouat |
1890-1892 |
| T Graham Balfour, FRS |
1888-1890 |
| The Rt Hon George J Goschen, MP, FRS (later Viscount Goschen) |
1886-1888 |
| Sir Rawson W Rawson, KCMG, CB |
1884-1886 |
| Sir Robert Giffen, KCB, FRS |
1882-1884 |
| The Rt Hon Sir James Caird, KCB, FRS |
1880-1882 |
| Thomas Brassey, MP (later Lord Brassey) |
1879-1880 |
| George J Shaw Lefevre, MP (later Lord Eversley) |
1877-1879 |
| James Heywood, FRS |
1875-1877 |
| William A Guy, FRS |
1873-1875 |
| William Farr, CB, FRS |
1871-1873 |
| William Newmarch, FRS |
1869-1871 |
| The Rt Hon W E Gladstone, MP |
1867-1969 |
| The Rt Hon The Lord Houghton, FRS |
1865-1867 |
| Colonel W H Sykes, MP, FRS |
1863-1865 |
| The Rt Hon Sir John S Pakington, Bart, MP, GCB (later Lord Hampton) |
1861-1863 |
| The Rt Hon The Lord John Russell, MP, FRS (later Earl Russell) |
1859-1861 |
| The Rt Hon The Lord Stanley, MP (later Earl of Derby) |
1857-1859 |
| The Rt Hon The Earl of Harrowby, KG |
1855-1857 |
| The Rt Hon The Earl Fitzwilliam, KG, FRS |
1853-1855 |
| The Rt Hon The Lord Overstone |
1851-1853 |
| The Rt Hon The Earl of Harrowby, KG |
1849-1851 |
| The Rt Hon The Earl Fitzwilliam, FRS |
1847-1849 |
| The Rt Hon The Lord Monteagle |
1845-1847 |
| The Rt Hon The Viscount Ashley, MP (later Earl of Shaftesbury) |
1843-1845 |
| The Most Noble The Marquis of Lansdowne, KG, FRS |
1842-1843 |
| The Rt Hon The Viscount Sandon, MP (later Earl of Harrowby) |
1840-1842 |
| The Rt Hon The Earl Fitzwilliam, FRS |
1838-1840 |
| Sir Charles Lemon, Bart, MP, FRS |
1836-1838 |
| The Most Noble The Marquis of Lansdowne, KG, FRS |
1834-1836 |