1929-1931 Professor William Blair-Bell (1871-1936)
1932-1934 John Shields Fairbairn (1865-1944)
1935-1937 Sir Ewen Maclean (1865-1953)
1938-1942 Sir William Fletcher Shaw (1878-1961)
1943-1945 Sir Eardley Lancelot Holland (1879-1967)
1946-1948 Sir William Gilliatt (1884-1956)
1949-1951 Dame Hilda Lloyd (1891-1982)
1952-1954 Sir Arthur Gemmell (1892-1960)
1955-1957 Sir Charles Read (1902-1957)
1957-1959 Sir Andrew Claye (1896-1977)
1960-1962 Sir Arthur Bell (1904-1977)
1963-1965 Sir Hector Maclennan (1905-1978)
1966-1968 Sir John Peel (1904-2005)
1969-1971 Sir Norman Jeffcoate (1907-1992)
1972-1974 Sir Stanley Clayton (1911-1986)
1975-1977 Sir John Dewhurst (1920-2007)
1978-1980 Sir Anthony Alment (1922-2002)
1981-1983 Sir Rustam Feroze (1920-2010)
1984-1986 Sir Malcolm MacNaughton
1987-1989 Sir George Pinker (1924-2007)
1990-1992 Sir Stanley Simmons
1993-1994 Professor Geoffrey Chamberlain
1995-1997 Lord Naren Patel
1998-2000 Professor Robert Shaw
2001-2003 Professor William Dunlop
2004-2006 Professor Allan Templeton
2007-2009 Sir Sabaratnam Arulkumaran
2010 to present day Dr Anthony Falconer
