Past Presidents
Professor Veronica van Heyningen CBE, FRS Acting President 2022 – 2023
Professor Turi King BA, MSc, PhD, FSA 2020-2022
Professor Veronica van Heyningen CBE, D Phil, FRS, FRSE, FMedSci 2014-2020
Professor Sir Walter Bodmer FRCPath, FRS 2008-2014
Professor Steve Jones BSc, PhD 2002-2008
Dr John Timson BSc, PhD 1999-2002
Mr Robert Peel, MA 1996-1999
Mr Peter Diggory BSc, MB BS, FRCP, FRCOG 1994-1996
Professor G Ainsworth Harrison BSc, MA, DPhil 1993-1994
Professor MB Sutherland MA, MEd, PhD 1987-1993
Professor B Benjamin PhD FIA 1982-1987
Professor WHG Armytage MA, DLitt (Hon) 1976-1982
Professor CO Carter MA, DM, FRCP 1972-1976
Mr PR Cox CB, FIA 1970-1972
Professor Sir Alan Parkes CBE, MA, PhD, DSc, ScD, FRS 1968-1970
The Lord Platt MSc, MD, FRCP 1965-1968
Sir James Gray CBE, MC, ScD, FRS 1962-1965
Sir Julian Huxley MA, DSc, FRS 1959-1962
Sir Charles Darwin KBE, ScD, FRS 1953-1959
Sir Alexander Carr-Saunders MA, LLD 1949-1953
The Lord Horder KCVO, MD, FRCP 1935-1949
Sir Humphry Rolleston Bt, GCVO, KCB, MD, DSc, LLB 1933-1935
Sir Bernard Mallet KCB 1929-1933
Major Leonard Darwin ScD 1911-1929
Mr Montague Crackanthorpe KC 1909-1911
Sir James Crichton-Browne MD, DSc, LLD, FRS 1908-1909