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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