| Presidents | Vice-Presidents | Honorable Secretaries
(now Chief Executive) |
Chairs of Annual Congress | Chairs of the Council | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| John Stuart Mackenzie | 1918-1921 | Hypatia Bradlaugh Bonner | 1918-1927 | Zona Vallance | 1896-1899 | Elizabeth Schwann | Nellie Freeman | |
| J. A. Hobson | 1921 | H.J. Golding | 1918-1930 | Florence Winterbottom | 1900-1905 | Corrie Grant | Florence Winterbottom | |
| J. H. Muirhead | 1922 | Charles Turner Gorham | 1918-1933 | Harry Snell | 1906-1919, 1922 | Stanton Coit | Bessie Mabbs | |
| Leonard Hobhouse | 1923 |  |
F. J. Gould | 1918-1923 | W. Siddle | 1920-1921 | Ramsay MacDonald | Harry Snell |
| Graham Wallas | 1924 |  |
Joseph McCabe | 1918-1927 | Nellie Freeman | 1923-1942 | Mr. Miall Smith | H. J. Blackham |
| Felix Adler (professor) | 1925-1926 |  |
Hettie Millicent MacKenzie | 1918-1927 | Miss W. Evans | 1923 (with Nellie Freeman) | Mr. J. McGregor | E. H. Elkan |
| Frederick Soddy | 1927-1928 |  |
John Oakesmith | 1918-1923 | H. J. Blackham | 1943-1965 | Nellie Freeman | R. S. W. Pollard |
| Gilbert Murray | 1929-1930 |  |
Dr. C. W. Saleeby | 1918-1940 | M. L. Burnet | 1966 | Florence Winterbottom | Alfred Ashton Burall |
| Harry Snell, 1st Baron Snell | 1931-1932 |  |
Professor J. B. Bury | 1921-1927 | Margaret Rogers | 1967 | Bessie Mabbs | Michael Lines |
| George Peabody Gooch | 1933-1934 |  |
Eden Phillpotts | 1921-1957 | Kenneth Furness | 1971-1980 | Harry Snell | Graham T. Kingsley |
| G. E. Moore | 1935-1936 | Laurence Housman | 1921-1957 | Maeve Denby | 1981-1983 | H. J. Golding | Peter Draper | |
| C. Delisle Burns | 1937-1938 |  |
John Dewey | 1948 - ? | John Leeson | 1983-1986 | May Seaton-Tiedeman | David Pollock |
| Stanton Coit | 1939-1940 |  |
Philip Sargant Florence | 1948 - ? | Robert F. Ashby | 1997-2001 | Derek Marcus | |
| Susan Stebbing | 1941-1942 | L. L. Whyte | 1953 - ? | Hanne Stinson | 2001-2009 | Harry Stopes-Roe | ||
| John Laird (philosopher) | 1943-1944 | Dr J. C. Flugel | 1953 - ? | Andrew Copson | 2010- | Diana Rookledge | ||
| H. N. Brailsford | 1945-1946 | Lord Faringdon | 1953 - ? | David Williams | ||||
| Richard Gregory | 1947-1950 | Joseph Reeves MP | 1953 - ? | Jane Wynne Willson | ||||
| Lord Chorley | 1951-1953 |  |
Barbara Wootton | 1954-1968 | John Leeson | |||
| Morris Ginsberg | 1954-1957 |  |
H.L. Beales | 1955 - ? | Richard Paterson | |||
| Julian Huxley | 1958-1965 |  |
Jacob Bronowski | 1955 - ? | Christine Butterworth | |||
| A. J. Ayer | 1966-1969 | E. M. Forster | 1957-1970 | Sam Rimmer | ||||
| Edmund Leach | 1970-1971 | Margaret Knight | 1957 - ? | Robert E. Ashby | ||||
| George Melly | 1972-1973 |  |
A. J. Ayer | 1958 - ? | Tamar Ghosh | |||
| H. J. Blackham | 1974-1976 | .jpg) |
A. G. N. Flew | 1958 - ? | ||||
| James Hemming | 1977-1980 | Patrick H. Nowell-Smith | 1958 - ? | |||||
| Hermann Bondi | 1981-1999 | Francis Williams | 1959-1970 | |||||
| Claire Rayner | 1999-2004 | Alfred Ashton Burall | 1962 | |||||
| Linda Smith (comedian) | 2004-2006 | Claire Rayner | 2004-2010 | |||||
| Polly Toynbee | 2007-2012 |  |
Polly Toynbee | 2013 - | ||||
| Jim Al-Khalili | 2013-2016 |  |
Jim Al Khalili | 2016 - | ||||
| Shappi Khorsandi | 2016-2018 |  |
Shappi Khorsandi | 2019 - | ||||
| Alice Roberts | 2019 - |  |
Morris Ginsberg | ? - 1970 | ||||
| Bertrand Russell | ? - 1970 | |||||||
