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Officers of the Foundation

Presidents   

(Year when revealed to preside at the following year's dinner)

  • 1954    Professor A. H. Smith
  • 1955    Sir Ifor Evans
  • 1956    Professor James Sutherland
  • 1957    Professor George Kane
  • 1958    Professor R. V. Jones
  • 1959    Professor Terence Spencer
  • 1960    Professor Bernard Wright
  • 1961    Professor Arthur Brown            
  • 1962    Mr Joseph Scott               
  • 1963    Professor Frederick Norman           
  • 1964    Professor Sir Ronald Nyholm       
  • 1965    Professor Bruce Pattison           
  • 1966    Professor Peter Foote           
  • 1967    Professor Sir William Coldstream       
  • 1968    Professor Prakash Datta           
  • 1969    Mr E. Benedicz               
  • 1970    Mr R. B. Freeman               
  • 1971    Dr Cyril Dodd               
  • 1972    Professor Peter Rowe           
  • 1973    Professor Derrick James           
  • 1974    Professor Derrick James           
  • 1975    Professor Derrick James
  • 1976    Mr U. Enegren
  • 1977    Professor Sir David Wilson               
  • 1978    Professor John Dodgson
  • 1979    Professor J. A. C. Thomas           
  • 1980    Mr Arthur Tattersall
  • 1981    Professor Anthony Mathias       
  • 1982    Professor F. J. J. Cadwallader                   
  • 1983    Mr Nigel Bromage
  • 1984    Dr John Enticknap               
  • 1985    Sir Kenneth Christofas
  • 1986    Mr Fred Gee               
  • 1987    Mr Bryan Bennett               
  • 1988    Dr Peter Verrill
  • 1989    Professor Sir James Lighthill
  • 1990    Professor Denys Fairweather
  • 1991    Mr David Bowles
  • 1992    Dr Alan Huggins
  • 1993    Professor Bartolomeu dos Santos
  • 1994    Dr Roderick Fisher
  • 1995    Major-General Ian Baker
  • 1996    Judge Bernard Hargrove QC
  • 1997    Professor John Mullin
  • 1998    Professor William Mead
  • 1999    Dr Stephen Montgomery
  • 2000    Professor Eric Brown
  • 2001    Dr Anthony Smith
  • 2002    Mr Negley Harte
  • 2003    Lord McNally
  • 2004    Mr Michael Freeman
  • 2005    Mr Alexander Duma
  • 2006    Mr Martin Butcher
  • 2007    Professor John North
  • 2008    Professor Kathleen Burk
  • 2009    Professor John Callomon
  • 2010    Professor Malcolm Grant
  • 2011    H.E. Dr Francisco Seixas da Costa
  • 2012    Dr Diana Manuel
  • 2013    Professor John Foreman
  • 2014    Professor Dmitri Vassiliev
  • 2015    Ambassador Georgina Butler
  • 2016    Professor David Bogle
  • 2017    Professor Edgar Anderson
  • 2018    Dr Winston Hutchinson
  • 2019    Dr Toni Griffiths
  • 2020-21    Sir David Bodey
  • 2022    Ms Sue Cameron
  • 2023    Dr Iain Mowbray
  • 2024    Sir Paul Mahoney

Secretaries

  • 1954    Mr Arthur Brown
  • 1955    Professor George Kane
  • 1956    Mr Kenneth J. Palmer
  • 1957    Mr Charles Peake
  • 1958    Mr Geoffrey Needham
  • 1959    Mr Peter Goolden
  • 1960    Mr Jeremy Warburg
  • 1961    Mr John Chalker
  • 1962    Mr Toni Petti
  • 1963    Dr Macdonald Emslie
  • 1964    Mr Peter Goolden
  • 1965    Mr (later Sir) David Wilson
  • 1966    Professor Randolph Quirk
  • 1967    Professor Derrick James
  • 1968-1977     Mr Arthur Tattersall
  • 1978-1981     Mr Joseph Scott
  • 1982-1987    Mr J. Murray Watson
  • 1988-1993    Dr Anthony C. H. Smith
  • 1994-2000    Mr Negley Harte
  • 2001-2020    Mr Martin Butcher
  • 2021-            Mr Frank Penter

Keeper of the Archives

  • 1984-2001    Professor Frank Carter
  • 2002-2020    Dr Negley Harte
  • 2021-            Mr Martin Butcher

Keeper of the Cudgel

  • 1988-2011    Professor James Graham-Campbell
  • 2012-            Professor David Bogle

Keeper of the Seals

  • 2008-2020     Dr Negley Harte
  • 2021-             Mr Martin Butcher

Keeper of the Purse

  • 1995-2000    Dr Anthony Smith
  • 2001-2002    Dr Negley Harte
  • 2002-2007    Dr Anthony Smith
  • 2007-           Dr Iain Mowbray

Assistant Keeper of the Purse

  • 2024   Prof. Michael Munday

Living Memory

  • Professor John Dodgson
  • Mr Bryan Bennett
  • Dr Negley Harte (from 2011)

Keeper of the Scholars

  • 2007-2012        Dr Anthony Smith
  • 2013-2022        Mr Frank Penter
  • 2022-                Mr Mike Kelly

Keeper of the Collected Orations

  • 2005-2013    Mr Andrew Saffery
  • 2013-2020    Mr Frank Penter
  • 2021-            Mr Martin Butcher

Elders and Awful Guardians

  • Mrs Therese Bennett
  • Professor David Bogle
  • Professor Kathleen Burk
  • Ambassador Georgina Butler 
  • Dr Toni Griffiths
  • Dr Winston Hutchinson
  • Dr Stephen Montgomery
  • Mrs Fernanda dos Santos
  • Dr Anthony Smith