List of Presidents of the Geological Society of London

This is a list of the Presidents of the Geological Society of London.

List of presidents

Source: Geological Society website

• 1807 – 1813 George Bellas Greenough
• 1813 – 1815 Henry Grey Bennet
• 1815 – 1816 William Blake
• 1816 – 1818 John MacCulloch
• 1818 – 1820 George Bellas Greenough
• 1820 – 1822 Spencer Compton, Earl Compton
• 1822 – 1824 William Babington
• 1824 – 1826 William Buckland
• 1826 – 1827 John Bostock
• 1827 – 1829 William Henry Fitton
• 1829 – 1831 Adam Sedgwick
• 1831 – 1833 Roderick Impey Murchison
• 1833 – 1835 George Bellas Greenough
• 1835 – 1837 Charles Lyell
• 1837 – 1839 William Whewell
• 1839 – 1841 William Buckland
• 1841 – 1843 Roderick Impey Murchison
• 1843 – 1845 Henry Warburton
• 1845 – 1847 Leonard Horner
• 1847 – 1849 Henry Thomas De la Beche
• 1849 – 1851 Charles Lyell
• 1851 – 1853 William Hopkins
• 1853 – 1854 Edward Forbes
• 1854 – 1856 William John Hamilton
• 1856 – 1856 Daniel Sharpe
• 1856 – 1858 Joseph Ellison Portlock
• 1858 – 1860 John Phillips
• 1860 – 1862 Leonard Horner
• 1862 – 1864 Andrew Crombie Ramsay
• 1864 – 1866 William John Hamilton
• 1866 – 1868 Warington Wilkinson Smyth
• 1868 – 1870 Thomas Henry Huxley
• 1870 – 1872 Joseph Prestwich
• 1872 – 1874 George Douglas Campbell, 8th Duke of Argyll
• 1874 – 1876 John Evans
• 1876 – 1878 Peter Martin Duncan
• 1878 – 1880 Henry Clifton Sorby
• 1880 – 1882 Robert Etheridge
• 1882 – 1884 John Whitaker Hulke
• 1884 – 1886 Thomas George Bonney
• 1886 – 1888 John Wesley Judd
• 1888 – 1890 William Thomas Blanford
• 1890 – 1892 Archibald Geikie
• 1892 – 1894 Wilfred Hudleston Hudleston
• 1894 – 1896 Henry Woodward
• 1896 – 1898 Henry Hicks
• 1898 – 1900 William Whitaker
• 1900 – 1902 Jethro Justinian Harris Teall^[1]
• 1902 – 1904 Charles Lapworth
• 1904 – 1906 John Edward Marr
• 1906 – 1908 Archibald Geikie
• 1908 – 1910 William Johnson Sollas
• 1910 – 1912 William Whitehead Watts
• 1912 – 1914 Aubrey Strahan
• 1914 – 1916 Arthur Smith Woodward
• 1916 – 1918 Alfred Harker
• 1918 – 1920 George William Lamplugh
• 1920 – 1922 Richard Dixon Oldham
• 1922 – 1924 Albert Charles Seward
• 1924 – 1926 John William Evans
• 1926 – 1928 Francis Arthur Bather
• 1928 – 1930 John Walter Gregory
• 1930 – 1932 Edmund Johnston Garwood
• 1932 – 1934 Thomas Henry Holland
• 1934 – 1936 John Frederick Norman Green
• 1936 – 1938 Owen Thomas Jones
• 1938 – 1940 Henry Hurd Swinnerton
• 1940 – 1941 Percy George Hamnall Boswell
• 1941 – 1943 Herbert Leader Hawkins
• 1943 – 1945 William George Fearnsides
• 1945 – 1947 Arthur Elijah Trueman
• 1947 – 1949 Herbert Harold Read
• 1949 – 1950 Cecil Edgar Tilley
• 1950 – 1951 Owen Thomas Jones
• 1951 – 1953 George Martin Lees
• 1953 – 1955 William Bernard Robinson King
• 1955 – 1956 Walter Campbell Smith
• 1956 – 1958 Leonard Hawkes
• 1958 – 1960 Cyril James Stubblefield
• 1960 – 1962 Sydney Ewart Hollingworth
• 1962 – 1964 Oliver Meredith Boone Bulman
• 1964 – 1966 Frederick William Shotton
• 1966 – 1968 Kingsley Charles Dunham
• 1968 – 1970 Thomas Neville George
• 1970 – 1972 William Alexander Deer
• 1972 – 1974 Thomas Stanley Westoll
• 1974 – 1976 Percy Edward Kent
• 1976 – 1978 Wallace Spencer Pitcher
• 1978 – 1980 Percival Allen
• 1980 – 1982 Edward Howel Francis
• 1982 – 1984 Janet Vida Watson
• 1984 – 1986 Charles Hepworth Holland
• 1986 – 1988 Bernard Elgey Leake
• 1988 – 1990 Derek John Blundell
• 1990 – 1992 Anthony Leonard Harris
• 1992 – 1994 Charles David Curtis
• 1994 – 1996 (Robert) Stephen (John) Sparks
• 1996 – 1998 Richard Frederick Paynter Hardman
• 1998 – 2000 Robin Cocks
• 2000 – 2002 Ronald Oxburgh, Baron Oxburgh
• 2002 – 2004 Mark Moody-Stuart
• 2004 – 2006 Peter Styles
• 2006 – 2008 Richard Fortey
• 2008 – 2010 Lynne Frostick
• 2010 - 2012 Julian Patrick Bryan Lovell
• 2012 - 2014 David Thomas Shilston

See also

• List of geologists

References