List of presidents of The Asiatic Society

This is a list of presidents of The Asiatic Society of Bengal (Calcutta).

1700s

• Sir William Jones (1784–1794)
• Sir John Shore (1794–1799)
• Robert Chambers (1799)
• Sir John Anstruther, 4th Baronet (1799–1807)

1800s

• Henry Thomas Colebrooke (1807–?1815)
• Francis Rawdon-Hastings, 1st Marquess of Hastings (1820–1825)
• John Herbert Harington (1825–1828)
• Charles Edward Grey (1828–1832)
• Sir Edward Ryan (1832–1841)
• Henry Thoby Prinsep (1842–1844)
• William Wilberforce Bird (1844–1845)
• Henry Hardinge, 1st Viscount Hardinge (1845)
• William Wilberforce Bird (1846–1848)
• James William Colvile (1848–1859)
• Arthur Grote (1859–62)
• Lt. Col. H. E. L. Thuillier (1863)
• William Stephen Atkinson (1863)
• Sir Edward Clive Bayley (1863–1867)
• Dr. Joseph Fayrer (1867–68)
• Dr. Thomas Oldham (1868–1870)
• Hon John Budd Phear (1870–1872)
• Dr. Thomas Oldham (1873)
• Lt. Col. H. Hyde (1873–1874)
• Sir Edward Clive Bayley (1875)
• Dr. Thomas Oldham (1875–1877)
• Sir Edward Clive Bayley (1877–1878)
• William Thomas Blanford (1878–1879)
• Henry Benedict Medlicott (1879–1881)
• Sir Ashley Eden (1881–1882)
• Herbert John Reynolds (1882–1884)
• Henry Francis Blanford (1884–1885)
• Dr. Rajendralal Mitra (1885)
• Edwin Felix Thomas Atkinson (1886–1887)
• James Waterhouse (1888–1890)
• Henry Beveridge (1890–1891)
• Sir Alfred Woodley Croft (1891–1892)
• Sir Charles Alfred Elliott (1893–1894)
• Charles James Lyall (1894–1895)
• Alexander Pedler (1895–1896)
• Dr. Augustus Frederic Rudolf Hoernle (1897–1898)
• Sir Herbert Hope Risley (1898–1900)

1900s

• Sir John Woodburn (1900–1901)
• Charles Walter Bolton (1902–1905) (Chief Secretary to the Bengal Government)
• Sir A. H. L. Fraser (1905–1907)
• Sir Ashutosh Mukherjee (3 times) (1907–1908)
• Sir Thomas Henry Holland (1909–1910)
• Thomas Henry Digges La Touche (1910–1911) (Geologist, born 1855)
• George Francis Angelo Harris (1911–1912)
• Thomas David, Baron Carmichael (1913–1915)
• Sir Leonard Rogers (1915–1916)
• Henry Hubert Hayden (1917–1918)
• Haraprasad Shastri (1919–1920)
• Sir Ashutosh Mukherjee (1921–1923)
• Nelson Annandale (1923–1924)
• Sir Rajendranath Mookherjee (1924–1925)
• George H. Tipper (1926–1927) (Superintendent of the Geological Survey in India)
• Dr. W. A. K. Christie (1927–1928) (Indian Geological Survey)
• Dr. Upendranath Brahmachari (1928–1929)
• Robert Beresford Seymour Sewell (1930–1931)
• Justice C. C. Ghose (1932–1934)
• Lewis Leigh Fermor (1934–1935)
• Sir John Anderson (1936–1938)
• Sir David Ezra (1938–1939)
• Justice John Lort-Williams (1940–1941)
• Dr C. S. Fox (1941–1942) (Director of the Geological Survey of India)
• Dr Shyama Prasad Mookerjee (1942–1944)
• Dr Meghnad Saha (1945–1946)
• Justice Norman George Armstrong Edgley (1946–1947)
• Dr Bimala Churn Law (1947–1948)
• Dr D. West (1948)
• Justice Ramaprasad Mookherjee (1948–1950)
• Prof Sisir Kumar Mitra (1951–1953)
• Prof S. K. Chatterji (1953–1955)
• Dr D. M. Bose (1955–1957)
• Dr S. N. Sen (1957–1959)
• Dr Nalinaksha Dutt (1959–1961)
• Dr A. C. Ukil (1961–1962)
• Dr U. N. Ghoshal (1963–1964)
• Dr K. N. Bagchi (1964–1965)
• Prof R. C. Majumdar (1966–1968)
• Prof Satyendra Nath Bose (1968–1969)
• Prof S. K. Chatterji (1970–1971)
• Prof Nirmal Kumar Bose (1972)
• M. M. Basu (1972)
• Dr B. Mukherji (1972–1974)
• Prof. K. Saraswati (1975–1977)
• Dr Gouri Nath Sastri (1977–1978)
• Dr D. Bose (1979–1981)
• P. C. Gupta (1981–1982)
• S. N. Sen (1983)
• Dr R. K. Pal (1983–1985)
• Dr Sukumar Sen (1985–1987)
• Dr M. M. Chakraborty (1987–1988)
• In administration (1988–1992)
• Dr M M Chakraborty (1992–1996)
• Prof Dilip Kumar Biswas (1997–1999)
• Prof Bhaskar Roychowdhury (1999–2001)

2000s

• Prof Biswanath Banerji (2001–2002)
• Prof Amalendu De (2002–2003)
• Prof Biswanath Banerji (2004–2012)
• Prof Pallab Sengupta (2012–2014)
• Prof Ramakanta Chakraborty (2014–2016)
• Prof Isha Mahammad (2016–2020)
• Prof Swapan Pramanick (2020–present)

References and sources

• Official website of The Asiatic Society, Presidents and Secretaries of The Asiatic Society