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

• 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 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 Hamilton
• 1866–1868 Warington Wilkinson Smyth
• 1868–1870 Thomas Henry Huxley
• 1870–1872 Joseph Prestwich
• 1872–1874 George 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
• 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 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 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 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
• 2014–2016 David Andrew Charles Manning
• 2016–2018 Malcolm Brown
• 2018–2020 Nick Rogers
• 2020–2022 Michael Daly
• 2022-2024 Ruth Allington
• 2024-2026 Jon Gluyas

See also

• List of geologists

References