2020 - 2021 – Ken Smith
2018 - 2019 – Blaise Vyner
2015 - 2018 – Prof. Timothy C. Champion
2012 - 2015 – Prof. David A. Hinton
2009 - 2012 – Prof. David J. Breeze
2006 - 2009 – Jonathan Coad
2003 - 2006 – Lindsay Allason-Jones
2000 - 2003 – Mark W. Hassall
1999 - 2000 – T. W. Potter
1996 - 1999 – Prof. Anthony P. Quiney
1993 - 1996 – Andrew D. Saunders
1990 - 1993 – A. P. Baggs
1987 - 1990 – Prof. N. J. G. Pounds
1984 - 1987 – Hugh Thompson
1981 - 1984 – S. D. T. Spittle
1978 - 1981 – Prof. S. S. Frere
1975 - 1978 – John CharIton
1972 - 1975 – H. M. Taylor
1969 - 1972 – E. Clive Rouse
1966 - 1969 – D. B. Harden
1963 - 1966 – P. K. Baillie Reynolds
1960 - 1963 – C. A. Ralegh Radford
1957 - 1960 – Prof. W. X. Grimes
1954 - 1957 – Philip Corder
1951 - 1954 – Sir Mortimer Wheeler
1948 - 1951 – Dame Joan Evans
1945 - 1948 – Sir Alfred Clapham
1942 - 1945 – Christopher Hawkes
1939 - 1942 – Prof. A. Hamilton Thompson
1927 - 1939 – Sir Charles Oman
1924 - 1926 – Prof. Sir William Boyd-Dawkins
1897 - 1924 – Sir Henry Howorth
1892 - 1897 – Viscount Harold Dillon
1882 - 1891 – Earl Percy
1867 - 1882 – Lord Talbot de Malahide
1862 - 1867 – Marquis Camden
1861 - 1862 – Lord Lyttleton
1851 - 1861 – Lord Talbot de Malahide
1845 - 1851 – Marquis of Northampton
1844 - 1845 – Lord Londesborough