Society Presidents

Presidents of the Society

A list of past presidents of the Society with images where possible.

Tim Palmer DPhil, FRS

Dates: 2010-present
Julia Slingo OBE

Dates: 2008-2010
Geraint Vaughan PhD

Dates: 2006-2008
Chris Collier CMet FRMetS

Dates: 2004-06
Howard Cattle PhD

Dates: 2002-04
David M Burridge CBE PhD

Dates: 2000-02
Sir Brian J Hoskins PhD FRS

Dates:1998-2000
David J Carson PhD

Dates :1996-98
John E Harries PhD

Dates: 1994-96
Paul Mason PhD FRS

Dates:1992-94
Stephen A Thorpe PhD FRS

Dates: 1990-92
Keith A Browning PhD FRS

Dates:1988-90
Richard S Scorer PhD

Dates: 1986-88
Andrew Gilchrist MA

Dates:1984-86
Henry Charnock CBE FRS

Dates:1982-84
Philip Goldsmith MA

Dates:1980-82
John L Monteith PhD FRS

Dates:1978-80
Sir John Houghton DPhil FRS

Dates:1976-78
Raymond Hide ScD FRS

Dates:1974-76
Robert P Pearce PhD FRSE

Dates: 1972-74
Frank Pasquill DSc FRS

Dates: 1970-72

Weather pen portrait:April 2000
Sir John Mason CB DSc FRS

Dates: 1968-70
F K Hare PhD LLD FRSC

Dates: 1967-68

Weather pen portrait: March 2003
G D Robinson PhD FInstP

Dates: 1965-67

Weather Pen Portrait: February 1999
J S Sawyer MA FRS

Dates: 1963-65

Weather pen portrait: June 2006
H L Penman OBE PhD FRS

Dates: 1961-63

Weather pen portrait: Dec 1994
J M Stagg CB OBE MA DSc

Dates: 1959-61

Weather pen portrait:May 1994
P A Sheppard BSc FInstP FRS

Dates: 1957-59
R C Sutcliffe OBE PhD FRS

Dates: 1955-57

Weather pen portrait: Aug 2003
Sir Graham Sutton CBE DSc FRS

Dates: 1953-55
Sir Charles Normand CIE ScD

Dates: 1951-53

Weather pen portrait:Jan 1993
Sir Robert Watson-Watt CB

Dates: 1949-51

Weather pen portrait:Nov 1992
G M B Dobson CBE DSc FRS

Dates: 1947-48

Weather pen portrait: May 2007
Gordon Manley MA DSc

Dates: 1945-46

Weather pen portrait:August 1993
Sir David Brunt MA ScD FRS

Dates: 1942-44

Weather pen portrait:September 1992
Sir George C Simpson KCB FRS

Dates: 1940-41

Weather pen portrait:October 1995
Sir Bernard A Keen DSc FRS

Dates: 1938-39

Weather pen portrait:November 1993
Francis J W Whipple MA ScD

Dates: 1936-37

Weather pen portrait:September 1993
Ernest Gold DSO MA FRS

Dates: 1934-35

Weather pen portrait: October 2003
Sydney Chapman MA DSc FRS

Dates: 1932-33

Weather pen portrait:Oct 1994
R G K Lempfert CBE MA FInstP

Dates: 1930-31 September 1996
Sir Richard Gregory DSc LLD

Dates: 1928-29

Weather pen portrait:July 1994
Sir Gilbert Walker CSI ScD FRS

Dates: 1926-27

Weather pen portrait:July 1997
Charles Chree ScD FRS

Dates: 1922-23

Weather pen portrait:June 1994
Reginald Hawthorn Hooker

Dates: 1920-21

Weather pen portrait: January 1995
Sir Napier Shaw ScD FRS

Dates: 1918-19

Weather pen portrait March 1995
Sir Henry George Lyons FRS

Dates: 1915-17

Weather pen portrait:March 1998
Charles John Philip Cave JP

Dates: 1913-14; 1924-25

Weather pen portrait:October 1993
Henry Newton Dickson DSc FRSE

Dates: 1911-12

Weather pen portrait:May 1995
Henry Mellish CB DL

Dates: 1909-10

Weather pen portrait:November 1996
Hugh Robert Mill DSc LLD FRSE

Dates: 1907-08

Weather pen portrait:April 1994
Richard Bentley

Dates: 1905-06
Capt David Barker Kt RNR

Dates: 1903-04

Weather pen portrait:Dec 1999
William Henry Dines FRS

Dates: 1901-02

Weather pen portrait: November 2005
Francis Campbell Bayard LLM

Dates: 1898-99

Weather pen portrait:Oct 1999
Edward Mawley VMH

Dates: 1896-97

Weather pen portrait:April 1998
Richard Inwards

Dates: 1894-95

Weather pen portrait:August 1995
C Theodore Williams MD FRCP

Dates: 1892-93; 1900

Weather pen portrait:December 1992
Baldwin Latham MInstCE

Dates: 1890-91

Weather pen portrait:April 1997
William Marcet MD FRS

Dates: 1888-89

Weather pen portrait:March 1997
William Ellis FRS

Dates: 1886-87
Robert Henry Scott DSc FRS

Dates: 1884-85

Weather pen portrait:September 1994
Sir John Knox Laughton MA

Dates: 1882-83

Weather pen portrait:January 1999
George J Symons FRS

Dates: 1880-81; 1900

Weather pen portrait:Mar 1993
Charles Greaves

Dates: 1878-79

Weather pen portrait:Sept 2001
Henry Storks Eaton MA

Dates: 1876-77

Weather pen portrait: May 1997
Robert James Mann MD

Dates: 1873-75

Weather pen portrait:Jan 2001
John William Tripe MD

Dates: 1871-72

Weather pen portrait:Mar 1996
Charles Vincent Walker FRS

Dates: 1869-70

Weather pen portrait:May 1998
James Glaisher FRS

Dates: 1867-68

Weather pen portrait:November 1995
Charles Brooke FRS

Dates: 1865-66

Weather pen portrait: January 1998
Robert Dundas Thomson MD

Dates: 1863-64

Weather pen portrait: August 1998
Nathaniel Beardmore MInstCE

Dates: 1861-62

Weather pen portrait:Sept 2000
Thomas Sopwith FRS

Dates: 1859-60
Robert Stephenson MP FRS

Dates: 1857-58

Weather pen portrait:February 1995
Dr John Lee FRS

Dates: 1855-57

Weather pen portrait:July 1996
George Leach

Dates: 1853-55

Weather pen portrait:March 2001
Samuel Charles Whitbread FRS

Dates: 1850-53; 1864

Weather pen portrait:December 1997