Royal Meteorological Society Weather and Climate

Presidents of the Society

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

Geraint Vaughan PhD

Dates: 2006-present

Current President
Chris Collier CMet FRMetS CEnv

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 FInstP FRS
Dates: 1961-63
Weather pen portrait: December 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: August 2003
Sir Graham Sutton CBE DSc FRS
Dates: 1953-55
Sir Charles Normand CIE ScD
Dates: 1951-53

Weather pen portrait: January 1993
Sir Robert Watson-Watt CB FRS
Dates: 1949-51
Weather pen portrait:November 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:October 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
Captain David W Barker Kt RNR
Dates: 1903-04
Weather pen portrait:December 1999
William Henry Dines FRS
Dates: 1901-02

Weather pen portrait: November 2005
Francis Campbell Bayard LLM

Dates: 1898-99
Weather pen portrait:October 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 James Symons FRS

Dates: 1880-81; 1900
Weather pen portrait:March 1993
Charles Greaves

Dates: 1878-79
Weather pen portrait:September 2001
Henry Storks Eaton MA

Dates: 1876-77
Weather pen portrait: May 1997
Robert James Mann MD

Dates: 1873-75
Weather pen portrait:January 2001
John William Tripe MD

Dates: 1871-72
Weather pen portrait:March 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:September 2000
Thomas Sopwith FRS

Dates: 1859-60
Robert Stephenson MP FRS

Dates: 1857-58

Weather pen portrait:February 1895
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