Augustus George Vernon Harcourt (1834-1919)
President of the CS 1895 to 1897

Henry Edward Armstrong (1848-1937)
President of the CS 1893 to 1895

Alexander Crum Brown (1838-1922)
President of the CS 1891 to 1893

William James Russell (1830-1909)
President of the RIC 1894 to 1897
President of the CS 1889 to 1891

Sir William Crookes (1832-1919)
President of the CS 1887 to 1889

Hugo Muller (1833-1915)
President of the CS 1885 to 1887

William Henry Perkin (1838-1907)
President of the Faraday Society 1907
President of the CS 1883 to 1885

Sir Joseph Henry Gilbert (1817-1901)
President of the CS 1882 to 1883

Sir Henry Enfield Roscoe (1833-1915)
President of the CS 1880 to 1882

John Hall Gladstone (1827-1902)
President of the CS 1877 to 1878

Sir Frederick Augustus Abel (1827-1902)
President of the RIC 1880 to 1883
President of the CS 1875 to 1877

William Odling (1829-1921)
President of the RIC 1883 to 1888
President of the CS 1873 to 1875

Sir Edward Frankland (1825-1899)
President of the RIC 1877 to 1880
President of the CS 1871 to 1873

Warren de la Rue (1815-1889)
President of the CS 1867 to 1869 & 1879 to 1880

Alexander William Williamson (1824-1904)
President of the CS 1863 to 1865 & 1869 to 1871

August Wilhelm von Hoffmann (1818-1892)
President of the CS 1861 to 1863

Sir Benjamin Brodie (1783-1862)
President of the CS 1859 to 1861

Sir Lyon Playfair (1818-1898)
President of the CS 1857 to 1859

William Allen Miller (1817-1870)
President of the CS 1855 to 1857 & 1865 to 1867

Colonel Philip Yorke
President of the CS 1853 to 1855

Professor Charles Daubeny (1795-1867)
President of the CS 1851 to 1853

Richard Phillips (1788-1851)
President of the CS 1849 to 1851

William Thomas Brande (1788-1866)
President of the CS 1847 to 1849

Arthur Aiken
President of the CS 1843 to 1845

Thomas Graham (1805-1869)
President of the CS 1841 to 1843 & 1845 to 1847