Dr Alfred Spinks (1917-1982)
President of the CS 1979 to 1980

Theodore Morris Sugden (1919-1984)
President of the CS 1978 to 1979

Alan Woodworth Johnson (1917-1982)
President of the CS 1977 to 1978

Cyril Clifford Addison (1913-1994)
President of the CS 1976 to 1977

Frank Arnold Robinson (1907-1988)
President of the CS 1975 to 1976
President of the RIC 1972 to 1974

Jack Wheeler Barrett (1912-1998)
President of the CS 1974 to 1975

Sir Derek Harold Richard Barton (1919-1998)
President of the CS 1973 to 1974

Sir Frederick Sydney Dainton (1914-1997)
President of the CS 1972 to 1973
President of the Faraday Society 1965 to 1966

Lord George Porter (1920-2002)
President of the CS 1970 to 1972

Sir Ronald Syndey Nyholm (1917-1971)
President of the CS 1968 to 1970

Sir Harry Work Melville (1908-2000)
President of the CS 1966 to 1968
President of the Faraday Society 1958 and 1960

Sir Ewart Ray Herbert Jones (1911-2002)
President of the CS 1964 to 1966 & RSC 1980 to 1982
President of the RIC 1970 to 1972

John Monteath Robertson (1900-1989)
President of the CS 1962 to 1964

Lord Alexander Robertus Todd (1907-1997)
President of the CS 1960 to 1962

Harry Julius Emeleus (1903-1993)
President of the RIC 1963 to 1965
President of the CS 1958 to 1960

Sir Edmund Langley Hirst (1898-1975)
President of the CS 1956 to 1958

William Wardlaw (1892-1958)
President of the RIC 1957 to 1958
President of the CS 1954 to 1956

Sir Christopher Kelk Ingold (1893-1970)
President of the CS 1952 to 1954

Sir Eric Keightley Rideal (1890-1974)
President of the CS 1950 to 1952
President of the Faraday Society 1938 to 1945

Sir Ian Morris Heilbron (1886-1959)
President of the CS 1948 to 1950

Sir Cyril Norman Hinshelwood (1897-1967)
President of the Faraday Society 1961 to 1962
President of the CS 1946 to 1948

Walter Norman Haworth (1883-1950)
President of the CS 1944 to 1946