# List of Rangers F.C. chairmen

Rangers F.C. is a football club based in Glasgow, Scotland, that competes in the Scottish Professional Football League. Since its founding in 1872, the club has had more than ten different presidents (prior to incorporation) and nineteen chairmen.

## History

The club has been privately owned by stakeholders, in the form of a limited liability company before becoming a publicly owned company trading on the PLUS and AIM stock exchanges respectively. The board of directors are appointed to oversee the corporate operations of the company that owns the club with the chairman being considered as the most senior and high-profile corporate figures. In Rangers history the chairman has generally been the prominent executive on the board, although this has begun to change with the appointment of CEOs which led to some chairmen being appointed in a non-executive capacity.
From December 2012 to March 2015, the directors of the company that owns Rangers F.C., The Rangers Football Club Limited (TRFCL), were appointed to what was then known as the "football board". This football board was separate and distinct from the Plc board of Rangers International Football Club Plc (RIFC), which is the holding company of TRFCL. During this period, references were made to both the football board and Plc board and the situation effectively saw the club with two chairmen, however, since the departure of Sandy Easdale in 2015, the "football board" terminology has ceased leaving the Plc chair as the definitive Chairman.
Between June and December 2012, before flotation on the AIM stock exchange and the subsequent formation of RIFC, the chairman of TRFCL was de jure the chairman of Rangers Football Club.

## List of presidents

Below is the presidential history of Rangers F.C., from 1874 until incorporation sixteen years later.
| Name | From | To |
| William McBeath | 1874 | 1875 |
| Unknown | 1875 | 1876 |
| James McBlane Watt | 1876 | 1877 |
| Unknown | 1877 | 1881 |
| Archibald Harkness | 1881 | November 1882 |
| George Goudie | November 1882 | May 1883 |
| Tom Vallance | May 1883 | 1889 |
| Unknown | 1899 | 1890 |
| James Watson | 1890 | 1891 |
| Dugald Mackenzie | 1891 | 1896 |
| John Robertson Gow | 1896 | 1898 |
| James Henderson | 1898 | 1 June 1899 |

## List of chairmen

Below is the official chairmen history of Rangers F.C., from the incorporation of the club in 1899, until the present day.

### t/a Rangers F.C. Ltd (1899) and Rangers F.C. Plc (2000)

| Name | From | To | Tenure |
| James Henderson | 1 June 1899 | 10 May 1912 | 12 years, 344 days |
| Sir John Ure Primrose | 1912 | July 1923 | 11 years |
| William Craig | July 1923 | 20 November 1923 | 142 days |
| Joseph Buchanan | November 1923 | October 1932 | 9 years |
| Duncan Graham | 1932 | January 1934 | 2 years |
| James Bowie | January 1934 | 12 June 1947 | 13 years |
| W. Rodgers Simpson | 27 June 1947 | April 1949 | 1 year, 307 days |
| John Wilson | April 1949 | 12 February 1963 | 13 years, 288 days |
| John Lawrence | 12 February 1963 | 19 June 1973 | 10 years, 127 days |
| Matt Taylor | 19 June 1973 | September, 1975 | 2 years |
| Rae Simpson | September, 1975 | 10 January 1984 | 8 years, 131 days |
| John Paton | 10 January 1984 | 11 November 1986 | 2 years, 305 days |
| David Holmes | 11 November 1986 | 2 June 1989 | 2 years, 203 days |
| David Murray | 2 June 1989 | 5 July 2002 | 13 years, 33 days |
| John McClelland | 5 July 2002 | 1 September 2004 | 2 years, 58 days |
| David Murray | 1 September 2004 | 24 August 2009 | 4 years, 357 days |
| Alastair Johnston | 24 August 2009 | 24 May 2011 | 1 year, 273 days |
| Craig Whyte | 24 May 2011 | 14 February 2012 | 266 days |
| c/o Duff & Phelps | 14 February 2012 | 14 June 2012 | 121 days |

### t/a Rangers F.C. Ltd (2012)

| Name | From | To | Tenure |
| Malcolm Murray | 14 June 2012 | 18 December 2012 | 187 days |
| n/a | 18 December 2012 | 13 December 2013 | 360 days |
| Sandy Easdale | 13 December 2013 | 11 March 2015 | 1 year, 88 days |

### t/a Rangers International F.C. Plc (2012)

| Name | From | To | Tenure |
| Malcolm Murray | 7 December 2012 | 30 May 2013 | 174 days |
| Walter Smith | 30 May 2013 | 5 August 2013 | 67 days |
| n/a | 5 August 2013 | 7 November 2013 | 183 days |
| David Somers | 7 November 2013 | 2 March 2015 | 1 year, 88 days |
| Paul Murray | 6 March 2015 | 22 May 2015 | 77 days |
| Dave King | 22 May 2015 | 27 March 2020 | 4 years, 310 days |
| Douglas Park | 27 March 2020 | 4 April 2023 | 3 years, 8 days |
| John Bennett | 4 April 2023 | 14 September 2024 | 1 year, 163 days |
| John Gilligan | 14 September 2024 | 16 December 2024 | 93 days |
| Fraser Thornton | 16 December 2024 | | 15 days |

## List of honorary positions

| Name | Position | From | To | Tenure |
| John Ure Primrose | Honorary President | 1888 | 1912 | 24 years |
| John Lawrence | Honorary President | 19 June 1973 | 26 January 1977 | 3 years, 221 days |
| David Murray | Honorary Chairman | 4 July 2002 | 1 September 2004 | 2 years, 59 days |
| John Greig | Honorary President | 23 May 2015 | | 9 years, 222 days |