# List of presidents of the Geological Society of London

This is a list of the presidents of the Geological Society of London.

## List of presidents

* 1807–1813 George Bellas Greenough
* 1813–1815 Henry Grey Bennet
* 1815–1816 William Blake
* 1816–1818 John MacCulloch
* 1818–1820 George Bellas Greenough
* 1820–1822 Spencer Compton, Earl Compton
* 1822–1824 William Babington
* 1824–1826 William Buckland
* 1826–1827 John Bostock
* 1827–1829 William Henry Fitton
* 1829–1831 Adam Sedgwick
* 1831–1833 Roderick Impey Murchison
* 1833–1835 George Bellas Greenough
* 1835–1837 Charles Lyell
* 1837–1839 William Whewell
* 1839–1841 William Buckland
* 1841–1843 Roderick Impey Murchison
* 1843–1845 Henry Warburton
* 1845–1847 Leonard Horner
* 1847–1849 Henry Thomas De la Beche
* 1849–1851 Charles Lyell
* 1851–1853 William Hopkins
* 1853–1854 Edward Forbes
* 1854–1856 William Hamilton
* 1856–1856 Daniel Sharpe
* 1856–1858 Joseph Ellison Portlock
* 1858–1860 John Phillips
* 1860–1862 Leonard Horner
* 1862–1864 Andrew Crombie Ramsay
* 1864–1866 William Hamilton
* 1866–1868 Warington Wilkinson Smyth
* 1868–1870 Thomas Henry Huxley
* 1870–1872 Joseph Prestwich
* 1872–1874 George Campbell, 8th Duke of Argyll
* 1874–1876 John Evans
* 1876–1878 Peter Martin Duncan
* 1878–1880 Henry Clifton Sorby
* 1880–1882 Robert Etheridge
* 1882–1884 John Whitaker Hulke
* 1884–1886 Thomas George Bonney
* 1886–1888 John Wesley Judd
* 1888–1890 William Thomas Blanford
* 1890–1892 Archibald Geikie
* 1892–1894 Wilfred Hudleston Hudleston
* 1894–1896 Henry Woodward
* 1896–1898 Henry Hicks
* 1898–1900 William Whitaker
* 1900–1902 Jethro Justinian Harris Teall
* 1902–1904 Charles Lapworth
* 1904–1906 John Edward Marr
* 1906–1908 Archibald Geikie
* 1908–1910 William Johnson Sollas
* 1910–1912 William Whitehead Watts
* 1912–1914 Aubrey Strahan
* 1914–1916 Arthur Smith Woodward
* 1916–1918 Alfred Harker
* 1918–1920 George William Lamplugh
* 1920–1922 Richard Dixon Oldham
* 1922–1924 Albert Seward
* 1924–1926 John William Evans
* 1926–1928 Francis Arthur Bather
* 1928–1930 John Walter Gregory
* 1930–1932 Edmund Johnston Garwood
* 1932–1934 Thomas Henry Holland
* 1934–1936 John Frederick Norman Green
* 1936–1938 Owen Thomas Jones
* 1938–1940 Henry Hurd Swinnerton
* 1940–1941 Percy George Hamnall Boswell
* 1941–1943 Herbert Leader Hawkins
* 1943–1945 William George Fearnsides
* 1945–1947 Arthur Elijah Trueman
* 1947–1949 Herbert Harold Read
* 1949–1950 Cecil Edgar Tilley
* 1950–1951 Owen Thomas Jones
* 1951–1953 George Martin Lees
* 1953–1955 William Bernard Robinson King
* 1955–1956 Walter Campbell Smith
* 1956–1958 Leonard Hawkes
* 1958–1960 Cyril James Stubblefield
* 1960–1962 Sydney Ewart Hollingworth
* 1962–1964 Oliver Meredith Boone Bulman
* 1964–1966 Frederick William Shotton
* 1966–1968 Kingsley Charles Dunham
* 1968–1970 Neville George
* 1970–1972 William Alexander Deer
* 1972–1974 Thomas Stanley Westoll
* 1974–1976 Percy Edward Kent
* 1976–1978 Wallace Spencer Pitcher
* 1978–1980 Percival Allen
* 1980–1982 Edward Howel Francis
* 1982–1984 Janet Vida Watson
* 1984–1986 Charles Hepworth Holland
* 1986–1988 Bernard Elgey Leake
* 1988–1990 Derek John Blundell
* 1990–1992 Anthony Leonard Harris
* 1992–1994 Charles David Curtis
* 1994–1996 (Robert) Stephen (John) Sparks
* 1996–1998 Richard Hardman
* 1998–2000 Robin Cocks
* 2000–2002 Ronald Oxburgh, Baron Oxburgh
* 2002–2004 Mark Moody-Stuart
* 2004–2006 Peter Styles
* 2006–2008 Richard Fortey
* 2008–2010 Lynne Frostick
* 2010–2012 (Julian Patrick) Bryan Lovell
* 2012–2014 David Thomas Shilston
* 2014–2016 David Andrew Charles Manning
* 2016–2018 Malcolm Brown
* 2018–2020 Nick Rogers
* 2020–2022 Michael Daly
* 2022-2024 Ruth Allington
* 2024-2026 Jon Gluyas