# List of presidents of The Asiatic Society

This is a list of presidents of The Asiatic Society of Bengal (Calcutta).

## 1700s

* Sir William Jones (1784–1794)
* Sir John Shore (1794–1799)
* Robert Chambers (1799)
* Sir John Anstruther, 4th Baronet (1799–1807)

## 1800s

* Henry Thomas Colebrooke (1807–?1815)
* Francis Rawdon-Hastings, 1st Marquess of Hastings (1820–1825)
* John Herbert Harington (1825–1828)
* Charles Edward Grey (1828–1832)
* Sir Edward Ryan (1832–1841)
* Henry Thoby Prinsep (1842–1844)
* William Wilberforce Bird (1844–1845)
* Henry Hardinge, 1st Viscount Hardinge (1845)
* William Wilberforce Bird (1846–1848)
* James William Colvile (1848–1859)
* Arthur Grote (1859–62)
* Lt. Col. H. E. L. Thuillier (1863)
* William Stephen Atkinson (1863)
* Sir Edward Clive Bayley (1863–1867)
* Dr. Joseph Fayrer (1867–68)
* Dr. Thomas Oldham (1868–1870)
* Hon John Budd Phear (1870–1872)
* Dr. Thomas Oldham (1873)
* Lt. Col. H. Hyde (1873–1874)
* Sir Edward Clive Bayley (1875)
* Dr. Thomas Oldham (1875–1877)
* Sir Edward Clive Bayley (1877–1878)
* William Thomas Blanford (1878–1879)
* Henry Benedict Medlicott (1879–1881)
* Sir Ashley Eden (1881–1882)
* Herbert John Reynolds (1882–1884)
* Henry Francis Blanford (1884–1885)
* Dr. Rajendralal Mitra (1885)
* Edwin Felix Thomas Atkinson (1886–1887)
* James Waterhouse (1888–1890)
* Henry Beveridge (1890–1891)
* Sir Alfred Woodley Croft (1891–1892)
* Sir Charles Alfred Elliott (1893–1894)
* Charles James Lyall (1894–1895)
* Alexander Pedler (1895–1896)
* Dr. Augustus Frederic Rudolf Hoernle (1897–1898)
* Sir Herbert Hope Risley (1898–1900)

## 1900s

* Sir John Woodburn (1900–1901)
* Charles Walter Bolton (1902–1905) (Chief Secretary to the Bengal Government)
* Sir A. H. L. Fraser (1905–1907)
* Sir Ashutosh Mukherjee (3 times) (1907–1908)
* Sir Thomas Henry Holland (1909–1910)
* Thomas Henry Digges La Touche (1910–1911) (Geologist, born 1855)
* George Francis Angelo Harris (1911–1912)
* Thomas David, Baron Carmichael (1913–1915)
* Sir Leonard Rogers (1915–1916)
* Henry Hubert Hayden (1917–1918)
* Haraprasad Shastri (1919–1920)
* Sir Ashutosh Mukherjee (1921–1923)
* Nelson Annandale (1923–1924)
* Sir Rajendranath Mookherjee (1924–1925)
* George H. Tipper (1926–1927) (Superintendent of the Geological Survey in India)
* Dr. W. A. K. Christie (1927–1928) (Indian Geological Survey)
* Dr. Upendranath Brahmachari (1928–1929)
* Robert Beresford Seymour Sewell (1930–1931)
* Justice C. C. Ghose (1932–1934)
* Lewis Leigh Fermor (1934–1935)
* Sir John Anderson (1936–1938)
* Sir David Ezra (1938–1939)
* Justice John Lort-Williams (1940–1941)
* Dr C. S. Fox (1941–1942) (Director of the Geological Survey of India)
* Dr Shyama Prasad Mookerjee (1942–1944)
* Dr Meghnad Saha (1945–1946)
* Justice Norman George Armstrong Edgley (1946–1947)
* Dr Bimala Churn Law (1947–1948)
* Dr D. West (1948)
* Justice Ramaprasad Mookherjee (1948–1950)
* Prof Sisir Kumar Mitra (1951–1953)
* Prof S. K. Chatterji (1953–1955)
* Dr D. M. Bose (1955–1957)
* Dr S. N. Sen (1957–1959)
* Dr Nalinaksha Dutt (1959–1961)
* Dr A. C. Ukil (1961–1962)
* Dr U. N. Ghoshal (1963–1964)
* Dr K. N. Bagchi (1964–1965)
* Prof R. C. Majumdar (1966–1968)
* Prof Satyendra Nath Bose (1968–1969)
* Prof S. K. Chatterji (1970–1971)
* Prof Nirmal Kumar Bose (1972)
* M. M. Basu (1972)
* Dr B. Mukherji (1972–1974)
* Prof. K. Saraswati (1975–1977)
* Dr Gouri Nath Sastri (1977–1978)
* Dr D. Bose (1979–1981)
* P. C. Gupta (1981–1982)
* S. N. Sen (1983)
* Dr R. K. Pal (1983–1985)
* Dr Sukumar Sen (1985–1987)
* Dr M. M. Chakraborty (1987–1988)
* In administration (1988–1992)
* Dr M M Chakraborty (1992–1996)
* Prof Dilip Kumar Biswas (1997–1999)
* Prof Bhaskar Roychowdhury (1999–2001)

## 2000s

* Prof Biswanath Banerji (2001–2002)
* Prof Amalendu De (2002–2003)
* Prof Biswanath Banerji (2004–2012)
* Prof Pallab Sengupta (2012–2014)
* Prof Ramakanta Chakraborty (2014–2016)
* Prof Isha Mahammad (2016–2020)
* Prof Swapan Pramanick (2020–present)

## References and sources
### References

* ↑ "The Asiatic Society". Archived from the original on 2017-01-06. Retrieved 2016-12-30.
* ↑ "Thomas Oldham | Pioneers of the British Geological Survey | British Geoscientists | Discovering geology | British Geological Survey (BGS)". www.bgs.ac.uk. Archived from the original on 2016-12-20.
* ↑ Prior, Katherine. "Phear, John Budd". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/35502. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
* ↑ s:Page:The Indian Biographical Dictionary.djvu/399

### Sources

* Official website of The Asiatic Society, Presidents and Secretaries of The Asiatic Society