page_title: Alpine Club (UK)
section_title: Presidents
hierarchical_section_title: Alpine Club (UK) / Presidents
caption_attribution_description: English: Title page from Peaks, passes, and glaciers. A series of excursions by members of the Alpine Club, edited by John Ball, published in London by Longman, Brown, Green, Longmans, and Roberts, 1859. Swi 688.59, Houghton Library, Harvard University
context_page_description: The Alpine Club was founded in London in 1857 and is the world's first mountaineering club. The primary focus of the club is to support mountaineers who climb in the Alps and the Greater Ranges of the world's mountains.
context_section_description: From the Alpine Journal of the Club:
  1857–1860: John Ball
  1860–1863: E. S. Kennedy
  1863–1865: Alfred Wills
  1865–1868: Leslie Stephen
  1868–1871: Charles Edward Mathews
  1871–1874: William Longman
  1875–1877: Thomas Woodbine Hinchliff
  1881–1883: Thomas George Bonney
  1884–1886: Florence Crauford Grove
  1886–1890: Clinton Thomas Dent
  1890–1893: Horace Walker
  1893–1896: Douglas Freshfield
  1896–1899: Charles Pilkington
  1899–1902: Dr James Bryce (later Viscount Bryce)
  1902–1904: Sir Martin Conway (later Lord Conway of Allington)
  1904–1906: George Forrest Browne, Bishop of Bristol
  1908–1911: Hermann Wooley
  1911–1914: W. E. Davison
  1914–1917:
  1917–1919: John Percy Farrar
  1920–1923: J. Norman Collie
  1923–1926: Charles Granville Bruce
  1926–1929: Sir George Henry Morse
  1929–1932: Claude Wilson
  1932–1934: Sir John Withers
  1935–1938: Edward Lisle Strutt
  1938–1940: Sir Claud Schuster GCB (later Lord Schuster)
  1941–1943: Geoffrey Winthrop Young
  1944–1947: Leo Amery
  1947–1949: Tom George Longstaff
  1950–1953: Claude Aurelius Elliott
  1953–1956: Edwin Savory Herbert
  1956–1959: Sir John Hunt (later Lord Hunt)
  1959–1962: George Finch
  1962–1965: Howard Somervell
  1965–1968: Eric Shipton
  1968–1971: Charles Evans
  1971–1974: A. D. M. Cox
  1974–1977: Jack Longland
  1977–1980: Peter Lloyd
  1980–1983: J. H. Emlyn-Jones
  1983–1986: R. R. E. Chorley
  1986: A. K. Rawlinson (died in office)
  1986–1987: Lady Denise Evans
  1987–1990: George Band
  1990–1993: Lieutenant Colonel H. R. A. Streather 'Tony Streather'
  1993–1996: Mike Westmacott
  1996–1999: Sir Chris Bonington
  1999–2001: Doug Scott
  2002–2004: Alan Blackshaw
  2005–2007: Stephen Venables
  2007–2010: Paul Braithwaite
  2010–2013: Mick Fowler
  2014–2016: Lindsay Griffin
  2017–2019: John Porter
  2020–: Victor Saunders
caption: Title page from Peaks, Passes, and Glaciers, 1859, edited by John Ball, the first president of the Alpine Club
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