List of Presidents of the Royal Historical Society
Presidents of the Royal Historical Society in chronological order:
19th century
| No. | portrait | Surname | from | to | comment |
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George Grote (1794–1871) | 1871 | to 1872 selected |
Opus magnum: A History of Greece , 1846–1856, 12 volumes; died in the first year of office |
| 2 |
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John Russell, 1st Earl Russell (1792–1878) | 1873 | 1878 | |
| 3 |
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Henry Bruce, 1st Baron Aberdare (1815–1895) | 1878 | 1891 | Home Secretary and Lord President of the Council |
| 4th |
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Mountstuart Elphinstone Grant Duff (1829-1906) | 1891 | 1899 | |
| 5 |
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Adolphus William Ward (1837-1924) | 1899 | 1901 | Vice Chancellor of Cambridge University , Editor of The Cambridge Modern History |
| 6th | George Walter Prothero (1848–1922) | 1901 | 1905 | historical advisor to the Foreign Ministry, participant in the 1919 Paris Peace Conference | |
| 7th | William Hunt (1842-1931) | 1905 | 1909 | Author of the Dictionary of National Biography . | |
| 8th |
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William Cunningham (1849-1919) | 1909 | 1913 | Regius Professor of Modern History at Oxford |
| 9 | Charles Harding Firth (1857-1936) | 1913 | 1917 | ||
| 10 |
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Charles Oman (1860-1946) | 1917 | 1921 | Military historian, reconstruction of warfare in the Middle Ages, Member of the British Parliament |
| 11 |
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John William Fortescue (1859-1933) | 1921 | 1925 | |
| 12 | Thomas Frederick Tout (1855-1929) | 1925 | 1929 | Magnum Opus: Chapters in the Administrative History of Medieval England | |
| 13 | Richard Lodge (1855-1936) | 1929 | 1933 | ||
| 14th | Frederick Maurice Powicke (1897–1963) | 1933 | 1937 | Developed Oxford into a center for medieval studies in England | |
| 15th | Frank Merry Stenton (1880-1967) | 1937 | 1945 | Authority on Anglo-Saxon England, Oxford History of England | |
| 16 |
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Robert William Seton-Watson (1879–1951) | 1946 | 1949 | made Slavic independence movements of the Habsburg Monarchy popular in Great Britain, Professor of Czechoslovakian Studies in Oxford |
| 17th | Theodore Plucknett (1897-1965) | 1949 | 1953 | ||
| 18th | Hugh Hale Bellot (1890-1969) | 1953 | 1957 | ||
| 19th | David Knowles (1896–1974) | 1957 | 1961 | Books on monastic orders in England, one of the most renowned historical works of the 20th century | |
| 20th | Goronwy Edwards (1891-1976) | 1961 | 1965 | ||
| 21st | Robert Arthur Humphreys (1907-1999) | 1965 | 1969 | ||
| 22nd | Richard William Southern (1912-2001) | 1969 | 1973 | Medieval intellectual history: Robert Grosseteste , Anselm von Canterbury , image of Islam in the European Middle Ages | |
| 23 | Geoffrey Rudolph Elton (1921-1994) | 1973 | 1977 | Research on the Tudor House | |
| 24 | John Habakkuk (1915-2002) | 1977 | 1981 | ||
| 25th | James Clarke Holt (1992-2014) | 1981 | 1985 | One of the leading historians in research on Robin Hood and the Magna Carta . | |
| 26th | Gerald Aylmer (1926-2000) | 1985 | 1989 | ||
| 27 | Francis Michael Longstreth Thompson (1925-2007) | 1989 | 1993 | ||
| 28 | Rees Davies (1938-2005) | 1993 | 1997 | ||
| 29 | Peter James Marshall (* 1933) | 1997 | 2001 | ||
| 30th | Janet L. Nelson (born 1942) | 2001 | 2005 | Focus on the Carolingian period . Society, theodicy and the origins of heresy , Royal saints and early medieval kingship . | |
| 31 | Martin Daunton (* 1949) | 2005 | 2008 | ||
| 32 | Colin Jones (born 1947) | 2009 | 2012 | ||
| 33 | Peter Mandler (* 1958) | 2012 | 2016 | ||
| 34 | Margot Finn | 2016 |