President of the Liberal Party

This is a list of people who served as President of the British Liberal Party. The Liberal Party merged into the Liberal Democrats in 1988.

The post was established in 1877 as President of the National Liberal Federation. In 1936, this body was replaced by the Liberal Party Organisation, which survived until 1988.

Presidents

President of the National Liberal Federation

1881-2: Henry Fell Pease

1883-90: James Kitson

1886-90: Balthazar Foster

1890-1902: Spence Watson

1902-6: Augustine Birrell

1906-7: Arthur Dyke Acland

1908?-11: William Angus

1911-14 or later: John Brunner

-20: George Lunn

1920-3: John Mackinnon Robertson

1923-6: Donald Maclean

1926-7: John Alfred Spender

1927-30: Charles Hobhouse

1930-3: Arthur Brampton

1933-6: Ramsay Muir

President of the Liberal Party Organisation

1936-43: James Meston, 1st Baron Meston

1943-5: Vacant

1945-7: Violet Bonham-Carter

1947-8: Isaac Foot

1948-9: Elliot Dodds

1949-50: Andrew McFadyean

1950-2: Philip Fothergill

1952-3: Ronald Walker

1953-4: Lawrence Robson

1954-5: Henry Graham White

1955: Philip Rea

1955-7 : Leonard Behrens

1957-8 : Nathaniel Micklem

1958-9: Arthur Comyns Carr

1959-60: Harold Glanville

1960-1: Andrew Hunter Arbuthnot Murray

1961-2: Edwin Malindine

1962-3:

1963-4: David Rees-Williams

1964-5: Roger Fulford

1965-6: Nancy Seear

1966-7: Michael Eden

1967-8: Donald Wade

1968-9: Desmond Banks

1969-70: Timothy Beaumont

1970-1: Inga-Stina Robson

1971-2: John Pardoe

1972-3: Trevor Jones

1973-4: Rhys Lloyd

1974-5: Arthur Holt

1975-6: Margaret Wingfield

1976-7: Basil Goldstone

1977-8: Gruffydd Evans

1978-9: Michael Steed

1979-80: Richard Holme

1980-2: Viv Bingham

1982-3?: John Griffiths

1983-4: Geoff Tordoff

1984-5: Alan Watson

1985-6: David Penhaligon

1986-7: Des Wilson

1987-8: Adrian Slade