President of the Liberal Party
Appearance
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.[1]
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
References
- ^ Peter Barberis et al, Encyclopedia of British and Irish Political Organizations, p.315