Governance and past presidents Royal Geographical Society

1 governance , past presidents

1.1 council
1.2 committees
1.3 selected list of past presidents

governance , past presidents
council

statue of shackleton charles sargeant jagger outside society headquarters

the society governed board of trustees called council, chaired president. members of council , president elected fellowship. council consists of 36 members, 22 of elected fellows , serve three-year term. in addition elected trustees, there honorary members (who include duke of kent honorary president) sit on council.

committees

the society has 5 specialist committees derives advice from

education committee
research committee
expedition , fieldwork committee
information resources committee
finance committee

selected list of past presidents

see presidents of royal geographical society longer list.

statue of sir clements robert markham next entrance



frederick john robinson, 1st viscount goderich earl of ripon (1830–1833) (first president)
sir george murray (1833–1835)
sir roderick murchison (1843–1845,1851–1853,1856–1859 , 1862–1871)
sir henry creswicke rawlinson (1871–1873 , 1874–1876)
sir clements robert markham (1893–1905)
sir george taubman goldie (1905–1908)
major leonard darwin (1908–1911)
earl curzon of kedleston (1911–1914)
douglas freshfield (1914–1917)
colonel sir thomas hungerford holdich (1917–1919)
francis younghusband (1919–1922)
lawrence dundas, 2nd marquess of zetland (1922–≈1925)
david george hogarth (1925–1927)
charles close (1927–1930)
sir james wordie (1951–1954)
raymond priestley (1961–1963)
sir laurence dudley stamp (1963–1966)
edward shackleton, baron shackleton (1971–1974)
sir crispin tickell (1989–1993)
george jellicoe, 2nd earl jellicoe (1993–1997)
john palmer, 4th earl of selborne (1997–2000)
michael palin (2009–2012)
dame judith rees (2012–2015)
nicholas crane (2015–present)




^ people & staff royal geographical society. retrieved 24 june 2012
^ rgs president rgs president. retrieved 30 september 2015