Past elected presidents of the Oxford Union are listed below, with their college and the year/term in which they served. Iterum indicates that a person was serving a second term as president (which is not possible under the current Union rules).
Key to colleges
- All Souls
- Balliol
- Brasenose
- Christ Church
- Corpus Christi
- Exeter
- Green Templeton
- Harris Manchester
- Hertford
- Jesus
- Keble
- Kellogg
- Lady Margaret Hall
- Linacre
- Lincoln
- Magdalen
- Mansfield
- Merton
- New College
- Nuffield
- Oriel
- Pembroke
- Queen's
- Regent's Park
- Reuben
- Somerville
- St Anne's
- St Antony's
- St Catherine's
- St Cross
- St Edmund Hall
- St Hilda's
- St Hugh's
- St John's
- St Peter's
- Trinity
- University
- Wadham
- Wolfson
- Worcester
Presidents of the United Debating Society
These are the Presidents as listed
- 1823
- 1824
- R. C. Dallas
- E. Vernon-Harcourt
- Harry Vane
- T. F. Hodges
- Henry Baring
- Viscount Mahon
- C. Des Voeux
- James Stuart-Wortley
- Robert Wilberforce
- Digby Wrangham
- A. J. Lewis
- Hassard Hume Dodgson
- John Talbot
- 1825
- N. H. Macdonald
- H. W. Torrens
- Samuel Wilberforce
- Richard Durnford (iterum)
- W. J. Blake
- Thomas Vesey
- E. E. Villiers
- Charles Murray
- Walter Trower
- R. A. Hornby
- Frederick Calvert
- J. R. Wood
Presidents of the Oxford Union Society
1826β1850
These are the presidents as listed:
Year | Michaelmas | Hilary | Trinity |
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1826 | β | Hassard Hume Dodgson Digby Wrangham |
Richard Durnford E. E. Villiers (iterum) |
1826β27 | R. A. Hornby | Norman Hilton Macdonald Douglas Smith Henry Tufnell |
J. Pearson Edward Twisleton |
1827β28 | William Courtenay Herman Merivale |
Douglas Smith (iterum) | Thomas Hobhouse A. Grant |
1828β29 | Charles Baring | Henry Wilberforce Thomas Acland |
H. W. Moncrieff |
1829β30 | Henry Manning Henry Wilberforce (iterum) |
Sidney Herbert | James Gaskell |
1830β31 | James Gaskell William Gladstone |
James Bruce Joseph Anstice |
John Lyall |
1831β32 | Earl of Lincoln | G. K. Rickards | Roundell Palmer |
1832β33 | William Ward | Edward Cardwell | Archibald Tait |
1833β34 | Edward Massie | Robert Lowe Charles Marriott |
William Sinclair |
1834β35 | J. Adams | William Ward (iterum) | J. M. Capes |
1835β36 | Edward Cardwell (iterum) | T. Brancker | John Cornish |
1836β37 | W. N. Tilson-Marsh | Henry Cripps | G. R. Moncrieff |
1837β38 | James Hessey | William Ridley | W. C. Lake |
1838β39 | Henry Highton | G. R. Moncrieff (iterum) | H. W. Sullivan |
1839β40 | William Buckley | J. B. Blackett | George Rawlinson |
1840β41 | C. T. Arnold | R. C. Powles | J. T. B. Landon |
1841β42 | Richard Congreve | Melville Portal | Drummond Chase |
1842β43 | Edward Plumptre | George Bowen | W. H. Scott |
1843β44 | John Coleridge | H. M. White | John Mackarness |
1844β45 | George Bowen(iterum) | Alfred Pott | John G. Cazenove |
1846β47 | Francis Sandford | John Conington | R. J. Simpson |
1848β49 | S. J. Hulme | C. H. Stanton | Earl of Dufferin W. B. Marriott |
1847β48 | George Hunt | Walter Congreve | Montagu Blackett |
1848β49 | G. R. Portal | F. Meyrick | George Boyle |
1849β50 | William Milman | J. R. K. Ralph | Edward Knatchbull-Hugessen |
1850β1875
Year | Michaelmas | Hilary | Trinity |
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1850β51 | E. B. Lomer | Alexander Mitchell | Henry Smith |
1851β52 | Frederick Lygon | Walter Shirley | Henry Oxenham |
1852β53 | C. H. Pearson | J. Fitzgerald | Benjamin Rogers |
1853β54 | George Goschen | Arthur Butler | Godfrey Lushington |
1854β55 | George C. Brodrick | Robert Bartlett | J. H. Bridges |
1855β56 | D. C. Lathbury | Charles Turner | W. F. Wilberforce |
1856β57 | John Oakley | Philip Eliot | John Mitchinson |
1857β58 | T. R. Halcombe | Thomas Fowle | Charles Bowen |
1858β59 | E. K. Bennet | A. V. Dicey | A. O. Rutson |
1859β60 | Peter Fogg | Edward Moore | H. L. Harrison |
1860β61 | Francis Beaumont | Kenelm Digby | Thomas Green |
1861β62 | J. R. Magrath | Auberon Herbert A. H. Beesly |
James Bryce |
1862β63 | O. W. Tancock | Reginald Smith |
Reginald Abbot |
1863β64 | Alfred Robinson | William Fearon |
Francis Jeune |
1864β65 | A. A. Clive | Alfred Robinson(iterum) | R. Robinson |
1865β66 | Courtenay Ilbert | Edward Talbot | George Simcox |
1866β67 | William Awdry | William Sanday | Lord Francis Hervey |
1867β68 | James Strachan-Davidson | Reginald Copleston | Edward Talbot (iterum) |
1868β69 | Mandell Creighton | C. T. Redington | Reginald Copleston (iterum) |
1869β70 | Charles Fyffe | William Duggan | A. H. Turner |
1870β71 | John Doyle | Thomas Grose | Herbert James |
1871β72 | Walter Lock | Annan Bryce | Henry Pope |
1872β73 | Charles Cruttwell | William M. Sinclair | Ellis Ashmead-Bartlett |
1873β74 | Robert Mowbray | M. H. Gould | H. H. Asquith |
1874β75 | H. A. Venables | Thomas Raleigh | Arthur Sloman |
1875β1900
Year | Michaelmas | Hilary | Trinity |
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1875β76 | Herbert Paul | George Savery | Alfred Milner |
1876β77 | Robert Haddon | Dunbar Barton | Viscount Lymington Arthur Baumann |
1877β78 | Robert Horton | William St John Brodrick | Robert Germaine |
1878β79 | Nathaniel Micklem | Edward Poulton | F. R. Burrows |
1879β80 | Edward Cook | Richard Dawson | B. R. Wise |
1880β81 | George Curzon | John Sargeaunt | Charles White |
1881β82 | Edward Horsburgh | John Hamilton | A. N. Cumming |
1882β83 | Michael Sadler | W. H. Shaw | Halford Mackinder |
1883β84 | John Pemberton | A. Dyson Williams | William Worsley |
1884β85 | Cosmo Lang | George Vidal | George Bellewes |
1885β86 | Robert Cecil | Anthony Hawkins | C. Emmott |
1886β87 | / Walter Phillips | Charles Green | C. J. Blacker |
1887β88 | H. M. Godfray | A. J. McGregor | A. J. Carlyle |
1888β89 | Arthur Griffith-Boscawen | Spurrier Parmiter | Herbert Snowden |
1889β90 | George Mortimer | George Peel | Frank Coller |
1890β91 | Carl Knaus | William Cozens-Hardy | Lord Ampthill |
1891β92 | A. E. Ripley | John Magee | James Galbraith |
1892β93 | Robert Charles Phillimore | C. H. Eliot | William Lygon |
1893β94 | H. W. Liversidge | Lord Balcarres | F. E. Smith |
1894β95 | Herbert Morrah | Hilaire Belloc | P. J. Macdonell |
1895β96 | R. C. Phillimore (iterum) | John Simon | Archibald Boyd-Carpenter |
1896β97 | Francis Hirst | Robert Johnson | James Cleland |
1897β98 | F. Lenwood | Edmund Bentley | Cyril Garbett |
1898β99 | L. R. F. Oldershaw | John Buchan | Arthur Steel |
1899β1900 | G. M. Gathorne-Hardy | Robert Ensor | Raymond Asquith |
1900β1925
Year | Michaelmas | Hilary | Trinity |
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1900β01 | Harold Baker | Algernon Cecil | T. Cuthbertson |
1901β02 | George Tomlinson | Sandie Lindsay | Eric Macfadyen |
1902β03 | Herbert du Parcq | Herbert Asquith | F. W. Curran |
1903β04 | John Brooke | William Temple | W. A. Moore |
1904β05 | E. S. Jose | John Heath | Alexander Shaw |
1905β06 | M. H. Woods | H. M. Paul | Henry Lygon |
1906β07 | Gervais Rentoul | Neville Talbot | Will Gladstone |
1907β08 | W. S. Armour | Charles Le Quesne | Hugh Hallett |
1908β09 | M. H. Richmond | Ronald Knox | Edgar Swain |
1909β10 | Robert Laffan | Robert S. A. Palmer | Leonard Stein |
1910β11 | A. W. Cockburn | Nathaniel Micklem | Raymond Bevir |
1911β12 | Philip Guedalla | Frank Griffith | Robert Barrington-Ward |
1912β13 | G. S. Woodhouse | Walter Monckton | W. J. Bland |
1913β14 | Godfrey Talbot | Ernest Roberts | Alexander Wedderburn |
1914β15 | Arthur Wiggin | N/A
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1915β16 | N/A
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N/A
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1916β17 | N/A
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N/A
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1917β18 | N/A
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N/A
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1918β19 | N/A
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N/A
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Leslie Hore-Belisha |
1919β20 | Thomas Earp | Constantine Gallop | John Russell |
1920β21 | Beverley Nichols | Alec Beechman | Cecil Ramage |
1921β22 | Kenneth Lindsay | John Evans | Ralph Carson |
1922β23 | Edward Marjoribanks | J. Douglas Woodruff | Gordon Bagnall |
1923β24 | Christopher Hollis | Christopher Scaife | Gerald Gardiner |
1924β25 | Henry Scrymgeour-Wedderburn | Robert Bernays | Vincent Lloyd-Jones |
1925β1950
Year | Michaelmas | Hilary | Trinity |
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1925β26 | Hugh Molson | Gyles Isham | Lindley Fraser |
1926β27 | Alan Lennox-Boyd | Roger Fulford | John Playfair Price |
1927β28 | Malcolm Brereton | Dingle Foot | Aubrey Herbert |
1928β29 | Somerset Stopford Brooke | Roger Wilson | Quintin Hogg |
1929β30 | Michael Stewart | Edgar Lustgarten | J. P. W. Mallalieu |
1930β31 | John Boyd-Carpenter | John Foot | Geoffrey Wilson |
1931β32 | Toby O'Brien | Arthur Irvine | Brian Davidson |
1932β33 | Christopher Smuts | Frank Hardie | Tony Greenwood |
1933β34 | Michael Foot | Dosoo Karaka | Keith Steel-Maitland |
1934β35 | W. G. Murray | David Lewis | James Hickerton |
1935β36 | Brian Farrell | Ian Harvey | Bill Shebbeare |
1936β37 | James Brown | Christopher Mayhew | Patrick Anderson |
1937β38 | Alan Fyfe | Raymond Walton | Philip Toynbee |
1938β39 | Alan Wood | Edward Heath | Hugh Fraser |
1939β40 | A. F. Giles Nicholas Henderson |
Madron Seligman | Robin Edmonds |
1940β41 | James Comyn | Indar Bahadoorsingh | Kenneth Riddle |
1941β42 | Michael Kinchin-Smith | Gershon Hirsch | F. P. R. Hinchliffe |
1942β43 | James Cameron Tudor | Herbert Clarke | Courtney Blackmore |
1943β44 | Godfrey le Quesne | Kenneth Lamb | Fernando Henriques |
1944β45 | Tony Pickford | Alan Gibson Rudi Weisweiller |
Anthony Walton |
1945-46 | John Long | Basil Wigoder | Anthony Crosland |
1946-47 | Ronald Brown | Roger Gray |
Anthony Wedgwood Benn |
1947β48 | Peter Kroyer | Clive Wigram | Edward Boyle |
1948β49 | Seymour Hills | Peter Kirk | Rodney Donald |
1949β50 | Dick Faber | Uwe Kitzinger | Robin Day |
1950β1975
Year | Michaelmas | Hilary | Trinity |
---|---|---|---|
1950β51 | Godfrey Smith | Jeremy Thorpe | William Rees-Mogg |
1951β52 | Ivan Yates | Peter Blaker | Howard Shuman |
1952β53 | Patrick Mayhew | Bryan Magee | John Peters |
1953β54 | Andrew Cuninghame | Tyrell Burgess | Raghavan N. Iyer |
1954β55 | Michael Heseltine | Jeremy Isaacs | Anthony Howard |
1955β56 | Desmond Watkins | Alec Grant | Roy Dixon |
1956β57 | Edmund Ions | Jeremy Lever | Peter Brooke |
1957β58 | Brian Walden | Lalith Athulathmudali | Stuart Griffiths |
1958β59 | Ron Owen | Lakshman Kadirgamar | Anthony Newton |
1959β60 | Joe Trattner | Ian Lyon | Peter Jay |
1960β61 | Robert Rowland | Phillip Whitehead | Paul Foot |
1961β62 | Howard Preece | Hugh Stephenson | John McDonnell |
1962β63 | Michael Beloff | Girish Karnad | Jeffrey Jowell |
1963β64 | Anthony Hart | Garth Pratt | Lord James Douglas-Hamilton |
1964β65 | Eric Abrahams | Neil MacCormick | Tariq Ali |
1965β66 | Douglas Hogg | Joshua Bamfield | Jeremy Beloff |
1966β67 | Montek Singh Ahluwalia | Ronald Cohen | Stephen Marks |
1967β68 | Robert Jackson | Geraldine Jones | William Waldegrave |
1968β69 | Ian Glick | David Walter | Colin Youlden |
1969β70 | Gyles Brandreth | Guy Harkin | Stephen Milligan |
1970β71 | Eric Parsloe | Michael House | Susan Richards |
1971β72 | Christopher Tookey | Julian Priestley Pradeep Mitra |
Patric Dickinson |
1972β73 | Philip McDonagh | Michael Austerberry | Colin Maltby |
1973β74 | David Warren | Simon Walker | Michael Soole |
1974β75 | Robert McDonagh | Robert Scoble | Victor van Amerongen |
1975β2000
Year | Michaelmas | Hilary | Trinity |
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1975β76 | David Soskin | Andrew Bell | Colin Moynihan |
1976β77 | Richard Norton | Benazir Bhutto | Victoria Schofield |
1977β78 | Damian Green | Nicholas O'Shaughnessy | John Harrison |
1978β79 | Daniel Moylan | Alan Duncan | Philip May |
1979β80 | Michael Crick | Warwick Lightfoot | Nicholas Prettejohn |
1980β81 | Rupert Soames | Andrew Sutcliffe | Alexandra Jones |
1981β82 | William Hague | Kevin Brennan | Paul Thompson |
1982β83 | Christopher Wortley | Hilali Noordeen | Andrew Sullivan |
1983β84 | Neale Stevenson | Malcolm Bull | Melvyn Stride |
1984β85 | Laurence Grafstein | Roland Rudd | Neil Sherlock |
1985β86 | Anthony Goodman | Jeya Wilson | Boris Johnson |
1986β87 | Angus McCullough | Simon Stevens | Jessica Pulay |
1987β88 | Anthony Frieze | Michael Gove | Duncan Gray |
1988β89 | Andrew McCulloch | Adam Bruce | Stefan Green |
1989β90 | Diana Gerald | Ed Lazarus | Jeremy Quin |
1990β91 | Melanie Johnson | Oliver Campbell KC | Damian Hinds |
1991β92 | Nicholas Edgar | Graeme Halkerston | Adrian Gannon |
1992β93 | Christopher Hall | James Robertson | Katherine Wade |
1993β94 | Toby Lewis | Kate Wilson | Peter Gowers |
1994β95 | Jeremy Green | Robert Palmer | David Pinto-Duschinsky |
1995β96 | Matt Guy | Jonathan Wolf | Paul Kenward |
1996β97 | Jenny Carter-Manning | Rob Harrington | Oli Evans |
1997β98 | Sam Gyimah | Clare Dixon | Ellie Blagbrough |
1998β99 | Helen Eastman | Theo Mills | Nicky Black |
1999β2000 | Ben Seifert | Lucy Aitkens | Jeff Bell |
2000βpresent
Year | Michaelmas | Hilary | Trinity |
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2000β01 | Richard Silcock | Nick Mason | Amy Harland |
2001β02 | Neil Mahapatra | Charlotte Keenan | Karen Price |
2002β03 | David Watson | Fraser Campbell | Ambrose Faulks |
2003β04 | Marcus Walker | Edward Tomlinson | Georgina Costa |
2004β05 | Ruzwana Bashir | Laura Poots | Richard Tydeman |
2005β06 | Chris Farmer | Sapana Agrawal | David Powell |
2006β07 | James Wise | Theo Roos | Alex Just |
2007β08 | Luke Tryl | Emily Partington | Ben Tansey |
2008β09 | Josh Roche | Charlie Holt | Corey Dixon |
2009β10 | James Dray | Stuart Cullen | Laura Winwood |
2010β11 | James Kingston | James Langman | Ashvir Sangha |
2011β12 | Isabelle Westbury | Lauren Pringle | Isabel Ernst |
2012β13 | Seung-yoon Lee | Maria Rioumine | Joseph D'Urso |
2013β14 | Parit Wacharasindhu | Polina Ivanova | Ben Sullivan |
2014β15 | Mayank Banerjee | Lisa Wehden | Olivia Merrett |
2015β16 | Charles Vaughan | Stuart Webber | Robert Harris |
2016β17 | Noah Lachs | Nikolay Koshikov | Michael Li |
2017β18 | Chris Zabilowicz | Laali Vadlamani | Gui Cavalcanti |
2018β19 | Stephen Horvath | Daniel Wilkinson | Genevieve Athis |
2019β20 | Brendan McGrath Sara Dube (Acting) |
Sara Dube | Mahi Joshi |
2020β21 | Beatrice Barr | James Price | Adam Roble |
2021β22 | Chengkai Xie | Molly Mantle | Michael-Akolade Ayodeji |
2022β23 | Ahmad Nawaz Charlie Mackintosh (Acting) |
Charlie Mackintosh | Matthew Dick |
2023β24 | Disha Hegde | Hannah Edwards | Louis Wilson |
2024β25 | Ebrahim Osman-Mowafy | Israr Khan |
Other notable officeholders
The 3rd Marquess of Salisbury was Union Secretary in Michaelmas 1848.
Harold Macmillan was Secretary of the Union in Hilary 1914, then Junior Treasurer (elected unopposed, which was then very unusual) in Trinity 1914; but for the war he would "almost certainly" have been President.
S. W. R. D. Bandaranaike was Treasurer in Trinity 1924.
Humayun Kabir was Librarian in 1931.
Roy Jenkins served as Librarian and Secretary and lost two Presidential elections.
Norman St John-Stevas was Secretary of the Oxford Union but never became President despite his ambition to be the first person to be President of both Oxford and Cambridge Unions; he had been President of the Cambridge Union during his undergraduate years, before he studied at Oxford.
Ann Widdecombe was Treasurer in 1972, after having served as Secretary the previous year.
Jacob Rees-Mogg was Librarian in 1990, losing the election for the presidency to future Education Secretary Damian Hinds.
In fiction
- Simon Kerslake (early 1950s), protagonist of the Jeffrey Archer novel First Among Equals invites sitting Prime Minister Winston Churchill to propose the motion during Eights Week that "This House Would Rather be a Commoner than a Lord". His future rival, The Hon. Charles Seymour listens from the floor and resolves to enter politics also. Archer himself was elected to Standing Committee for one term in 1965.
Notes
- Thomas Frederick Amelius Parry Hodges (1801/2 β 27 October 1880) was also a fellow of his alma mater and was vicar of North Clifton with Harby, Nottinghamshire and of Lyme Regis.
- Charles des Voeux (29 April 1802 β 9 August 1833) was the eldest son of Sir Charles Des Voeux, 2nd Baronet.
- Arthur James Lewis (1800/1 in Cannanore 14 November 1865) later became Advocate-General of Bombay.
- ^ Hassard Hume Dodgson (1803/4 β fl. 1872) was a master of the Common Pleas and was the father-in-law of Charles Edward Pollock.
- ^ Robert Vernon Atherton Hornby (1805/6 β September 1857)
- John Ryle Wood (1806/7 β 9 November 1886) was later vicar of St John-in-Bedwardine, canon of Worcester Cathedral, and Chaplain to the Duke of Cambridge.
- ^ Douglas Smith (1804/5 β 1829)
- John Pearson (1806/7 fl. 1828), previously educated at Eton College, later became a barrister after graduating from Lincoln's Inn
- Edward Massie (1805/6 β fl. 1845) was later a chaplain.
- Sinclair attended St Mary Hall, Oxford. Associated with Oriel since 1326, it functioned independently from 1545 to 1902, before being incorporated into Oriel upon the death of its Principal, Drummond Percy Chase. Thus, St Mary Hall's coat of arms is substituted with that of the university itself.
- John Adams (1813 β 18 September 1848), of the landed family of Ansty Hall and the eldest half-brother of novelist Henry Cadwallader Adams, later became a barrister-at-law in the Middle Temple.
- Thomas Brancker (1812/3 β 11 November 1871) was later rector of St Mary's Church, Limington and prebendary of Wells Cathedral.
- William Nathaniel Tilson Marsh Lushington Tilson FZS FRGS FRHS (1815/6 β January 1881) was the perpetual curate of St James' Church, Ryde and of St Leonard's Church, St Leonards-on-Sea. His wife was a niece of Charles Morgan, 1st Baron Tredegar.
- ^ George Robertson Moncreiff (29 January 1817 β fl. 1884), a younger brother of Sir Henry Wellwood-Moncreiff, 10th Baronet, was HM Inspector of Schools from 1850 to 1873.
- Henry William Sullivan (1814/5 β 22 March 1880) was later rector of Yoxall
- Rev. Charles Thomas Arnold (1817/8 β 13 May 1878) was later an assistant master at Rugby School who wrote articles for the Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology.
- James Timothy Bainbridge Landon (1816/7 β fl. 1877) was later vicar of Ledsham, West Yorkshire and canon of York Minster.
- William Henry Scott (1819/20 β 17 September 1859) was a grandson of Sir Joseph Scott, 1st Baronet.
- Henry Master White (1820/1 β fl. 1871) was later vicar of Masbrough and, in the Cape Colony, principal of Diocesan College and Archdeacon of Grahamstown.
- Robert James Simpson (1825/6 β fl. 1886) was vicar of Upton, Buckinghamshire (1867β79), St Clement Danes (1869β79), and St Peter Eltham (1886β?).
- Samuel Joseph Hulme (1823/4 β 12 December 1886) was rector of St Martin's Carfax, Oxford and of Bourton-on-the-Water.
- Charles Holbrow Stanton (1825 β fl. 1876) was later admitted to the bar at Lincoln's Inn and became an barrister in the Oxford circuit.
- Walter Congreve (1824/5 β fl. 1850)
- George Raymond Portal (28 February 1827 β 3 April 1889), a brother of Sir Wyndham Portal, 1st Baronet, was later rector of Albury, Surrey and of Burghclere.
- John Rowe Kelley Ralph (1824 β 5 December 1885) was later a barrister who served on the North Wales and Chester Circuit.
- Edward Bridges Lomer (1827/8 β 6 August 1865) was later a barrister-at-law.
- John FitzGerald (1830/1 β fl. 1857) was later vicar of Borden, Kent and Camden Town.
- Robert Edward Bartlett (1829/30 β fl. 1876) was later vicar of Great Waltham and his son was the brother-in-law of Edward Bruce Alexander.
- John Henry Bridges (1851/2 β fl. 1876)
- Thomas Robert Halcombe (1833/4 β 22 July 1880) was later curate of Addlestone.
- Edward Kedington Bennet (1833/4 β fl. 1885) was later rector of Bunwell.
- Alfred Robinson (1840/1 β fl. 1875) was later sub-warden of New College, Oxford.
- The first president of East Asian descent, he is the CEO of Byline, a crowdfunded journalism platform.
- Price was the first graduate president of the Union, having graduated in 2013. He was elected after members voted to re-open nominations in a first election and a second election was called. The second election was found to have been hacked, having taken place online due to Covid-19, with over 500 votes made illegitimately. The Standing Committee decided to discard the illegitimate votes and accept the results of the remaining ballots, declaring Price elected.
- Nawaz was removed as president in November 2022 after he was forced to resign for missing committee meetings. The Union membership voted 251-164 to uphold Nawaz's automatic resignation and Charlie Mackintosh replaced him as acting president on 18 November 2022.
- Leo Buckley was initially declared President-Elect, but an election tribunal disqualified him and declared Julia Maranhao-Wong elected. Buckley appealed the decision; in February 2024 it was decided that the role of President-Elect should be left vacant and that the presidency would be offered to the incoming Librarian Louis Wilson.
- Ebrahim Osman-Mowafy was initially elected, but an election tribunal in June 2024 disqualified him and ordered a recount. Osman-Mowafy was subsequently re-instated.
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