List of presidents of the Oxford Union

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

See also: University of Oxford § Colleges

• All Souls All Souls
• Balliol Balliol
• Blackfriars Hall Blackfriars Hall
• Brasenose Brasenose
• Campion Hall Campion Hall
• Christ Church Christ Church
• Corpus Christi Corpus Christi
• Exeter Exeter
• Green Templeton Green Templeton
• Harris Manchester Harris Manchester
• Hertford Hertford
• Jesus Jesus
• Keble Keble
• Kellogg Kellogg
• Lady Margaret Hall Lady Margaret Hall
• Linacre Linacre
• Lincoln Lincoln
• Magdalen Magdalen
• Mansfield Mansfield
• Merton Merton
• New New
• Nuffield Nuffield
• Oriel Oriel
• Pembroke Pembroke
• The Queen's The Queen's
• Regent's Park Regent's Park
• Reuben Reuben
• Somerville Somerville
• St Anne's St Anne's
• St Antony's St Antony's
• St Catherine's St Catherine's
• St Cross St Cross
• St Edmund Hall St Edmund Hall
• St Hilda's St Hilda's
• St Hugh's St Hugh's
• St John's St John's
• St Peter's St Peter's
• Trinity Trinity
• University University
• Wadham Wadham
• Wolfson Wolfson
• Worcester Worcester
• Wycliffe Hall Wycliffe Hall

Presidents of the United Debating Society

These are the Presidents as listed^[1]

• 1823
  • Donald Maclean
  • A. W. Ashley
  • J. C. Colquhoun
  • John Wilson-Patten
  • Thomas Powys
  • John Bramston
  • Henry Chetwynd-Talbot
  • Richard Durnford^[2]
• 1824
  • R. C. Dallas
  • E. Vernon-Harcourt
  • Harry Vane
  • T. F. Hodges^[a]
  • Henry Baring
  • Viscount Mahon
  • C. Des Voeux^[b]
  • James Stuart-Wortley
  • Robert Wilberforce
  • Digby Wrangham
  • A. J. Lewis^[c]
  • Hassard Hume Dodgson^[d]
  • John Chetwynd-Talbot
• 1825
  • Norman Hilton Macdonald
  • H. W. Torrens
  • Samuel Wilberforce
  • Richard Durnford (iterum)^[2]
  • W. J. Blake
  • Thomas Vesey
  • E. E. Villiers
  • Charles Murray^[9]
  • Walter Trower
  • R. A. Hornby^[e]
  • Frederick Calvert
  • J. R. Wood^[f]

Presidents of the Oxford Union Society

1826–1850

These are the presidents as listed:^[1][12][13]

Year	Michaelmas	Hilary	Trinity
1826	—	Hassard Hume Dodgson[d][n 1][12][13] Digby Wrangham[12]	Richard Durnford[n 1][2][12] E. E. Villiers (iterum)[12]
1826–27	R. A. Hornby[e][12]	Norman Hilton Macdonald[12] Douglas Smith[g][n 1] Henry Tufnell[12]	J. Pearson[h][12] Edward Twisleton[12]
1827–28	William Courtenay[17][12] Herman Merivale[12]	Douglas Smith (iterum)[g][12]	Thomas Hobhouse[12] A. Grant[12]
1828–29	Charles Baring[12]	Henry Wilberforce[12] Thomas Acland[9][12]	H. W. Moncrieff[12]
1829–30	Henry Manning[n 1][12] Henry Wilberforce (iterum)[n 1][12][13]	Sidney Herbert	James Gaskell[12]
1830–31	James Gaskell[12] William Gladstone[12]	James Bruce[12] Joseph Anstice	John Lyall[12]
1831–32	Earl of Lincoln	G. K. Rickards	Roundell Palmer[18][13]
1832–33	William Ward	Edward Cardwell	Archibald Tait
1833–34	Edward Massie[i]	Robert Lowe Charles Marriott	William Sinclair[j]
1834–35	J. Adams[k]	William Ward (iterum)	J. M. Capes
1835–36	Edward Cardwell (iterum)	T. Brancker[l]	John Cornish[23][13]
1836–37	W. N. Tilson-Marsh[m]	Henry Cripps[26][13]	G. R. Moncrieff[n]
1837–38	James Hessey	William Ridley	W. C. Lake[28][13]
1838–39	Henry Highton	G. R. Moncrieff[n] (iterum)	H. W. Sullivan[o]
1839–40	William Buckley	J. B. Blackett	George Rawlinson[30][13]
1840–41	C. T. Arnold[p]	R. C. Powles[33][13]	J. T. B. Landon[q]
1841–42	Richard Congreve[35][13]	Melville Portal	Drummond Chase
1842–43	Edward Plumptre	George Bowen[36][13]	W. H. Scott[r]
1843–44	John Coleridge[39][13]	H. M. White[s]	John Mackarness[41][13]
1844–45	George Bowen[36][13](iterum)	Alfred Pott[42][13]	John G. Cazenove
1846–47	Francis Sandford	John Conington[41]	R. J. Simpson[t]
1848–49	S. J. Hulme[u]	C. H. Stanton[v]	Earl of Dufferin[n 1] W. B. Marriott
1847–48	George Hunt	Walter Congreve[w]	Montagu Blackett[41]
1848–49	G. R. Portal[x]	F. Meyrick[50]	George Boyle
1849–50	William Milman[51][52]	J. R. K. Ralph[y]	Edward Knatchbull-Hugessen

1850–1875

Year	Michaelmas	Hilary	Trinity
1850–51	E. B. Lomer[z]	Alexander Mitchell	Henry Smith
1851–52	Frederick Lygon	Walter Shirley	Henry Oxenham
1852–53	C. H. Pearson[56][13]	J. Fitzgerald[aa]	Benjamin Rogers[58][13]
1853–54	George Goschen[59][13]	Arthur Butler[60][13]	Godfrey Lushington[61][13]
1854–55	George C. Brodrick[62][13]	Robert Bartlett[ab]	J. H. Bridges[ac][66][13]
1855–56	D. C. Lathbury	Charles Turner[67][13]	W. F. Wilberforce
1856–57	John Oakley	Philip Eliot	John Mitchinson[68][13]
1857–58	T. R. Halcombe[ad]	Thomas Fowle	Charles Bowen[70][13]
1858–59	E. K. Bennet[ae]	A. V. Dicey[72][13]	A. O. Rutson[73]
1859–60	Peter Fogg	Edward Moore[74][13]	H. L. Harrison
1860–61	Francis Beaumont[75][13][76]	Kenelm Digby[77][13]	Thomas Green
1861–62	J. R. Magrath[78][13]	Auberon Herbert[n 1][79][13] A. H. Beesly	James Bryce[60][13]
1862–63	O. W. Tancock	Reginald Smith[80][13]	Reginald Abbot[81][13]
1863–64	Alfred Robinson[af][83][13]	William Fearon[84][13]	Francis Jeune[85][13]
1864–65	A. A. Clive	Alfred Robinson[83][13](iterum)	R. Robinson
1865–66	Courtenay Ilbert[86][13]	Edward Talbot[87][13]	George Simcox[88][13]
1866–67	William Awdry[89][13]	William Sanday[90][13]	Lord Francis Hervey[91]
1867–68	James Strachan-Davidson[92][13]	Reginald Copleston[93][13]	Edward Talbot[87][13] (iterum)
1868–69	Mandell Creighton[94][13]	C. T. Redington	Reginald Copleston[93][13] (iterum)
1869–70	Charles Fyffe	William Duggan[95][13]	A. H. Turner
1870–71	John Doyle[96][13]	Thomas Grose[97][13]	Herbert James[93][13]
1871–72	Walter Lock[98][13]	Annan Bryce	Henry Pope
1872–73	Charles Cruttwell[99][13]	William M. Sinclair	Ellis Ashmead-Bartlett
1873–74	Robert Mowbray[96][13]	M. H. Gould	H. H. Asquith[86][13]
1874–75	H. A. Venables	Thomas Raleigh[100][13]	Arthur Sloman[1]

1875–1900

Year	Michaelmas	Hilary	Trinity
1875–76	Herbert Paul	George Savery	Alfred Milner[83][13]
1876–77	Robert Haddon	Dunbar Barton	Viscount Lymington[n 1][101][13] Arthur Baumann[101][13]
1877–78	Robert Horton[102][13]	William St John Brodrick	Robert Germaine
1878–79	Nathaniel Micklem	Edward Poulton[103]	F. R. Burrows
1879–80	Edward Cook	Richard Dawson	B. R. Wise
1880–81	George Curzon	John Sargeaunt	Charles White
1881–82	Edward Horsburgh	John Hamilton[104]	A. N. Cumming[101]
1882–83	Michael Sadler	W. H. Shaw[92]	Halford Mackinder[105]
1883–84	John Pemberton[106]	A. Dyson Williams	William Worsley
1884–85	Cosmo Lang[107]	George Vidal[108]	George Bellewes
1885–86	Robert Cecil	Anthony Hawkins	C. Emmott
1886–87	/ Walter Phillips	Charles Green	C. J. Blacker
1887–88	H. M. Godfray	A. J. McGregor	A. J. Carlyle[109]
1888–89	Arthur Griffith-Boscawen	Spurrier Parmiter	Herbert Snowden
1889–90	George Mortimer	George Peel	Frank Coller
1890–91	Carl Knaus	William Cozens-Hardy	Lord Ampthill
1891–92	A. E. Ripley	John Magee	James Galbraith
1892–93	Robert Charles Phillimore	C. H. Eliot	William Lygon
1893–94	H. W. Liversidge	Lord Balcarres	F. E. Smith
1894–95	Herbert Morrah	Hilaire Belloc	P. J. Macdonell
1895–96	R. C. Phillimore (iterum)	John Simon	Archibald Boyd-Carpenter
1896–97	Francis Hirst	Robert Johnson	James Cleland
1897–98	F. Lenwood	Edmund Bentley	Cyril Garbett
1898–99	L. R. F. Oldershaw	John Buchan	Arthur Steel
1899–1900	G. M. Gathorne-Hardy	Robert Ensor[105]	Raymond Asquith[n 2][105]

1900–1925

Year	Michaelmas	Hilary	Trinity
1900–01	Harold Baker[105]	Algernon Cecil[105]	T. Cuthbertson[105]
1901–02	George Tomlinson[105]	Sandie Lindsay[105]	Eric Macfadyen[105]
1902–03	Herbert du Parcq[105]	Herbert Asquith[105]	F. W. Curran[105]
1903–04	John Brooke[105]	William Temple[105]	W. A. Moore[105]
1904–05	E. S. Jose[105]	John Heath[105]	Alexander Shaw[105]
1905–06	M. H. Woods[105]	H. M. Paul[105]	Henry Lygon[105]
1906–07	Gervais Rentoul[105]	Neville Talbot[105]	Will Gladstone[n 2][105]
1907–08	W. S. Armour[105]	Charles Le Quesne[105]	Hugh Hallett[105]
1908–09	M. H. Richmond[105]	Ronald Knox[105]	Edgar Swain[105]
1909–10	Robert Laffan[105]	Robert S. A. Palmer[n 2][105]	Leonard Stein[105]
1910–11	A. W. Cockburn[105]	Nathaniel Micklem[105]	Raymond Bevir[n 2][105]
1911–12	Philip Guedalla[105]	Frank Griffith[105]	Robert Barrington-Ward[105]
1912–13	G. S. Woodhouse[n 2][105]	Walter Monckton[105]	W. J. Bland[n 2][105]
1913–14	Godfrey Talbot[n 2][105]	Ernest Roberts[105]	Alexander Wedderburn[105]
1914–15	Arthur Wiggin[105]	N/A	N/A
1915–16	N/A	N/A	N/A
1916–17	N/A	N/A	N/A
1917–18	N/A	N/A	N/A
1918–19	N/A	N/A	Leslie Hore-Belisha[105]
1919–20	Thomas Earp[105]	Constantine Gallop[105]	John Russell[105]
1920–21	Beverley Nichols[105]	Alec Beechman[105]	Cecil Ramage[105]
1921–22	Kenneth Lindsay[105]	John Evans[105]	Ralph Carson[105]
1922–23	Edward Marjoribanks[105]	J. Douglas Woodruff[105]	Gordon Bagnall[105]
1923–24	Christopher Hollis[105]	Christopher Scaife[105]	Gerald Gardiner[105]
1924–25	Henry Scrymgeour-Wedderburn[105]	Robert Bernays[105]	Vincent Lloyd-Jones[105]

1925–1950

Year	Michaelmas	Hilary	Trinity
1925–26	Hugh Molson[105]	Gyles Isham[105]	Lindley Fraser[105]
1926–27	Alan Lennox-Boyd[105]	Roger Fulford[105]	John Playfair Price[105]
1927–28	Malcolm Brereton[n 3][105]	Dingle Foot[105]	Aubrey Herbert[105]
1928–29	Somerset Stopford Brooke[105]	Roger Wilson[105]	Quintin Hogg[105]
1929–30	Michael Stewart[105]	Edgar Lustgarten[105]	J. P. W. Mallalieu[105]
1930–31	John Boyd-Carpenter[105]	John Foot[105]	Geoffrey Wilson[105]
1931–32	Toby O'Brien[105]	Arthur Irvine[105]	Brian Davidson[105]
1932–33	Christopher Smuts[105]	Frank Hardie[105]	Tony Greenwood[105]
1933–34	Michael Foot[105]	Dosoo Karaka[105]	Keith Steel-Maitland[105]
1934–35	W. G. Murray[105]	David Lewis[105]	James Hickerton[105]
1935–36	Brian Farrell[105]	Ian Harvey[105]	Bill Shebbeare[n 3][105]
1936–37	James Brown[105]	Christopher Mayhew[105]	Patrick Anderson[105]
1937–38	Alan Fyfe[n 3][105]	Raymond Walton[105]	Philip Toynbee[105]
1938–39	Alan Wood[105]	Edward Heath[105]	Hugh Fraser[105]
1939–40	A. F. Giles[n 4][105] Nicholas Henderson[105]	Madron Seligman[105]	Robin Edmonds[105]
1940–41	James Comyn[105]	Indar Bahadoorsingh[105]	Kenneth Riddle[105]
1941–42	Michael Kinchin-Smith[105]	Gershon Hirsch[105]	F. P. R. Hinchliffe[105]
1942–43	James Cameron Tudor[105]	Herbert Clarke[105]	Courtney Blackmore[105]
1943–44	Godfrey le Quesne[105][110]	Kenneth Lamb[105]	Fernando Henriques[105]
1944–45	Tony Pickford[105]	Alan Gibson[n 4][105] Rudi Weisweiller[105]	Anthony Walton[105]
1945-46	John Long[105]	Basil Wigoder[105]	Anthony Crosland[105]
1946-47	Ronald Brown[105]	Roger Gray[105]	Anthony Wedgwood Benn[105]
1947–48	Peter Kroyer[105]	Clive Wigram[105]	Edward Boyle[105]
1948–49	Seymour Hills[105]	Peter Kirk[105]	Rodney Donald[105]
1949–50	Dick Faber[105]	Uwe Kitzinger[105]	Robin Day[105]

1950–1975

Year	Michaelmas	Hilary	Trinity
1950–51	Godfrey Smith[105]	Jeremy Thorpe[105]	William Rees-Mogg[105]
1951–52	Ivan Yates[105]	Peter Blaker[105]	Howard Shuman[105]
1952–53	Patrick Mayhew[105]	Bryan Magee[105]	John Peters[105]
1953–54	Andrew Cuninghame[105]	Tyrell Burgess[105]	Raghavan N. Iyer[105]
1954–55	Michael Heseltine[105]	Jeremy Isaacs[105]	Anthony Howard[105]
1955–56	Desmond Watkins[105]	Alec Grant[105]	Roy Dixon[105]
1956–57	Edmund Ions[105]	Jeremy Lever[105]	Peter Brooke[105]
1957–58	Brian Walden[105]	Lalith Athulathmudali[105]	Stuart Griffiths[105]
1958–59	Ron Owen	Lakshman Kadirgamar[105]	Anthony Newton[105]
1959–60	Joe Trattner[105]	Ian Lyon[105]	Peter Jay[105]
1960–61	Robert Rowland[105]	Phillip Whitehead[105]	Paul Foot[105]
1961–62	Howard Preece[105]	Hugh Stephenson[105]	John McDonnell[105]
1962–63	Michael Beloff[105]	Girish Karnad[105]	Jeffrey Jowell[105]
1963–64	Anthony Hart[105]	Garth Pratt[105]	Lord James Douglas-Hamilton[105]
1964–65	Eric Abrahams[105][111]	Neil MacCormick[105]	Tariq Ali[105]
1965–66	Douglas Hogg[105]	Joshua Bamfield[105]	Jeremy Beloff[105]
1966–67	Montek Singh Ahluwalia[105]	Ronald Cohen[105]	Stephen Marks[105]
1967–68	Robert Jackson[105]	Geraldine Jones[105]	William Waldegrave[105]
1968–69	Ian Glick[105]	David Walter[105]	Colin Youlden[105]
1969–70	Gyles Brandreth[105]	Guy Harkin[105]	Stephen Milligan[105]
1970–71	Eric Parsloe[105]	Michael House[105]	Susan Richards[105]
1971–72	Christopher Tookey[105]	Julian Priestley[n 1][105] Pradeep Mitra[105]	Patric Dickinson[105]
1972–73	Philip McDonagh[105]	Michael Austerberry[112]	Colin Maltby[105]
1973–74	David Warren[105]	Simon Walker[105]	Michael Soole[105]
1974–75	Robert McDonagh[105]	Robert Scoble[105]	Victor van Amerongen[105]

1975–2000

Year	Michaelmas	Hilary	Trinity
1975–76	David Soskin[105]	Andrew Bell[105]	Colin Moynihan[105]
1976–77	Richard Norton[105]	Benazir Bhutto[105]	Victoria Schofield[105]
1977–78	Damian Green[105]	Nicholas O'Shaughnessy[105]	John Harrison[105]
1978–79	Daniel Moylan[105]	Alan Duncan[105]	Philip May[105]
1979–80	Michael Crick[105]	Warwick Lightfoot[105]	Nicholas Prettejohn[105]
1980–81	Rupert Soames[105]	Andrew Sutcliffe[105]	Alexandra Jones[105]
1981–82	William Hague	Kevin Brennan[105]	Paul Thompson[105]
1982–83	Christopher Wortley[105]	Hilali Noordeen[105]	Andrew Sullivan[105]
1983–84	Neale Stevenson[105]	Malcolm Bull[105]	Melvyn Stride[105]
1984–85	Laurence Grafstein[105]	Roland Rudd[105]	Neil Sherlock[105]
1985–86	Anthony Goodman[105]	Jeya Wilson[105]	Boris Johnson[105]
1986–87	Angus McCullough[105]	Simon Stevens[105][113]	Jessica Pulay[105]
1987–88	Anthony Frieze[105]	Michael Gove[105]	Duncan Gray[105]
1988–89	Andrew McCulloch[105]	Adam Bruce[105]	Stefan Green[105]
1989–90	Diana Gerald[105]	Ed Lazarus[105]	Jeremy Quin[105]
1990–91	Melanie Johnson[105]	Oliver Campbell KC[105][114]	Damian Hinds[105]
1991–92	Nicholas Edgar[105]	Graeme Halkerston	Adrian Gannon
1992–93	Christopher Hall	James Robertson	Katherine Wade
1993–94	Toby Lewis	Kate Wilson	Peter Gowers
1994–95	Jeremy Green	Robert Palmer	David Pinto-Duschinsky
1995–96	Matt Guy	Jonathan Wolf	Paul Kenward
1996–97	Jennifer Carter-Manning	Rob Harrington	Oli Evans
1997–98	Sam Gyimah	Clare Dixon	Ellie Blagbrough
1998–99	Helen Eastman	Theo Mills	Nicky Black
1999–2000	Ben Seifert	Lucy Aitkens	Jeff Bell

2000–present

Year	Term			Ref
	Michaelmas	Hilary	Trinity
2000–01	St Peter's Richard Silcock	Pembroke Nick Mason	Trinity Amy Harland
2001–02	Pembroke Neil Mahapatra	Trinity Charlotte Keenan	Magdalen Karen Price
2002–03	Brasenose David Watson	Pembroke Fraser Campbell	Lady Margaret Hall Ambrose Faulks
2003–04	Oriel Marcus Walker	St John's Edward Tomlinson	Lady Margaret Hall Georgina Costa
2004–05	New Ruzwana Bashir	St John's Laura Poots	Lady Margaret Hall Richard Tydeman
2005–06	St Hugh's Chris Farmer	St Edmund Hall Sapana Agrawal	Balliol David Powell
2006–07	Lady Margaret Hall James Wise	Lady Margaret Hall Theo Roos	Wadham Alex Just
2007–08	Magdalen Luke Tryl	Jesus Emily Partington	Lincoln Ben Tansey
2008–09	Lady Margaret Hall Josh Roche	Lady Margaret Hall Charlie Holt	Oriel Corey Dixon	[115][116]
2009–10	Mansfield James Dray	Lady Margaret Hall Stuart Cullen	Hertford Laura Winwood	[117][115]
2010–11	Lady Margaret Hall James Kingston	University James Langman	The Queen's Ashvir Sangha	[118][119][120]
2011–12	Hertford Isabelle Westbury	Wadham Lauren Pringle	St Catherine's Isabel Ernst	[120]
2012–13	Hertford Seung-yoon Lee[ag]	Lady Margaret Hall Maria Rioumine	New Joseph D'Urso
2013–14	St John's Parit Wacharasindhu	University Polina Ivanova	Lady Margaret Hall Ben Sullivan
2014–15	St John's Mayank Banerjee	New Lisa Wehden	St John's Olivia Merrett
2015–16	St John's Charles Vaughan	Somerville Stuart Webber	New Robert Harris
2016–17	Lincoln Noah Lachs	Exeter Nikolay Koshikov	Magdalen Michael Li
2017–18	New Chris Zabilowicz	Trinity Laali Vadlamani	Pembroke Gui Cavalcanti	[122][123]
2018–19	New Stephen Horvath	Oriel Daniel Wilkinson	Lady Margaret Hall Genevieve Athis	[124][125][126]
2019–20	Oriel Brendan McGrath[n 1] St Hugh's Sara Dube (acting)	St Hugh's Sara Dube	Trinity Mahi Joshi	[127][128][129]
2020–21	St Peter's Beatrice Barr	New James Price[ah]	St Edmund Hall Adam Roble	[132][133]
2021–22	Brasenose Chengkai Xie	St Hugh's Molly Mantle	University Michael-Akolade Ayodeji	[134][135][136]
2022–23	Lady Margaret Hall Ahmad Nawaz[ai] New Charlie Mackintosh (acting)	New Charlie Mackintosh	Magdalen Matthew Dick	[139][140][141]
2023–24	St John's Disha Hegde	Lincoln Hannah Edwards	Christ Church Louis Wilson[aj]	[147][148][146]
2024–25	St Edmund Hall Ebrahim Osman-Mowafy[ak]	Regent's Park Israr Khan	Magdalen Anita Okunde	[150][151][152][153][154]
2025–26	Balliol Moosa Harraj	University George Abaraonye	To be determined	[155][156]

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.^[157]

S. W. R. D. Bandaranaike was Treasurer in Trinity 1924.^[158]

Humayun Kabir was Librarian in 1931.^[158]

Roy Jenkins served as Librarian and Secretary and lost two Presidential elections.^[159][160]

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.^[161]

Ann Widdecombe was Treasurer in 1972, after having served as Secretary the previous year.^[162][163]

Jacob Rees-Mogg was Librarian in 1990, losing the election for the presidency to future Education Secretary Damian Hinds.^[164]

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.^[165] Archer himself was elected to Standing Committee for one term in 1965.^[166]

Notes

1. Resigned
2. Killed during the First World War
3. Killed during the Second World War
4. Elected but did not hold office because of war service

1. Thomas Frederick Amelius Parry Hodges (1801/2 – 27 October 1880) was also a fellow of his alma mater and was vicar of North Clifton with Harby, Nottinghamshire and of Lyme Regis.^[3]
2. Charles des Voeux (29 April 1802 – 9 August 1833^[4]) was the eldest son of Sir Charles Des Voeux, 2nd Baronet.^[5]
3. Arthur James Lewis (1800/1 in Cannanore 14 November 1865) later became Advocate-General of Bombay.^[6]
4. Hassard Hume Dodgson (1803/4 – fl. 1872) was a master of the Common Pleas^[7] and was the father-in-law of Charles Edward Pollock.^[8]
5. Robert Vernon Atherton Hornby (1805/6 – September 1857)^[10]
6. John Ryle Wood (1806/7 – 9 November 1886) was later vicar of St John-in-Bedwardine, canon of Worcester Cathedral, and Chaplain to the Duke of Cambridge.^[11]
7. Douglas Smith (1804/5 – 1829)^[14]
8. John Pearson (1806/7 fl. 1828), previously educated at Eton College, later became a barrister after graduating from Lincoln's Inn^[15][16]
9. Edward Massie (1805/6 – fl. 1845) was later a chaplain.^[19]
10. 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.
11. John Adams (1813 – 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.^[20][21]
12. Thomas Brancker (1812/3 – 11 November 1871) was later rector of St Mary's Church, Limington and prebendary of Wells Cathedral.^[22]
13. William Nathaniel Tilson Marsh Lushington Tilson FZS FRGS FRHS (1815/6 – January 1881) was the perpetual curate of St James' Church, Ryde and of St Leonard's Church, St Leonards-on-Sea.^[24] His wife was a niece of Charles Morgan, 1st Baron Tredegar.^[25]
14. George Robertson Moncreiff (29 January 1817 – fl. 1884), a younger brother of Sir Henry Wellwood-Moncreiff, 10th Baronet, was HM Inspector of Schools from 1850 to 1873.^[27]
15. Henry William Sullivan (1814/5 – 22 March 1880) was later rector of Yoxall^[29]
16. Rev. Charles Thomas Arnold (1817/8 – 13 May 1878) was later an assistant master at Rugby School who wrote articles for the Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology.^[31][32]
17. James Timothy Bainbridge Landon (1816/7 – fl. 1877) was later vicar of Ledsham, West Yorkshire and canon of York Minster.^[34]
18. William Henry Scott (1819/20 – 17 September 1859) was a grandson of Sir Joseph Scott, 1st Baronet.^[37][38]
19. Henry Master White (1820/1 – fl. 1871) was later vicar of Masbrough and, in the Cape Colony, principal of Diocesan College and Archdeacon of Grahamstown.^[40]
20. Robert James Simpson (1825/6 – fl. 1886) was vicar of Upton, Buckinghamshire (1867–79), St Clement Danes (1869–79), and St Peter Eltham (1886–?).^[43]
21. Samuel Joseph Hulme (1823/4 – 12 December 1886) was rector of St Martin's Carfax, Oxford and of Bourton-on-the-Water.^[44]
22. Charles Holbrow Stanton (1825 – fl. 1876) was later admitted to the bar at Lincoln's Inn and became a barrister in the Oxford circuit.^[45][46]
23. Walter Congreve (1824/5 – fl. 1850)^[47]
24. George Raymond Portal (28 February 1827 – 3 April 1889), a brother of Sir Wyndham Portal, 1st Baronet, was later rector of Albury, Surrey and of Burghclere.^[48][49]
25. John Rowe Kelley Ralph (1824 – 5 December 1885) was later a barrister who served on the North Wales and Chester Circuit.^[53][54]
26. Edward Bridges Lomer (1827/8 – 6 August 1865) was later a barrister-at-law.^[55]
27. John FitzGerald (1830/1 – fl. 1857) was later vicar of Borden, Kent and Camden Town.^[57]
28. Robert Edward Bartlett (1829/30 – fl. 1876) was later vicar of Great Waltham and his son was the brother-in-law of Edward Bruce Alexander.^[63][64]
29. John Henry Bridges (1851/2 – fl. 1876)^[65]
30. Thomas Robert Halcombe (1833/4 – 22 July 1880) was later curate of Addlestone.^[69]
31. Edward Kedington Bennet (1833/4 – fl. 1885) was later rector of Bunwell.^[71]
32. Alfred Robinson (1840/1 – fl. 1875) was later sub-warden of New College, Oxford.^[82]
33. The first president of East Asian descent, he is the CEO of Byline, a crowdfunded journalism platform.^[121]
34. 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.^[130][131]
35. 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.^[137][138]
36. Leo Buckley was initially declared President-Elect,^[142][143] but an election tribunal disqualified him and declared Julia Maranhao-Wong elected.^[144] Buckley appealed the decision;^[145] 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.^[146]
37. Ebrahim Osman-Mowafy was initially elected,^[149] but an election tribunal in June 2024 disqualified him and ordered a recount.^[150] Osman-Mowafy was subsequently re-instated.^[150]