Presidents of the Association| The English Association

Year	President	Year	President
1907	Montague Butler	1953	Lord Birkett of Ulverston
1908	Sir Arthur Acland	1954	Charles Morgan
1909	George Saintsbury	1955	W.R. Matthews
1910	Viscount Morley of Blackburn	1956	C.V. Wedgwood
1911	A.C. Bradley	1957	Sir Ernest Gowers
1912	Lady Ritchie	1958	E.M.W. Tilyard
1913	The Earl of Balfour	1959	Sir Maurice Bowra
1914	Sir Sidney Colvine	1960	The Most Rev. A.M. Ramsey
1915	W.P. Ker	1961	Clemence Dane
1916	The Marquess of Crewe	1962	Sir Kenneth Clark
1917	Sir Sidney Lee	1963	Sir Sydney Roberts
1918	Herbert Asquith, The Earl of Oxford and Asquith	1964	Lord Denning
1919	C.H. Herford	1965	Richard Church
1920	Lord Ernle	1966	Viscount Chandos
1922	Sir Edmund Gosse	1967	Edmund Blunden
1923	Viscount Grey of allodon	1968	HRH The Duke of Edinburgh
1924	John Galsworthy	1969	Dame Rebecca West
1925	The Marquess Curzon of Kedleston	1970	Sir Basil Blackwell
1926	John Bailey	1971	Nevill Coghill
1927	Stanley Baldwin	1972	Jo Grimond
1928	Sir Henry Newbolt	1973	Lord David Cecil
1929	Lord Hewart of Bury	1974	Sir John Hackett
1930	J.W. Mackail	1975	George Steiner
1931	The Most. Rev. Lord Lang Archibishop of Canterbury	1976	John Murray
1932	Oliver Elton	1977	Sir Victor Pritchett
1933	Lord Rennel of Rodd	1978	I.A. Richards
1934	Laurence Binyon	1979	Robert W. Burchfield
1935	Viscount Sankey	1980	John Sparrow
1936	Ernest de Selincourt	1981	Conor Cruise O'Brien
1937	W.R. Inge	1982	Rachel Trickett
1938	Harley Granville-Barker	1983	Derek Brewer
1939	The Most. Rev. William Temple, Archbishop of York	1984	Sir William Rees-Mogg
1940	Sir Edmund Chambers	1985	Bernard Levin
1941	Viscount Samuel	1986	F.T. Prince
1942	G.S. Gordon	1987-1988	Kenneth Muir
1943	Sir Harold Nicholson	1989-1991	Derek Brewer
1944	Frederick S. Boas	1992-1994	Professor Martin Dodsworth
1945	The Most Rev. Cyril F. Garbett, Archbishop of York	1995-1997	Professor Gordon Campbell
1946	Sir Arthur Bryant	1998-2001	Roger Knight
1947	Sir Osbert Sitwell	2001-2004	Martin Blocksidge
1948	Sir Herbert Grierson	2004-2007	Professor Elaine Treharne
1949	L.S. Amery	2007-2010	Professor Peter J. Kitson
1950	Sir Alan Herbert	2010-2013	Professor Maureen Moran
1951	G.M. Trevelyan	2013-2018	Adrian Barlow
1952	A.L.Rowse	2018-till date	Professor Martin Halliwell