List of presidents of The Asiatic Society
Appearance
This is a list of presidents of The Asiatic Society of Bengal (Calcutta).[1]
1700s
- Sir William Jones (1784-1794)
- Sir John Shore (1794-1799)
- Robert Chambers (1799)
- Sir John Anstruther, 4th Baronet (1799-1807)
1800s
- Henry Thomas Colebrooke (1807–?1815)
- Francis Rawdon-Hastings, 1st Marquess of Hastings (1820-1825)
- John Herbert Harington (1825-1828)
- Charles Edward Grey (1828-1832)
- Sir Edward Ryan (1832-1841)
- Henry Thoby Prinsep (1842-1844)
- William Wilberforce Bird (1844-1845)
- Henry Hardinge, 1st Viscount Hardinge (1845)
- William Wilberforce Bird (1846-1848)
- James William Colvile (1848-1859)
- Arthur Grote (1859-62)
- Lt. Col. H. E. L. Thuillier (1863)
- William Stephen Atkinson (1863)
- Sir Edward Clive Bayley (1863-67)
- Dr. Joseph Fayrer (1867-68)
- Dr. Thomas Oldham[2] (1868-1870)
- Hon John Budd Phear (1870-1872)[3]
- Dr. Thomas Oldham (1873)
- Lt. Col. H. Hyde (1873-74)
- Sir Edward Clive Bayley (1875)
- Dr. Thomas Oldham (1875-1877)
- Sir Edward Clive Bayley (1877-1878)
- William Thomas Blanford (1878-1879)
- Henry Benedict Medlicott (1879-1881)
- Sir Ashley Eden (1881-1882)
- Herbert John Reynolds[4] (1882-1884)
- Henry Francis Blanford (1884-85)
- Dr. Rajendralal Mitra (1885)
- Edwin Felix Thomas Atkinson (1886-1887)
- James Waterhouse (1888-1890)
- Henry Beveridge (1890-1891)
- Sir Alfred Woodley Croft (1891-1892)
- Sir Charles Alfred Elliott (1893-1894)
- Charles James Lyall (1894-1895)
- Alexander Pedler (1895-1896)
- Dr. Augustus Frederic Rudolf Hoernle (1897-1898)
- Sir Herbert Hope Risley (1898-1900)
1900s
- Sir John Woodburn (1900-1901)
- Charles Walter Bolton (1902-1905) (Chief Secretary to the Bengal Government)
- Sir A. H. L. Fraser (1905-1907)
- Sir Ashutosh Mukherjee (3 times) (1907-1908)
- Sir Thomas Henry Holland (1909-1910)
- Thomas Henry Digges La Touche (1910-1911) (Geologist, born 1855)
- George Francis Angelo Harris (1911-1912)
- Thomas David, Baron Carmichael (1913-1915)
- Sir Leonard Rogers (1915-1916)
- Henry Hubert Hayden (1917-1918)
- Haraprasad Shastri (1919-1920)
- Sir Ashutosh Mukherjee (1921-1923)
- Nelson Annandale (1923-1924)
- Sir Rajendranath Mookherjee (1924-1925)
- George H. Tipper (1926-1927) (Superintendent of the Geological Survey in India)
- Dr. W. A. K. Christie (1927-1928) (Indian Geological Survey)
- Dr. Upendranath Brahmachari (1928-1929)
- Robert Beresford Seymour Sewell (1930-1931)
- Justice C. C. Ghose (1932-1934)
- Lewis Leigh Fermor (1934-1935)
- Sir John Anderson (1936-1938)
- Sir David Ezra (1938-1939)
- Justice John Lort-Williams (1940-1941)
- Dr C. S. Fox (1941-1942) (Director of the Geological Survey of India)
- Dr Shyama Prasad Mookerjee (1942-1944)
- Dr Meghnad Saha (1945-1946)
- Justice Norman George Armstrong Edgley (1946-1947)
- Dr Bimala Churn Law (1947-1948)
- Dr D. West (1948)
- Justice Ramaprasad Mookherjee (1948-1950)
- Prof Sisir Kumar Mitra (1951-1953)
- Prof S. K. Chatterji (1953-1955)
- Dr D. M. Bose (1955-1957)
- Dr S. N. Sen (1957-1959)
- Dr N. Dutta (1959-1961)
- Dr A. C. Ukil (1961-1962)
- Dr U. N. Ghoshal (1963-1964)
- Dr K. N. Bagchi (1964-1965)
- Prof R. C. Majumdar (1966-1968)
- Prof Satyendra Nath Bose (1968-1969)
- Prof S. K. Chatterji (1970-1971)
- Prof Nirmal Kumar Bose (1972)
- M. M. Basu (1972)
- Dr B. Mukherji (1972-1974)
- Prof. K. Saraswati (1975-1977)
- Dr Gouri Nath Sastri (1977-1978)
- Dr D. Bose (1979-1981)
- P. C. Gupta (1981-1982)
- S. N. Sen (1983)
- Dr R. K. Pal (1983-1985)
- Dr Sukumar Sen (1985-1987)
- Dr M. M. Chakraborty (1987-1988)
- In administration (1988-1992)
- Dr M M Chakraborty (1992-1996)
- Prof Dilip Kumar Biswas (1997-1999)
- Prof Bhaskar Roychowdhury (1999-2001)
2000s
- Prof Biswanath Banerji (2001-2002)
- Prof Amalendu De (2002-2003)
- Prof Biswanath Banerji (2004-2012)
- Prof Pallab Sengupta (2012-2014)
- Prof Ramakanta Chakraborty (2014-2016)
- Prof Isha Mahammad (2016-2020)
- Prof Swapan Pramanick (2020-)
References and sources
- References
- ^ "The Asiatic Society". Archived from the original on 2017-01-06. Retrieved 2016-12-30.
- ^ http://www.bgs.ac.uk/discoveringGeology/geologyOfBritain/archives/pioneers/pioneers.cfc?method=viewRecord&personId=177¤tTab=tab_O
- ^ Prior, Katherine. "Phear, John Budd". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/35502. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
- ^ s:Page:The Indian Biographical Dictionary.djvu/399
- Sources
- https://web.archive.org/web/20160901074336/http://asiaticsocietycal.com/president/index.htm Official website of The Asiatic Society, Presidents and Secretaries of The Asiatic Society