This is a list of people who served as president of the British Liberal Party. The Liberal Party merged into the Liberal Democrats in 1988.
The post was established in 1877 as president of the National Liberal Federation. In 1936, this body was replaced by the Liberal Party Organisation, which survived until 1988.[1]
From | To | Name | |
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1877 | 1881 | Joseph Chamberlain | |
1881 | 1881 | Jesse Collings | |
1881 | 1883 | Henry Fell Pease | |
1883 | 1890 | James Kitson | |
1890 | 1902 | Robert Spence Watson | |
1902 | 1906 | Augustine Birrell | |
1906 | 1908 | Arthur Dyke Acland | |
1908 | 1911 | William Angus | |
1911 | 1919 | John Brunner | |
1919 | 1920 | George Lunn | |
1920 | 1923 | John M. Robertson | |
1923 | 1926 | Donald Maclean | |
1926 | 1927 | John Alfred Spender | |
1927 | 1930 | Charles Hobhouse | |
1930 | 1933 | Arthur Brampton | |
1933 | 1936 | Ramsay Muir |
From | To | Name | |
---|---|---|---|
1936 | 1943 | James Meston | |
1943 | 1945 | Position vacant | |
1945 | 1947 | Violet Bonham-Carter | |
1947 | 1948 | Isaac Foot | |
1948 | 1949 | Elliott Dodds | |
1949 | 1950 | Andrew McFadyean | |
1950 | 1952 | Philip Fothergill | |
1952 | 1953 | Ronald Walker | |
1953 | 1954 | Lawrence Robson | |
1954 | 1955 | Henry Graham White | |
1955 | 1955 | Philip Rea | |
1955 | 1957 | Leonard Behrens | |
1957 | 1958 | Nathaniel Micklem | |
1958 | 1959 | Arthur Comyns Carr | |
1959 | 1960 | Harold Glanville | |
1960 | 1961 | Andrew Hunter Arbuthnot Murray | |
1961 | 1962 | Edwin Malindine | |
1962 | 1963 | Felix Brunner | |
1963 | 1964 | David Rees-Williams | |
1964 | 1965 | Roger Fulford | |
1965 | 1966 | Nancy Seear | |
1966 | 1967 | Michael Eden | |
1967 | 1968 | Donald Wade | |
1968 | 1969 | Desmond Banks | |
1969 | 1970 | Timothy Beaumont | |
1970 | 1971 | Inga-Stina Robson | |
1971 | 1972 | Stephen Terrell | |
1972 | 1973 | Trevor Jones | |
1973 | 1974 | Rhys Lloyd | |
1974 | 1975 | Arthur Holt | |
1975 | 1976 | Margaret Wingfield | |
1976 | 1977 | Basil Goldstone | |
1977 | 1978 | Gruffydd Evans | |
1978 | 1979 | Michael Steed | |
1979 | 1980 | Joyce Rose | |
1980 | 1981 | Richard Holme | |
1981 | 1982 | Viv Bingham | |
1982 | 1983 | John Griffiths | |
1983 | 1984 | Geoff Tordoff | |
1984 | 1985 | Alan Watson | |
1985 | 1986 | David Penhaligon | |
1986 | 1987 | Des Wilson | |
1987 | 1988 | Adrian Slade |
In 1988, Michael Meadowcroft was president-elect of the Liberal Party for the 1988–89 year; but the Liberal Party merger with the Social Democratic Party went ahead before he could take up office.[2]