Directors
Directors of the Laboratory:
- 1806 William Harris
- 1813 William Thomas Brande
- 1821 Michael Faraday(acting)
- 1826 Michael Faraday(assistant)
- 1852 Michael Faraday
- 1867 John Tyndall
- 1887 James Dewar
Directors of the Davy-Faraday Research Laboratory
- 1896 James Dewar
- 1896 Lord Rayleigh
- 1923 William Bragg
- 1942 Henry Hallett Dale
- 1946 Eric Rideal
- 1950 Edward Andrade
- 1954 Lawrence Bragg
- 1998 Richard Catlow
- 2008 Quentin Pankhurst
Directors
- 1965 William Lawrence Bragg
- 1966 George, Baron Porter of Luddenham
- 1986 David Philips (acting)
- 1986 John Meurig Thomas
- 1991 Peter Day
- 1998 Susan Greenfield, Baroness Greenfield
- 2017 Sarah Harper
- 2018 Shaun Fitzgerald
- 2022 Katherine Mathieson
Presidents
1799 George Finch, 9th Earl of Winchilsea
1813 George John, 2nd Earl Spencer
1825 Thomas Pelham, 2nd Earl of Chichester
1827 Edward Adolphus Seymour, 11th Duke of Somerset
1842 Algernon Percy, 4th Duke of Northumberland
1865 Henry Holland
1873 Algernon George Percy, 6th Duke of Northumberland
1899 Henry George Percy, 7th Duke of Northumberland
1918 Alan Ian Percy, 8th Duke of Northumberland
1930 Eustace Sutherland Campbell Percy, Baron Percy of Newcastle
1945 Robert John Strutt, 4th Baron Rayleigh
1948 John Theodore Cuthbert Moore-Brabazon, 1st Baron Brabazon of Tara
1963 Alexander Fleck, 1st Baron Fleck of Saltcoats
1968 William Wellclose Davis (acting)
1969 Harold Roxbee Cox, Baron Kings Norton of Wotton Underwood
1976 His Royal Highness Edward George Nicholas Paul Patrick, the Duke of Kent