London Press Club

Past Officers of the Press Club

Presidents

1882-83 George Augustus Sala

1884 H.H.S. Pearce; 1885 Thompson Cooper; 1886 George Sumner
1887 Edward E. Peacock; 1888 James Walker; 1889 George Babington
1890 Charles F. Pardon; 1891 G. Vernon Marsh; 1892 T. McDonald Rendle
1893 W. Mackenzie Duckworth; 1894 Ernest A. Peachey
1895 Edgar F. Pardon; 1896 Charles Williams; 1897 Joseph Watson
1898 John Corlett; 1899 Thurgood Catlin; 1900 Charles Stewart Caine
1901 Lord Glenesk; 1902-16 First Lord Burnham
1916-28 Second Lord Burnham; 1928-35 Lord Riddell
1935-64 Lord Astor of Hever; 1964-65 Horace Sanders
1966-70 Sir Max Aitken; 1971-72 Sir Hugh Cudlipp
1973-76 Sir William Barnetson
1977-81 The Hon. Vere Harmsworth (as Lord Rothermere 1978)
1982 Lord Matthews

Chairmen

1903 T. McDonald Rendle

1904 Frederick J. Hillier; 1905-07 Wilfred A. Sutherland
1908 Samuel J. Sewell; 1909 Edward L. Goodman; 1910 Herbert E. Jewell
1911-12 Alfred Inwood; 1913 Edward L. Goodman; 1914 Arthur Moreland
1915-16 Herbert Grover; 1917-18 James George; 1919 J. Henry Iles
1920 Arthur W. Last; 1921 Herbert S. Oakley/F. Whelan Boyle
1922 William H. Lock; 1923-24 Edgar Wallace; 1925 Frank Dilnot
1928-29 George F. Allison; 1930-31 A.P. Garland; 1932-33 J. T. Bolton
1934-35 Horace Sanders; 1936-37 Andrew Stewart; 1938-39 H.C. Vickery
1940-41 W.H. Salmon; 1942-43 M.P. Walker
1944-45 W. Morley Richards; 1946 Ernest A. Bland; 1947 D.R. Spendlove
1948 H. Richard Simmons; 1949-50 Frank C. Betts; 1951 Kenneth P. Pipe
1952 George M. Murray; 1953 F.E. Lavers; 1954-55 Trevor Evans
1956-57 Thomas H. McArthur; 1958 William K. McGowran
1959 Leonard Marsland Gardner; 1960 John N. Marshall
1961 Arthur H. Tietjen; 1962 J.F. Arnold Frost; 1963-64 Louis Wulff
1965 H.J. Chamberlain; 1966-67 Percival G. Sutton
1968 J.L. Manning; 1969-70 E. Alan Smith; 1971 J.L. Manning
1972-73 Louis Wulff; 1973-74 W.D. Thomas; 1975-76 Peter Dacre
1977 Alec Harrison; 1978 Frank Arnold; 1979-80 Stuart de La Mahotière
1980-81 Penelope Wallace; 1981-83 Peter Grosvenor
1983-84 Terence Wright; 1985-86 James Nicholson

London Press Club

Chairmen

1986-90 John Brodrick; 1990-99 George Westropp

1999-2002 Dennis Griffiths; 2002-2007 Donald Trelford; 2007- Steve Oram