List of Past OBA Presidents
(OBA Founded 20 December 1882)

Rev Dr J Griffith1885-1892
Rev J Newton1893-1899
Rev B Lambert (1849-50)1899-1901
Sir Harry Prendergast (1849-50)1901-1913
Sir Thomas Jackson (1850-53)1914-1924
Lord Daryngton (1881-86)1924-1927
F C Lingard (1875-80)1927-1928
Sir William Peyton (1880-85)1928-1929
Sir J Montague Cotterill (1865-69)1929-1930
Sir Harry Moorhouse (1882-87)1930-1934
Rev A Belcher (S 1885-95)1935-1947
H W Aldrich (H 1899-1903)1947-1949
Sir Alun Pugh (H 1903-13)1949-1952
L A Godfree (H 1894-1901)1952-1955
C E Hough (C 1897-1902)1955-1957
Sir Sydney Roberts (H 1901-06)1957-1961
Sir Cecil Sugden (D 1916-21)1961-1963
E A G Marlar (S 1916-19)1963-1965
A K Wilson (H 1906-11)1965-1967
J W Finnis (D 1921-24)1967-1969
C J B Manning (S 1922-27)1969-1971
H W Elliott (D 1919-1923)1971-1973
B W Pett (H 1933-37)1973-1976
W G Wingate (St 1924-29)1976-1978
Sir H Edwardes Jones (C 1918-23)1978-1980
H P S Forster (S 1926-31)1980-1982
N F K Wilson (C 1934-39)1982-1984
F P R Rumney (H 1937-39)1984-1986
G C Smith (B 1946-52)1986-1988
S C Apps (H 1942-46)1988-1991
S J Cockburn (L&S 1953-58)1991-1994
Rr Adm P G V Dingemans (D 1948-52)1994-1997
A J Symonds (A 1955-59)1997-2000
R W Brightwell (A. 1970-75)2000-2002
J E Haviland (F. 1979-81)2002-2004
David Gold (S. 1986-91)2004-2007
Tony Whitestone (ex staff, 1971-2006)2007-

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