1859 Sir Ralph Anstruther, Bt., of Balcaskie
1862 William Stirling of Keir
1865 John Stuart Mill
1868 James Anthony Froude
1872 Charles, Lord Neaves
1874 Arthur Penryhn Stanley, Dean of Westminster
1877 Roundell Palmer, Lord Selborne
1880 Sir Theodore Martin
1884 Donald James Mackay, 11th Lord Reay
1886 Arthur James Balfour of Whittinghame
1889 Frederick Temple Hamilton-Temple-Blackwood, 1st Marquess of Dufferin and Ava
1892 John Patrick Crichton-Stuart, 3rd Marquess of Bute
1895 John Patrick Crichton-Stuart, 3rd Marquess of Bute
1898 James Stuart
1901 Andrew Carnegie of Skibo
1907 John Lubbock, 1st Lord Avebury
1910 Archibald Philip Primrose, 5th Earl of Roseberry
1913 John Campbell Gordon, 1st Marquess of Aberdeen
1916 Sir Douglas Haig
1919 Sir James Matthew Barrie
1922 Rudyard Kipling
1925 Fridtjof Nansen
1928 Sir Wilfred Thomason Grenfell
1931 Jan Christian Smuts
1934 Guglielmo Marconi, Marchese Marconi
1937 Robert MacGregor Mitchell, Lord MacGregor Mitchell
1938 Sir David Munro
1946 Sir George Cunningham
1949 David George Brownlow Cecil, Lord Burghley
1952 David Robert Alexander Lindsay, 28th Earl of Crawford
1955 David Patrick Maxwell-Fyfe, 1st Viscount of Kilmuir
1958 Robert John Graham Boothby, Lord Boothby
1961 Charles Percy Snow, Lord Snow
1964 Sir John Knewstub Maurice Rothenstein
1967 Sir Learie Constantine, Lord Constantine of Maraval and Nelson
1970 John Cleese
1973 Alan Coren
1976 Frank Muir
1979 Tim Brooke-Taylor
1982 Katharine Whitehorn
1985 Stanley Adams
1988 Nicholas Parsons
1991 Nicholas Campbell
1993 Donald Findlay
1999 Andrew Neil
2002 Sir Clement Freud
2005 Simon Pepper
2008 Kevin Dunion
2011 Alistair Moffat
2014 Catherine Stihler
2017 - Present Srdja Popovic