Honorary members are shown in the list at the bottom of the page.
Dates shown are for appointment or installation.
| Name |
Life |
Date |
Notes |
| Frederick Sleigh Roberts, 1st Earl Roberts of Kandahar |
1832-1914 |
1902 |
|
| Garnet Joseph Wolseley, 1st Viscount Wolseley |
1833-1913 |
1902 |
|
| Horatio Herbert Kitchener, 1st Viscount Kitchener |
1850-1916 |
1902 |
Later Earl Kitchener |
| John William Strutt, 3rd Baron Rayleigh |
1842-1919 |
1902 |
|
| William Thomson, 1st Baron Kelvin |
1824-1907 |
1902 |
|
| Joseph Lister, 1st Baron Lister |
1827-1912 |
1902 |
|
| Henry Keppel |
1809-1904 |
1902 |
|
| John Morley |
1838-1923 |
1902 |
Later Viscount Morley |
| William Edward Hartpole Lecky |
1838-1903 |
1902 |
|
| Edward Hobart Seymour |
1840-1929 |
1902 |
|
| William Huggins |
1824-1910 |
1902 |
|
| George Frederic Watts |
1817-1904 |
1902 |
|
| George Stuart White |
1835-1912 |
1905 |
|
| Sir John Arbuthnot Fisher |
1841-1920 |
1905 |
later Baron Fisher |
| Richard Claverhouse Jebb |
1841-1905 |
1905 |
|
| Lawrence Alma-Tadema |
1836-1912 |
1905 |
later Sir Lawrence |
| George Meredith |
1828-1909 |
1905 |
|
| William Holman Hunt |
1827-1910 |
1905 |
|
| Evelyn Baring, 1st Earl of Cromer |
1841-1917 |
1906 |
|
| James Bryce |
1838-1922 |
1907 |
Later Viscount Bryce |
| Joseph Dalton Hooker |
1817-1911 |
1907 |
|
| Florence Nightingale |
1820-1910 |
1907 |
|
| Henry Jackson |
1839-1921 |
1908 |
|
| Alfred Russel Wallace |
1823-1913 |
1908 |
|
| William Crookes |
1832-1919 |
1910 |
|
| Thomas Hardy |
1840-1928 |
1910 |
|
| George Otto Trevelyan |
1838-1928 |
1911 |
|
| Sir Edward William Elgar |
1857-1934 |
1911 |
|
| Arthur Knyvet Wilson |
1842-1921 |
1912 |
|
| Joseph John Thomson |
1856-1940 |
1912 |
|
| Archibald Geikie |
1835-1924 |
1914 |
|
| John Denton Pinkstone French |
1852-1925 |
1914 |
Later Earl of Ypres |
| Richard Burdon Haldane, 1st Viscount Haldane |
1856-1928 |
1915 |
|
| Henry James |
1843-1916 |
1916 |
|
| John Jellicoe |
1859-1935 |
1916 |
Later Earl Jellicoe |
| Arthur James Balfour |
1848-1930 |
1916 |
Later Earl Balfour |
| David Beatty |
1871-1936 |
1919 |
Later Earl Beatty |
| Douglas Haig, 1st Earl Haig |
1861-1928 |
1919 |
|
| David Lloyd George |
1863-1945 |
1919 |
Later Earl Lloyd George |
| Sir James Matthew Barrie |
1860-1937 |
1922 |
|
| Francis Herbert Bradley |
1846-1924 |
1924 |
|
| Charles Scott Sherrington |
1857-1952 |
1924 |
later Sir Charles |
| James George Frazer |
1854-1941 |
1925 |
|
| Ernest Rutherford |
1871-1937 |
1925 |
Later Baron Rutherford |
| Charles Algernon Parsons |
1854-1931 |
1927 |
|
| George Abraham Grierson |
1851-1941 |
1928 |
|
| Robert Seymour Bridges |
1844-1930 |
1929 |
|
| John Galsworthy |
1867-1933 |
1929 |
|
| Samuel Alexander |
1859-1938 |
1930 |
|
| Montague Rhodes James |
1862-1936 |
1930 |
|
| George Macaulay Trevelyan |
1876-1962 |
1930 |
|
| Charles Edward Madden |
1862-1935 |
1931 |
|
| Philip Wilson Steer |
1860-1942 |
1931 |
|
| William Henry Bragg |
1862-1942 |
1931 |
later Sir William |
| John William Mackail |
1859-1945 |
1935 |
|
| John Masefield |
1878-1967 |
1935 |
|
| Ralph Vaughan Williams |
1872-1958 |
1935 |
|
| Frederick Gowland Hopkins |
1861-1947 |
1935 |
|
| Philip Walhouse Chetwode |
1869-1950 |
1936 |
Later Baron Chetwode |
| Herbert Albert Laurens Fisher |
1865-1940 |
1937 |
|
| Robert Baden-Powell, 1st Baron Baden-Powell |
1857-1941 |
1937 |
|
| Arthur Stanley Eddington |
1882-1944 |
1938 |
later Sir Arthur |
| Ernle Montacute Chatfield, 1st Baron Chatfield |
1873-1967 |
1939 |
|
| James Hopwood Jeans |
1877-1946 |
1939 |
later Sir James |
| Cyril Louis Norton Newall |
1886-1963 |
1940 |
Later Baron Newall |
| George Gilbert Aime Murray |
1866-1957 |
1941 |
|
| Edwin Landseer Lutyens |
1869-1944 |
1942 |
later Sir Edwin |
| Augustus Edwin John |
1878-1961 |
1942|later Sir Augustus| |
| Edgar Douglas Adrian |
1889-1977 |
1942 |
Later Baron Adrian |
| William Searle Holdsworth |
1871-1944 |
1943 |
|
| Sir Alfred Dudley Pickman Rogers Pound |
1877-1943 |
1943 |
|
| Sidney James Webb, 1st Baron Passfield |
1859-1947 |
1944 |
|
| Henry Hallett Dale |
1875-1968 |
1944 |
|
| Giles Gilbert Scott |
1880-1960 |
1944|later Sir Giles| |
| Alfred North Whitehead |
1861-1947 |
1945 |
|
| Winston Churchill |
1874-1965 |
1946 |
later Sir Winston |
| Charles Frederick Algernon Portal, 1st Viscount Portal of Hungerford |
1893-1971 |
1946 |
|
| Alan Francis Brooke, 1st Viscount Alanbrooke |
1883-1963 |
1946 |
|
| Andrew Browne Cunningham, 1st Viscount Cunningham of Hyndhope |
1883-1963 |
1946 |
|
| Edward Wood, 1st Earl of Halifax |
1881-1959 |
1946 |
|
| Jan Christian Smuts |
1870-1959 |
1947 |
|
| William Lyon Mackenzie King |
1874-1950 |
1947 |
|
| Thomas Stearns Eliot |
1888-1965 |
1948 |
|
| Robert Robinson |
1886-1975 |
1949 |
|
| Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 3rd Earl Russell |
1872-1970 |
1949 |
|
| Alexander George Montagu Cadogan |
1884-1968 |
1951|later Sir Alexander| |
| Hugh Montague Trenchard, 1st Viscount Trenchard |
1873-1956 |
1951 |
|
| George Edward Moore |
1873-1958 |
1951 |
|
| Clement Richard Attlee |
1883-1967 |
1951 |
Later Earl Attlee |
| Wilder Graves Penfield |
1891-1976 |
1953 |
|
| Walter de la Mare |
1873-1956 |
1953 |
|
| William Malcolm Hailey, 1st Baron Hailey |
1872-1969 |
1956 |
|
| John Douglas Cockcroft |
1897-1967 |
1957|later Sir John| |
| John Anderson, 1st Viscount Waverley |
1882-1958 |
1957 |
|
| Frank Macfarlane Burnet |
1899-1985 |
1958 |
later Sir Macfarlane |
| Herbert Louis Samuel, 1st Viscount Samuel |
1870-1963 |
1958 |
|
| Harold Alexander, 1st Earl Alexander of Tunis |
1891-1969 |
1960 |
|
| Cyril Norman Hinshelwood |
1897-1967 |
1960 |
|
| Graham Vivian Sutherland |
1903-1980 |
1960 |
|
| Geoffrey de Havilland |
1882-1965 |
1962|later Sir Geoffrey| |
| Basil Urwin Spence |
1907-1976 |
1962|later Sir Basil| |
| Owen Dixon |
1886-1972 |
1963 |
later Sir Owen |
| George Peabody Gooch |
1873-1968 |
1963 |
|
| Henry Spencer Moore |
1898-1986 |
1963 |
|
| Edward Benjamin Britten |
1913-1976 |
1965 |
Later Baron Britten |
| Dorothy Mary Crowfoot Hodgkin |
1910-1994 |
1965 |
|
| Louis Mountbatten, 1st Earl Mountbatten of Burma |
1900-1979 |
1965 |
|
| Howard Walter Florey, Baron Florey |
1898-1968 |
1965 |
|
| Patrick Maynard Stuart Blackett, Baron Blackett |
1897-1974 |
1967 |
|
| Sir William Turner Walton |
1902-1983 |
1967 |
|
| Ben Nicholson |
1894-1982 |
1968 |
|
| Solly Zuckerman |
1904-1993 |
1968 |
Later Baron Zuckerman |
| HRH Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh |
b. 1921 |
1968 |
|
| Edward Morgan Forster |
1879-1970 |
1969 |
|
| Malcolm John MacDonald |
1901-1981 |
1969 |
|
| William George Penney, Baron Penney |
1909-1991 |
1969 |
|
| Geoffrey Ingram Taylor |
1886-1975 |
1969 |
|
| Cicely Veronica Wedgwood |
1910-1997 |
1969 |
|
| John Cawte Beaglehole |
1901-1971 |
1969 |
|
| Lester Bowles Pearson |
1897-1972 |
1971 |
|
| Isaiah Berlin |
1909-1997 |
1971 |
later Sir Isaiah |
| George Robert Edwards |
1908-2003 |
1971 |
later Sir George |
| Sir Alan Lloyd Hodgkin |
1914-1998 |
1973 |
|
| Paul Adrien Maurice Dirac |
1902-1984 |
1973 |
|
| Harold Macmillan |
1894-1986 |
1976 |
Later Earl of Stockton |
| Christopher Hinton, Baron Hinton of Bankside |
1901-1983 |
1976 |
|
| Kenneth Mackenzie Clark, Baron Clark |
1903-1983 |
1976 |
|
| Ronald Syme |
1903-1989 |
1976 |
|
| Alexander Robertus Todd, Baron Todd |
1907-1997 |
1977 |
|
| Oliver Shewell Franks, Baron Franks |
1905-1992 |
1977 |
|
| Sir Frederick William Mallandaine Ashton |
1904-1988 |
1977 |
|
| John Boynton Priestley |
1894-1984 |
1977 |
|
| Laurence Kerr Olivier, Baron Olivier |
1907-1989 |
1981 |
|
| Sir Peter Brian Medawar |
1915-1987 |
1981 |
|
| Geoffrey Leonard Cheshire |
1917-1992 |
1981 |
Later Baron Cheshire |
| William Owen Chadwick |
b. 1916 |
1983|later Sir Owen| |
| Sir Andrew Fielding Huxley |
b. 1917 |
1983 |
|
| Sir Sidney Robert Nolan |
1917-1992 |
1983 |
|
| Sir Michael Kemp Tippett |
1905-1998 |
1983 |
|
| Henry Graham Greene |
1904-1991 |
1986 |
|
| Frederick Sanger |
b. 1918 |
1986 |
|
| Sir Frank Whittle |
1907-1996 |
1986 |
|
| Sir Yehudi Menuhin |
1916-1999 |
1987 |
Later Baron Menuhin |
| Ernest Hans Josef Gombrich |
1909-2001 |
1988 |
|
| Max Ferdinand Perutz |
1914-2002 |
1988|later Sir Max| |
| Dame Cicely Saunders |
1918-2005 |
1989 |
|
| George Porter |
1920-2002 |
1989 |
Later Baron Porter |
| Margaret Thatcher |
b. 1925 |
1990 |
Later Baroness Thatcher |
| Dame Joan Sutherland |
b. 1926 |
1991 |
|
| Francis Harry Compton Crick |
1916-2004 |
1991 |
|
| Dame Ninette de Valois |
1898-2001 |
1992 |
|
| Sir Michael Francis Atiyah |
b. 1929 |
1992 |
|
| Lucien Freud |
b. 1922 |
1993 |
|
| Roy Harris Jenkins, Baron Jenkins of Hillhead |
1920-2003 |
1993 |
|
| Sir Aaron Klug |
b. 1926 |
1995 |
|
| Sir John Gielgud |
1904-2000 |
1996 |
|
| Alfred Thompson Denning, Baron Denning |
1899-1999 |
1997 |
|
| Norman Robert Foster |
b. 1935 |
1997 |
later Baron Foster of Thames Bank |
| Sir Denis Rooke |
b. 1924 |
1997 |
|
| Ted Hughes |
1930 - 1998 |
1998 |
|
| George Basil Cardinal Hume |
1923-1999 |
1999 |
|
| Sir James Whyte Black |
b. 1924 |
2000 |
|
| Sir Anthony Alfred Caro |
b. 1924 |
2000 |
|
| Sir Roger Penrose |
b. 1931 |
2000 |
|
| Sir Tom Stoppard |
b. 1937 |
2000 |
|
| HRH Charles, Prince of Wales |
b. 1948 |
2002 |
|
| Robert McCredie May, Baron May of Oxford |
b. 1936 |
2002 |
|
| Jacob Rothschild, 4th Baron Rothschild |
b. 1936 |
2002 |
|
| Sir David Attenborough |
b. 1926 |
2005 |
|
| Betty Boothroyd, Baroness Boothroyd |
b. 1931 |
2005 |
|
| Sir Michael Howard |
b. 1922 |
2005 |
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