At this time, Lord Sandwich, together with the President of the Royal Society, Sir Joseph Banks, was advocating establishment of a British colony in New South Wales.

The Britannica has an Editorial Board of Advisors, which includes 12 distinguished scholars: author Nicholas Carr, religion scholar Wendy Doniger, political economist Benjamin M. Friedman, Council on Foreign Relations President Emeritus Leslie H. Gelb, computer scientist David Gelernter, Physics Nobel laureate Murray Gell-Mann, Carnegie Corporation of New York President Vartan Gregorian, philosopher Thomas Nagel, cognitive scientist Donald Norman, musicologist Don Michael Randel, Stewart Sutherland, Baron Sutherland of Houndwood, President of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, and cultural anthropologist Michael Wesch.

In his 1996 inaugural speech as President of the Royal Statistical Society, Adrian Smith held out evidence-based medicine as an exemplar for all public policy.

Robin Fisher, the academic Vice President of Mount Royal University in Calgary and author of two books on Vancouver, states:

He was one of the founders and first President of the Royal Academy.

The Life and Times of the First President of the Royal Academy ( London: Allen Lane, 2003 ).

In June 2009 Palin was elected for a three-year term as President of the Royal Geographical Society.

Early in June 1899, while home on leave, he had a chance encounter in a London street with Clements Markham ( now knighted and RGS President ), and learned for the first time of an impending Antarctic expedition under the auspices of the Royal Geographical Society.

King George V possessed one of the most valuable stamp collections in the world and became President of the Royal Philatelic Society.

Queen Elizabeth II and President Dwight D. Eisenhower formally opened the Seaway with a short cruise aboard Royal Yacht Britannia after addressing the crowds in St. Lambert, Quebec.

The building ( the former residence of the President of the Royal Chancellery Bengt Gabrielsson Oxenstierna ) today houses the Faculty of Law.

** Gen. Sonthi Boonyaratglin, President of the Council for National Security and Commander-in-Chief of the Royal Thai Army

* December 10 – Royal Academy founded in London, with Joshua Reynolds as its first President.

She was President of the National Society and of the Royal Scottish Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children and Invalid Children's Aid Nationwide ( also called ' I CAN ').

She was Grand President of the St John Ambulance Brigade and Colonel-in-Chief of Queen Alexandra's Royal Army Nursing Corps.

* January 12 – John Vaughan, 3rd Earl of Carbery, Governor of Jamaica and President of the Royal Society ( b. 1639 )

On 30 November 1778 he was elected President of the Royal Society, a position he was to hold with great distinction for over 41 years.

In 1712, Isaac Newton, then President of the Royal Society, and Edmund Halley obtained the data and published a pirated star catalogue.

The FA has a figurehead President, since 1939 always a member of the British Royal Family.

* Vice-Adm Sir Roy Newman KCB, President from 1996 to 2001 of the Royal Naval Association

Jones was made a Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians in 1942, Honorary President of the International Psychoanalytic Association in 1949 and an Honorary Doctor of Science ( Wales ) at Swansea University in 1954.

Newton, as President of the Royal Society, did much to obscure Hooke, including, it is said, destroying ( or failing to preserve ) the only known portrait of the man.

President of the Royal Society

He also served as President of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific.

As President of the Astronomical Club, he was always genial & courteous, ever keeping things in happy order, and by his ready wit and flow of humour compelling the maintenance of good fellowship.

He was elected President of the Royal Astronomical Society ( 1882 – 1884 ), and he was the first to recognize the importance of the old observations accumulated at the Radcliffe Observatory by Hornsby, Robertson and Rigaud.

In addition, he served as President of the New York Astronomical Society from 1981 to 1986.

In 1999 Moore became the Honorary President of the East Sussex Astronomical Society, a position which he still holds.

* President, Royal Astronomical Society-1911 – 1913

* President, British Astronomical Association, 1916 – 1918

* President of the International Astronomical Union-1928 – 1932

Brinkley was elected President of the Royal Astronomical Society in 1831, serving in that position for two years.

He was President of the Royal Astronomical Society as well as of the Royal Society.

She was President of the British Astronomical Association in 1984-6, and of the Junior Astronomical Society ( Society for Popular Astronomy ) from 1987-9.

Before retiring, she was Dean of Science at the University of Bath ( 2001-04 ), and she was the President of the Royal Astronomical Society between 2002 and 2004.

* President of the International Astronomical Union ( IAU )' s Commission 33 on the " Structure and dynamics of the galactic system, 1988 – 1991

He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in June, 1863 and President of the Royal Astronomical Society in 1880.

Amabartsumian was the President of the International Astronomical Union from 1961 till 1964, was twice elected the President of the International Council of Scientific Unions ( 1966 – 1972 ), was a member of the USSR Academy of Sciences, and foreign member of the Royal Society, the US National Academy and the Indian Academy of Sciences.

Hambardzumyan was the President of the International Astronomical Union from 1961 till 1964.

By the 20th century, the electors had changed to comprise the most senior scientists in the United Kingdom: the President of the Royal Society, the President of the Royal Astronomical Society, the Astronomer Royal, the Vice Chancellor of the University of Cambridge, and the Lucasian, Sadleirian, and Plumian Professors.

He was Secretary ( 1971-79 ), Treasurer ( 1979-87 ) and finally President ( 1989-90 ) of the Royal Astronomical Society.

From 1946-1948 he was the Vice President of the American Astronomical Society, becoming their President from 1954-1956.

From 1841 to 1861 he was successively an honorary secretary, a vice-president, and President of the Royal Astronomical Society, and in 1858 was awarded the Society's Gold Medal.